You want to improve your clients' functional training. What's the most effective tool to use?

To enhance clients' functional training, the most effective tool depends on individual needs and goals. However, incorporating Bodyweight Basics can offer versatility and accessibility, catering to a wide range of fitness levels and objectives. Bodyweight exercises like squats, push-ups, and lunges target multiple muscle groups simultaneously, improving overall strength, stability, and coordination. Additionally, they require minimal equipment, making them suitable for various settings, including home workouts or outdoor training sessions. However, it's essential to consider clients' specific needs, preferences, and any existing limitations when selecting the most suitable tools for their functional training regimen.

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I love the versatility of kettlebells, and also that they encourage performing more dynamic movement patterns (like the KB swing). Also grip strength is trained, which useful in real world settings. Disadvantage is, that for different exercises and when you progress you will need different weights. Besides the financial investment, they are also not suitable to take along when we are traveling (compared to bodyweight or resistance bands).

First understand that movements like push-ups, pull-ups, and lunges require no equipment and are fundamental for building functional strength and endurance. These exercises engage multiple muscle groups and joint movements, closely replicating natural motions. By mastering bodyweight basics, your clients can improve their body's ability to sense movement, action, and location leading to better overall performance. Then incorporate stability challenges into functional training. Tools like balance boards, stability balls, or even a simple yoga mat for balancing exercises can be highly effective. These stability exercises teach the body to respond to unpredictable movements, which is a critical aspect of functional fitness.

Kettles are a great tool but can intimidate some if they are not shown how to properly use them. The off-center weight of a kettlebell is what makes it challenging. A client should be able to stabilize properly before adding a kettlebell (depending on the exercise.) A kettlebell can be used for real-world movements such as squats and deadlifts. A few of my personal favorites kettlebell moves are a suitcase carry, goblet carry, around the world and a deadlift to press. Many of my older clients love the suitcase carry because its like carrying a bag of groceries. They also love the goblet carry because it mimics holding their grandshildren.

For the clients that can not afford to buy equipment, there are so many training that can help them to achieve a functional training that suits their objectives, they can reach out to their trainer for specifics bodyweight training that they need. I did a lot of these, sit-up, hand-walk, push-ups, lunges, crunches and so many others. These training improves tendon, muscles and general body functionality.

Bodywieght exercises are a great place for people to start (especially if they are brand new to training.) Bodyweight exercises can target multiple muscle groups, mobility, flexibility, stability and proprioception. A great thing about using just the body as the tool is that a client can really focus on their body and not the external force added to the exercise. Bodyweight exercises can be done anywhere, so that is another benefit. Starting with bodyweight can also help determine the correct load or progression for the client.

Bodyweight exercises require minimal to no euipmet, making them accessible to nearly everyone regardless of location or budget. Many bodyweight exercises mimic natural, functional movements such as pushing, pulling, squatting, and lunging, which translates directly to activities of daily living and sports performance.

Do you want to start somewhere? Start by getting to know how your body moves. Functional derives from function! Why add resistance, speed, equipment, if you haven't mastered yet somethings as simple as movement patterns, such as locomotion, pulling and pushing, level changes or rotations? keep it simples, stupid and enjoyable

I love using body weight exercises to help my clients connect brain to body. When we are doing loaded exercises all the time clients can find themselves out of touch with their actual muscles and muscle groups. With body weight and palpating of specific areas they can really create those neural pathways with a deeper understanding of what is actually supposed to be working/contracting with each exercise. Then we can apply that to everything else!

Body weight exercises inclusive of resistance bands can be utilized to mimic the same range of motion in the use of weights actualizing the same basic movements with minimal resistance to assist the body with tone access to muscle conturing with far less weight.

I have found the bands an excellent way for beginners to train in the squat. This requires them to keep their knees outside the bands and ensure they are aligned over the toes.

Resistance bands are so good for clients to understand control in their movements. Slowly pulling and resisting the bands back provides a wonderfully unique challenge for them and allows them to better understand how to control their movements on a day to day basis rather than just biting “on” or “off”.

Unlock the Power of Resistance Bands for Your Fitness Journey: → Versatile and portable, resistance bands are perfect for various exercises and easy to carry around. → Ideal for functional training, they enhance everyday movements and activities. → Tension increases with your range of motion, giving your body a unique stimulus. → Resistance bands enhance joint stability, muscle strength, and flexibility, leading to overall physical fitness improvement. → Suitable for all fitness levels, thanks to different resistance levels that cater to individual capabilities and allow gradual progression. → Enjoy easy recovery with resistance bands, causing less muscle soreness and fatigue for quicker post-workout recovery.

In 30 years experience in the fitness industry, resistance bands are a versatile tool that is affordable and easy to use. Bands offer resistance in any direction where as dumbbells and body weight exercises, though awesome, may be too much for some people and finding positions using gravity can be challenging. It’s important to develop a balanced and stable body pulling and pushing up and down. For example in order to developed your pull down muscles (lats and traps) you would have to do a pull up. The problem is partially how and where? Bands allow you to pull down easier by wrapping a band around a pole and bend over and pulling or maybe wrap it up high. Ease and versatility matter most in when it comes to exercise adherence.

Stability and balance are two of my favorite things to work-on. If you train with me, this is built in to your program regardless of your age. I always tell clients you do not want to have to learn how to find your balance in your 80's. It's not that it can't be done, but it is not worth the risk to wait until then. By adding stability work, we can enhance a clients proprioception and core strength. This can help reduce the risk of muscle compensation, injury and falls. This can help increase not only lifespan but also healthspan. Some great tools are BOSU balls, stability balls, balance boards, or just simply standing on one leg. Stability challenges are not only great for the body but also the mind because they require more focus.

Incorporating stability challenges involves using tools like balance boards or stability balls during exercises like squats and lunges. Single-leg or single-arm exercises can further enhance stability and proprioception. Progressively increasing difficulty ensures continual improvement. This approach strengthens core muscles, improves balance, and reduces injury risk. Clients benefit from enhanced functional fitness and performance in daily activities.

l'insertion des exos de stabilité et d'équilibre devient primordial dans la planification des séances d'entraînement pour renforcer l'appareil articulo-musculaire et le système cognitivo-perceptive pour s'adapter à des situations inhabituelles .

My clients, especially my older clients LOVE agility ladders. Agility ladders are for speed, agility and coordination. Agility ladders help my older clients pick up their feet. This translates into the real world when walking on uneven surfaces, such as a raise side walk with tree roots. Many of the drills require a high level of concentration. They focus needed helps keep a clients mind and body connection strong. The ladders are also a great way to increase the heart rate!

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In my experience of 30 years of training people for weight loss, injury, rehab, sports performance, and posture, I have learned that the best exercises are the ones that people feel proficient at and that they are willing to do because it lines up with their personal goals. For programs to be successful, exercise selection has to be personalized to the individual in regards to their personality, goals, financial capability, time, support system, physical needs and limitations. Key is to interview the individual on all fronts, make suggestions, get started, and keep an open dialogue of how it’s working and tweak it often. Don’t forget to celebrate the wins to cement the new habits

Need to work on breathing and posture. If your posture stinks and you can't engage your deep stabilizers you'll continue to overuse the wrong muscles during functional activities. Cycles of pain and dysfunction will continue.