Long gone are the days and mentality that cardio is king. While cardio is certainly a vital part of the Royal Family, it cannot offer all you need in order to truly be fit, strong, and healthy.

Enter strength training. 

Strength training is the love language of the human body. It utilizes and glorifies how the body was designed, how it can transform, and how it thrives. It even taps into cardiac health and resilience.

When you add complexity and range of motion to traditional strength training, you get functional strength training. This focuses on compound movements that work multiple muscle groups simultaneously, making the workouts shorter and much more efficient – catapulting your results.

A breakdown on all the good stuff:

Core Strength: Many functional exercises require core stability and strength, which are essential for maintaining proper posture, spinal alignment, and overall body control. A strong core contributes to better balance, coordination, and overall athletic performance.

Increased Flexibility and Range of Motion: Functional exercises often involve dynamic movements that can challenge flexibility and range of motion. Over time, incorporating these exercises into your routine can help improve your flexibility, joint mobility, and overall functional movement.

Injury Prevention: Focuses on strengthening muscles and joints in a way that supports proper movement mechanics and stability. This can help reduce the risk of injuries, especially those related to overuse or poor movement patterns.

Improved Balance and Coordination: Not exactly like tapping your head and rubbing your belly, but functional training does add movement in all directions while utilizing your upper and lower body strength and coordination. Over time this improves balance and spatial awareness, making you more agile and resilient.

Improved Daily Functionality: Targets movements that mimic activities of daily living, such as squatting, bending, pushing, pulling, and lifting. By strengthening these movement patterns, you enhance your ability to perform daily tasks with greater ease and reduced risk of injury. By training movements rather than isolated muscles, functional strength training prepares your body to handle a wide range of real-life situations and challenges. This can be particularly beneficial as you age and want to maintain independence and functional mobility.

Enhanced Performance: It improves performance in specific sports and/or activities. It helps develop muscles and movement patterns that are directly applicable to the demands of a chosen activity, leading to better overall performance.

Versatility: It can be adapted to suit ALL fitness levels, from beginners to advanced athletes. Exercises can be modified by adjusting resistance, intensity, and complexity, making them accessible to a wide range of individuals with different goals and abilities.

Functional strength training places a healthy demand on the cardiovascular system. By nature, the big movements will raise your heart rate, which means that each time you put your weights down and move to the next exercise, you’re placing your heart in recovery. Over time, your recovery will improve and so will your workouts. 

There’s a new king in town.

Functional strength training is fitness for life. 

At Boutique Fitness, sessions are 30 minutes because we program according to function. Every workout is total-body because that’s how we’re most efficient. And every session is broken down into parts that allows each client to reach an intensity that creates change.

Feel happier, get stronger, sleep better… It will drastically improve your quality of life.

xo