Functional Strength Training
What is Functional Strength Training?
Functional strength training (FT) is a transformative approach that not only enhances your physical strength, endurance, and flexibility but also serves as a powerful tool for rehabilitation, aiding clients in their journey to return to normal life after injury or illness. It’s a multifaceted regimen that addresses the core elements of functional training and strength training, seamlessly weaving them into your daily life.
Our certified Exercise Specialists are skilled in tailoring functional strength training exercises to your unique needs. We meticulously analyse your movement patterns and individual requirements, ensuring that the exercises prescribed are not just effective but also holistic. Through FT, we aim to eliminate obstacles that hinder your performance in both daily activities and sports.
From effortlessly climbing the stairs with a bag of groceries to tending your garden pain-free, or even doing sports with reduced risk of injuries, functional strength training puts a spotlight on movements that are directly applicable to your everyday existence. This makes it an ideal means to achieve these goals while elevating your overall quality of life.
Our mission is simple: Empower you to move, perform, and live better through exercise.
Benefits of Functional Strength Training
Improved Performance: Functional strength training helps you develop the strength, agility, and endurance necessary to better perform everyday activities with confidence and ease.
Improved movement efficiency: It’s not just about building strength, it’s also about improving how efficiently you use that strength. Better efficiency enables you to run or swim faster, and it can also mean less effort in picking your kids from the floor.
Injury Prevention: The holistic component of Functional Training blends the different moving parts of the body to create movement. If one of these parts doesn’t work as it should, it adds stress on the other parts leading to a higher risk of injury. By specifically training a muscle first, and then integrating it through holistic exercises, your body can perform more efficiently and reduce the risk of injury.
Better Posture: Poor posture can lead to a range of health problems, including back and neck pain, headaches, and even breathing difficulties. Functional strength training helps improve your posture by strengthening the muscles needed to help you maintain a proper alignment.
Increased Flexibility: Functional strength training also focuses on improving flexibility, which helps reduce the risk of injury and improves overall mobility. By training your muscles through a full range of motion, you can improve your flexibility, which in turn helps you move more efficiently.
The benefits of Functional Strength Training extend far beyond just physical prowess, emphasizing the importance of movement efficiency, injury prevention, posture correction, and increased flexibility. From lifting heavy objects and carrying groceries to climbing stairs and improving posture, functional training empowers you to tackle daily tasks effortlessly, reducing the risk of injuries and enhancing overall physical performance.
Examples of Daily Tasks that Functional Training Can Help
Strength training exercises that are functional, offers are wider range of benefits to manage daily task.
By engaging multiple muscle groups simultaneously, functional strength training enhances overall body strength, stability, and coordination. This particular brand of training elevates your prowess in executing everyday tasks with better confidence and efficiency. From lifting heavy objects and carrying groceries to climbing stairs and improving posture, functional training empowers you to tackle daily tasks effortlessly, reducing the risk of injuries and enhancing overall physical performance.
Lifting
Whether you’re carrying groceries, lifting heavy boxes at work, or even having trouble picking your kids from the floor, functional training can help you develop the strength and technique necessary to lift safely and efficiently.
Climbing stairs
Climbing stairs requires a combination of strength, balance, and endurance. By incorporating exercises that mimic stair-climbing into your workout routine, you can improve your ability to climb stairs with ease.
Gardening
Gardening involves a range of movements, including bending, lifting, and reaching. By training your muscles to perform these movements more efficiently, you can reduce the risk of injury and improve your overall performance in the garden.
Playing with Kids
Playing with kids involves running, jumping, crawling, and other movements that require strength and endurance. Functional training can help you keep up with your children and enjoy quality time with them without getting tired too quickly.
Functional Training, who is it for?
Functional training is a versatile and inclusive fitness approach suitable for a wide range of individuals. It caters to anyone looking to improve their overall strength, mobility, and endurance while enhancing their ability to perform everyday tasks with ease. Whether you’re an athlete aiming to boost your sports performance, an individual recovering from an injury seeking rehabilitation, a busy professional striving to maintain a healthy lifestyle, or simply someone who wants to stay active and agile as they age, functional training can be customized to meet your specific goals and needs. It is adaptable and scalable, making it accessible to beginners and challenging for seasoned fitness enthusiasts alike, ensuring that everyone can benefit from its holistic approach to fitness and well-being.
Why Should I Do Functional Strength Training?
Functional strength training offers a range of benefits that can help improve your overall health and fitness.
It’s a practical way to build strength, endurance, and flexibility in a way that prepares your body for real-world activities.
Whether you’re an athlete looking to improve your performance or someone who wants to stay healthy and active, functional training can help you achieve your goals.
By incorporating functional exercises into your workout routine, you can improve your posture, reduce the risk of injury, and perform everyday tasks with ease.
Contact Retrofit to better perform everyday activities with ease.
Why Choose Retrofit? And how effective is Retrofit Functional Training?
Frequently Asked Questions
Difference between the gym and Retrofit functional training.
At RetroFIT we leverage our heritage and expertise in helping clients with injuries not only return to their sport, but perform better than they did.
We believe a large part of our success is from sharing our expertise so that our clients are empowered on HOW to move better. Hence, a RetroFIT experience is not just about doing exercises for the body, but a workout for the mind.
What is the typical flow of a functional training Session like?
Each session starts with a warm up to prime the muscles for the movements ahead, and a quick assessment to see how your body is adapting since the last session.
Thereafter we’ll get into doing the exercises that matter, and we will end off recapping what we’ve done for the day and what needs to be done leading up to the next session.
This last part is important as we believe it’s important for our clients to be empowered with the understanding of what they are doing, and how to do the exercises.
How much are your Functional Training sessions?
The cost for a single session is $150 with our Principal ES (package of 5 sessions, it is $140 per session).
Senior ES: $140 (package of 5 sessions, it is $125 per session).
ES: $130 (package of 5 sessions, it is $115 per session).
Please note that the prices mentioned do not include GST.
Can Functional Training sessions be claimed under Medisave?
At the moment, functional strength training sessions are not claimable under Medisave.
How many sessions will be needed before exercises can be performed independently?
Our goal is to EMPOWER you to live better by moving better through exercise. Hence, we not only tell you what exercises to do, but we will teach you the nuances of the exercises, and how they relate to the function you’re looking to improve on.
As people have different baselines and abilities, this will vary according to the individual and your Exercise Specialist will be able to better advise you after the first session. Our Exercise Specialists have successfully helped clients of differing fitness levels and abilities, and we believe we can help you.
What can I expect from the first session?
For functional strength training to be ‘functional’ for you, we first need to know more about you and the way you move.
At the start of the first session, our Exercise Specialists will do a short interview to understand your needs and goals, and have you do a few assessments to set a baseline for the way you move.
Next, they will share with you the general direction of the training programme based on what they have understood and assessed, before guiding you through the exercises specific for you.
It is not only important for us to teach you what to do, but to empower you to be able to do them yourself.