Functional Training for Busy Individuals Who Want to Be at the Top of their Game

Charlie Knight

(in Health/Fitness)

How to Optimise Your Physical Performance and Lose Body Fat

Here’s how Charlie explains Functional Training:

♦ Functional Training is a movement specific training aiming at optimising your body function at what you are or want to be good at. It is a targeted form of training and functional tools that would benefit and optimise your lifestyle, your personal and professional activity needs.

♦ Functional Training takes into account your own unique shape and build. Your mechanics are different to mine, your friends or anyone else’s and as such, you are going to operate differently (in your own unique way)!

♦ It is built around your physical strength and weaknesses and targets a particular set performance of your body.

Charlie illustrates this with the following examples:

♦ If you are a cyclist courier, it’ll help you build better legs strength and endurance, better peripheral left and right balance as well as faster reaction times.

♦ In the case of Usain Bolt, it would help increase energy, strength and speed aiming at being fractions of a second faster. This by ‘tweaking’ small areas of technique to optimise performance in specific areas of the race. 

♦ But if you are a grandparent and would like to play with your grandchildren, it would help you keep up running around with them for longer. You’ll be able to pick them up, spin, twist, jump, crouch down and so on.

Charlie’s book on Functional Training would:

♦ Benefit men and women, young and old

♦ Turn body weakness into strengths

♦ Help with speed and recovery from physical injury

Though Charlie’s book is aimed at busy individuals, it would help a great deal:

1. Active professionals, (field sales, trades and so on) wanting to stay active and keep mobile

2. Professional people, typically office based, short on time and looking to get the most of the time they have to exercise.

3. Sports people and those already training who want to improve and boost results in the gym, on the field and so on.