Functional Exercises for almost Everyone

Training for everyday life. Since so many, many people have a sedentary life this is a way for people to get active with an aim in mind. That is to effectively do everyday type of tasks plus some not so frequent tasks without causing injury to self.

For example, taking out a bag of groceries from the car trunk can put some people's back out. Or how about lifting an unusually heavy garbage to the curb. Maybe stretching to reach an item from the top shelf of a cupboard. These are sort of everyday tasks can can catch one off-guard and do some injury to oneself.

Then there are those infrequent, for many people, vacation or travelling trips with extra heavy suitcases that lifted incorrectly can strain muscles, tendons perhaps in some case even twist or break an ankle or wrist. Or maybe a trip to the hardware or lumber store to get some bulky item or heavy item - fine the store staff may help you to lift it into your vehicle but then when one arrives home and attempts to remove said item then the injury may occur. It happens! And it can affect any age if a person is unaccustomed to such tasks.

So the recommendation is to do some core and functional exercises which means it involves a number of muscles being trained in an easy way with the aim of making our bodies more prepared for these everyday or sometime infrequent tasks. Some people may go to a gym to have this training done but others may find that with the right trainer or training program they can do these functional exercises at home.

Here is a video I came across on Youtube demonstrating functional exercises that two guys were doing outdoors.