Stephen Battista




Essential Fit Talks with Wess Murray show

Summary: What is Functional Training? Functional training is more “real world” in terms of your training actually mimicking a broader spectrum of your daily movements. Functional Training is useful whether you are an athlete or recreational exerciser wanting to improve general health. Functional Training gives you better balance and muscular control during everyday movements. For example, teaching yourself to balance in a neutral or static position with both feet on the ground is a great beginning; however, in the real world you need the ability to balance and maintain control during movement. The human body must be able to achieve and maintain balance in a variety of different positions, planes/angles, and conditions to be totally functional. “Functional balance” is dynamic just like real life. Functional Training