About Functional Training
This is just one of several fitness apps - part of the Fitness PRO membership.
Functional training is a type of exercise that involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life.
Functional training is purpose driven. Think of functional fitness as a methodology and form of movement that is used to help you with your everyday movement patterns. These patterns prepare you for many types of general movement requirements or activities.
- Stability
- Flexibility
- Body control
- Core strength
- Muscle strength
- Mobility
- and more!
Main Benefits for Functional Training
Posture - Helps to correct poor posture and muscular imbalances caused by the daily grind, stressful jobs and chaotic lifestyles.
Muscle Tone/Density - Develops strong and lean bodies. Look at Olympic gymnasts, they are constantly working on movement patterns and lifting their own bodyweight, not doing bicep curls or pounding away on the treadmill for hours!
Movement - We need to move, not to sit all day. The less you move, the less blood sugar your body utilizes. This type of movement uses patterns rather than isolating individual muscles. For example, people who spend the majority of their day sitting, dumbbell curls press is probably counter productive.
Stability - Each workout utilizes flexibility, mobility, core stability, balance principles to keep your body constantly challenged.
Burning of Fat - Fantastic fat burning workouts - using body exercises that improve strength, endurance and boost metabolism.
Core & Abs - Almost every exercise uses core activation, teaching the core to be stable to the spine against external force, throughout an array of varying movements and body positions.
Sports Specific - Assists in sports conditioning. Improving the connection between the nervous and musculoskeletal system, providing quick, reactive, and powerful movement patterns – whether your chosen sport is tennis, basketball or swimming.
App Features
- Workouts at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels
- Instructional coaching using video and voiceover
- Animated demonstrations with detailed descriptions and freeze frames
- Alternative bodyweight exercises are provided with anything that requires a piece of equipment or machine.
- Profile with social notifications, past posts, and your bio
- For exercises that use equipment, you are provided with alternatives that use just the body, not requiring any equipment.
- Active community of coaches, elite athletes, beginners, fitness enthusiasts, nutritionists, and athletic trainers
Become a PRO or MVP member to get access to more Fitivity apps, plus other features and advantages!
PRO - $2.99/month
Access all Fitivity Fitness related apps and their premium levels.
MVP - $6.99/month
Access to the entire collection of 350 Fitivity apps and their premium levels.
PRO and MVP membership also gives you access to...
- Your own dedicated library to access thousands of videos.
- The ability to create and edit your own training library.
- Save workouts for easy access.
- A timer so you never have to leave the app to time your circuit.
- Exclusive access to newly added apps.
Success Stories
Fitivity has had hundreds of thousands of success stories – helping people around the world get in the best shape of their lives. If you are determined and have a fitness goal to achieve, then let Fitivity be your personal workout trainer.
Form & Technique
Our trainers put a lot of emphasis on teaching proper form and technique. Correct form will allow you to develop muscle and train your body in a more efficient and effective manner – ultimately getting you in shape faster – helping you make real gains in short periods of time.
by R####:
The authors of this app missed the point entirely of functional training. Functional training is not a "one size fits all" approach. The canned routines in the app are a pathetic joke. A lot of this app is advertising for other equally bad apps.