Without This, Physical Activity Suffers!
Without proper muscle activity, physical activity suffers. If your muscles don’t work when you work, your body picks up the slack in deficit ways. The body is king/queen at compensating, which means if you want it to achieve a range of motion it will do it, but it will use whatever muscles it can to […]
Top 3 Training Mistakes
When you start exercising you either see people around you doing an exercise and you copy them, you learn from a YouTube video, or you get guidance from a personal trainer. Sometimes these learning techniques work well- depending who you’re learning from. The problem is that not everyone learns the same way, or what you’re […]
Posture 2.0
Posture is often associated with standing upright with the shoulders pulled back and the chest opened up, but posture is more than just standing straight. Your body can’t hold one particular posture when it moves, so your muscles need to learn how to change “postures” when it changes positions. When you think about what it […]
Reciprocity
What goes up, must come down, what goes left, goes right. Basic principles that can be used to train functions for the body, specifically with exercises that reinforce basic human movement patterns. One pattern that accounts for moving your body is referred to as contralateral reciprocation. It’s primarily explained as your arms and legs working […]
Pelvic Floor Function
The muscles of the pelvis and core, work together in harmony, and are often referred to as the pelvic floor. The glute, hip flexor, and abdominal muscle groups are the main muscles that need to function correctly to move without causing pain in the pelvic floor region. Pelvic motion without the core muscles driving the […]
Less Pain Is Possible!
Is pain keeping your from the activities you enjoy? Have you been told surgery is your only option? At SA Functional Fitness our pain management trainers restore the function of your muscles to support the integrity of your joints! This is important because without proper muscle functions, your joints take on the stress from the […]
You Get What You Pay For
Sometimes the cheapest option isn’t the best option. Not just with your health but anything. For example, a cheap apartment might cost you less per month in rent, but when the landlord doesn’t take care of things and there’s bugs everywhere or something’s always broken and needing repairs, the inconvenience isn’t worth it. Just like […]
Always Injured?
If your personal trainer is always injured and they’re teaching you how to work around your injuries without achieving pain free status and return to full function, it’s time to consider that your trainer doesn’t know how to train the intricacies of the human body. Maybe they’re just a meathead that likes to workout and […]
A Different Kind Of Gym
What makes our gym different from other gyms? Why do our trainers utilize the Functional Patterns training system? We’ll answer that by looking at the way humans were conditioned through evolution. Over millions of years the human body evolved to do 4 things with precision, that other animals can’t do. As humans, we stand upright […]
The Right Kind of Training
If you’re exercising and you have to constantly work around joint restrictions and physical limitations, you’re not doing yourself much benefit in the long run. The issues you are working around never get resolved and keep compounding and getting worse. Eventually other issues pop up from A) all the compensation you’ve been doing working around […]
