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Functional training helps ensure optimum quality of life for everyday demands. It is a classification of exercise that involves training the body for the activities of daily living, in a way similar to day-to-day movement. This includes activities such as standing, throwing, lifting, pulling, climbing, running, and punching.

Functional movements use universal motor recruitment patterns. They are generally performed in a wave of contraction from core to periphery, and they are compound and multi-joint movements. A key principle in restoring and optimizing functional movement patterns is that postural stabilization should be enhanced first, along with full mobility of the body joint range of movements. Once that base is developed, higher levels of functional strength can be developed in the mobilizing muscles. Exercises used should be broad and varied, while being consistent in overload and frequency.