A trainer asks a trainee what "functional training" means to him.
He says it's training that prepares you for real life. Lifting groceries. Climbing stairs. Picking the kid up off the floor. Carrying a suitcase to the overhead bin.
Inside this one
- The honest definition of "functional" — capacity transfer, not visual choreography
- Seven primal patterns, with anchor exercises for each
- Unilateral work for asymmetry — what it does and what it doesn't
- Loaded carries — the systemic stimulus most programmes underuse
- Anti-rotation core work via the McGill framework
- 60-minute session design hitting five-plus patterns
The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →