The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Functional Training Illustrated teaches readers how to prepare their bodies for everyday activities, whether it's shoveling snow from a driveway or carrying a suitcase around the airport, without throwing out their backs or waking up the next morning as stiff as a board. Unlike books on resistance training, which focus on appearance and on isolating muscles for maximum development, the goal of functional training is to get the various muscle groups to work together to accomplish real-life activities in real-life positions. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Functional Training Illustrated provides readers with a complete program to improve their functional fitness goals, including:
- A functional fitness self-assessment.
- Over 120 exercises using resistance bands, wobble boards, kettlebells, medicine balls, and one's own body weight.
- Beginning, intermediate, and advanced exercises that target one's current fitness level and allow for further development.
- Over 300 photographs demonstrating the proper movement for each exercise
- Warm-up and cool-down exercises.
- Sample workout plans that enable readers to get personalized results.
