Functional Fitness Workouts

[Rhonda]

HI All,

I am thinking about doing more functional fitness (maybe not the right words) but doing something different in the new year.

I am growing not to like straight weight lifting, especially upper body, guess I find it boring. Lower body I like to do.

But wondering if I went more functional, such as kettlebells and other workouts like this.

What other workouts besides kettlebell or kettlebell inspired workouts would you suggest? I haven't really done this before, even though I like Kettlebell workouts as they can be short and sweet.

Any suggestions/rotations you have done?
Thanks!

[fatkat555]

Check out Tracie Long’s workouts post Firm. She has a lot that fall into the category of functional fitness.

[Jane P.]

Kathy Smith did one, but I can't remember the name. I no longer have it. Maybe someone else will chime in. You might look on youtube for functional fitness workouts.

[bzar]

Originally Posted by Jane P.

Kathy Smith did one, but I can't remember the name. I no longer have it. Maybe someone else will chime in. You might look on youtube for functional fitness workouts.

*Functionally Fit Peak Fat Burning is a true interval workout that is cardio-based without any weights.
**Functionally Fit Lower Body Firming is another excellent workout, very underrated, and consists of standing moves. you will feel the DOMS from this one. this is more of a "functional fitness" style workout than the cardio one. lots of one-legged balance moves too.

both were released at the same time and filmed in the same pleasant "living room" setting.

*included on her Super Slimdown Circuit compilation
**included on her "Yoga Sculpt" compilation. FFLBF is NOT a yoga workout, so it may throw you off that they grouped it with this DVD compilation.

all of the above being said, the FFLBF is a very good functional fitness type workout.

other suggestions:

Kathy Smith Matrix Ultimate Sculpt: this one has you moving in diagonal planes in a functional manner (standing) that mimics moves in your everyday tasks. There's a lot of balance and body awareness moves.

Denise Beatty: her FitnessFix series are functional fitness style workouts and she includes balance moves throughout

Tracie Long: start with her TLT series. There's 4 DVDs and former Firm trainers teach 2 of the DVDs (Jenn Carman, Susan Harris).

[Leonana]

Justina Ercole addresses functional fitness quite often on her you tube channel and IG account. Most of her workouts are paid streaming, but she has some free ones on you tube.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ole+functional