Note: Like any other element of a fitness program, you’ll want to allow your firefighters to prepare for using a functional fitness course, and you’ll want to expose them to it gradually.

For those people, high-intensity cardio and resistance exercises are functional. Any decent all-around program will work, as long as you do it consistently over time.

According to a fitness evaluation conducted by the Army Institute of Public Health, 45 percent of the non-deployable population suffered musculoskeltal injuries, with physical training exercises ...

Functional training can be purely additive, says Alex Rothstein, EdD, MS, CSCS, exercise physiologist and coordinator of the Exercise Science program at New York Institute of Technology.

DETAILS Functional exercises are showing up everywhere. Some moves are used in group exercise classes. Some trainers add them to conventional workout or sport-specific programs. They can be ...

An individualized, multicomponent exercise intervention demonstrated safety and efficacy in improving functional decline associated with acute hospitalization among elderly patients, according to ...

A comprehensive fall prevention program integrated into primary healthcare systems significantly reduced falls among older ...

The exercise program did not improve dyspnea but improved functional capacity and helped patients feel better.