Neuroendocrine Response

The Key factor to staying lean and living longer

Functional Movements

There are movements that mimic motor recruitment patterns that are found in everyday life. Others are somewhat unique to the gym. Squatting is standing from a seated position; Deadlifting is picking any object off the ground. They are both functional movements. Leg extension and leg curl both have no equivalent in nature and are in turn non-functional movements. The bulk of isolation movements are non-functional and tends to be the make up of most gym programmes By contrast the compound or multi-joint movements are functional. Natural movements typically involve the movement of multiple joints for every exercise.

The importance of functional movements is primarily two-fold. First of all the functional movements are mechanically sound and therefore safe, and secondly they are the movements that elicit a high neuroendocrine response. When appropriate New You has managed individual clients and dramatically enhanced their physical condition exclusively with functional movements. The superiority of training with functional movements is clearly apparent with any person within weeks of their incorporation.

The soundness and efficacy of functional movements is so profound that exercising without them is by comparison a colossal waste of time. For this reason functional movement are one of the many dominant New You methods now achieving some astonishing results with weight loss and vitality.