In the last couple of years Parkour has exploded into popular culture and seems to be here to stay. While some may know it as freerunning (and there are plenty of debates about whether those terms are interchangeable), the discipline of Parkour is perhaps the ultimate expression of functional fitness.
Traceurs (practitioners of parkour) express their [...]
For a couple of years now I have incorporated kettlebell routines into my resistance training. If you’ve never come across them before, think of them as Jurassic, unforgiving and brutally efficient tools for getting real-world fit!
Both the Russians and the Scots lay claim to inventing the kettlebell and it’s likely that they were initially used [...]
Did you watch the movie ‘300′? If not — stop reading this immediately, go and rent a copy and WATCH it!! Assuming you have done, it might interest you to know that the guys in that movie were cut up and hard as nails because they employed the principles of ‘functional fitness’. Their fitness coach, [...]
This 5 min TED talks video is a very entertaining glimpse into the wisdom accrued from a lifetime spent testing the limits of human performance. Rock climbers like Matthew Childs, in my opinion, epitomise what it means to be functionally fit.
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