Peter Camann AFAA; AQL Master Trainer

Training for exercise sake takes many forms, the most notable being walking, jogging, resistance and cardio machines, free weights, aerobics, aquatic training, Pilates, and the list goes on.  We can also add the gene Functional Training, or Free Motion T(raining) as I prefer to call it.  The fact that this style of training has been around for over a decade, yet still not embraced by the public, is more due to a lack of its exposure in facility settings.

Exercise Science and elite athletic training grounds, however, have shown the pragmatic value of free motion training for well over a decade.   Those experienced in this dynamic discipline and make it part of their lifestyle, know this to be a fact.  Of all training options available in today's market, no system is more effective or economical than Free Motion T.  Its affordability is due to the nature of its low tech gear, rubber bands, balls, ropes and Kettlebells.  Really, what could possibly be more basic than bands, balls and the variety of core specific tools you can access anywhere progressive trainers are located.  If yours doesn't, then they're at fault for not exposing themselves to the march of education alive in the free marketplace.

If you've been training on resistance machines for years and not witnessed any reasonable results, there are some logical reasons why.  One may be your nutritional program is lacking professional assistance, while the other is likely due to your training regimen employing machines.  Generally speaking, machine training is not capable of providing enough significant progression for the average person over time.  No machine training challenges human anatomy in an integrated whole-body way quite like free motion T does.  You'd be hard pressed to find any machine (other than free motion cable types) that challenges agility, balance, flexibility, mobility, stability and strength  at the same time as low tech rubber bands, balls and kettlebells subject the body to even in a 15 minute effort. 

Here’s an imageto consider: your body has over 600 muscles connected to bones by tendons.  When you exercise on machines your bodyis fully supported, working only muscle(s) involved to produce the motion;perhaps a dozen, maybe more muscles exercised by session’s end.  Conversely, if you mimic the samemotions of each machine using bands and balls, or learn how to use Kettlebells, you will engage your entireanatomy. 

Folks, there’s a hugedifference between the two means, the biggest resulting in greater metaboliccharge via the Free Motion way! So, what’s it going to be, hi-tech machines with minor physiological returns, or low-tech, inexpensive tools that yield huge physiological returns on your time invested?  The choice.....is yours. 

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