Are you an office worker suffering from neck and shoulder pain?

The solution to neck and shoulder pain could lie within a better understanding of functional training

The damage you do to your body from a sedentary life – tight hip flexors, tight calves, weak glutes and lower abs, rounded shoulders, poor neck posture and a myriad of neck and shoulder pain issues can potentially all be corrected with functional training.

All over your body there are tiny little muscles that are a millimetre or less in diameter and only a centimetre or less  long and these are important stabilising muscles that often don’t get a look in when doing more conventional, (non functional training), forms of exercise.

Think of the body as like a tent- all the guy ropes have to be taut and exerting equal force in order for the structure to remain stable. This means your opposing, (agonist and antagonist), muscles all need to be in balance. By doing exercise that demands this, your body will develop in a way most appropriate to meet the demands.

Functional training will help correct imbalances in the skeletal muscle system thereby improving posture, balance and flexibility. It could also of course provide the answer to your neck and shoulder pain.

New Fit - Putting the Fun in Functional training workouts

Because nobody should be bored when training.....

Coming soon to Newtown Gym:  functional training workouts in a new dedicated functional training zone!

Building on our years of experience bringing energetic and exciting group fitness classes to you, New Fit takes group personal training to a whole new level.

What are functional training workouts we hear you ask?
Functional training is directly linked to functional movement: It’s really very straight forward and very sensible. Each of us employs different functional movement depending on our work lives or living circumstances. You would not train a bricklayer the same way you would train a mother of three small children. Each has functional movement that are specific to their day to day lives and their strength and conditioning must be tailored accordingly.

Why do  functional training workouts? Because they are FUN. Essentially you increase strength, aerobic conditioning, flexibility and develop balance skills all in a way that is fun, individually challenging and motivating. In short- you get to play when you do functional fitness workouts and the functional movement you use at work will improve at the same time!

New Fit is a form of personal training in small to mid-size groups – so as such it will be an extra cost to the standard memberships. Not entirely convinced? We will be offering FREE TRIALS soon. Stay tuned to facebook and email for updates.

New Fit launches within the next few weeks...Keep watching our blog for updates on the functional training workouts 

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