Channel 1_Functional Training Redefined

Hej folks, on Channel 1, I share thoughts and reflections on my approach to strength and functional training from a somatic perspective, because I'm a functional strength trainer, but also a somatic coach (and in my other life, a University Professor, committed to bringing the body back into how we generate, understand and apply knowledge in practical, useful ways.)
Functional training has become known as a form of physical training that corresponds to movements we need in daily life: carrying and lifting things up (babies, groceries!), getting out of chairs (squats), or up from the ground (burpees, anyone?), putting things overhead (damn you, overhead bins!), opening heavy doors, and winning fights against stubbornly closed pickle jars. All that's really great and useful. AND: there's another dimension to "functional training" that is less obvious and that's how we can harness our physical training as a practice for how we are BEING in all life situations.