I would like to share information that I find very useful in supporting the health of my body, but this is often ignored in the same fitness industry. Training as a gym trainer and working directly in a fitness club made me understand this trick. Starting from afar, the average person’s trivial idea of ​​himself is to identify himself with his body - what we see and physically feel in space. In other words, I see my body, I can touch it, feel it, which means “I AM.” Modernity desperately agrees and echoes the cult of the body, from which self-identification is further strengthened through the physical shell, its forms and quality. This has its own risks, since with unstable self-esteem and an unstable psycho-emotional state, one can fall into the trap of false self-improvement. When the external becomes more global and significant than the internal. When the illusion is created that only by changing external circumstances, one can achieve value changes. In this sense, interesting examples of people who cannot miss going to the gym, for them it is already something more than just a hobby or keeping themselves in good shape. Such bodies are forged there! Such modifications and super-perfect figures no longer have anything to do with the functionality for which the body was originally intended. Moreover, a beautiful body does not always have the set of physical characteristics that one would like to attribute to it. Functional bodies are those that are hardy in various conditions, strong and at the same time flexible, capable of movement in different planes. The function of the body is to move, to make a movement for its own good. Functional training is where a person learns to perform a movement that will be useful to him throughout life. In this sense, during training it is much more useful to learn how to step onto a pedestal, push a sled, hit a wheel with a hammer or climb a rope than to sit in an adjusted simulator, specifically strengthening large muscle groups. Silushka will definitely arrive to some extent, but in real life, skills within the confines of iron machines [on simulators] are of little use. This is well said in a joke: I go to the gym for six months, so my girlfriend feels protected with me. After all, if hooligans attack us, I can do 3 sets of 12 reps of squats. Our bodies need functional exercise. I repeat: under the same load that we encounter in everyday life. A person can successfully exercise on simulators, but at the same time he will be very tired if he rides in a crowded subway car, where he has to look for balance and make an effort to hold on to the handrail. Or, going up to the fifth floor with heavy packages, you will experience unpleasant sensations from shortness of breath and excessive muscle tension. That's life! In life, we use those muscles that are often ignored in training on simulators. Or rather, the load is redistributed in accordance with the real situation, and not the ideal one that is created during training. Stabilizing muscles continue to successfully “sleep” even during the hottest and heaviest training session. So, the essence of my broadcast is that the body needs: a functional load - a load that makes sense in real life conditions. During training, you need to recreate for yourself the conditions in which you find yourself in life, then you will use stabilizer muscles and deeper muscle layers. In training with static exercises (make sure you have no contraindications for them). In a load that includes a larger number of muscles than in an isolated load. in exercises with your own weight (body weight), free weight (kettlebells/dumbbells/barbell), and especially with unstable weight - for example, with a training bag (sandbag); Thus, the weight of the sandbag will be distributed unevenly, thereby the body muscles will adjust and tense according to the prevailing conditions. It has been observed from experience that people with long-term!