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What Is The Functional Strength Program?

The functional strength program is a fully customized, personalized, 1-on-1 fitness strength program built around you. Our Functional Movement Screen is designed to identify weak links and where you move improperly. We'll take you through 7 tests and look for imbalances and every major joint of the body. This evaluation allows us to identify weaknesses that wouldn't normally come to your attention because they don't hurt yet but they put you at risk of injury.

We take what we learned in the evaluation as well as your own personal goals and marry chiropractic treatments and fitness strength training into your personalized functional strength program. For example, if you're working toward being able to run a marathon or you want to improve your golf swing, we'll take you through certain exercises that will help you reach those goals while preventing injury. Based on our TPI certification, our functional movement strength certification, and our experience with dealing with runners and high-level athletes, we've got a plethora of exercises to choose from to build the right plan for you. 

The excellent part about this program is that it looks at the entire body. We're looking at ankle range of motion all the way up through how the shoulders move, how the neck moves, and how the upper back moves, not just from a chiropractic and orthopedic standpoint, but from a physical fitness standpoint, as well. Once we've identified where your weak links are and where your strengths are, we built a multi-phase strength training program based around you your strengths and your limitations.

In this program, everyone starts with mobility work which includes things like foam rolling, breathing, targeted stretching, and activities based on your goals and your outcomes. From there, we move to a power warm up sequence, and then we finished with a full-body three by three strength training program. Each phase of the exercise program is designed around you to maximize your gains while decreasing your risk for injury. 

Doing things for your body is great but unless it's targeted to you specifically, it's not going to work as well as it could and it could actually result in injury or pain. We see countless people decide to work on their physical fitness and wind up injuring themselves again and we want to prevent that from happening. With the functional strength program, we're able to walk you through a physical training program based on your needs and your capabilities without sacrificing that problem that brought you in the first place. Using a combination of bodyweight exercises, low tech training, dumbbells, pull-up bars, and free weights, we're able to create a safe environment for you to work out and get results. 

Another great thing about our functional strength program is that you won't have to do it alone. You'll work one-on-one or in a small group setting with one of our certified functional strength coach assistants so you can be monitored for perfect form all along the way. Our doctors and our trainers are nitpicky when it comes to performance and form and for good reason. If you're doing any of the exercises incorrectly, we're going to call you out and make sure you're going to do it right because your form is incredibly important to maintaining strength and stability in the long run. 

So if you're ready to feel better, faster, and get stronger, and smarter, give our office a call today at (410) 296-7700 or click here to request your initial appointment for the functional strength program. We look forward to helping you achieve the fitness goals you've always wanted to reach!