Thomas Trutschel / Contributor / Photothek via Over the past few decades, “functional” fitness has been seen as everything ...

A woman wants to join her family on backpacking hikes. A golfer would like to strike the ball better and avoid back soreness. A grandfather longs to lift small grandchildren with confidence. An elite ...

If you’ve browsed for new group fitness classes to try lately, chances are, you’ve seen “functional training” in a workout description. Like most health and fitness terms, it may seem like a ...

The transition from the standard health and fitness test the military has used for decades has evolved slowly, but those changes take time. Maybe it is 15 years of war or understanding the physiology ...

Two competitive brothers, Doug and Daniel Frantzen, teamed up to create a fresh spin on HIIT classes, packing serious variety into a single 60 minute workout at their functional training studio, E60 ...

The first time I ran a marathon, I was 21, struggling through my junior year of college, not really sure what I was doing, and certainly not training the way I should. I crossed the finish line with ...

Your body is another tool of the trade which you always carry on a job. If you do not constantly train your body, you will not be able to function optimally, and you may be putting yourself or one of ...

Over the last five years, the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to include ...