Performance Exercise
is a system of functional training
that athletes have used for years. At
SheBe Gold Athletics we focus on improving
your performance for everyday life.
P.E.
is designed to re-introduce
your body to movements that
are similar to what you
did as a kid in P.E Class
in school. When was the
last time you skipped
or tossed a ball
or galloped?
The same routine over and
over again is BORING.
Age is nothing but a number.
Those who have participated
in our P.E. Classes range
between the ages of 10
yrs old to 53 years old.
Here are
some of the types of exercises and routines
you will do in a P.E. Class
Medicine Ball Exercise
Core Stability Exercises
Strength Exercise
Flexibility Exercise
Joint Mobility Exercise
Power Routines
Agility Exercise
Athletes
of all sports have focused their workouts
and exercises to meet the specific performance
goals of their specific sport. Whether
their goal was to run faster, increase
endurance, jump higher, throw further,
improve co-ordination, increase strength
and agility or improve explosiveness
and power; these athletes in their respective
sports trained with the purpose of performing
at their optimal levels.
By definition,
functional training
is best explained by saying it is
“exercise with a purpose.”
The American Council on Exercise defines
functional training as follows:
Functional
Training
The
goals of functional training are to:
Train
movement patterns, rather than
isolate muscles (integrate, not
isolate)
to
help your clients better meet
the demands of their daily life
activities, rather than develop
excessive muscle bulk
Emphasize quality
of movement over the quantity
of movement
Finally,
functional training is always relative,
specific to each individual’s
Activities of Daily Living
The
final aspect of functional training
is that the body is designed to perform
in a multitude of movement
planes - not just the more commonly
trained forward and back and side to
side planes. Ignoring rotational and
diagonal planes of movement used in
everyday activity can result in life’s
aggravating injuries – like tweaking
your back when you reach behind the
car seat to pick up your coin-heavy
purse, or in that occasional game of
golf or tennis.
Balance
is another key element of this type
of training - not just balance between
strength and flexibility or between
agonist and antagonist muscles, but
also what you might think it means.
Simply standing on one leg and being
able to move other body parts without
falling over is an important “reactive”
aspect of this training. This is of
particular importance as we age, yet
often neglected in traditional means
of exercise.
