“Functional” Exercise??? What do you mean? …

Two of the most common questions that I am asked on a regular basis (likely due to the names of the seminars I teach) are “what is functional anatomy,” and “what is functional movement.” On the surface these seem like reasonable questions that should have relatively easy answers. For example when considering the first question one might simply say that functional anatomy describes the “function of anatomy.” Or I suppose you could also say that it outlines the “anatomy used as one functions.”

What if you were asked as a follow up question “what is the most important part of human anatomy?” This question seems more difficult because there really is no single answer. In fact, to answer the question one would need to demand more information as it would depend entirely on the specific function that the ‘anatomy’ was performing at a particular time.

Similarly the question “what is the most important function?” poses a similar problem. The most important function is the one that is needed at a particular time.

How about the second question? What is functional movement? The answer would be that functional movement is movement that achieves a certain function. What then is/are the most functional movements? Again, to answer this question we would require further information as the ‘functionality’ of a movement depends entirely on the goal that it sets out to achieve….

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