Time to Get in Shape! Maximizing Work Capacity: Functional Fitness for Everyday Life - Ep 282

Are you fit enough to do every day life?  We often hear about building muscle and scuptling the perfect body, but the truth is, many of us don't have the time or interest to build the perfect body, we just want to be active and healthy. 

In today's show Merrill discusses the concept of building Work Capacity.  Work Capacity is our abiltiy to do work.  Nothing fancy.  Work by definition is Force x Distance.  That means you apply a certain amount of force in order to move an object.  Work Capacity is simply, how much or even how long you can carry the workload out. 

Going to the gym to build bigger muscles does not necessarily equate to helping you be more functional in your daily life.  Doing heavy reps and then walking around and resting in between sets does little to enhance our ability to sustain an activity in daily living.  Cutting the grass or running a chainsaw requires us to start the job and continue it until it's finished.  This means we have sustained work over a period of time.

In order to become more functionally fit, it is important to incorporate movements and tasks that closely replicate daily living.  Bending over to pick up a heavy bag of groceries, climbing a flight of stairs, loading and unloading a truckload of mulch, these are the types of patterns and loads we want to incorporate into our workouts. On top of this, we want to place a goal of sustaining the pattern over time.  This constant movement requires the most vital organ of our body to work and strengthen, our heart.

Linda and Merrill specifically use a piece of fitness equipement that Merrill invented called the Kettle Bar.  He invented it because he sees building overall fitness and work capacity as the primary desire of his workouts and the clients he works with.  The truth is, not many people truly walk into the gym desiring to be a bikini model or Mr. Universe.  Most just want to be strong and fit enough to play a pickup game of pickleball or split a load of firewood without getting injured. 

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