Functional Fitness

Functional Fitness Class Description

Brightside Barbell's Functional Fitness classes are designed to promote broad all-around fitness. Functional Fitness workouts are designed to help you increase your strength, cardiovascular conditioning, and your general capacity to execute the movements that are integral to daily life (i.e. "functional" movements); things like squatting, hinging, pulling, pushing, and jumping. 

Each 60 minute Functional Fitness class starts with a guided warm up, includes technical instruction and drills to help you improve your movement mechanics, and features the Workout of the Day (WOD). These classes are different every day and can be modified to help athletes of a wide range of ages and abilities improve their general fitness.

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Functional Fitness WODs mix many different exercise modalities to help you train multiple physical capacities at the same time. The program includes elements from weightlifting, powerlifting, gymnastics, calisthenics, and plyometrics. Workouts often incorporate equipment like jump ropes, dumbbells, kettlebells, and barbells. You can expect the length and intensity of the WOD to vary from day to day.

Please note: While we strive to make classes accessible to a broad range of abilities and experience levels, our Functional Fitness classes are not a good fit for everyone due to the inherent limitations of the group class format. If you have injuries or movement limitations, please feel free to contact us so we can help you determine if our group classes are right for you.