<div class="block">Personal trainer Lamont Wallace returned to Cheddar News to talk about functional fitness, which essentially means being prepared for any physical activity life may throw at you. He shared a few moves people can do to become functionally fit.</div>

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Be Well:  How to Get Functionally Fit with Lamont Wallace

Lamont. You say that functional fitness is great for any fitness level and it really gets us ready for life. So how would you describe what functional fitness is? Functional fitness is the concept that we are being ready for any activity that life demands of us. So, making our task easier and more efficient throughout the day, we like the sound of that. So what are some moves that we can do to get us ready for this functional fitness? Well, before you start any warm up, I and 3D maps, we're gonna start with our hands up right foot, take a step forward, reaching down past our ankles all the way to the sky and you have that box, bringing that box all the way to the sky. Taller is better a little bit behind us now. Ok. And try not to fall. God here, it's nice and tall, right? We want you to get up and do this with us, everybody at home and do this with us because it takes less than three minutes. It is easy enough for everybody to do right. So the left hand side, right and hands to the left hips to the right and this is just getting our body limber, getting it ready for the movements we're going to do. Turning on all 66 teammates or muscles that we use every day. Hands, close together, move to the right at those hands and then we, your partner, if you have one all the way to the left side, it hard to keep our hands together. My hands like veering off like that. I guess that's why I need to do this more. Exactly. Is a great indicator. If we can look a little tight or not, it's a warm up and a stress by doing this map thing. OK. Now, the functional movement, yes. Repeat on the other side. But for our functional movements, we're gonna take our right foot forward, but then we have a box right, our chest, we're gonna down, reach for the sky getting nice and long. Ok. Now, what does this help with? So you actually find yourself in this position in all life and sports when I'm picking up all my kids' toys that they throw all over the floor, I'm going down doing that. So, yeah. OK. Or if you're on the field of play football or wrestling, you get ready and then, ok, so that all helps with those movements. That's what the functional fitness is exactly. OK. So we would do that on the other side. How many times, let's say six and six? OK. Then what's another movement you can show us right after that, you're gonna have your hands on your shoulders, right, lateral lunch, shift my hips over my ankle, reach my hips, my hands to the left. I've gone over before but never had to stretch at the same time. So that is different. Exactly. Ok. Now, what does that help with? So we're lengthening and making sure we, we're able to, our body can move in all directions. I think a lot of people, they're used to just going forwards and back. Oh, we got a treat for you today. Is that, that is actually our last plane. So let's pretend where you said kids taking a right foot. There's a clock on the ground, three o'clock picking up my kid coming back him up like simba on the side too, left foot nine o'clock that this is different because it's not just back. It's like my leg is going this way. So it's a whole different direction that I'm used to going. It activates 87% of our muscles at once. Really? Yeah. Ok. And then, so just keep going in this direction, do this the same amount too. I'll go back to 60, now, will this help us with everyday tasks like groceries, kids cleaning all that stuff. Not only will it help you build stamina for everyday tasks, but it also will be excellent for injury prevention. Oh, I love that. Thank you so much Lamont. I hope you guys are trying these at home.