Lifetime Training’s one-day REPs-accredited Functional Resistance Training course has been updated to stay in line with the latest scientific research. It examines the role of functional training for fitness professionals, focusing on theory and movement patterns as well as functional anatomy, while providing functional exercise programming.

Often misunderstood, the essence of functional training is in the carry-over to the person’s performance in their everyday life as opposed to the equipment used, according to Lifetime Training’s course.

The updated course brings in a number of case studies, following the work of the likes of Gray Cook, Gary Gray and Thomas Myers, who themselves have built on established theory.