DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN STRENGTH INDICES THROUGH FUNCTIONAL TRAINING

Abstract

Designed in antiquity, functional training, is a topical concept, and is now being found more and more frequently in the fitness club schedule. Physical conditioning activity includes a varied and complex range of movements that have as main purpose the creation of performance in the daily activities and viewed from the perspective of performance sports this type of training aims to reducing the risk of injuries. Starting from the idea that indifferent of age any person can increase the level of this component (strength), from the sphere of conditional capacities, we have created an attractive training program according to the anatomical-functional characteristics and the motoric experience of the subjects. The study aims to implement and verify the effectiveness of well-organized functional training programs, on strength indicators, at the lower train level, after 4 months of training. The group of subjects participating in the research consisted of 18 female subjects, students of the University of Bucharest, aged between 19 and 27 years. Statistically analyzed, the results achieved by the subjects at the initial and final evaluations prove the efficiency of the proposed program.