Exercise significantly improves clinical measures of cognitive function in adults who have experienced a stroke, a new study finds. Stroke survivors not only have twice the risk for dementia, but ...

Functional training is a type of exercise that looks like movements you make in your daily life. It can be helpful for athletic performance, injury prevention, and other everyday fitness tasks.

Functional fitness exercises include those that mirror real-life movements, such as squats, deadlifts, and walking lunges. A new report suggests that doing these can help athletes improve their ...

Functional fitness is a workout philosophy that uses exercises that mimic real-life activities to make daily movement safer and more efficient. Think about all of the non-exercise movements you ...

In the US, someone has a stroke every 45 seconds. Around one-third of these strokes are recurrent and a significant amount of those strokes lead to death. Returning to previous levels of activity ...

'Functional fitness' is a term that throws even the most seasoned fitness pros (... you rang?). Otherwise known as functional training, it’s a buzzphrase that’s dallied around in gym circles or class ...

Functional strength training involves exercises that mimic everyday activities, such as climbing stairs. It aims to improve people’s movement in their daily lives or their performance in certain ...