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Cross-training or functional training is emerging as the most effective fitness discipline to improve your overall health status, especially your cardio-respiratory system, offering greater ease in your daily movements, improved muscle power, fat reduction, and improved muscular support. Cross-training is also effective for physical preparation for another sport.
Accessible to all, this training method combines different activities and works on several physical axes in one session.
In recent years, it has become a trendy sport, accessible to all, which tends to be seen as THE fitness discipline. It’s different from other methods:
Cross-training is a unique and highly effective training method for 5 different reasons:
The sessions are very short and so ideal for people who have little time to devote to sport. By training for about 30 minutes 3 times a week, you’ll see improvements in the cardio-respiratory system, muscle strength, loss of fat and good maintenance or an increase in muscle mass.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced athlete, all physical qualities are used during a week of cross-training, which means everyone can make progress. For example, a runner won’t make progress from a cardio point of view (he won’t regress either!), but may improve his strength, speed, explosiveness ... qualities that he doesn’t usually use.
The general objective of cross-training is to become as complete as possible, that is to say, to have a balanced body between strength and endurance. Each suggested session is constructed differently to avoid routine. So you maintain the desire and pleasure of exercising to the fullest!
For cross-training, there’s no need to invest in heavy equipment or various weights machines. Let's look at it by movement:
A cross-training session lasts about an hour. It is divided up as follows:
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