Visit any fitness center today and you will see people relying less on weight machines that isolate specific muscles.  Instead, often accompanied by a personal trainer, they are doing movements that use their own body weight to work multiple muscle groups at once… Functional fitness is also about large body movements that prepare the body for everyday activities, according to Nathan LeBrasseur, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn

Palm Beach Daily News by David Rogers

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