Work out for the life you want to live

Training that builds you up in a qualitative way we usually call smart training. It's about maintaining the body's functions, listening to the body's signals and varying your exercise. Smart training gives you the opportunity to live the life you want to live.

Training smart is about maintaining all our basic movement functions throughout life. We always want to be able to get up, pull, press and twist. In addition, with some explosiveness.
- We might want to go to the Alps, play golf and rebuild the house even when we are old. Older people today have very high expectations of their physical capacity compared to previous generations. It is inspiring for us, says Tina Uppfeldt, training developer at Friskis & Svettis Riks.

Welcome to try Friski's most functional classes. Jympa, Core, Flex and Circle light are great passports for those who want to practice extra much on basic movement functions.

Feel your body and vary

Smart training is also more empathetic exercising. Listen to the body and pay attention to the actual experience of the exercise.
- Feel inward and seek harmony. Perhaps it is yoga but you can also find the harmony in your running or if you are doing heavy lifting. Everything you do should feel good and developing, ”says Tina.

If you know that it is hard with some excersises, warm up some extra and work extra with mobility both before and after the class. Pay attention to the body's signals, grasp what you seem to need to grasp. It is possible to ignore the body's signals. You can make the mistake of exercising when you instead should rest.
The variation is also an important part of smart training.
- You who train hard need to break the pattern and work with the opposite, a bit more gentle training. And you who mostly do a bit calmer classes, come on and brake your patterns with harder training Tina says.

Create conditions

Friski's idea of training is that it should help people find the conditions for living the way we want to live. And the conditions for building up your body exist throughout life.
- The body should be used but also keep the whole life, Tina says.
If you are a person who wants a lot in life, you also need to take more in your training. But wisely.
- You need to give the body a strong signal that you intend to use it. You need to tighten your muscles properly to initiate good, constructive processes. High-intensity training gives such signals to your body but then it needs to recover.
Recovery often means rest. But you can also do an active recovery with a soft class every now and then. Soft is perfect for recovery. A no stressed pace but at the same time solid training.

Summary

Train functionally to maintain body functions. Find harmony. Listen to the body's signals and adapt accordingly. Vary what you do. Don't forget the recovery. It is you who creates the conditions for the life you want to live.