Functional Strength Index
In This Lab...
Functional Strength Index Orientation
▶️ Quick Strength Assessment Demo
Listen
The Importance of Strength and Muscle
Functional Strength
Understanding the Functional Strength Index
▶️ Strength Assessment Breakdown
Push Ups
▶️ Push Up Techniques & Variations
Iso Squat
▶️ Iso Squat Techniques & Variations
Plank
▶️ Plank Techniques & Variations
Squat Reps
▶️ Squat Reps Techniques & Variations
Hand Grip Strength
Improving Functional Strength
Key Takeaways
▶️ Legs, Glutes & Low Back
▶️ Back & Posterior Shoulders
▶️ Biceps & Abs
▶️ Shoulders & Deltoids
▶️ Triceps, Chest & Anterior Shoulders
Functional Strength Tracking Guide
Key Habits
Functional Strength Checklist
Related Labs
Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions
AT A GLANCE
Functional strength is highly purposeful and practical strength, involving muscles we use every day of our lives. It is strength that serves to minimize our risk to joint injuries and joint degeneration, premature aging, and chronic illness. It is an exceptional and reliable biomarker of biological aging that has been largely undervalued and overlooked in public health and private medical initiatives today.
Effective assessment of the muscle groups that are most essential to maintaining important physical functions, and to preventing falls and injuries, have been largely overlooked in healthcare today. These “functional strength” assessments are best engaged as early as ages 6-7, and then trended throughout adulthood. They become increasingly important as we age. Done properly, they are a uniquely practical and relevant way to benchmark and trend one’s strength and fitness. This Lab ensures our members have the guidance they require to effectively assess and understand their functional strength.
At V-Metrics, our focus is on assessing, building, and trending functional strength. While most strength building can be considered functional, some approaches are more functional than others.
We have selected the specific exercises for our indexing and representing the broader functional strength status of our members. The reasons behind our selections include:
•the muscle groups they engage,
•the research on their correlation to healthspan, morbidity and mortality,
•the ability for all but those with certain physical disabilities to engage them,
•the ability to standardize how they are engaged and the analysis of results,
•the ability for them to be done at home and even within many work environments without special needs for space, equipment or clothing.
To learn more, be sure to engage our Functional Strength Lab!
Effective assessment of the muscle groups that are most essential to maintaining important physical functions, and to preventing falls and injuries, have been largely overlooked in healthcare today. These “functional strength” assessments are best engaged as early as ages 6-7, and then trended throughout adulthood. They become increasingly important as we age. Done properly, they are a uniquely practical and relevant way to benchmark and trend one’s strength and fitness. This Lab ensures our members have the guidance they require to effectively assess and understand their functional strength.
At V-Metrics, our focus is on assessing, building, and trending functional strength. While most strength building can be considered functional, some approaches are more functional than others.
We have selected the specific exercises for our indexing and representing the broader functional strength status of our members. The reasons behind our selections include:
•the muscle groups they engage,
•the research on their correlation to healthspan, morbidity and mortality,
•the ability for all but those with certain physical disabilities to engage them,
•the ability to standardize how they are engaged and the analysis of results,
•the ability for them to be done at home and even within many work environments without special needs for space, equipment or clothing.
To learn more, be sure to engage our Functional Strength Lab!
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
Will the ability to quantitatively measure and trend key biomarkers of functional strength and vitality lead you to:
- study new resources
- explore changes in your habits that improve your strength, safety, vitality, and well-being
- lower your risk to premature aging and preventable chronic illness?
- How will your functional strength compare to your V-Metrics predicted potential in your demographic group? How might closing any gaps in this area influence your safety, resilience and quality of life?
HYPOTHESIS
We cannot improve on what we do not know. We cannot know what we do not measure. To understand what we measure more effectively, we are best to trend it over time.
Whether you have never exercised consistently, or have been a competitive athlete, there are important little-known principles that will lead to meaningful improvements. When understood and applied as guided in this and our partner Labs: Fitness, Health & Exercise, and Progressive Variability Interval Training, gains in strength, fitness, and vitality will result. You will be better equipped to produce superior results in less time.
Whether you have never exercised consistently, or have been a competitive athlete, there are important little-known principles that will lead to meaningful improvements. When understood and applied as guided in this and our partner Labs: Fitness, Health & Exercise, and Progressive Variability Interval Training, gains in strength, fitness, and vitality will result. You will be better equipped to produce superior results in less time.