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.

Split training refers to dividing weekly workout sessions or the volume of exercises into separate days to focus on individual elements. Some examples include full-body or push/pull/leg splits.

In today’s fitness landscape, lifting heavier isn’t always lifting smarter. Across gyms in the United States, trainers and exercise scientists agree that isolation movements require a different ...