#functional-fitness

#functional-fitness

It got me thinking. While everyone's obsessing over the latest fitness trends and biohacking protocols, these folks have been consistently moving their bodies for decades. No fancy equipment, no Instagram-worthy routines, just simple habits they picked up long before movement became a multibillion-dollar industry. So I started asking around, digging into research, and talking to people who've stayed active well into their golden years. What I found wasn't revolutionary or complicated. It was refreshingly simple.

Functional fitness was never something I was interested in when I was younger. Instead, my 20s were all about vanity workouts. Anything that could get me to sculpted abs? Sign me up. It wasn't until I became old enough to groan while getting out of a chair that I became more concerned with my mobility and how to maintain it.

The location served as the starting point for Urban Iron, the latest addition to a bustling category of hybrid racing events that combine running with functional fitness. To overstate the current popularity of these types of events is almost as difficult as completing a hybrid race itself. While Urban Iron participants laced up at the Brooklyn dealership, 250 like-minded athletes toed a different starting line halfway across the country, ready to kick the tires of LIFE TIME's inaugural LT Games in Minneapolis.

"It was definitely a 'pinch me' moment," Coleman, the director of training at fitness company Pvolve, told Business Insider.