What’s FRC?

Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) is a system of mobility training that builds maximum body control, flexibility and usable ranges of motion. Basically, it’s strength training for your joints that applies scientific principles to improve your movement potential, mitigate injuries and promote joint longevity and health.

All the activities we do from climbing, to sailing, to martial arts, or the ‘regular’ stuff like running , lifting weights or playing with your kids, has required ranges of motion or ‘prerequisites’. If you spend a lot of time sitting, or only training the same movement patterns chances are you won’t have a lot of those prerequisites, because mobility really is use it or lose it. Say you take up running and your knee hurts. It’s not that your knees ‘don’t like’ running - but maybe you don’t have enough strength in your hips from sitting all day, not enough rotation in your knees, or even enough big toe range. Same goes for most sports.

That’s where FRC & Kinstretch comes in. You can think of it as strength training for your joints at the end of your range of motion, and it’s a complement to whatever training you’re doing now - even if that’s none at all. It prepares you for whatever activities you want to do - as well as making you move more like a human.

It helps mitigate injury by teaching your body to move in positions you don’t normally train, but can often find yourself in - whether that’s in sport or life. And helps resolve pain, too. For me this way of training is THE only thing that taken away shoulder and hip pain I had for years that nothing else fixed. And I had tried everything. As a bonus, it’s made me stronger and more flexible, better at yoga, climbing, lifting weights and even made sleeping more comfortable.

Think of it like this: imagine a kick boxer needs to kick someone in the head. They first need the range of motion for that kick, like being able to do the splits on the floor (that’s flexibility) but they also need to be able to lift their leg up in the air, while doing the splits. That’s having strength through range of motion - mobility. FRC helps you gain more flexibility, if you need it. And it helps you control those new ranges of motion to make you better at your chosen sports/activities/life.