Patch Fitness can be used to enhance functional fitness for ages 5 to 105. The movements you used for physical play as a child are the same movements that, when executed on the Patch Fitness Obstacle Course, provide the superior results. These exercises are the most funademtal exercises that every person needs throughout life: Run, Jump, Crawl, Climb. The philosophy of these movement remains the same with Patch; a strong, flexible body will give you the ability to traverse your world today in a much more fluid, prepared state of being and wellness.

Patch Fitness Exercise Components:

• Muscular Strength
• Muscular Endurance
• Cardiovascular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Body Composition

Why a Patch Fitness Obstacle Course

Functional Fitness has become the “buzz” word in the fitness industry because we have discovered the necessity for our exercises to be more supportive of the actual movements that we do on a daily basis. Functional fitness involves movements that replicate how the body moves while doing real life activities, whether you are dancing, walking, running, climbing, crawling, ducking, jumping, shoveling snow, cleaning house, or playing games or sports in your back yard, on the playground, playing court or field. Functional fitness is improved by adding agility, balance, coordination, and dexterity to a fitness base of muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility. Patch Fitness focuses on functional fitness. The end result will be improved body composition (decreased body fat and increased lean body mass). All Patch exercises collectively improve functional fitness for anyone.

Patch Fitness for Athletes & Sports Performance:

Athleticism requires high levels of all five components of fitness, as well as agility, balance, dexterity, speed, and the ability to perform explosive movements. Patch Fitness was originally developed as an integral component of athletic training programs.

"During the course of a game you hit the wall-doing this workout you hit the wall 10 times!" John Lynch, all-pro safety for the Denver Broncos

Patch Fitness has been used by numerous professional and collegiate athletes. It’ll work for you, whether you’re an aspiring 9th grade football player dreaming of a pro career, a college lacrosse player striving to make the starting lineup or an all-pro safety in the NFL. Patch Fitness will develop the physical and mental skills you need to succeed.

Patch Fitness for Kids:

If you observe children at play, they fluctuate back and forth between high intensity and low intensity. This is the general nature of children. Fitness programs that focus on children-whether it is in elementary physical education classes or youth athletics--need to reflect the general nature of how children move. Patch Fitness exercises incorporate both aerobic and anaerobic energy systems; therefore Patch Fitness is perfect for children.

The more your strength training resembles “play”, the more fun and effective it will be. We are especially thrilled with the potential Patch Fitness has for kids from 5 and up. First of all, Patch exercises are fun! Every expert of children’s fitness will tell you that fun is the most important element of a children’s program. The jumping, crawling, ducking and movement involved in Patch Fitness will provide a child with strength, cardio, stamina, balance, and coordination.

Patch Fitness challenges not only a young body, but a young mind. Creativity is natural on the Patch “O” Course. Confidence will grow as a child experiences the thrill of successfully executing Patch exercises and all the exercises can be modified to accommodate every child, so they will succeed.

Develop Muscular Strength

Resistance training is fun when done using your entire body. Patch Fitness is designed to use your body weight and gravity for resistance; vaults, hip raises, bear crawls, inchworms and alligators all replicate life’s normal activities in one way or another.You choose the exertion level; start slowly if you are just beginning an exercise program or turn it on full speed to achieve the results professional athletes use Patch Fitness for.

Functional strength makes you stronger in every physical plane allowing you to squat, bend, sprint, twist, and lift more efficiently during every aspect of your life with confidence, power and agility. Patch Fitness will improve musculoskeletal alignment; you will be able to significantly reduce your risk of injury during all sports, work and daily activities.

Develop Muscular Endurance

The definition of muscular endurance is the ability to work the muscles at a submaximal force for a period of time without fatigue. Patch exercises involve continual movement that requires the muscles to keep on working. Twenty minutes of a variety of combinations of Patch exercises requires sustained effort from all the muscles throughout the body and will deliver improvements in muscular endurance.

Cardiovascular Endurance

Patch Fitness exercises engage every muscle in your body like no other exercise program or machine. This creates a non-stop, heart-pumping workout that you have total control over. By simply slowing your pace and modifying the exercises, you can control the caloric burn rate and VO2 consumption. Patch Fitness exercises incorporate both aerobic (lower intensity) and anaerobic (high intensity) energy systems to make the body more efficient overall.

Patch Fitness also engages the thinking muscle: your brain. Instead of sitting on a bike or walking on a treadmill in front of a TV, you will be exercising your brain as you think ahead to your next exercise or formulate how to position your body to execute a bear crawl, or alligator. It is the fun component that makes you forget about how hard you are working.

Improve Flexibility

Flexibility involves the ability to move a joint through the normal, full range of motion as a result of the positioning of the joints in relation to the attachments of the muscles. Patch Fitness exercises incorporate movements in every conceivable physical plane, thus maintaining normal flexibility. Training in this manner will, as a natural byproduct of the movement, align your musculoskeletal system in its original and correct alignment. When your skeletal system is in perfect alignment, you can experience the flexibility your body was designed for.