Functional fitness and CrossFit often get lumped together, but they're fundamentally different approaches to training.
What Is Functional Fitness?
Functional fitness focuses on movements that mirror real-life activities: pushing, pulling, squatting, hinging, and carrying. The goal is to build strength and endurance that transfers to everyday life — and to do so sustainably, without unnecessary injury risk.
At Control Results, every program is built around functional movement principles. We scale workouts to the individual, not the other way around.
What Is CrossFit?
CrossFit is a specific branded fitness methodology that emphasizes high-intensity workouts with constantly varied movements. It often includes Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, and metabolic conditioning.
CrossFit can be effective, but the high-intensity, high-volume nature of many workouts can be problematic for beginners or people with mobility limitations.
The Control Results Difference
We take the best of functional training — intentional movement, progressive overload, measurable results — and pair it with expert coaching and a private-club environment. No chalk everywhere, no egos, no pressure to go heavier than you should.
Just consistent, coached, intelligent training.
Written by Control Results Coaching Staff