FAQs
SPORT
What is the sport of Functional Fitness?
Functional Fitness tests athletes’ proficiency across a variety of movement patterns, activities, and energy systems. Athletes must show their competency in various realms, including demonstrations of their endurance, strength, bodyweight capacity, skill, mixed capacity, and power.
In each event, athletes are prescribed a certain amount of work (i.e. number of repetitions of a given movement) to complete. They then attempt to complete the required movements and repetitions as fast as possible. The athlete who completes the work the fastest or completes the most work in a given time period is the winner of that test. The athlete who performs the best across all tests is the overall winner of the competition. (Cited from iF3 Website)
For more details, read here on iF3 official website.
ORGANIZATION
What are OFFSA, CFFF and iF3?
Ontario Functional Fitness Sports Association (OFFSA) is the not-for-profit Provincial Sports Organization and the governing body of the sport of Functional Fitness in Ontario, Canada, and a member of CFFF. Our current mission is to increase the number of registered clubs and expand the member base to build a healthy, safe, and fair environment for the sport of Functional Fitness.
Canadian Functional Fitness Federation (CFFF) is the National Sports Organization and the governing body of the sport in all of Canada.
Canadian Functional Fitness Federation (CFFF) is a non-profit corporation serving as Canada's national sport federation for competitive Functional Fitness. CFFF is responsible for the selection of the athletes who represent the country in the World Cup.
The International Functional Fitness Federation (iF3) is the nonprofit independent international governing body for functional fitness as a competitive sport. We provide international leadership, structure, and resources to fuel the growth of functional fitness as well as enrich the experience and safety of its worldwide participants.
REGISTRATION
What is an official club and how do you register?
Official clubs are the training facilities that provide Functional Fitness athletes with safe environment and resources. This includes the equipment and space necessary for effective training, coaching staff and programming, technical officials for competitions, and volunteers when needed. Official clubs are eligible to host sanctioned events.
OFFSA is committed to support the registered clubs by offering coaching certification courses (in development), technical official training (in development), potential advantage in insurance policy (in development), training resources, information on the upcoming competitions, athlete and club highlights, community relationship and more.
What is a membership and how do you obtain it?
Our biggest goal is to legitimate the sport of Functional Fitness as an officially recognized sport in Canada. To achieve this audacious goal, we need a minimum 5 PSOs and more than 5000 active participants in the sport.
Anyone who engages in the sport of fitness can become a member of OFFSA as an Affiliate Member for free, whether that being a coach, a volunteer, a recreational athlete or a technical official.
If you are an athlete who intends to compete in any of the sanctioned event, you are required to purchase a Competitors Membership ($12).
Membership is good for the duration of the competition season, and it expires on December 31st each year.
You can purchase the membership from our registration page.
COMPETITIONS
What is the competition season in Functional Fitness?
Every competition year starts on January 1st and ends on December 31st.
The competition starts with local qualifiers, then proceeds to provincial qualifiers and federal qualifiers to select individuals and teams that represent Canada at the World Championship.
Our goal is to develop the structure and system for the sport of Functional Fitness at the Provincial level, so it will be included in the Olympic Games.
This year’s competition season is outlined HERE.
Roles
Athletes
Athletes are those who engage in the sport of Functional Fitness, regardless of their intention of competing in the sport.
Coaches
Coaches are responsible for developing the athletes according to their age, experience, abilities and goals. Coaches are required to have certain credentials (in development), and each registered club will be required to have at least one coach with proper credentials (in development).
Technical Officials (TO)
Technical Officials officiate the competitions. They are responsible to make sure that the athletes’ performance meets the movement standards, the athletes complete the required tasks in the correct order and for the designated duration of time, and records scores. Currently Technical Official course is available from iF3, and the credential is valid for 3 years once the applicant passes the test.
Volunteers
Volunteers are those who help with the competitions and events hosted by the registered clubs and/or OFFSA. Volunteers are a huge part of our sport and the growth of the sport largely depends on their contribution.
Board Members
Board members at OFFSA manage all the tasks at OFFSA, from competitions, club and member registration, communicating with CFFF and other PSOs in Canada, and making sure that the sport is moving in the right direction and that athletes are protected.