[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
I’m going to put my money on Arnold being able to wield two chainsaws in one hand, but that’s just my vote.[/quote]
Haha, word
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
I would like to go on the record to say that I also hate functional training.[/quote]
Yes, but you like unfunctional training like leg extensions and pec decks.
[quote]CLewis wrote:
And yes, I teach clients to get on a BOSU and also to stretch - because, you know what? Breaking a hip is a life sentence when you get older, and balance is half that. [/quote]
do your older clients surf frequently? live on a very active fault line? what makes you think standing on an unstable surface will translate to a normal surface?
Just want to point out that if you go to his website, the only sport he specifically talks about is…yep…GOLF. he is a professional Golf strength trainer. Fuck that guy
I am so fucking over all this ‘functional’ bullshit. I am a personal trainer and have had countless arguments with other trainers about ‘functional’ training. It’s an over used buzzword.
In the end ‘functional training’ is basically training for what your doing. So for a bodybuilder preacher curls and leg extensions are ‘functional’ and exercises like one-legged BOSU squats are ‘functional’ if your goal is to achieve balance/coordination but be weak and small. It’s as simple as that.
I am just surprised that ‘functional trainers’ like him don’t advocate gymnastics. Wouldn’t that be like climbing vines and trees? Gymnastics is fantastic!
Why wouldn’t they advocate wrestling? Isn’t that the most basic type of fighting even cavemen would use?
Why wouldn’t they advocate Strongman training? We evolved into builders. It is what we have over the other animals (not including intelligence). We build tools and shelter, and strongman training is a reflection of that.
[quote]sikunt wrote:
I am so fucking over all this ‘functional’ bullshit. I am a personal trainer and have had countless arguments with other trainers about ‘functional’ training. It’s an over used buzzword.
In the end ‘functional training’ is basically training for what your doing. So for a bodybuilder preacher curls and leg extensions are ‘functional’ and exercises like one-legged BOSU squats are ‘functional’ if your goal is to achieve balance/coordination but be weak and small. It’s as simple as that.[/quote]
+1
[quote]forevernade wrote:
I am just surprised that ‘functional trainers’ like him don’t advocate gymnastics. Wouldn’t that be like climbing vines and trees? Gymnastics is fantastic!
Why wouldn’t they advocate wrestling? Isn’t that the most basic type of fighting even cavemen would use?
Why wouldn’t they advocate Strongman training? We evolved into builders. It is what we have over the other animals (not including intelligence). We build tools and shelter, and strongman training is a reflection of that.[/quote]
Well you actually have a lot of good points and, I feel, that a solid and well-rounded fitness program (fitness being defined as the ability to handle any task that is thrown at you with a reasonable level of proficiency) will include elements of all of these things.
If you paid this guy to come in you should have torn him a new asshole. If he was speaking for free then just listen and laugh later.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
IMO guys like this should emulate a time even before the cavemen, make like a single celled organism and split them selves in two. The only problem is that he’d have to accomplish it using arrow heads. I wonder if he’ll ask his surgeon to use stone tools when he goes in for his triple bypass.[/quote]
I’m going to go on record and say this is one of the funniest posts I’ve read in a long time.
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
I’m going to put my money on Arnold being able to wield two chainsaws in one hand, but that’s just my vote.[/quote]
You better hurry… this is my weak arm!
Doing some single leg work or more integrated core work is probably not a bad thing.
The whole term functional training just bugs me. Functional to whom?
My GF used to be real classic fitness girl. 10-12 rep, split routines etc. After doing a little training with me suddenly all her core work is zercher squats, renegade rows, front squats, zercher goodmornings and the like.
Flexibility work is overhead squats, lunges and romanian deadlifts.
Cardio is going for a run, or killing herself with a kettlebell and sandbags.
I like using some of the exercises labelled functional by doing circuit work. People who use it for their man work are just plain stupid? Why not get excellent force production and move heavy weights via basic moves?
LOL…messed up… I liked the longbow part
What a ridiculous asshole. You should have shut him up quickly.