[quote]Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.[/quote]
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.[/quote]
If an athlete decides to focus on unilateral leg exercises (as opposed to squats and deads) and speed/agility work [and calls this functional training] as opposed to doing squats and barbell curls and trying primarily to gain size, and it improves their game, how is it “a justification for not making any progress”?
[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.
If an athlete decides to focus on unilateral leg exercises (as opposed to squats and deads) and speed/agility work [and calls this functional training] as opposed to doing squats and barbell curls and trying primarily to gain size, and it improves their game, how is it “a justification for not making any progress”?
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You follow me around like my dog when I was a kid.
I would consider an athlete getting better at their own sport to BE progress. I would consider some jackass who doesn’t even play any formal sports yet talks endlessly about their “sports performance training” as justification for why they still have 14" arms to be a blatant failure.
Which group do YOU fall in?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Which group do YOU fall in?[/quote]
I first read that as “Which group do YOU fail in?”
It made me laugh.
[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.
If an athlete decides to focus on unilateral leg exercises (as opposed to squats and deads) and speed/agility work [and calls this functional training] as opposed to doing squats and barbell curls and trying primarily to gain size, and it improves their game, how is it “a justification for not making any progress”?
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Okay so the athlete built up some athletecism using squats and deads, then he built up some more athletecism doing single leg work. Why do functional people take that to mean the squats weren’t functional?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You guys are laughing but it is clear that quite a few members here think just like that. They just appear to be a little more afraid to post lately.[/quote]
They’ll be back
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
An idea for progression for you.
christine wrote:
I’m personally a big fan of the beer curl myself. I can handle a pint in each hand!
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your arms are internally rotated too much.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
I’m actually thinking of switching to a more functional routine. Could someone help me out?
Here it is so far:
Barbell Good Mornings (to build my getting-up-in-the-morning functional strength)
Single-leg seated calf raises (So I can build my pedal-pushing strength when driving)
Single arm cable rows and pushes (for teeth brushing strength)
Weighted pelvic thrusts
Weighted keyboard typing Pyramids (thanks to trajj)
…am I missing anything?
One arm bicep curls to the mouth to train for eating Quater pounders. Start with a quater pound weight for the first rep and use a slightly lighter weight for each rep after that. This will simulate the decreasing weight of the burger as each bite is taken.
No no no, he needs heavier weights. What if he decides to splurge and get a 3/4 lb burger, and doesn’t have the functional core strength to get it to his mouth?
Seriously, to all the functional people, I say, get as big and strong in every plane and motion possible, and it’s hard to go wrong. [/quote]
Yeah but I also want to train for speed so I can rely on momentum to get the burger into my mouth (or at least on my face). So I’m going to do depth-burger-curls.
[quote]christine wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
An idea for progression for you.
christine wrote:
I’m personally a big fan of the beer curl myself. I can handle a pint in each hand!
I think his form is off.[/quote]
He clearly has 10% bodyfat.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.
If an athlete decides to focus on unilateral leg exercises (as opposed to squats and deads) and speed/agility work [and calls this functional training] as opposed to doing squats and barbell curls and trying primarily to gain size, and it improves their game, how is it “a justification for not making any progress”?
You follow me around like my dog when I was a kid.
I would consider an athlete getting better at their own sport to BE progress. I would consider some jackass who doesn’t even play any formal sports yet talks endlessly about their “sports performance training” as justification for why they still have 14" arms to be a blatant failure.
Which group do YOU fall in?[/quote]
Wait who was the first one to reply to whom on this thread? Something about “great balls of bullshit”? Yet I’m following you around like a dog. Right.
Seriously, you need to learn to read. When did I say anything about MY “sports performance training”? Go ahead, read back, you wont find it. Because I never said anything about MY training. I merely made the point that not everyone who prefers “functional training” is doing so “as an excuse for a lack of progress”.
Just like in the other thread: I point out challenges various people may have in their goals, and I’m suddenly “Making excuses for myself”, when, again, I had never said anything about myself.
When I tell you about MY training or routines, or I talk about challenges or problems I have, then you can try talking down to me, specifically. Till then, try to learn to read the actual words I post and not what underlying message you think they maybe could mean.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Fulmen wrote:
Hey X and Tiri-
Remember “I KO’ed Functional Training”?
Good times.
You actually have people trying really really hard to bring it back. I can only assume it is justification for not making any progress. There really is no other use for it.
If an athlete decides to focus on unilateral leg exercises (as opposed to squats and deads) and speed/agility work [and calls this functional training] as opposed to doing squats and barbell curls and trying primarily to gain size, and it improves their game, how is it “a justification for not making any progress”?
Okay so the athlete built up some athletecism using squats and deads, then he built up some more athletecism doing single leg work. Why do functional people take that to mean the squats weren’t functional?
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I disagree with anyone who says any exercise isn’t functional. But I can understand someone saying the single leg work was more functional because it allowed them to progress further within their athletecism than sticking with bilateral work.
[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Did some thinking about this post today, and I disagree. Just because the term can mean different things for different people doesn’t make it completely meaningless. Consider words like “art”. Everybody has a different definition of what art means, and its sometimes abused and bastardized. Does that make “art” a completely meaningless term?
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Did you see this thread?
[quote]christine wrote:
Why all the discussion over pointless terms and labels lately?
Since the ass is the only part of my body that I care what it looks like, I think that I’m going to start calling myself a dysfunctional, easygaining assbuilder.[/quote]
really, lets see some pictures, because if you are just bragging over the internet, then something and yeah, pictures dammit.
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
I’m actually thinking of switching to a more functional routine. Could someone help me out?
Here it is so far:
Barbell Good Mornings (to build my getting-up-in-the-morning functional strength)
Single-leg seated calf raises (So I can build my pedal-pushing strength when driving)
Single arm cable rows and pushes (for teeth brushing strength)
Weighted pelvic thrusts
Weighted keyboard typing Pyramids (thanks to trajj)
…am I missing anything?[/quote]
I need help with my new training cycle. What would you suggest as the most functional exercise for improving my jerking off strength? Or would this be a situation where practicing the skill itself would be best?
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
I’m actually thinking of switching to a more functional routine. Could someone help me out?
Here it is so far:
Barbell Good Mornings (to build my getting-up-in-the-morning functional strength)
Single-leg seated calf raises (So I can build my pedal-pushing strength when driving)
Single arm cable rows and pushes (for teeth brushing strength)
Weighted pelvic thrusts
Weighted keyboard typing Pyramids (thanks to trajj)
…am I missing anything?
I need help with my new training cycle. What would you suggest as the most functional exercise for improving my jerking off strength? Or would this be a situation where practicing the skill itself would be best?[/quote]
Youve got to practice that skill man. Start at 20 times a day and slowly build up to 50.
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
I’m actually thinking of switching to a more functional routine. Could someone help me out?
Here it is so far:
Barbell Good Mornings (to build my getting-up-in-the-morning functional strength)
Single-leg seated calf raises (So I can build my pedal-pushing strength when driving)
Single arm cable rows and pushes (for teeth brushing strength)
Weighted pelvic thrusts
Weighted keyboard typing Pyramids (thanks to trajj)
…am I missing anything?[/quote]
Win
Don’t forget low box squats for training your ability to take a shit.
Im sure coleman-style training has a function. And Coleman probably can preform that function the best. Its called body slamming a guy into oblivion.
Just an update:
I took everyone’s advice here and became so functional so fast that I crashed my damn car and knocked out half my teeth when brushing them.
I’m still doing combat pyramids though (thanks trajj!) which will definitely help when I eventually do battle with pyramids.
Those pyramids have only one fuction: Evil.