But is muscle mass gained through traditional weight training really NOT functional? What is the meaningful difference between the physiques produced by these two methods of training? In my mind it seems like you would simply end up with less muscle mass/strength gains if you worked out with kettlebells as opposed to free weights and machines. And while you might gain some cardio from something like battle ropes, couldn't you just also run if that's important to you? Is "functional strength training" like a jack of all trades master of none kind of philosophy while traditional weight training is more targeted?
You would end up with less muscle mass and strength. Does everyone want absolute max muscle mass and strength? Or just general fitness? Kettlebells are great for general fitness. Not for peak hypertrophy lol.
High rep training is endurance training. If you want to maintain general physical fitness work out 3 times a week, moderate to high weights but not heavy, 3 sets per exercise, eat plenty of protein (1g per lb bodyweight) and you'll be good.
If the gym isn't your thing, stick with the protein, and do bodyweight training everyday. Pushups, pullups, bodyweight squats, lunges. If you can't do pullups do a variation like laying a dowel or broom handle across two high seated chairs, and lay under the makeshift handle, pulling your chest to it. Full range of motion, focus on the muscle you're training until you can do a pullup.
Look up "greasing the groove". Works great to improve your bodyweight exercises as a beginner and intermediate, but higher reps and harder variations are where you'll want to go when you reach advanced stages.
Calisthenics work if you want to be lean, muscular, and physically fit. Not so much for building large muscles or high strength.
No it's a pretty good thing to train. Think of it as compound exercises. While bodybuilding or gym exercises may work your muscles in isolation, functional strength does compound exercises which strengthen the small and often ignored muscles.
A combination of both is the ideal, anyone who says otherwise is a homosexual who blows men in gas station toilets
Functional strength is just anything that improves your ability to perform in practical, everyday situations.
Things like farmer walks, bench press, squats, deadlifts, etc, are functional, because everyone has had to pick something up or carry something or push something before.
functional strength is quite useful, mainly in sports and overall health.im not saying hypertrophy training is useless, it's just one aspect of building a strong and resiliant body. i personally think every person that lifts for pure aesthetic should still have one day solely focusing on explosiveness and flexibilty
Its complete bullshit yeah. I've been working a physically intensive job for a while now and none of the strength i gained from working out has transferred to real work. I utterly mog everyone at work when it comes to weightlifting and yet i still get tired quickly and I can't pick and move shit around as easily as everyone else.
I've had squats, deadlifts, ohp, thumbless chin-ups, and weighted pushups in my program up until recently. All those and i still get mogged by 40 year olds
They've been doing the same things they're doing today for the last 20 years. They have adapted to the job they do, and know how to do it effectively. Watch them and learn from them if you want to do it for a long time.
work capacity is apart of functional fitness. You have no conditioning. Doing things like battleropes would likely remedy that. Lifting weights is a lot different than controlling your body through space doing work.
the problem is that you are moronic
you could be like me just recently moving an 800lb fridge on a dolly up some stairs and not break a sweat or you could be like the other guy that does no training but has done that work for years and is sweating buckets when we do the second fridge
only 1/2/3/4 for reps and about a decade of cardio training mogs the shit out of my coworkers
No, but the versions sold to burgers are.
A level of flexibility and mobility is necessary to be functional. Getting too big tends to limit that.
Heavy professional powerlifters and bodybuilders are glorified cripples that need help getting basic stuff done.
It's a fad for weak left wing redditors scared of doing proper training and being accountable for anything. Just be tiny, weak, do useless bodyweight exercises without any programs or training goals. Very effeminate.
For body builders and vanity lifters sure. For people who lift for numbers also yes.
For people who need to perform at sports and athletics it's useful but not extremely.
It's mostly for yuppies who are scared of getting too big and toxic gym culture and still wind up looking like deflated pillbury doughboy until they start taking peds.
yes
thanks man
>Is "functional strength training" moronic nonsense?
nah, feels good being able to do basically any sport or activity well, without looking like a fricked up roidtroony freakazoid or zogbot
>without looking like a fricked up roidtroony freakazoid or zogbot
just don't take roids.
problem solved
But is muscle mass gained through traditional weight training really NOT functional? What is the meaningful difference between the physiques produced by these two methods of training? In my mind it seems like you would simply end up with less muscle mass/strength gains if you worked out with kettlebells as opposed to free weights and machines. And while you might gain some cardio from something like battle ropes, couldn't you just also run if that's important to you? Is "functional strength training" like a jack of all trades master of none kind of philosophy while traditional weight training is more targeted?
mr wheels got mogged by a rockclimber half his weight at t-rows, there's a yt vid somewhere
You would end up with less muscle mass and strength. Does everyone want absolute max muscle mass and strength? Or just general fitness? Kettlebells are great for general fitness. Not for peak hypertrophy lol.
Its more that its uneven, leading to weird shortcomings in mobility.
wtf are you talking about
true anon, you dont want to get too big!
>fricked up roidtroony
That's when you say this shit is dumb and use your moron roidtroony strength to chuck the ball or whatever into a lake
Crossfitters are dogshit at all sports. That's why they CrossFit
Generalizations are often false. That said, crossfit is dogshit. Don't do it.
I just want to be fit, lean and healthy bros. Is high rep training the way to go or is there a place for chopping wood and carrying rocks and stuff?
You and me both anon, I want to be capable of going rounds in mma and lift 3x my body weight
High rep training is endurance training. If you want to maintain general physical fitness work out 3 times a week, moderate to high weights but not heavy, 3 sets per exercise, eat plenty of protein (1g per lb bodyweight) and you'll be good.
If the gym isn't your thing, stick with the protein, and do bodyweight training everyday. Pushups, pullups, bodyweight squats, lunges. If you can't do pullups do a variation like laying a dowel or broom handle across two high seated chairs, and lay under the makeshift handle, pulling your chest to it. Full range of motion, focus on the muscle you're training until you can do a pullup.
Look up "greasing the groove". Works great to improve your bodyweight exercises as a beginner and intermediate, but higher reps and harder variations are where you'll want to go when you reach advanced stages.
Calisthenics work if you want to be lean, muscular, and physically fit. Not so much for building large muscles or high strength.
No it's a pretty good thing to train. Think of it as compound exercises. While bodybuilding or gym exercises may work your muscles in isolation, functional strength does compound exercises which strengthen the small and often ignored muscles.
A combination of both is the ideal, anyone who says otherwise is a homosexual who blows men in gas station toilets
I don't understand how battle rope is supposed to be functional. I've never done this movement in my life.
It's good exercise for trigonometry
helps get familiar with wave functions
helps with calc functions, hence functional
Functional strength is just anything that improves your ability to perform in practical, everyday situations.
Things like farmer walks, bench press, squats, deadlifts, etc, are functional, because everyone has had to pick something up or carry something or push something before.
Here's your answer.
>title
how can a literal anime reader call anyone a nerd bruv
functional strength is quite useful, mainly in sports and overall health.im not saying hypertrophy training is useless, it's just one aspect of building a strong and resiliant body. i personally think every person that lifts for pure aesthetic should still have one day solely focusing on explosiveness and flexibilty
No
Physical activity is good for you
I hope you can back up that claim of yours
Its complete bullshit yeah. I've been working a physically intensive job for a while now and none of the strength i gained from working out has transferred to real work. I utterly mog everyone at work when it comes to weightlifting and yet i still get tired quickly and I can't pick and move shit around as easily as everyone else.
>Functional strength training is moronic nonsense because I don't do it and I'm functionally moronic.
I've had squats, deadlifts, ohp, thumbless chin-ups, and weighted pushups in my program up until recently. All those and i still get mogged by 40 year olds
They've been doing the same things they're doing today for the last 20 years. They have adapted to the job they do, and know how to do it effectively. Watch them and learn from them if you want to do it for a long time.
That's because those people working harder than you at work are doing functional strength training, and you're doing bicep curls like a dipshit.
>i still get tired quickly
what do you think the issue here is?
I'd bet money it's low free-T
work capacity is apart of functional fitness. You have no conditioning. Doing things like battleropes would likely remedy that. Lifting weights is a lot different than controlling your body through space doing work.
the problem is that you are moronic
you could be like me just recently moving an 800lb fridge on a dolly up some stairs and not break a sweat or you could be like the other guy that does no training but has done that work for years and is sweating buckets when we do the second fridge
only 1/2/3/4 for reps and about a decade of cardio training mogs the shit out of my coworkers
No, but the versions sold to burgers are.
A level of flexibility and mobility is necessary to be functional. Getting too big tends to limit that.
Heavy professional powerlifters and bodybuilders are glorified cripples that need help getting basic stuff done.
Yes.
Depends on what you mean by that. Battle ropes are useless unless you want cardio, and they're shit cardio training.
depends on how injured you are or how long you want to be able to do basic things like get up off the ground without support, or pick up things
No. Only coping powershitters think it is
It's a fad for weak left wing redditors scared of doing proper training and being accountable for anything. Just be tiny, weak, do useless bodyweight exercises without any programs or training goals. Very effeminate.
For body builders and vanity lifters sure. For people who lift for numbers also yes.
For people who need to perform at sports and athletics it's useful but not extremely.
It's mostly for yuppies who are scared of getting too big and toxic gym culture and still wind up looking like deflated pillbury doughboy until they start taking peds.
What's so functional about this exercise? In what situation do you need to make waves with a rope?
>What's functional about a full body exercise that improves your cardio