@TheDrunkenPickle
Good thing I found this video, I can always trust dr mike to tell me how to handle heavy loads đź‘Ť
@lanceoakley796
the standard bodybuilding routine neglects many areas that are important for athletes
@functionalaestheticse.c.8953
Well said. Build strength and then practice sport specific movements to build the coordination to use that newly found strength. A little bit more nuanced than this but yes in a nutshell.
@kewltony
HEAVY LOADS MENTIONED #heavyloadsgang HEAVY LOADS KEEPING YOU BIG AS HELL
@pliniocastro1546
Neurologic strengh is a thing though. There is a huge difference between scientific measurement of work capability and neurologic strenght to a higher degree of motion
@PriyvratTiwari
I think what he means by "functional" is focusing on stabiliser muscles to help transfer the force effectively and not just the muscles which look good. A bodybuilder generally doesn't have explosive strength required to throw a ball...and an athlete generally can't bench press 200kgs. But I get your point too...
@colindavidson6483
I like free weights in general because they engage stabilizing muscles all over your body, compound exercises, that’s my definition of functional muscles
@gorillamunch6899
Physical Work itself is also a great builder of natural strength as long as the work you are doing varies
@turnsbyler4553
It seems that people with too much free time, specifically celebrities,try to emphasize unconventional techniques simply because they have too much time…focus on what the experts say 👍
@ashbison
If you have taken functional strength and conditioning course in college, day one is addressing the overuse of the word functional strength training. You dive into it’s roots from the first times it was used as a term and how it developed. Functional exercises are literally just any exercise that helps you in what ever you’re trying to accomplish in life. If an exercise doesn’t serve any purpose to you for any reason whether it be your job, your sport, ADL’s, just wanting to be very strong, then it isn’t functional. Everyone has a very different perspective on what’s functional for them, it’s not a one size fits all.
@CreateYourDream-777
“Functional strength” implies that there is a type of strength that somehow isn’t functional. People love adding “sciencey” terms to sound like they know what they are talking about.
@brandonwalker5485
A lot of functional strength is neurological adaptation to movements that are more awkward to execute than more conveniently loaded lifts like barbell and machine exercises. A heavy piece of furniture doesn’t have a nice knurled handle on it. Nor does a large bag of cement mix. So to me functional strength is about training my muscle coordination to handle difficult loads where perfect form isn’t really an option. I enjoy sandbag training as a mainstay for this sort of thing, even though the majority of my strength gains come from traditional barbell work.
@tempyoutube3399
Now show me the video of Mike trying to touch his toes
@sammythijs8641
It’s a lot less about KB’s vs DB’s vs BB’s but more about the movements you could do with any of them. Specializing in just one of them is okay but i’d say they all have their own set of pros and cons
@dontworryaboutit9744
Wow, this post gave me so much serotonin I almost started lifting invisible weights. đź’Ş Keep it up, you're crushing it harder than my last set of squats!
@sn1p1n
people say “youre not training for functional strength” but isnt strength itself functional? why do people still think its not functional to be strong
@MarioOliveira-p5q
The main thing for me is that as a kid I worked construction and I intentionally would avoid sitting on the bulldozer or sitting in a truck which is the jobs that most people fight over because that everyone was sick and dead at 40 or slightly after. Then I saw my grandparents living like Fred Flintstones in Portugal into their 80s doing labor. Living by themselves milking cows, and growing potatoes, and raising pigs and chickens by hand. It's the same where they also want easy book keeping jobs or real estate jobs. I'm not stupid either. I have a mechanical engineering degree. And I'm good at real math not done by a computer. I can do real calculus and real linear algebra. Then everyone else who ate the blueberry bubblegum is jealous. They try to be an anker. They don't want to accept that america is dumb. The culture teaches that easy things are smart. You take a limitless pill and that's what smart is. Smart people aren't smart because they have to ability to work for long hours on math problems just like chess masters can focus on their sport for hours. It's because you take a pill and suddenly know everything or have skill through osmosis. It's not building a network of knowledge brick by brick and module by module.
@travelreview5962
Listen, man...functional strength is exercising small muscles that are almost never hit in the gym. Yes, you have to do the big 3. That is a given. Once you get high-level in your gym work outs though you can see more real strength gains from exercising the smaller muscles that are never hit on things like bench, squat, deadlifts, curls, pull downs, rows, et cetra. Like if you ever grab a wrestler or a gymnast or these guys that work all day in the oil field or on a farm and they're able to do things that are just like "holy shit." They can't bench or squat as much as you but as far as general strength they have a different kind of power. That's because all their muscles are strong. Their hands and fingers are strong. They are essentially working out muscles others have never hit. I've bench pressed 335-350 in two different periods of my life. I've curled with 50 lb dumbells in each hand at two different periods of my life. The first one was only in the gym, the second was in the gym less but spending 13.5 hours a day 7 days a week building the piping systems for oil rigs. Trust me when I say this, you could kick my ass at either time! Lol. But fr the guy that had more functional real world strength was the 2nd one and it wasn't close. The bf percentages were both 18-20 but because of my 20k minimum steps per day I consumed twice the protein and calories while in the oil field. I had the same lifts but I was way way way fuggin stronger. That is what Joe means.
@SamuelRamirez-js5rb
He's sort of right. Being very strong in compound lifts helps, but the reality is, strength in a certain sport will vary by sport. When I was in high school, my lifts were fairly trash, I weighed like 120 pounds and wrestled in that weight class. But even though my lifts were trash, even against opponents who could probably lift DOUBLE on the compound lifts, I would dominate because I had strength that was very good and specific to wrestling. Don't get me wrong, weightlifting with normal lifts is not going to worsen your chances, but choosing exercises that target muscles most used are going to be far more efficient. Specifically for wrestling, I could do a ton of pull-ups and my arms were insanely strong for my age.
@kace999