For the first time, we're sharing the insights of professional athletes about training that increases muscle function. Make yourself energetic now. Many people believe that strength training does not provide any benefits at all in everyday life. Now we are talking about those physical activities with which we have to meet in everyday life. Moreover, such thoughts often come not from ordinary people who are completely unfamiliar with the theory of training, but even from some sports specialists.
Today we will talk about functional training in strength sports, which is discussed by experts and is often suggested to be used by visitors to gyms.
Reasons for terminology substitution
This substitution of terminology is the main reason why many people believe in the superiority of functional training over strength training. Thus, many people believe that exercising in the gym or at home is simply not “functional”. In turn, this fact becomes the reason for the confidence that only those exercises that are close to biomechanics and the nature of muscular tension that are found in everyday life can be effective.
In their opinion, all other resistance exercises are ineffective and not worthy of attention. This suggests that, say, the tremendous effort people put into their backyard plots may turn out to be functional training.
If you follow this assumption, then you can make far-reaching conclusions, because of which people will be completely disoriented in the goals and methods of achieving them, in relation to physical self-improvement.
Approaching functional training in strength sports from a similar perspective, some exercises may seem more functional than others. So, say, you can talk about the snatch performed by weightlifters versus lifting the bar for biceps, or squatting with a barbell on outstretched arms versus the leg press. It must be admitted that functional training has become very popular lately, and many trainers preach similar ideas. At the same time, such, if I may say so, "occupations" often look just caricature. For example, on the net you can find exercises that involve moving home furniture. In this regard, adherents of such theories really want to ask why they are not satisfied with the method of strength training that has developed in sports today? Indeed, during the formation of any quality that is specific at first glance, it can be successfully transferred to a non-specific requirement presented by various everyday situations. Such a transfer can be carried out not only on the requirement itself, but also on the angle of application of your efforts with a certain margin. An example is the popular bench press. If you regularly perform this exercise on horizontal and inclined benches in several positions, then in everyday life you can easily cope with any efforts that require the work of the triceps, pectoral muscles and anterior deltas.
It is enough to look closely at any textbook on sports theory to find explanations on the topic of positive transference. If you go back to work in the backyard, then no one will think about what muscles are used in order to throw a bag of trash over their shoulders or climb the stairs. In strength sports, there are a huge number of training techniques that then allow you to perform any household work without thinking about it.
Thus, if we use the erroneous logic of "functional movements" in relation to strength training, then we can assume that all athletes develop some kind of "non-functional muscles." But you must admit that this looks extremely absurd. Such theories can only be led by those people who, say, having seen photographs of a famous bodybuilder, will assure everyone that his figure is a consequence of the use of chemicals and other things. However, they simply do not have enough willpower to go to the gym and start training in order to become stronger and make their figure more attractive.
Of course, there are people and professions for whom functional training is essential, and not powerful muscles. For this reason, he has a right to exist and he will find a place in the method of general physical training.
It is also necessary to recognize the fact that the training processes of bodybuilders or powerlifters do not have the specificity that is inherent in people who preach functional training. But at the same time, and they must agree with the fact that strength is the basis of all physical qualities of people.
No action, be it tug-of-war or "functional" climbing, can be performed without the use of force. At the same time, for the development of power indicators, performing monotonous work will clearly not be enough. Only when using different types of load will the muscles become stronger, the ligaments will become stronger and more elastic, and the joints will become more mobile. Only in this case will power help to solve any problem.
One of the varieties of functional training is crossfit. By and large, this is a primitive modification of the circuit training technique used in sports to develop general physical indicators. First of all, this refers to the development of basic systems, the activity of which is aimed at ensuring the ability to perform muscular work. These include the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. If athletes are actively imposed on functional training in strength sports, then this will become the main cause of overtraining and overstrain.
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