functional training functional Aesthetics how does one go about I guess having somewhat the
best of both worlds first of all like the combining different modalities option does
that because obviously you can you can do aspects of bodybuilding and aspects
of calisthenics and aspects of throwing a med ball and you'll get you know some of everything
and I actually bodybuilding gets a bad rap for being non-functional um among the crowd
but I actually like bodybuilding a lot like I learned a lot of really good stuff from there
um like their highest rep ranges are really good for like building strength endurance and
um you know isolating does have its place and it's not like they you know I think a lot of people
just sort of have this issue with bodybuilding they're an easy target but it's I don't think
it's particularly non-functional anymore so than anything else so you can do that but also a lot of
the things that you would consider functioning like we're talking about moving in the in the
transverse plane which would broadly fall under the category of functional training because it
doesn't happen a lot in any given strength um sort of form of hobby that actually builds up
like these great obliques and like you get all this detail down the side of your abs incredible
midsection compared to like someone who just does crunches for their abs and maybe just
braces their core in heavy lifts so actually functional training tends to be very aesthetic
like your shoulders are nuts the kind of like detail like you know the striations and things
like a you know a bodybuilding a bodybuilder would probably love to have that kind of detail
on their shoulder and you've gotten that from all the calisthenics you've done that's like
in crossfitters and that's another whole can of worms but when they're they have fantastic
physiques because they're moving in you know slightly less conventional ways and they're
doing heavy weights for higher repetitions and things and of course yeah so it's just a matter
of doing a bit more I guess homework in in your training so doing the basics of bodybuilding which
would be a progressive higher volume approach with a combination of of compound and isolation
movements but then to get to get quite unquote more functional and I guess diverse movement
patterns what I what I gather from your teachings Adam is just introducing those movement patterns
that go in those different planes of movement with more complexity Associated yeah just look
at what's missing in your modality and like borrow some things from somewhere else that kind of plug
those gaps and you'll find it improves your sort of injury resilience but also does benefit your
physique because you're you're training stuff that otherwise would would go untrained so in
bodybuilding you know you'll you'll do maybe as many curls as you can do and then you'll switch to
hammer curls because hammer curls are slightly easier than curls so instead of dropping the
weight which is called a drop set and that's normally how you go past failure you instead
um switch the actual mechanics the way you're doing the movement of a calisthenics example might
be to do push-ups and then push-ups on your knees so that you can use a mechanical drop set outside
of a kind of um just weight setting just say you're trying your core and you're doing hanging
leg raises you've done as many as you can with straight legs and instead of just doing straight
sets as your way of progressing that you could do your straight leg once until you your form starts
to break down and then you tuck your knees so you've you've decreased the lever arm and you
you're still training that same movement pin but you've you're doing a drop set that's what
training is is surprisingly good for hypertrophy if that's an interest of yours you just got to
build up to it and be careful with it I think the problem with Fitness at large is we tend to use
really extreme examples so it's like you shouldn't load your back while you're bending over because
it's dangerous because it's bad for your spine but there's a difference between going for your
max deadlift load with a flex spine and 100 using a very manageable load that you progress over time
to actually make your body robust so yeah exactly just like the the knees over toes guy who to
um Ben Patrick always talking about you know so many people for so long advised against moving in
these pasture toes and I think it's like enough people have heard now that there's that that's
actually fine and in fact it's encouraged but obviously you're not going to go and do a [ __ ]
squat with like 100 kilograms across you but that will hurt your knees like that's the difference
and it's it's moving in and that's where bands can be fantastic because they're so light um you
know you can get a really light resistance band and there's no risk of dropping it on yourself
like to train all kinds of positions that would normally be be tricky how would bands be used
um in the application of them and how is it transfer to say your more your general movements
yeah I think resistance bands are Fantastic Tools like first and foremost just because you know
the obvious practical benefits of them being extremely portable um lately I've often had a
resistance band in my pocket that I can just pull out and start doing stuff wherever but um but also
because you can train like every most training is so gravity dependent so that means that every
the force is always coming down woods and like you can manipulate that by changing your body position
like in calisthenics there are horizontal pushes same with weight lifting but they're still not
the same as standing up and pushing where you've got to dig yourself into the ground and talk from
the waist Etc um you know which is what you do if you're swinging a bat or if you're throwing
a punch or something so ultimately it's like you're kind of particularly weightlifting any
other practicing picking stuff up but that's only one expression of strength whereas a band you can
put behind you you can put to one side you can pull down and whilst you know you can get into a
big argument as to whether swinging a cable cables obviously being very similar to resistance bands
but with a more linear resistance obviously resistance bands get harder the further they
go on which uh which uh creates challenges and has its advantages so like one of the most basic
um sort of things to do is to move in the transverse plane like you know there's
sagittal frontal and transverse but a lot of exercises are only in the sagittal plane you
know which is up and down forwards and backwards um whereas in real life everything we do almost
involves some element of rotation even running and walking you uh rotate you move your right
shoulder at the same time as your left hip and at the same time pulling a door open or which
is a I always use that example on my channel and people like how heavy are your doors man
yeah wrestling you know throwing a punch like I say all these things involve twisting
my philosophies difference because a lot some people might say well why do you ever
need to be strong rotating if you're not how often do you how often do you push Furniture
Etc but that's where injuries happen isn't it because you adapt your environment and then the
one day you have to pull that furniture out and you twist funny I mean I literally have tweaked
my back doing that so that's where you want to build yourself up the whole point of the training
is to kind of plug the gaps of the things you're not already doing um to fortify yourself so that
when you do have to do them you're strong I mean that's the point of training in terms of just the
kind of like a healthy and uh injury prevention but I'm also just interested in being able to
throw a punch even though I'm not aggressive and don't intend on fighting and being able to throw
a ball a long way I just think you know it's cool to be able to like you know use your body in all
these different ways and I can also um agree with what you're saying in terms of people injuring
themselves when moving just those awkward postures that you don't usually load in everyday life that
was probably the most common thing that I saw when I was working in the clinic as a physio
even really really capable people like that that lift have uh you know physical jobs as well but
that moving with the stress the awkward positions probably a lack of sleep yeah you're tired yeah
just that perfect yeah so all these different things that you might think are unnecessary
but they're no less in my opinion necessary than squatting You could argue none of it's necessary
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