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Now that; that's functional training right there.
Functional, if you work beside the Star Wars fanboy that borders on creepy Star Wars fanboy
that was just waiting to use his light saber, that I don’t think he got all that long
ago.
Which is kind of contributing to what I just said.
The fact of the matter is: before you dismiss what others might define as "functional training"
you have to understand what it is in the first place.
It’s not some buzz word that's overused, that now sounds really old, and out of style.
The fact of the matter is: functional training should always be in style because it should
mean only one thing.
That is: purposeful training.
So if you are a wannabe Jedi you'd better make sure you're covering all those skills
that I demonstrated there, if you want to be able to avoid the light saber.
However, most of us aren't doing that.
So maybe, that's not exactly what you need to be doing.
This move right here?
Great move.
It's a snatch; overhead snatch.
This would be perfect if you were an Olympic lifter.
This may not be great.
It may have no function for you if you either have a history of shoulder problems, or you're
an overhead thrower.
I train a lot of athletes that throw.
They get their living, and make their living on throwing over their head.
This would not be a move that I would put in their programs.
A clean?
Yes because I can keep them down here at shoulder height.
But I don’t need to bring them all the way up here weighted because one bad rep could
result in a career.
It doesn’t mean that it's not a good movement, and it doesn't mean that it's not functional.
It is functional for somebody that needs to do that.
The same here could be said about this.
This looks a little goofy, for crying out loud, but this is actually functional if you're
a tightrope walker.
Now, again, don't laugh.
There are people that actually do that for a living and they need to have the skill to
be able to do that.
You see, when you walk on a tightrope you're working on your balance and your perception;
your ability to feel where your body is in space at all times.
The slightest movement in this direction needs to be compensated and brought back to center
or it could result in, really, literally, life and death.
So this could be really functional.
Maybe not for you and for me.
Now, balance itself, that is functional.
That's something we're going to work on with ATHLEANX, but not that level, and not that
exercise.
Even this one right here.
It's a concentration curl.
It's one of those bicep exercises that I don’t program in our ATHLEANX programs.
Why?
Because it's not really that functional.
It's functional if you're a body builder and you're really just solely focusing on your
aesthetics.
If you want to get that really intense peak contraction, and then you want to be able
to – even as you see here – you self-spot with my other hand.
Take that set a little bit beyond failure.
Again, all good principles, but I wouldn’t really want to get you to just sit down and
do exercises.
If I could, if I can get you stand on your own feet and work that way, I would.
The fact is, if you want to train like an athlete, we train a lot of different elements.
So some of these aspects of these things will make their way into our programming, right?
If we want to be an athlete you've got to have some element of speed.
You've got to be powerful.
You've got to have strength.
You've got to have balance.
You've got to have coordination.
You've got to have conditioning.
All these things wrapped up into one; that's how we train like an athlete, and that's what
this channel is all about.
We kind of demonstrated over the course of lots of our videos and in all of our programs.
If you're looking for a program that puts it all into one spot you can head over to
ATHLEANX.com and get our ATHLEANX training program.
Start training like an athlete so you could start looking like one.
In the meantime, don’t dismiss what others will define as "functional training" and think
right off the bat, because you thought that was a cool word back in 1990 or the early
2000s, and now it's out of style; it's not.
It's always in style because it should only mean "purposeful training".
Whatever your purpose is, that's what functional training should be.
All right, guys.
I'll be back here again in just a few days.
Make sure you leave your comments, your requests.
What are your functions?
Maybe I can cover them on this channel here for you.
I'd be happy to do it in a future video.
Please, leave them below.
In the meantime, I'll be back here again in just a couple days.
See ya.