Expose the three major lies of functional training, what function can you talk about without muscles? Building muscle is the foundation of exercise
Recently, the term functional training is very popular, and it has a tendency to overthrow traditional muscle building and bodybuilding. The so-called functional training literally refers to a training method that focuses on strengthening the body's functionality rather than building muscle.
This training includes comprehensive training in coordination, balance, endurance, cardiorespiratory capacity, and body correction. As a representative of functional training, crossfit is well known and admired by many people, who believe that crossfit has completely exploded traditional muscle building.
That being said, although crossfit is popular in China, it has a bad reputation abroad because it hurts a lot of people. And more people have found that after practicing CrossFit, the improvement of physical fitness is far inferior to that of traditional muscle building.
Today, I will expose the three lies of the so-called functional training, so that you can understand that the functional training currently on the market is just an inefficient exercise under the guise of functional training.
- Functional Training Strength Lies
At present, functional training focusing on strength is generally carried out according to the "Prisoner's Fitness" model. But if you've ever done prisoner fitness, you know that prisoner fitness doesn't improve much strength.
There is a big gap between a one-year prisoner fitness player and a one-year equipment fitness player. Not only the bench press and other three major sports, but also the wrist-wrestling prisoner fitness has no advantage.
There are two ways of strength training, one is to increase muscle, and the other is to strengthen the ability of muscle nerve penetration, prisoner fitness belongs to the latter. But the effect of strength growth is not as direct as muscle-building training, nor is it as great as the muscle nerve stimulation of powerlifting.
- Functional training coordination lies
First of all, we need to understand what coordination depends on. Coordination depends on the stability of joints and core muscles. If you are a thin person with underdeveloped muscles, how can your joints be stable?
Therefore, many functional training courses teach people to stand on their heads, and they all use auxiliary methods, but in the process, many people have injured their shoulders and wrists, and they can only walk on their heads, unable to hold themselves still.
But if you have muscles, the deltoid and back muscles are strong enough, then your shoulder core and waist core will be stable enough, and you may not need assistance in the process of learning handstand, and you can learn it easily.
- Functional training physical fitness lies
If physical fitness is also used as a functional training program, I think this is a very bad thing. Because physical fitness itself has a flaw, that is, the low retention rate.
In other words, you can quickly reach a high level of physical fitness, but it doesn't take long to drop from a high level to a low level. Take push-ups as an example. A person who can do 100 push-ups can only do 60 after a week of rest.
But muscle-building training will not have this trouble. You could push 60 kilograms before, and you can still push 60 kilograms after a month. It doesn’t drop so fast.
Therefore, when we ordinary people do fitness training, functional training can only be used as a warm-up. If we want to obtain better training effects, we still need to focus on conventional muscle building. Muscle is the basis of exercise.
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