Functional Bodybuilding
by Jason Anderson
Date Released : 31 Jan 2005
Co-authored by Julian Berriman
Bodybuilding? That is so yesterday!
At almost every fitness-related seminar you attend nowadays, you will hear the phrase "functional training." You will listen to the presenters telling you how bad traditional bodybuilding exercises are for our neuromusculo-skeletal health and how they are leading our poor unsuspecting .......
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Dasilva, Paulo |
22 Mar 2012, 07:51 AM
As a fitness instructor and an amateur bodybuilder I have been confronted many times with the same problem, functional versus physical perfection, Can we have both with the same routine? Also shall we treat clients like children and reeducate them about what exercise is about? All I can say is that if you been training for many years and it makes you look good and feel good and injury free you are certainly onto a winner! Let's keep it simple. great article...
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Magedera, Carl |
29 Apr 2011, 07:12 AM
Immensely useful article. But how is curling two dumbells called a barbell curl? Or is it a mistake?
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Magedera, Carl |
28 Apr 2011, 07:01 AM
Why does the body respond better with training with fewer sets and more frequently? Also if DOMS is not related to intensity then why does connective tissue respond only after a heavy workout? Why cannot be DOMS be because you haven't worked the muscle for ages *and* the muscle cells are being damaged? Pain is usually our response to our own body's cell damage right?
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skinner, stuart |
12 Nov 2010, 12:54 PM
great read, well balanced article
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tyler, shaun |
16 Mar 2010, 21:05 PM
Very good well balanced article.
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