Strength vs Function: Functional Strength in Movement
Chuck Wolf
- Introduction
- Issue of strength
- Limited point of view
- Useable and functional strength
- Everything ties together
- How lifestyle and other factors influence
- Energy systems and goals of individuals
- Different populations
- Functional training misunderstood
- The trend and the truth
- Human movement criteria
- Function in relation to gravity
- Integrated approach required
- Three planes of motion
- Chain reactions
- Physiology of movement
- Typical view, isolated contractions – need to length
- Proprioceptors
- Have a rationale for your training
- Balance training vs. proprioceptive training
- All movement is proprioceptive
- Roles of the different proprioceptors. How are they stimulated?
- Rationale is key to all tools in the box
- Strength training must also be proprioceptively rich
- Understanding thresholds and strength development
- How can we create an environment to be successful?
- Tweaking traditional movements
- Keys to tweakology
- How can we blend traditional and functional training?
- Simple guidelines to expanding one exercise into hundreds
- Rotational movement – transverse plane – rotate through hips (flashlight in navel)
- Where pelvis goes, lower back will follow
- Don’t reach with arms, reach with scapula
- Where scapula goes, humerus will follow
- Blending programs with athletes for results
- Traditional first, integrated movement after
- Example with ab crunch
- Isolation vs. integration
- We have to match energy systems with those we are working with
- Matching phases of training with neuro muscular, musculo-skeletal and cardio respiratory energy systems