Strength vs Function: The (Much) Bigger Picture of True Function
Paul Chek
- Introduction
- Strength = one biomotor ability
- Strength = one component of function
- What is function for a crane operator vs a hockey player?
- Strength on its own is useless
- Strength and conditioning
- Relative to environment it is to be used in
- Biomotor conditioning – specific
- Biomotor opposition
- Power explosion vs. static stability/postural control
- Physiological readiness
- Internal and environmental assessments
- Many sports teams still blind lifting training with no knowledge of the internal landscape
- Resistance training can tear us to pieces
- Making our athletes slower and weaker
- Dangers of functional training
- No proper assessment
- Assessment of biomechanical, bio-motor, physiological, lifestyle and environmental elements
- Gymnast vs. UPS truck deliverer
- Rabbit poop pills
- Take all the experts and put them in the gym with a case study
- Investing time into your own mastery
- What is real education?
- Offering a money back guarantee
- Designing proper exercise programs
- Exercise without diet program – can’t do
- Hippocrates and medicine ball
- Eat, move and be healthy
- Strength as one biomotor ability
- Function is much deeper
- Exercise defined: to cut out
- Are you currently seeing a physician for any problems?
- Understanding medical side effects
- Function is a much bigger question than many are willing to ask
- Genius minds – danger to assume we are doing what they are doing
- Intentions are good, but the lure of financial gain is dangerously sweet
- Functional relative to environment
- Industry-wide ethics needed
- Gap of knowledge between experts and trainers
- We have to come together and design a classification system