Strength vs Function: Too Far from Center of True Function?
Michael Boyle
- Introduction
- We have moved too far from center
- Functional buzz word
- Should we really move in the gym how we move in life and sport?
- Can we train for blind-side tackles in football?
- Functional experts have everything standing and multi-planar
- Masters of function – therapists
- Is the trickle down reaching the masses?
- Tangential fitness industry
- Walk a mile in my shoes
- PT clients, limited time and abilities
- Qi Gong
- We need to re-examine function
- We are rejecting a lot of great research
- Core functions – stability, three planes of movement and rotation
- As important to stabilize as t move in three planes
- One plane of motion and two planes of stability
- Initial impetus for functional training was right
- Relative flexibility and relative function
- Feeding the dysfunction monster
- Are we enhancing function or paraphrasing concepts we’ve heard?
- Solution – get proficient in the sagittal plane
- Low body work – unilateral
- One leg squats, lunging, some unsupported activity
- One leg straight dead lift
- Simple progressions for other planes
- Lack of progressions is the biggest failing
- Push ups more functional than bench press
- Pulling difficult to do functional
- Combine convention with function
- Tweaking – most people don’t know enough to tweak
- Progressions – sagittal – frontal – transverse
- Do these people on a daily basis do what I do?
- Most functional proponents in rehab, not strength training
- Don’t discard what’s working