Strength vs Function: What Does the Body Want?

Gary Gray
  

• Introduction.
• Strength AND (not “vs”) function.
• What does the body want?
• Who are you dealing with?
• What do they want to do today?
• Physical, biological, musculoskeletal (chain reaction), psychological systems (mind, body and spirit).
• Strength is function is strength.
• Integration of systems.
• Bench press – what is the carryover?
• Carryover of big movements?
• Big movements feed function.
• Strength coaches are functional.
• Body is SMART.
• Misrepresentation of function.
• History of isokenetic training.
• Squat – core strength exercise.
• Tweaking the squat for function.
• Strengthening body in more functional positions.
• Not carnival tricks.
• Transformational zones.
• Harnessing eccentric power.
• Lowering weight and increasing strength and functional demand.
• Strength – we think muscles.
• Do you know what muscles do? Don’t look at the text books.
• If you want muscles to get strong. understand the function of muscles.
• Muscles function in all three planes of motion in transformational zones.
• I’ll show you a movement – you tell me what the muscle is doing in all three planes of motion eccentrically and concentrically.
• Be strong, be strong, make each other strong.

COMMENTS

Wrench, Mark | 04 Nov 2010, 14:03 PM I am confused about what muscles do what actions as Gary's challenge at the end of the post stated that what I was thought various muscles did was wrong. So where can I find information on the truth about how muscles work and what they do?