/fit/ - Fitness, Health, Exercise, Dieting, etc

Functional strength means lifting things the way you would in real life situations, like large irregularly shaped boxes in a warehouse, or rolls of material in a manufacturing job. Machines that control the way you lift only exercise very specific muscle groups by making it physically impossible to utilize others. Compound lifts with free weights build functional strength because they exercise many muscle groups and your ability to stabilize what you're holding. You're a fucking idiot for not figuring this out.

Well, fuck you too, dick. I actually exclusively do compound lifts, so I know about the importance of stabilizers. But the idea that isolation movements have no functional purpose is just absurd. I think they have some carry over into the real world, but it just depends on what you’re doing.

Then there’s the case where a guy doesn’t do full ROM, but they gain some strength by doing so. If he only has to lift something off the ground for a quarter rep of a deadlift, that’s functional for HIM. That was the fucking point of my post, you god damn dick. Whether a particular training mode is functional is contextual to the person’s circumstances. Go jump off a cliff.

>>142961

I live in a city, but I started lifting weights because my back was starting to hurt at my old office job. So I didn’t and still don’t lift heavy lifts outside of the gym, but simply having better posture and no back pain is a major benefit. Weightlifting of all sorts will build bone density, so that gives you more protection from injuries. So ya, I agree that compound lifts have the most utility because they work multiple muscle groups and stabilizers, but any muscle and strength growth is going to be “functional” in some sense.

The “fuck you” part was meant for >>142960. Seriously, quit being such a fucking faggot over a basic question.

>>142958

Define "functional strength"

>>142968

>>142969

>I was only pretending to be retarded

If you knew all that then why did you ask if the concept of functional strength is a meme? Go have another coffee break city cuck.

>>142983

Sigh. The point that I was making is that ALL strength is functional to some extent. I was challenging the distinction between functional and “non-functional” strength.

>>142982

>you should let people talk shit about you and walk all over you!

>>142958

even in that very specific improbable situation it would be easier and more practical to deadlift the bar and just walk backwards.

Also to answer your question yes its real but its not worth autistically obsessing about. So long as you are on a normal program and not just doing bench and curlz everyday then you are building functional strength.

>>142985

>y-you’re retarded if you get mad at people talking shit about you!

I bet people walk all over you in real life. If this was real life, I’d slap that pussy silly.

>>143006

I mostly do bench, squats, deadlifts, t-bar rows, and overhead press. Sometimes I do double pulley lat pull downs. I don’t like using machines, but sometimes I can’t use a barbell because rather are occupied.

>>143011

*cant use a barbell because they are occupied.

I sit at a desk 8 hours a day, then come home to sit on a couch.

Functional strength doesn't exist for me. Outside of the gym, there is no reason for me to be strong.

>>142958

I think it's about building muscle for strength rather than looks. tl;dr: function>form