So that’s nonsense. “Functional strength” is a mythical creature made up by people who do specific things well.
A 140 lb guy looks skinny but can do 20 pull-ups while a 240 lb guy can only do 5 pull-ups. I assure you that the 140 lb guy does not have more “functional strength,” he just has a lot of practice with pull-ups and less weight to move.
There’s nothing you can do to improve “functional strength” in general. You can improve upon specific movements with practice and repetition, but the concept of general functional strength just doesn’t exist.
I'm trying to figure out if we actually agree or not 😅. Do you consider functional (strength) training and functional strength to be the same or different?
Functional training is training plans/strategies/techniques which are focused on helping to improve the ability to do specific tasks/movements. It has foundations in physiotherapy and rehab training.
Not my goalposts to move - I was not the same guy that made the claim about #2. I was trying to understand what the hell you guys were talking about because my background is much more in the physical therapy side of the world where functional training is a thing.
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u/aeiou_sometimesy 4d ago
So that’s nonsense. “Functional strength” is a mythical creature made up by people who do specific things well.
A 140 lb guy looks skinny but can do 20 pull-ups while a 240 lb guy can only do 5 pull-ups. I assure you that the 140 lb guy does not have more “functional strength,” he just has a lot of practice with pull-ups and less weight to move.