What is functional training? Quickly improve your athletic ability

Many people think that functional training is just a balance training on an unstable surface, or even many fancy tools, but they don’t know that it is just a small part of functional training.

What exactly is functional? 　　The explanation of functional in the dictionary is something that can achieve its purpose or function. Functional training has nothing to do with how you exercise and what kind of equipment you use. "Functional training" refers to being able to transfer the trained abilities to your goal (special sports).

So, we can know that from using your own body weight as a resistance to let athletes learn to master their bodies, to training methods such as squats, hard lifting and bench presses, and Olympic weightlifting are all included in the work. Within the scope of abilities training.

The technique of movement is very important. A solid squat must start with the correct squat. If even the squat is not correct, it is not advisable to bear weight. Because when training on the wrong movements, you are strengthening the wrong movement mode, and this wrong movement mode will be brought to your sports special.

The coach should emphasize the concept of "technical failure" and let the contestants honestly use the strength of the muscles to complete the movements. Do not use unstandard postures to satisfy vanity. The so-called technical failure refers to that when the movement posture has been deformed, it should be stopped. Do not use twisted postures to complete more repetitions, because the bad posture has lost the meaning of training.

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The benefits of functional training:

The training movements should have two functions: reducing the chance of injury and improving sports performance. But many coaches are still using mechanical knee Extension, mechanical knee flexion and leg pushing and other movements, the training methods of these isolated muscle groups are no longer specialized and functional. In fact, this isolated muscle group, which particularly strengthens certain muscle groups, has never been proven to effectively prevent sports injuries.

For example, the movements such as leg pushing and raising or mechanical sitting rowing are pushed and raising, and the spine and torso are leaning on the back of the chair, so the core muscle group does not need to contribute much effort to help participate in the movement, so it can be pushed very heavily, but the ability trained in this way cannot be directly brought to the sports field.

In Running, jumping, landing and throwing all require a stable torso to participate in the transmission of strength. You are not only a single muscle group that contracts, your body is a complete system, and you will never sit and run (but most mechanical types let you sit and operate).

So, whole-body movements such as squats, hard lifts, and one-foot squats can challenge the muscles in the body to help each other and convey strength than sitting machines. So what we train is movement (movement), squatting, pushing, pulling, etc., rather than separate muscles one by one.

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