Comments for The Trouble with Traditional Weight Training at http://www.personaltrainertoday.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.personaltrainertoday.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:56:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.personaltrainertoday.com/the-trouble-with-traditional-weight-training#comment-26 My only real problem w/functional training is -not- w/functional training(!), but w/misleading statements functional trainers make about structural training. No doubt, functional training's fun, confidence-boosting, & fitness-enhancing. Do what you want, but leave traditional weight trainers alone: Mo more of that "show-muscle vs go-muscle" nonsense: Muscle is muscle, skill is skill. If a muscular man can't play baseball very well, (pick any sport or activity), it's because he doesn't play a lot of baseball, -not- because he didn't do any balance-ball, weighted ball, exercise straps, TRX, etc. training. - lazur Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:11:00 +0100 http://www.personaltrainertoday.com/the-trouble-with-traditional-weight-training#comment-24 I have enjoyed this stye of functional training for years. I have found that it allows me to help people of all ages and has allowed for greater quality of life for many of my clients. I have private training suites in my facility so we had to be creative in the tools we choose. I love the TRX straps, exercise bands and weighted balls. My clients range from teenagers to age 78. They love this style of training and have thanked me every day for helping them to gain the confidence that they need out in the world. Thanks for the post! - tworster Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:08:24 +0100 http://www.personaltrainertoday.com/the-trouble-with-traditional-weight-training#comment-22 Proper traditional weight training strengthens all of the muscles in the body. If a client doesn't think that's fun or interesting, fine, do something different..but so-called 'functional' training, won't strengthen muscles as well as old fashioned weight training. What it WILL do is strengthen SKILLS. But skills are SPECIFIC, and are performed with their own unique levels of resistance. Strengthening a skill isn't the same as improving a skill, and often degrades the skill when it's actually performed with its real-life load. (Ex: if you use a weighted basketball at practice, you'll throw the real one too far in the game.) Strength training & skill training must be separate, unless you're a weightlifter or powerlifter. - lazur Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:42:55 +0100 http://www.personaltrainertoday.com/the-trouble-with-traditional-weight-training#comment-21 Now there is something to think about. Training your body to look good AND perform great! This is something I have been focusing on for some time and was reletively absent from my training approach years ago. Getting strong inside the gym with certain exercises is nice, but if fitness can be transfered to the real world outside of the gym, that is where it really counts. FORM and FUNCTION should go hand in hand. - NITROFORCE Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:25:26 +0100 http://www.personaltrainertoday.com/the-trouble-with-traditional-weight-training#comment-19 I enjoyed your article and agree that diversity is the key to success. I plan on implementing the techniques you highlight with my future practice. - ealicea Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:11:48 +0100