Military Special Forces, specially-trained Police Officers and Firefighters all have an indelible need to become and maintain a functionally fit body. Let’s start focusing on whole-body functionality – what your body is truly capable of when all those individual parts start working together like a well-oiled machine. Get away from the traditional thinking of pummeling a single body part until there is nothing left. Let’s stop limping out of the gym with our heads hanging low exhausted, frazzled and beat down and make our time, effort, sweat and tears benefit us for once.įirst and foremost you need to wipe the slate clean in your mind. Let’s look at how you can work toward both goals at the same time and kick butt outside of the gym too. Let’s be honest you know you want to be functional, fit and have the ability to actually use the muscle and strength on your frame but another goal is to look good too. To focus on the functional side of training and letting the physique benefit in the meantime. The purpose here is to bridge a gap so to speak. As functional is more of a practical, performance-based idea and physique has a little more to do with aesthetics, looks and nice biceps. Some may argue that the terms “functional” and “physique” don’t necessarily belong in the same sentence. Related: 4-5 Day Workout for Building Muscle & Strength Enter The Tactical Physique
Bombing a single muscle into submission over time will serve little in the way of walking out of the gym and having the ability of overall strength and capability.Ĭase in point: What good is it to kill your legs, squeezing every single morsel of energy from your quads, calves and hamstrings with additional intensity techniques such as drop sets, super high reps, negatives and forced reps only to limp out of the gym? When the whole body is strong and works synergistically, you develop a flow and strength that isn’t easily gained by traditional body part splits of one muscle group per day type training. Strong legs, back and shoulder girdle developed not only for mass and muscularity but also for lifting, holding, pushing, pulling, throwing and heaving can benefit you in more ways than you think. What good is it to have perfectly proportioned pecs and highly-peaked biceps if you can’t lift a sack of cement? Body part split training is great and all but what about muscle that can function in the real world as well? Functional strength training has gotten a lot of press lately for good reason: It’s not only a new and (not so) unique way of training but also one that has a practical purpose attached.
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