1. In Functional training, you can adjust the weight of the exercise in several ways, by changing the speed of work, using a lever, changing the position of the point of support or reducing the number of support points, increasing the range of motion, etc.
Unlike other concepts, proprioception is increased in these exercises.
The carrying capacity of tendons and joints increases. In these exercises, the dynamic load completely stretches the muscle so that the fascial tissue is maximally involved.
Very useful if you want to increase the quality of movement, speed, and elasticity of the muscles.
2. In Powerlifting, there are also exercises in which the whole body participates.
In contrast to functional training, where the movement is trained, here the muscle is trained. Training is dedicated to gaining as much strength as possible. You can think of power as raw power.
But strength combined with speed, explosiveness, and elasticity is actually real magic.
Strength is exactly what the whole story revolves around in top sports.
There are few coaches who understand this story in the right way.
I will devote several topics to that.
It's normal that I have to keep some of the secrets to myself to ward off bad guys.
But on the Internet, many things related to strength are completely misinterpreted.
One of them is that you have to be massive to be strong.
The real truth is that it mostly depends on genetics. It is precisely this genetics that shapes the appropriate reaction to each type of training. This initiates hormonal and enzymatic processes in the body, on which progress in maximum strength largely depends.
It is quite another thing that most people feel very hungry after hard training.
About that in the following topics, because physiology is actually the most important factor in the whole story of achieving results through training
Now first the basics.
A small number of repetitions, big breaks, and a small number of exercises. At least one day break between training sessions. Adequate nutrition and supplementation. All very accurate.
(Also, one of the following topics.)
All this has been studied and is available on the Internet.
What you don't have on the internet is information that is of crucial importance.
The data is that ... to apply all this, you need to bring the body into the initial position for it.
And that literally means that for this concept to work, you have to spend a year or two training utterly different than this.
You see, I was lucky to have friends who pointed it out to me initially, and I started quite late with strength. I trained for two years, breaking through my physical maximums on all muscle groups. After that, when I started training for pure strength, in three years I bench pressed 200 kg.
I note without any chemical substances, the most common supplements, proteins, and good food.
My weight was around 90 kg. Words cannot describe when you push your physical maximum in the bench press. For the next few days, you are like on nitroglycerin. The next night, you don't understand your sleep in the morning. You feel like you blinked
My friends often remind me of the bets I used to win, and so do they, thanks to the fact that many did not believe that I was lifting these weights quite naturally.
Bets most often fell on the number of done pull-ups and maximal bench presses. Several times after lifting the set weight, I had to give blood and urine for analysis to check that I was clean.
The feeling of constantly pumped-up muscles is incredible when you do these types of training.
I played a clip from a few years ago on my youtube channel. When filming that video with my friends, my weight was 77 kg.
The clip was shot in the gym where a world champion in powerlifting regularly trains, otherwise my long-time friend.
The training of world champions is a top-secret, so I can't write about it, but one thing is certainly true.
He too used to weigh barely 70 kg and I know him from that period as well, and today he weighs close to 120 kg. The coaches who guided him were themselves competitors, and his genetics and psyche are such that he managed to reach the very top of the world.
So power...
The very beginning of this text tells you how to start.
Functional training is ideal for all sports, except for strength disciplines.
However, it is ideal for beginners in terms of getting the basic structure, strengthening ligaments and joints.
After that, you have to train to hit the muscle.
Basic exercises are trained with a constant increase of the maximum range in the exercise.
You see there is magic in that. If you do training that does not have this prosperity, you significantly reduce your chances of reaching your natural maximum.
This is the law and one of the next topics on my blog.
One more thing that you won't find on the internet is that this raw power can really be useful to everyone, both soccer and basketball players. And the same applies vice versa
The logic is simple. A stronger muscle has greater potential (if the genetics are the same) than a weaker one. The magic is knowing how to convert that into explosiveness, elasticity, and speed. And the same applies vice versa.
When you reach your physical maximums on all major muscle groups (6-8 repetitions, 4-6 series for each), that is your starting position for those strength training that I wrote about at the beginning of the text.
It's also the best start for all other types of sports, but for them, you don't really have to push your physical maximums because those sports don't require that much strength.
However, in my opinion, it is an advantage if the strength of the body is greater.
We will leave something for the next topic, and I hope that this text will help many people to understand the training.
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