A Defense of Functional Training (Response Video)

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The video that I'm responding to:    • Functional training doesn't exist  

Another one that I bring up:    • Functional Training is a Waste of Eve...  

An excellent video discussing what is and isn't "functional training" that hits the nail on the head perfectly:    • 'Functional Fitness' Has Failed You  

My post, including some studies to back up some of my claims: https://www.thebioneer.com/a-defense-...

No hard feelings toward Natural Hypertrophy! His video was measured and nuanced and well put-together. I welcome the discussion.

That said...

Despite having been around for a long time now, functional training still receives a lot of hate and misunderstanding. I have some theories as to why that might be, which I will get into in the video.

Primarily, though, this video serves as a defense of functional training. This is partly in response to Natural Hypertrophy's video and partly to content from the likes of Starting Strength.

Here, I hope to explain why functional training needs to exist, what it can offer, and what it actually *is*. Functional training can mean lots of different things to different people, but it primarily means "training for a function." This DOES change the way you approach your training and it is a useful term as I hope to demonstrate.

Attacks against functional training often seem to focus on semantics and technicalities. Sure, everything is "functional." But every exercise can also offer some form of hypertrophy when practiced enough/with resistance. That doesn't undermine the usefulness of the term "bodybuilding."

This turned into a bit of a rant but it's something important to me that I wanted to share. This is my take on the whole debate, as it stands right now.

I wanted to make something like this for a while but Natural Hypertrophy's video served as a catalyst.