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u/pakalupapito23 11h ago
Monstrous calves, goddamn
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u/School_Persimmon_261 3h ago
He's been petting that dog for a decade
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u/GuardingxCross 3h ago
Legend says he’s still petting the dog with his foot till this day. He’s never stopped.
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u/School_Persimmon_261 1h ago
One day the petting will stop. And from that day on dogs will no longer walk alongside men. We must protect that man. We must protect Dogstroke.
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u/Jimismynamedammit 11h ago
Functional fitness. Your exercises should mimic the movements you're going to be doing in real life. He nailed it.
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u/gatsome 4h ago
You can overwork muscles that force underworked/smaller ones to compensate extra for, and thus suffer injury. So it’s good to have push/pull balance.
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u/Electronic_Lime407 3h ago
Ever since I got in really good shape it really made clear how many people are big time haters
Got people shaped like a melting bar of soap telling me about functional muscles while giving me backhanded compliments
Yea dude imma take your advice when the only functioning parts of your body is your mouth and your fat ass when it shits out all the garbage you eat
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u/Seanconw1 3h ago
He’s not wrong to suggest antagonistic movements. lol
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u/Hamster_Toot 1h ago
Just a heads up, soap doesn’t really melt, so ice cream sandwhich would work better thematically here.
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u/Electronic_Lime407 1h ago
And breaking down a meaningless joke for no reason isn’t the flex you think it is …. Just makes you the annoying person who’s no fun
And you weren’t even right lmao
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u/Hamster_Toot 1h ago
No one’s flexing here. Just made a suggestion and observation, relax.
Being this offended over nothing can’t be good for your health.
I think you responded to the same comment twice, lol.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 6h ago
Functional fitness
Every fitness is functional, squatting and bench pressing is just as functional as burpees and farmers walkers.
Sorry for the pedantry but this really grinds my gears, people ask me for fitness advice and then say they don't wanna look as big as me, just have "functional muscle". I can carry a washing machine upstairs by myself Tim, how is that not functional?
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u/tristex1234 6h ago
Come on man just be realistic with yourself
When a normal person talks about “functional muscles”, I’m sure with your knowledge you could probably discern that they want to be fit in a general way especially because you realize that they don’t want to be big
Saying that bench, squat and pressing is just as functional to the general person as burpees and farmers carry is being pedantic to a fault. While they may be “as functional as” they do not have the same benefit to the vast majority of people
General people just want to generally go about their everyday lives in an easier way. Burpees and Farmers carry are 100x more accessible and would be 100x more useful to someone as compared to the alternative
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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 3h ago
When my kid had shoulder surgery and did physical therapy afterwards... the PT was focusing on exercises that would make "everyday activities easier". Brushing hair and teeth, putting clothes on/off, carrying a school bag, etc. This is what I think of when I hear 'functional muscles'.
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u/AngryJX 1h ago edited 1h ago
You're wrong, and you've picked an argument with the wrong post. He specifically mentioned squatting and bench pressing. Squat/Bench/Deadlift are the big 3 of "compound movements" in weight training (also called strength training). Each of these exercises engage multiple large muscle groups and are the foundational core of any strength program (whether powerlifting, bodybuilding or as part of strength training for just about any sport such as hockey, football, MMA, track and field etc). These 3 lifts are known to be the best and most efficient exercises in terms of time/energy expended vs functional strength gains (and to be clear "functional strength" means how fast a hockey player can skate, how fast a football player can run, how forcefully can they push an opponent, how high can they jump).
Any other exercises are less efficient. Those burpees and farmers walks you are talking about? That's niche training that would only be good for specific sports. Squat/Bench/Deadlift are core training for any sport hence "functional training".
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u/tristex1234 37m ago
What are you even talking about, are you okay?
This whole post started from someone doing a funny exercise so they pet their dawg, damn
The OP literally just said a thing which in general is true, functional fitness mimics exercises you want to get better at in everyday life
That’s all I was saying
You’re being just as pedantic as the person who I originally replied, in general we just want to go about our everyday lives a bit easier
In general no one’s give a hoot about being the most strong, or most efficient or whatever specific thing you could think of
How you managed to make up this point about efficiency from the original conversation is beyond me but if it makes you feel better, sure efficiency bro
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u/AngryJX 15m ago
Reading comprehension, try it:
"Functional Strength" (functional fitness) refers to a weight/strength training program which improves general fitness/ability to perform every day tasks/general performance in any sport. This is the definition.
The "exercise" in the video (an ankle exercise, for use with his dog), is NOT a "Functional Strength" exercise. It is BY DEFINITION "sport-specific training"; he is training for that specific movement, and that movement only. The training he is doing has very little impact on his overall performance in daily tasks/general sports.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 6h ago
Burpees and Farmers carry are 100x more accessible and would be 100x more useful to someone as compared to the alternative
On the contrary, they are not as accessible as they would be way more prone to injuries since it involves way more muscle at the same time, more coordination, and are way harder to learn. Same for being useful, I'm approaching 40 and I can say one of the best thing you can do for your longevity is squat heavy, and that's the opinion of pretty much any PT that works with older people.
Muscle mass has a directly correlation with independence at later stages of life, and the more mass you have now, the more mass you'll have in 10 years.
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u/tristex1234 6h ago
And…. I feel like you’ve lost the plot on where OP started
While I personally love heavy squats in my 7 years of fitness journey up to this point, and they have their place in a fitness routine, heavy squats and longevity in the absolute sense literally don’t compute, you’re 1000x more likely getting injured and in more serious ways under a heavy barbell that you will ever doing a burpee so I’m going to politely disagree with you
To anyone who’s genuinely reading this with interest, I believe Burpees and Farmers Carries will do way more for you in your everyday life. Do hard shit for extended periods of time (burpees improve explosiveness and cardiovascular capacity and endurance and farmers carry improves grip strength and capacity to carry load) and you’ll be good, just progressively work harder.
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u/Handsome_Keyboard 4h ago
Wouldnt just doing repetitions increase endurance too? I dont workout for huge muscles just a tone fit. I bench 10lbs over my weight but i do 6x20 reps. I do the same for core workouts and just do HIT on the treadmill. Overall, its roughly. 30minute workout and I just maintain. I could easily do a shitton of pushups.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 5h ago
My parents started their fitness journey in their 60's, my mother managed to regain her independence after almost 5 years of not being able to get off the ground by herself because of the squats.
Trying a burpee as someone with 0 fitness experience is a sure way to get yourself to hate fitness.
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u/Beanies 4h ago
I disagree, muscular strength will carry over to all and any movements that recruit your muscles, which is literally all forms of movement. The idea that going to the gym and doing bench/squat/deadlifts are not "functional" because they don't mimic "real life" movements is asinine. That is a nuance they makes sense only terms of the fact that all movements are require training as movements are a skill, so yes, doing squats isn't going to automatically make you perform other movements better that recruit quad muscles better, but it gives you the foundational strength that is required of any task that recruits the muscles the squat trains, meaning regardless of if it's the same movement or mimics it, you will still benefit from it. There are very few exercises that can truly be considered "functional" unless you are literally doing the task to gain strength (farming is an example).
Saying that you're going to get injured under higher intensity loads versus something burpee is obvious, but you can never get stronger doing just burpees. Farmer carries have the exact same problem with injury risk as a squat, anything that causes your muscle to undergo tension and your joints to carry load is fundamentally going to stress them. Your knees aren't magically going to realize "Oh, this guy is doing farmer carries, that means I won't get hurt"
You CANNOT fully rehabilitate injuries if you never recover properly, and recovery requires load. If your knees or shoulder starts to hurt, yes, taking time to remove the load and resting is important, but once they heal, you have to begin loading them progressively as well as the muscles that are responsible for the ranges of motion for any given joint. Failure to do and only resting will slowly remove the pain but never fix the cause of the pain, meaning you will be injury prone for the rest of your life. So yes, you have to train to prevent injury. Your nervous system needs to adapt to load, and so do your muscles and joints. Training can cause injuries, but not training can also cause injuries. It depends on what the person is doing, and you cannot say that injury risk is the same across the board for all people.
Someone who does burpees will never have the explosiveness as an olympic powerlifter, nor will they have the explosiveness of a powerlifter. Someone who does farmer carries will never have the grip strength of a rock climber, or the capacity to carry load like a powerlifter.
Saying these things as if it's black and white is simply untrue. Burpees and farmer carries will never train your full body and never introduce load to certain joints and ligaments, leaving them weak. Do this over a long period of time, and now you have serious muscular imbalances which will increase your risk of injury because joints (like the shoulder for example) are connected to multiple tendons and muscles that control their ranges of motion, and not properly working on those muscles and ranges will cause problems down the line.
Don't even get me started about mobility work and strengthening exercises for joints. I promise you none of these are "functional" in the way you describe, but if you don't do them, you will suffer when you actually need to use your muscles as you age.
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u/Educational_Exam_225 6h ago
If you solely do these types of exercises, you don't actually work muscles in the way that people really use them in real life.
That's why a construction guy can carry 10 bags of cement and the gym bro tries and fails. That's what people mean about functional exercise.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 5h ago
I'm the gym bro and work as a construction site engineer, so I don't need to but always do the labour work anyway as I like, and I can guarantee you, none of the construction site workers can lift more than me pound by pound.
That's a myth that's perpetuated by social media like Einstein was bad at math.
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u/Beanies 1h ago
Man don't even bother. People will always make excuses not to hit the gym. Same people who have never done MSK work because they don't need to think about how to strengthen joints and ligaments/range of motion because they don't lift, and think they're doing it right because they never put their body under stress and think their body is fine cause it's not aching right now
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u/Bczarconcepts 4h ago edited 3h ago
Math is numbers dude, Einstein was out here using like Es and Ms and Cs and shit. Thems AIN'T numbers.
Edit: Jesus Christ guys lol, do we really always need an /s
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u/joshua9663 6h ago
Functional varies by individual. Really depends everyone has a different function. Squatting everyone needs, but benching probably not. If my day to day i just struggle to pick up things off the floor my functional would be getting to that goal, I wouldn't care about bench pressing at that moment. Someone else's functional might be to be able to hold their baby with a bad shoulder. In that case squats won't be as important for them. I play volleyball and have a bad knee. My functional is keeping my legs strong to be able to play volleyball, I don't care about benching.
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u/FirstTasteOfRadishes 4h ago
I can carry a washing machine upstairs by myself Tim, how is that not functional?
I suppose it is very functional if you happen to work in removals. Otherwise, less so.
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u/CitizenHuman 2h ago
I haven't done P90X in over a decade, but I still remember his workouts were like "start the lawnmower", Pick up the box put it on the shelf" and other such basic daily life exercises. This is functional fitness.
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u/AngryJX 57m ago
That's not correct, you actually have the concepts reversed. "Functional training" is not equal to "mimic the movements you do in everyday life" (that's actually called sport-specific training). Functional training is any strength training that increases your general capabilities.
The core of any strength training program is the Big 3 of Bench Press/Squat/Deadlift. These 3 lifts are compound exercises which all engage multiple large muscle groups and together give you as complete of a total body workout as you can get from 3 specific exercises. Doing nothing else except these 3 lifts will make you "Functionally Strong" meaning it will improve your ability to carry out any everyday task, or perform any sport.
"Start the lawnmower" and "Put the box on the shelf" are examples of Sport-specific niche training; these do very little to help with all types of everyday movements and mostly only train for one sport. Generally even people that train specific sports don't even do sport-specific motions, they just do generalized strength programs to increase overall strength and then they rely on repetition of the sport itself to improve muscles specific for that sport (so an archer will do Bench/Squat/Deadlift and then just rely on repeatedly drawing their bow to build sport-specific strength).
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u/CitizenHuman 29m ago
"Functional training, also known as functional fitness,[1] is a classification of exercise which involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life".
Yes, lifting, squatting, and pressing helps, but doing 100 reps in a bench press doesn't make you more functional than someone doing basic daily life exercises.
Wat sport uses "pick it up off the floor and place it on a shelf above your head", or "turn on a lawnmower to cut grass", or "superman/banana? Those are functional exercises that can be used by an 8 year old kid, a 28 year old world class athlete, and a 78 grandfather.
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u/AngryJX 5m ago edited 0m ago
I'm stating facts supported by published research papers on Sport Science, and also supported by 100+ years of anecdotal evidence of what has worked for professional althletes.
The most efficient strength training program (to increase overall strength which translates to functional strength aka the ability to perform real-world tasks or sports performance) is a core of Bench Press/Squat/Deadlift. Nearly all professional athletes incorporate Strength Training into their training and almost all of them do the Big 3 lifts.
Just by the fact that you are saying "100 reps on a bench press", I can tell that you have 0 experience in Strength Training and have never set foot in a gym in your life. Doing a lawnmower motion or putting a box onto a shelf will give you limited gains in functional strength (in the same way that any kind of physical activity will give a fat person some gains), but they are extremely inefficient (per time/energy expended) compared to performing Big 3 lifts. Doing the Big 3 lifts DOES in fact make you more "functional" than someone doing "basic daily life exercise" (which is a trash strength training regimen).
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u/AngryJX 50m ago
This type of training is called sport-specific training. You do resistance/weighted versions of the movement you do in sports (such as using a cable machine to mimic axe chopping or archery drawing a bow).
Sport-specific exercises generally aren't very efficient and most athletes don't do them. Most pro-athletes do a generalized strength program at the gym (the core of which is Bench Press/Deadlift/Squats and then smaller accessory generalize weight exercises) to build overall "functional strength". And then they simply build sport-specific strength by repeatedly playing/practicing their sport.
The term "functional strength" is kind of vague/stupid in and of itself because all strength is "functional". The best way I can describe "Functional Strength" is that, a powerlifter who only trains in a gym using Barbells/Dumbbells will be monstrously strong, but might be outperformed in "real world functional tasks" by a Strongman who trains with irregular objects like lifting logs/large rocks/barrels.
It could be argued here that "strongman training" is more "functional" than "powerlifting" because the strongman can better use his strength in real-world scenarios like carrying a couch or a fridge up stairs, but in reality, the powerlifter's training does translate quite well into these real world scenarios as well.
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u/BlueMikeStu 5h ago
I choose to believe this is why video games are responsible for my hands being able to basically work forever.
The last time my hands hurt after a long gaming session was when I spent about fourteen hours playing COD BLOPS6 Face Off Moshpit lobbies while stress-testing a controller and my hands were only slightly sore and cramped afterwards, and fine the next day/
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u/Demiurge_Happy_Farm 11h ago
Accurate, since going right to left really is more resistant due to going against the grain of the fur.
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u/PaulMaulMenthol 3h ago
What? The foot touching the dog wasn't moving so how does it's fur play into this?
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u/dfcinhume 9h ago
I had to do similar after my ankle was reconstructed.
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u/zhokar85 9h ago
Funny, the lateral load exercise with a band is what my doc recommended for a few weeks after my sprained ankle healed.
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u/Busy_Equipment7 40m ago
Likewise. ORIF surgery on bimalleolar ankle fracture. Resistance band thing in the video was similar to one of my PT exercises. No idea about the left foot though.
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u/smackedwards 8h ago
Real answer > those are physical therapy exercises to strengthen the tendons in your ankles & knees.
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u/ionlycome4thecomment 7h ago
I do wonder about the weight plate on the left foot. That seems dumb given that it could fall at any time.
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u/smackedwards 7h ago
If you weight feet your feet and extend then retract your foot it’s a great exercise for the muscles in your shins. I did it back when I was marathon training to mitigate shin splints. However, I wouldn’t recommend doing it the way this guy has it set up. They have special equipment so you can weight your feet without just curling your toes around a 10lb plate.
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u/ionlycome4thecomment 7h ago
That makes more sense, thank you! I've done the exercise with the right foot & I could not see a Physical Therapist recommending the one on the left.
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u/FreeDraft9488 8h ago
I always think if my dogs feel like they are getting the short straw when they get foot pets.
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u/marina_silvaa 7h ago
Sometimes I wish I could be a dog for a day, they look so relaxed and carefree
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u/haw35ome 4h ago
That dog is one of the most luckiest pets out there…most other humans would never go the extra stretch for their beloved furry one 💕
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u/Ok-Anybody-7050 4h ago
No idea, but I had pain in my ankle for several years. Then a doctor gave me a plan specific for my problem. So, in addition to my regular training I did 2-3 additional exercises for my ankles. Many of them were with rubber bands, just like one on the right. No idea what they do with the left, maybe just for fun. So, it might be for specific problem you don’t even know about and I have seen people looking at me weird when I was doing some strange things with some flimsy rubber bands.
Yes, it helped a lot, but not completely.
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u/Altostratus 3h ago
My 105 lbs dog is getting up there in age, and I would really like to get in shape enough to be able to carry him.
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u/L30N1337 3h ago
Ok, but everyone should do this.
Not necessarily for dogs, but just in general. If your ankles are strong enough, you don't gotta worry about rolling them.
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