Dallas Personal Trainers and "funtional training"
by George Koehl
Functional training is the new popular fad concept in personal training and its been alive and strong in the Dallas personal trainer community. The big popular movement before this one was the bodybuilding movement and its interesting to see that many of the trainers and fitness buffs who were gung ho into the bodybuilding movement are now 100% gung ho into the functional training movement.
Honestly I'm very glad to see the shift has recently been away from bodybuilding because bodybuilding often has many negative aspects
This last reason is one of the primary reasons that so many Dallas personal trainers moved so radically to the functional exercise movement. Functional exercise focuses almost completely onthe stabilizers whereas bodybuilding focuses almost completely on the prime movers.
However, I think it is just as short-sighted to focus only on the stabilizers as it was to focus only on the prime movers. This tendency of over-correction is a typical human tendency that shows through in driving a car on the freeway (you notice you are drifting into the lane next to you and then you immediately react by overcorrecting an actually swingig your car almost haflway into the lane next to you) and in virtually every other human endeaver. Wheh people realize that mistakes were made they want to correct them and they tend to over-correct by going further than necessary in the opposite direction from the one in which they were orginally going. Personal Trainers are no exception to this human tendecny, nor should we expect them to be.
However, because of theis predominance of the
Functional training is the new popular fad concept in personal training and its been alive and strong in the Dallas personal trainer community. The big popular movement before this one was the bodybuilding movement and its interesting to see that many of the trainers and fitness buffs who were gung ho into the bodybuilding movement are now 100% gung ho into the functional training movement.
Honestly I'm very glad to see the shift has recently been away from bodybuilding because bodybuilding often has many negative aspects
- It focuses only on the extrnal appearance aspect of fitness. I'm not syaing this aspect isn't important at all, its just that bodybuilding seems to focus only on this aspect even at the expense of genuine health and real fitness
- Its practitioners are often involved in the use of anabolic steroids
- It tends to utilize machine exercises too much instead of free weights. This allows the prime mover muscles to get strong whil allowing the stabilizers to get weak
This last reason is one of the primary reasons that so many Dallas personal trainers moved so radically to the functional exercise movement. Functional exercise focuses almost completely onthe stabilizers whereas bodybuilding focuses almost completely on the prime movers.
However, I think it is just as short-sighted to focus only on the stabilizers as it was to focus only on the prime movers. This tendency of over-correction is a typical human tendency that shows through in driving a car on the freeway (you notice you are drifting into the lane next to you and then you immediately react by overcorrecting an actually swingig your car almost haflway into the lane next to you) and in virtually every other human endeaver. Wheh people realize that mistakes were made they want to correct them and they tend to over-correct by going further than necessary in the opposite direction from the one in which they were orginally going. Personal Trainers are no exception to this human tendecny, nor should we expect them to be.
However, because of theis predominance of the