1157: Seven Ways Functional Training Burns Fat & Builds Muscle
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin discuss seven reasons why adding functional training can improve fat loss and muscle gain.
1157: Seven Ways Functional Training Burns Fat & Builds Muscle
- Why it is SO important to look deeper into a study. (2:41)
- How the term functional has become bastardized. (11:55)
- Seven Ways Functional Training Burns Fat & Builds Muscle: The carryover, benefits & MORE. (18:40)
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- #1 – The emphasis on mobility. (19:56)
- #2 - Utilizes different planes of motion. (30:14)
- #3 – The importance of novelty to get your body to respond. (36:00)
- #4 – The carryover value of using unconventional tools in your routine. (41:14)
- #5 – A focus on performance over aesthetics. (46:49)
- #6 – Employing all three contractions muscles make. (53:15)
- #7 – Increasing your body’s total work capacity. (58:00)
People Mentioned
- Eugene Teo (@coacheugeneteo) Instagram
- Max Schmarzo (ATC/CSCS/MS) (@strong_by_science) Instagram
- Justin Brink DC (@dr.justinbrink) Instagram
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- A Comparison of Free Weight Squat to Smith Machine Squat Using Electromyography
- What is the First Step to Better Mobility? - Mind Pump Blog
- Effect of range of motion on muscle strength and thickness.
- Mind Pump 1017: Max Schmarzo- Strong by Science
- 5 Most Important Exercises for Muscle Growth in an Effective Routine – Mind Pump Blog
- Heavy duty – Book by Mike Mentzer
- Build Your Legs with the Zercher Squat
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- Mind Pump Free Resources
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you wanna pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIMED, UP with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews! |
| 0:13.1 | Alright, in this episode of Mind Pump, we talk all about functional training. |
| 0:19.5 | Functional. |
| 0:20.2 | Gosh, that term has been bastardized, more recently. |
| 0:23.3 | They're taking the fun out of fun. |
| 0:25.4 | In the fitness space, what does functional mean? |
| 0:28.6 | Like, aren't all exercises functional? |
| 0:31.7 | And if not, which ones are more functional others? |
| 0:34.1 | And what is the benefit? |
| 0:35.6 | What is the benefit for athletes? |
| 0:37.1 | That's obvious. |
| 0:38.1 | But what are the benefits for everybody else? |
| 0:40.7 | Those of you that just wanna build muscle and burn body fat, should you spend any time |
| 0:45.3 | on trying to train more functionally? |
| 0:48.8 | Now we think, definitely, we think everybody has tremendous benefits, can get tremendous |
| 0:53.2 | benefits from at least placing some focus on functional training. |
| 0:57.9 | In fact, in this episode, we list seven of the ways that functional training will help |
| 1:02.9 | you burn body fat, build muscle, and just get better results overall. |
| 1:08.3 | So we talk about how functional training places an emphasis on mobility. |
| 1:12.6 | We talk about the multi-directional component. |
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