You know, Eric, one of those words that just gets thrown around way too much in the fitness industry

is functional. Like, what does it mean to be functional? And many people might say, like, oh, you got

a squat, you're standing up, sitting down. Delift, you're picking something up. Bench press. You're

lifting a homie over, you know, off your chest. Like, I get it. We've all been there. But what is

more functional than hurling an object, a physical object at your enemy with

intent to kill them?

And that is why we have someone, Kyle, on to talk about the Highland Games, the most functional,

if by function we mean that actually has an intent and a purpose behind it that has a high

utility.

The Highland Games might be historically

the most functional of sports.

And technically, that aspect of functional training has quite literally defeated bodybuilding.

If you haven't heard of David and Goliath, the functional aspect of, you know, learning how to

throw something and killing someone who's clearly just trained for size for their own detriment and

not for function, it's, it has, I mean, spiritual fact that, that, that bodybuilding is going to

leave you dead in front of a sling wielding small person.

With that said, though, Kyle isn't a small person.

So he's kind of got, he's like David and Goliath all wrapped into one super soldier, you know?

So, yeah, I was pretty happy with everything we learned from Kyle today.

No, Eric, he's like if Goliath ate David and absorbed his throwing powers.

And that is because...

Or...

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