Probably the only video i watched recently where it is explained correctly 💯 you know he is a great trainer and truly knows And understands his stuff. These are people i would love to train with and learn from so i can help others more in the future
I too see how the animals around me move in their original natural ways. From ants, chickens, dogs, toddlers to the very elderly, even indigenous tribes, some asians and middle easterners. I admire their movements because it takes true confidence to be authentic presently. And it just feel so good to move how you want.
The function of a single muscle is to shorten, but the body is made of a web of muscles which are needed to do those movements so their function together is to make us stand, walk, run and throw. Starting to understand what you are saying.
So let me ask you: Do you have training programs for dolphins? What about cats, dogs, fish or even sloths? Im somewhat of a sloth myself. Are any of these programs available for purchase?
We walk, run, throw, yes but we also, jump, hang, lift and carry our stuff and our babies, pull and pull to move things when we can't carry them or grab things far away (and doing so we stand on our toes in equilibrium), crawl under stuff, climb over stuff too, swim in all kinds of waters, navigate, danse, make love in funny ways to keep things interesting in the long run, carry and give birth, etc... We are the most multitask animal that ever existed, and thus our sports can be so diverse and our way of exercising our bodies too. Don't analyse things before you take the time to observe them as they are. And height minutes is too long just to explain one simple idea, I think you could repeat yourself less and summarize more, but that's just my opinion.
I remember the first year I was lifting, I was obsessed with studying evolution. I remember one day thinking about there had to be something better.. but then yet I continued traditional bodybuilding and powerlifting for nearly 6 years before discovering FP.. also disregard the profile pic haven't changed that in years.
Would love to hear FP take on MoV Nat which also addresses human movement and capability! But do agree on primary human movement of walking, running and throwing, MovNat also addresses many important secondary human movements as well. I would say FP is a good place to start then progress further with Mov Nat would this be a fair assumption?
It doesn’t.. movnat, animal flow, ido, all these guys create animal / arbitrary movements that don’t relate to how humans were evolutionary designs to move. It’s why you see so many people dropping off from working out that way and gravitating towards what we do.
The problem with your frame is that you jump from human's evolution to "how we're supposed to be" and then to "if not you will be injured severely". First of all, most people that train their bodies NOT for primarily running and walking aren't suffering extreme injuries due to that fact. So your claim that if you don't train the functional-pattern way you will suffer "severe problems" later is simply false. I know very few people that are essentially crippled in some way and even fewer that are crippled as a result of their training. Where is this pool of cripples that you're pulling from as evidence for your claim? SAFELY training any "function" will most likely lead to a safe body to live in. Mayyyyyybe debatable between who is the more agile 96year old. But it's a stretch to assume that every person's main goal with training is to be able to walk and throw for as far in to the future as humanly possible. This brings me to the second point. "Functional" can be changed out with "purposeful". Doing so illustrates a major gap in your ideology -- purposeful for WHAT? For walking? Well we need to debate that before that's swallowed whole. Simply because evolutionally we are specialized as throwers/walkers doesn't mean that humans SHOULD want to specialize their training for that. Our bodies are vessels to carry out the purposeful actions of our MINDS. Not the other way around. The simple fact that evolution prioritizes reproduction doesn't mean that my life SHOULD be all about impregnating as many women as possible. I'm not a robot who is pre-programmed. I am the programmER. So when you use the term functional training it immediately raises the question: "functional for what?" You answer this by saying "the organism". I reject your claim by expanding further: "This organism is a human, capable of choice and conceptualized motivation. If his motive is being a soldier then functional training will consist of movements that improve his ability to fight and maneuver on the battlefield. If his motive is to climb mountains then functional training will consist of a very different set of exercises." ------------------------------------------------------------------ In short, the argument about what should be called functional training is an argument that misses the mark entirely. Functional training depends entirely on the function that one wishes to produce.
The number of people in our generation that have flat feet, ankle mobility issues, knee valgus, hip issues, shoulder issues...etc has significantly increased...These dysfunctions and imbalances came from habits like sitting down for most of the day at school and work...Just from walking down the street you notice these issues in people. The worst part is most people don't know that they have these issues until they are told to train squats or deadlifts and that's when they begin to hurt themselves. Telling a guy that has flat feet and knee valgus to do squats is the worst advice in the world.
At some point we all want to be able to move about with less restriction. Functional training is a simple approach from a general perspective. We all at some level want to have adaptability of movement for a multitude of realities. In my opinion functional pattern is the ability to move your body without restriction whether passively or actively.
Yes, this style of training has it's use. But it is "a" style of training and not "the main" style of training as Naudi implies frequently. My focus isn't the .01% of people with problems. My focus is the majority. Most people I meet can do a basic squat if trained properly without suffering an injury. They can perform a basic pull down, a push up, a sit up -- in short: They aren't yet crippled. Now if you want to talk about what percentage of their training should be geared towards maintaining structural integrity then fine, let's have that talk. But I already predict it's going to be less than 10% of their training. If you want to be good at rock climbing then do THAT. And when you notice that your shoulders are severely rounded or that you have a pulled muscle in the hip frequently... then maybe stretch sometimes, release a tense muscle, or build up and imbalance. You don't need to design your training BASED on injury avoidance if you don't want to. A quick walk outside will tell you that people outside the functional patterns community aren't all hobbling around with 20 injuries.
@@paradigmwolf4694 if you have a concern, then I want to see your results issued with that concern. Let's be honest bro. U probably don't know how you solve biomechanical problems and you're simply creating red herring arguments to somehow stay relevant. FP is reaching millions and prompting this question. You'd better be ready to get results, otherwise no one is going you take your critique seriously
@@functionalpatterns Did you even read my critique? To avoid further misinterpretation, let me get something out of the way: You seem to understand biomechanics and how to solve biomechanical problems. You appear to be someone who can be thought of as an advanced physical therapist -- able to take someone with a messed up body and correct many of the problems. Your training methodology seems to be directly geared towards bringing someone from a state of dysfunction closer to a state of painless and efficient function.
I work in a coal mine. I lift heavy stuff in awkward positions all day every day. The four barbell classics, deads squats bench and overhead press, are the most functional movements. If I didn't kniw how to do these safely and effectively I would be injured all the time.
Exactly...I work in a warehouse, so squat, lunge, dead lift, overhead press/jerk are apart of my everyday life..literally. "Functional" is a relative term.
I worked in orchards my whole youth doing essentially the same thing. I never once got hurt, and I never trained squats and deadlifts. From experience of talking to 100's of people who do manual labor, they got the exact opposite reaction as you when they lifted. The sagittal plane loading exacerbated their dysfunctions and left them with problems like sciatica. It just took until about their early thirties typically to start feeling this. If you think functional is a relative term, give it time, something will pop up. When it does I am certain you will assert it had nothing to do with the weightlifting.
I agree with you that using very heavy loads (like 1 rep maxes) probably won't improve our functionality when doing the task. I also don't normally touch barbells because like you've said lifting an odd object is much different...but I still need the principles of a squat and deadlift to do what I do daily...like have my spine neutral and braced and create some torsion so my joints are stable. Do you think it's best to only do heavy "lifts" and movements when the task requires it? Because I agree that trying to deadlift 500lbs is not going to help me lift a box.
According to Naudi, every adult is experiencing excruciating and debilitating injuries that could have been prevented by obsessing over the gate cycle and posture. Train SAFELY. Have one eye on making sure you're not OVERLY screwing your posture or pushing for an injury and you will be fine 99.9% of the time. Naudi, your logic is based 100% on the .01% of individuals that got unlucky or the extreme examples of people with no self awareness whatsoever. Walk out of the gym and take a look around. Not everyone in their 30s is in a wheelchair. Your obsession is YOURS. You will be the most excellent walker and thrower the world has ever seen. Let men train to be the most excellent jumper, the most excellent soldier, the most excellent climber, etc. Stay in your lane. Please
Functional training as in the function of natural purpose. When I assess someone function it is their ability to mobilise or transfer which will include gait dynamics and static balance as well as other contributing factors. Functional training by its own definition is looking at training for the purpose of completing ADLs more efficiently and with reduced risk of injury. This channel knows whats up. Whipping rope and dragging tires are not in its purest sense functional training. Although one could debate that of that movement was part of your day job as an athlete that you may review this ADL and look at ways of improving efficiency and reduce risk of injury. Its knowing the difference that will determine if you actually use the word function in his proper context.
Would myofascial release work on cats that are already really flexible? I found it very interesting that you tried these techniques on a dog! Awesome video btw.
functional training is .... " training in function of ....''.( you can fill in whatever is the goal , like functional training for improving or sustaining daily living movements, sports specific, etc )
Couldn't agree with this more. People are out here trying to exercise to make themselves look like superheros, not realizing that's not how humans evolved to be or look like... At all...
Why do basic functions like walking and throwing necessarily inform the biomechanics of more complex movements like those found in wrestling. Do the mechanics that make for an efficient runner always translate to an efficient double leg?
If the gait cycle was fully codified, yes. We are still coding it tho and about 1 percent there in doing it. When it's coded at about 50 percent, you'll see the best double legs from wrestlers.
thank u I really appreciate these break downs of terms and intro videos. they help me spread the information alot easier. people are very interested as well and I usually have very little to show.
Functional training is eliciting proper biomechanical progression from supine lye to walking and further advancing to complex interactional movement patterns that are required for an individual to meet the physical and psychological demands of the interaction between the individual and their environment of operation..
What's number 3, 4, 5? Seriously! You should do a series. I do hate when people force (train) their pets to do things that are unnatural to their species...its f'd up!
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.
"Showcase" lol Taking a shit is out of the evolutionary priority. Lifting things off the ground is out of the evolutionary priority Maybe taking a shit while sliding on the ground catching a ball is more functional which would explain you sliding with an overhead punch while pulling on the Keiser in your trailer video. I guess it must be an evolutionary priority. Aren't you lucky that people are getting dumber and dumber and buy into shit like that? And you've finally realized that the word functional is a marketing term because anything can be considered functional in the right context. It's a bit late to come to the realization that functional is bogus when it's in your name, isn't it? That's the funniest part to me. Here's a free tip. If we can move in that way, we can perform that task and it is therefore something we can functionally accomplish, making it functional. It may not be relevant to you, like say Ido Portals lizard walk, but the body is capable of functionally accomplishing it. You're missing too much.
This a good question, and i think this video does a great job of explaining it. People don't want to address core problems before going out and working out because adressing core problems is not fun, its a grind. Just like addressing problems in finances, relationships, careers, consumption ect.....
Pretty basic. People are vain. They want to fulfill cultural standards, not natural ones. Fulfilling natural standards takes a shit ton of research. Fulfilling cultural standards is easy. Turn on the tv and watch a commercial. It's right there in front of you.
Because he's pushing an ideology hard with major gaps in his logic. Taking any and every chance to patronize and laugh at anyone who doesn't base 95% of their training on basic human movements due to fear of injuries that will never happen to cautious people. If he realized that his specialties in training had it's place but wasn't the ONLY place, I'm sure he'd have a way bigger audience. But not everyone wants to watch a video on anterior pelvic tilt that's peppered with rants on why they're stupid for not training 2 hours a day to walk better.
The main argument of this video is bullshit. Firstly, even if there are main activities that human beings in general have HAD to be able to do from an evolution stand point, from that it does not necessarily follow we need to do that today for optimal health, nor for optimal performance at a specific activity. Secondly, you could extend that list of functions to tons of other activities like fighting, punching, lifting and so on, that have all been a major part of human lives throughout existence. You are merely applying a model colored by your own bias. Thirdly, one of the main differences between us and other animals, it's our adaptability. Humans adapt our environment and hack the evolutionary boundaries that other animals are bound by. Thus, if you can majorly increase someone's strength with back squats, that's just another hack that has proven useful, even if the back squat is another "unnatural" thing outside the normal evolutionary frame work. Nature doesn't share your bias, what works works, and just because people used to do these activities, does not mean modern humans have to train like that.
He is trying to make a point on the general concept of Functional training. Functional training is highly individualized and what is a necessary functional movement pattern for a dancer who needs to have ridiculous flexibility in their hips will not be the same for an amazon k worker who simply needs to ocus on core and back stabilization and strength to lift packages all day.
Great point. He lost all credibility when he started the video with telling us about how he named his dog after a hinged socialist and stating it was because a current social popularity. Sounds just like the "trends" he's trying to bash
1:43 Birds. You underestimate birds. Here's a world champion UFC fighter, 170 lbs, and he cannot catch a chicken unless it is cornered. th-cam.com/video/p41aYlAvJ50/w-d-xo.html
If you think we are only designed to walk upright better, than i disagree wholeheartedly. Some people express there functionality through running, weightlifting, jiujitsu etc. its being dogmatic to the point where it push the industry away rather than inviting people in.
I believe the human body is made for sword fighting. The human body is uniquely articulate. Articulation is our calling card. Tennis and ballet are the closest thing in modern time of the expression of the human body, besides the original sword fighting.
Also...in regards to squats. The very fact that someone has to perform the exercise in a specific way (proper form) or risk possibly severe injury- along with that fact that the majority of people in a gym can't perform the movement without it being taught to them, should probably make the claim of it as a natural movement questionable.....
Training that optimise gait is functional training yes. Do people improve gait by JUST walking and running.? No. That's is why Functional Patterns came into existence.
functionalpatterns I skimmed it. Very wordy to get your point across. What if a person cannot throw, jump, or walk? Im just challenging your philosophy, no need to conclude I am biased. There is a large population that cannot do those three "functional" movements. What would be functional for them?
Fuck youtube, does not inform me of naudis vids,i need these in my life! Bought the book and program, best investment i ever made, much love Naudi keep at it man
Yep, youtube is still peddling more Athlean-x and elliott hulse bullshit. I'm in the process of uploading my videos on our website instead of here in the future. Stay tuned
I predicted he would waste the whole video babbling nonsense right after he said he likes Bernie Sanders. Turns out my prediction was solid. What's that about dolphins? Thank you anyway, God bless, you're a good man
The most natural human movements are standing (and by extension jumping, which is hard accelerated standing) and turning (and by extension throwing, which is hard accelerated turning with a bit of good timing.) The thing standing and turning, jumping and throwing, have in common? They are both instinct learned, profoundly easy even for the most unfit, and require nearly every muscle in your body to do. No creature can go from prone to upright like human. No creature can change direction or throw like human. And it is this reason why there is very little reason to train for it. Truthfully, it comes naturally, even for very unfit people.
Its impressive how someone can talk so much but say so very little. Functional fitness is like saying inner beauty, it objectively means nothing. Also might want to consider changing that thumbnail kinda fucked up.
alright you said biomechanics of head kick and grappling. also my mom has a buldging c3-c7. if you could throw me a bone I promise to site your work lol. hahahah
This is just appeal to nature fallacy... An incomplete one that too. Traits are defined wrt environmental adaptations. A hunter gatherer environment requires different training as opposed to agricultural and industrial environment. Humans have adapted to both of them. If we look at the modern industrial-digital environment then the goals become much more variable. The baseline goal is to take preventive measures for diabetes, arthritis, and other physio-anatomic diseases. Also, your argument doesn't take sexual selection into account. Muscular bodies are more attractive and likely to reproduce so any physical training regimen must take these into account.
Humans have adapted to do many things. The question is what serves humans best. Go to our IG and look at the results we get with people at all levels, including the people with neurdegenerative disorders. There are many perspectives on training and very few that actually get results. Ours do get results and it needs to be noted
lol, I'm sorry about that. It's just the industry has taken every opportunity to misconstrue what we are getting at so I have had to simplify the message as much as possible. Tune in towards the end and you'll get it. Again, I'm sorry I have to draw this out
I'm pretty interested in Functional Training. I'm 52 years old and I'm obese. I've had surgery on both knees and I suffer from lower back pain and sciatica. So, running is out for me. In fact, my Doctors said that running is not something I should ever do again unless in an emergency. So anyway, I'm researching functional training and I started with your video. I'd like to know what it's all about. I don't want to hear about dolphins and birds and dogs and other members of the animal kingdom. I stopped the video at 2:42. I'll be going elsewhere to learn about functional training. Have a great day.
It's all true. Everything you said. I always said I'll start tomorrow and then I never let tomorrow arrive. Until about 9 months ago. I began eating better. I began a mild, very mild exercise program. Not that strenuous. About an hours worth. I've lost 52 pounds. My cholesterol dropped from 249 to 150. All the various cholesterols I'm right in the middle of the range where I'm supposed to be. My blood pressure has reached close to normal ranges for the first time in years. So, that's a start. I'm still in pain though. Standing up for too long. Walking very far. I know it's my fault. It wasn't somebody else making those bad eating choices for me. It was all me.I'm not asking for other people to "fix me". I'm looking for advice on what to do and the best way to do it with the wreck of a body I have. So I can fix it. I'm trying to watch videos like this to get pointers. To get advice. But hey, if all you want to do is criticize instead of helping then hey, I guess that's what you're all about. Good work....you're successful at it.
If you are really too lazy to watch and understand the video I'm going to summarize it for you: In the video naudi says, functional training should be designed for walking, running and throwing because these are our primary movements. Now your asking yourself "everybody can walk, why should we train it". Yes everybody (unless injured or whatever) can walk, but due to lots of sitting etc. our body built many disfunctionalities and if you walk, run, squat. deadlift, backflip or whatever with these disfunctionalities you not gonna end up fixing it which ends up in injury and pain (just look at 99% of our 60+ year olds and you know what I mean). Even ppl who can dance, backflip or do gymnastics get injured many times because they still have these disfunctionalities due to lots of sitting in the childhood in school, and they are performing extreme movements with those disfunctionalities which leads to injury, same for every other athlete no matter which sport. Functional Patterns training therefore is an investment to not get injured while performing, no matter on which level you want to perform, It can be jogging, walking. But it also can be backflipping, gymnastics, martial arts, american football... Everything. But without fixing your disfunctionalities first, probability of getting injured is greater. Functional patterns are the "basics" you have to set to perform without getting injured all the time, if you want to put it in other words. What can you do? Educate yourself about functional patterns training, im not gonna write a whole essay for you about anatomy and functional patterns.
Wow, great job and keep at it! FYI-- This video is right on though. Collect your patience and give another listen w/ some deeper thinking. His brief digression into other animals was just a way (by preposterous examples) of making the most important point about the topic that can be made: FUNCTIONAL Training = optimizing the fundamentals of an organism's natural/instinctive patterns, NOT trying to gain eccentric movement skills it didn't evolve to need daily. So Advanced Movement Training (like cartwheels etc) is different, and comes later, best if built on a foundation of functional capability so we can do the everyday things we were born to do, like "STAND," w/out blowing out knees or back. Keep up the good work. Train your gait, alignment, rotation, strength and flexibility, and watch your knee pain improve. It worked for me and I have 10 fractured vertebrae. Be well! :D
Just too dogmatic. You say squatting is important but not as important as throwing … pretty sure we’re supposed to drop into a deep squat to shit multiple times a day… I’d say that’s pretty important 😂 Hierarchy of movements makes no sense in a genuinely whole body/ holistic paradigm
No Only do they make pooddles walk like human but they hit them and abused them! Yes shame on this people. I do like like or share this videos. Humans who think is cute are sick & mindless people. Thanks for speaking out for them. Love Your videos. I learn lots from you.
It's a great talk, but there should be an example of how the term functional training is being misused. Because if I show someone doing a Deadlift correctly I know DeadLifts are a functional exercise because the form of the Deadlift is how you should be picking things up.
So dumb, you want to relate function to origin of human species, if so no one needs training. And you say the major function is walk and run only. Come on....
agree with the principles of your methods but we didn't evolve from primordial soup millions of years ago lol. We adapted according to environment but evolution no evidence at all
If you look at the present for most people, our functionality is probably sitting. If you go bit backwards in our evolution its walking. If you go more backwards its climbing trees. If you go more backwards its swimming. I think it isnt as simple as you said:)
not totaly exact, we take 1000's of years to adapt to something . We had time to adapt to climbing, we almost had time to adapt to total bipedy, walking, running and throwing, because we do that for 1000's of years. But even today we ain't perfectly adapted to it (sacral plate for exemple). About sitting, we are far from adapted ! our body tring to accomodatee this new stimulus but that's all. when an organism adapt, his whole antomy and physiology change : muscle insertion, fibers orientation, type of joint, ligaments, bones shape...
Your concerns are not complicated. They have been thought out. Your perspectives make sense under a damaging context, but not in a health context. Think.
functionalpatterns with an increasing global population, cities of growing density, and environmental concerns, could you see bicycling becoming a functional movement for human beings in our distant evolutionary future?
You're on the right track bro but you gotta ask the question, What dictates what we are supposed to be currently adapting to? Is it our modern society and the fact that we sit often? Or is it what are bodies are (and still are) designed to do? Modern societies adaptations are not necessarily the best things to gauge our functionality from
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.
Probably the only video i watched recently where it is explained correctly 💯 you know he is a great trainer and truly knows And understands his stuff. These are people i would love to train with and learn from so i can help others more in the future
You got the point! People often misunderstand the real use of Functional Training and create their own meaning for it to just look cool and different.
I too see how the animals around me move in their original natural ways. From ants, chickens, dogs, toddlers to the very elderly, even indigenous tribes, some asians and middle easterners. I admire their movements because it takes true confidence to be authentic presently. And it just feel so good to move how you want.
The function of a single muscle is to shorten, but the body is made of a web of muscles which are needed to do those movements so their function together is to make us stand, walk, run and throw. Starting to understand what you are saying.
dude!!!! 1000 of these please.....
I don't understand at all how anybody could possibly disagree with this or with you after watching this explanation. Kudos Naudi
He basically just said functional training for humans is walking. I don’t disagree with that per se but I don’t need to train to walk.
So let me ask you: Do you have training programs for dolphins? What about cats, dogs, fish or even sloths? Im somewhat of a sloth myself. Are any of these programs available for purchase?
We walk, run, throw, yes but we also, jump, hang, lift and carry our stuff and our babies, pull and pull to move things when we can't carry them or grab things far away (and doing so we stand on our toes in equilibrium), crawl under stuff, climb over stuff too, swim in all kinds of waters, navigate, danse, make love in funny ways to keep things interesting in the long run, carry and give birth, etc... We are the most multitask animal that ever existed, and thus our sports can be so diverse and our way of exercising our bodies too. Don't analyse things before you take the time to observe them as they are. And height minutes is too long just to explain one simple idea, I think you could repeat yourself less and summarize more, but that's just my opinion.
I remember the first year I was lifting, I was obsessed with studying evolution. I remember one day thinking about there had to be something better.. but then yet I continued traditional bodybuilding and powerlifting for nearly 6 years before discovering FP.. also disregard the profile pic haven't changed that in years.
Would love to hear FP take on MoV Nat which also addresses human movement and capability! But do agree on primary human movement of walking, running and throwing, MovNat also addresses many important secondary human movements as well. I would say FP is a good place to start then progress further with Mov Nat would this be a fair assumption?
It doesn’t.. movnat, animal flow, ido, all these guys create animal / arbitrary movements that don’t relate to how humans were evolutionary designs to move. It’s why you see so many people dropping off from working out that way and gravitating towards what we do.
Train relevant to your biological characteristics :) #thinkintentionallynothabitually
Naudi wins the 'talks most, says least' award
You win the "I'm a beta cuck with no life results" award.
@@functionalpatterns "beta cuck" -- Wow. A glimpse into the angry mind of Naudi.
The problem with your frame is that you jump from human's evolution to "how we're supposed to be" and then to "if not you will be injured severely".
First of all, most people that train their bodies NOT for primarily running and walking aren't suffering extreme injuries due to that fact. So your claim that if you don't train the functional-pattern way you will suffer "severe problems" later is simply false. I know very few people that are essentially crippled in some way and even fewer that are crippled as a result of their training. Where is this pool of cripples that you're pulling from as evidence for your claim?
SAFELY training any "function" will most likely lead to a safe body to live in. Mayyyyyybe debatable between who is the more agile 96year old. But it's a stretch to assume that every person's main goal with training is to be able to walk and throw for as far in to the future as humanly possible.
This brings me to the second point. "Functional" can be changed out with "purposeful". Doing so illustrates a major gap in your ideology -- purposeful for WHAT? For walking? Well we need to debate that before that's swallowed whole. Simply because evolutionally we are specialized as throwers/walkers doesn't mean that humans SHOULD want to specialize their training for that. Our bodies are vessels to carry out the purposeful actions of our MINDS. Not the other way around. The simple fact that evolution prioritizes reproduction doesn't mean that my life SHOULD be all about impregnating as many women as possible. I'm not a robot who is pre-programmed. I am the programmER.
So when you use the term functional training it immediately raises the question: "functional for what?" You answer this by saying "the organism".
I reject your claim by expanding further: "This organism is a human, capable of choice and conceptualized motivation. If his motive is being a soldier then functional training will consist of movements that improve his ability to fight and maneuver on the battlefield. If his motive is to climb mountains then functional training will consist of a very different set of exercises."
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In short, the argument about what should be called functional training is an argument that misses the mark entirely. Functional training depends entirely on the function that one wishes to produce.
The number of people in our generation that have flat feet, ankle mobility issues, knee valgus, hip issues, shoulder issues...etc has significantly increased...These dysfunctions and imbalances came from habits like sitting down for most of the day at school and work...Just from walking down the street you notice these issues in people. The worst part is most people don't know that they have these issues until they are told to train squats or deadlifts and that's when they begin to hurt themselves.
Telling a guy that has flat feet and knee valgus to do squats is the worst advice in the world.
At some point we all want to be able to move about with less restriction. Functional training is a simple approach from a general perspective. We all at some level want to have adaptability of movement for a multitude of realities. In my opinion functional pattern is the ability to move your body without restriction whether passively or actively.
Yes, this style of training has it's use. But it is "a" style of training and not "the main" style of training as Naudi implies frequently.
My focus isn't the .01% of people with problems. My focus is the majority. Most people I meet can do a basic squat if trained properly without suffering an injury. They can perform a basic pull down, a push up, a sit up -- in short: They aren't yet crippled.
Now if you want to talk about what percentage of their training should be geared towards maintaining structural integrity then fine, let's have that talk. But I already predict it's going to be less than 10% of their training.
If you want to be good at rock climbing then do THAT. And when you notice that your shoulders are severely rounded or that you have a pulled muscle in the hip frequently... then maybe stretch sometimes, release a tense muscle, or build up and imbalance. You don't need to design your training BASED on injury avoidance if you don't want to. A quick walk outside will tell you that people outside the functional patterns community aren't all hobbling around with 20 injuries.
@@paradigmwolf4694 if you have a concern, then I want to see your results issued with that concern. Let's be honest bro. U probably don't know how you solve biomechanical problems and you're simply creating red herring arguments to somehow stay relevant. FP is reaching millions and prompting this question. You'd better be ready to get results, otherwise no one is going you take your critique seriously
@@functionalpatterns Did you even read my critique? To avoid further misinterpretation, let me get something out of the way: You seem to understand biomechanics and how to solve biomechanical problems. You appear to be someone who can be thought of as an advanced physical therapist -- able to take someone with a messed up body and correct many of the problems. Your training methodology seems to be directly geared towards bringing someone from a state of dysfunction closer to a state of painless and efficient function.
I work in a coal mine. I lift heavy stuff in awkward positions all day every day. The four barbell classics, deads squats bench and overhead press, are the most functional movements. If I didn't kniw how to do these safely and effectively I would be injured all the time.
Exactly...I work in a warehouse, so squat, lunge, dead lift, overhead press/jerk are apart of my everyday life..literally. "Functional" is a relative term.
I worked in orchards my whole youth doing essentially the same thing. I never once got hurt, and I never trained squats and deadlifts. From experience of talking to 100's of people who do manual labor, they got the exact opposite reaction as you when they lifted. The sagittal plane loading exacerbated their dysfunctions and left them with problems like sciatica. It just took until about their early thirties typically to start feeling this. If you think functional is a relative term, give it time, something will pop up. When it does I am certain you will assert it had nothing to do with the weightlifting.
I agree with you that using very heavy loads (like 1 rep maxes) probably won't improve our functionality when doing the task. I also don't normally touch barbells because like you've said lifting an odd object is much different...but I still need the principles of a squat and deadlift to do what I do daily...like have my spine neutral and braced and create some torsion so my joints are stable. Do you think it's best to only do heavy "lifts" and movements when the task requires it? Because I agree that trying to deadlift 500lbs is not going to help me lift a box.
According to Naudi, every adult is experiencing excruciating and debilitating injuries that could have been prevented by obsessing over the gate cycle and posture.
Train SAFELY. Have one eye on making sure you're not OVERLY screwing your posture or pushing for an injury and you will be fine 99.9% of the time.
Naudi, your logic is based 100% on the .01% of individuals that got unlucky or the extreme examples of people with no self awareness whatsoever. Walk out of the gym and take a look around. Not everyone in their 30s is in a wheelchair. Your obsession is YOURS. You will be the most excellent walker and thrower the world has ever seen. Let men train to be the most excellent jumper, the most excellent soldier, the most excellent climber, etc.
Stay in your lane. Please
go for a run now
Functional training as in the function of natural purpose. When I assess someone function it is their ability to mobilise or transfer which will include gait dynamics and static balance as well as other contributing factors. Functional training by its own definition is looking at training for the purpose of completing ADLs more efficiently and with reduced risk of injury. This channel knows whats up. Whipping rope and dragging tires are not in its purest sense functional training. Although one could debate that of that movement was part of your day job as an athlete that you may review this ADL and look at ways of improving efficiency and reduce risk of injury. Its knowing the difference that will determine if you actually use the word function in his proper context.
Would myofascial release work on cats that are already really flexible? I found it very interesting that you tried these techniques on a dog! Awesome video btw.
functional training is .... " training in function of ....''.( you can fill in whatever is the goal , like functional training for improving or sustaining daily living movements, sports specific, etc )
Well done guys its so relevant and more sustainable than weight training
Any thoughts on Usain Bolt's workout program?
Weight room workouts for a sprinter or any track and field athlete is on the bottom of the list, it's supplemental.
Trackguy77 no, it's not supplemental lmao.
then what is it? weight room workouts don't take priority over track session therefore it's supplemental
Hi, can you make a video of different kind of push ups, sort of variations, that target certain muscle groups? thanks
Couldn't agree with this more. People are out here trying to exercise to make themselves look like superheros, not realizing that's not how humans evolved to be or look like... At all...
You deserve all the success coming your way. Keep up the hard work and your pursuit of idealism
its bullshit, he's a fraud
Why do basic functions like walking and throwing necessarily inform the biomechanics of more complex movements like those found in wrestling. Do the mechanics that make for an efficient runner always translate to an efficient double leg?
If the gait cycle was fully codified, yes. We are still coding it tho and about 1 percent there in doing it. When it's coded at about 50 percent, you'll see the best double legs from wrestlers.
Wrestlers are humans first. If they enhance themselves as humans, wrestling becomes better.
thank u I really appreciate these break downs of terms and intro videos. they help me spread the information alot easier. people are very interested as well and I usually have very little to show.
I try to be flexible enough to be adaptable to the many kinds of environment s around us today
Hell yeah. I haven't heard one word in any of your videos that isn't bang on 100%. Preach it brother. You know the score.
Great video! Have you heard of the Alexander Technique by any chance? It seems like it would be of great interest to you
Your dog is named after Jacque Fresco.. My mind is blown! I'd actually find the dragonballs just to talk to you about his vision and realizing it. 🖖
Functional training is eliciting proper biomechanical progression from supine lye to walking and further advancing to complex interactional movement patterns that are required for an individual to meet the physical and psychological demands of the interaction between the individual and their environment of operation..
Great, do you have results to showcase that your approach actually modifies human biomechanics?
Way above of the Normal human, Thanks Naudi keep going. Many good things coming your way!
Great point on the beauty of animals movement!
Nice video Naudi, if this doesnt get folks thinking, then i dont know what will........
its bullshit. hes a huckster
Great video! 10 week course for people to train their dogs? :D
What's number 3, 4, 5? Seriously! You should do a series. I do hate when people force (train) their pets to do things that are unnatural to their species...its f'd up!
Functional training; train in the same way that your body mechanics function. End of story!
Yep, respect our biology. Meaning that the FP big 4 need to be respected.
Great Vid Naudy! keep the good work!
That was 8 minutes of absolutely nothing. He literally told me about his dog and that humans walk on two legs.
Genius lies in simplicity, idiotically simple.
Actually it wasnt. Your level of understanding is subpar.
Look for Cognitive Rampage Podcasts with Naudi Aguilar ppl
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.
Dogs are not going to be very good at flying? Holy Moly dude, ground breaking stuff right there!!
The purpose of that was to showcase how ridiculous it is to train humans to do things outside of their evolutionary priorities in movement
"Showcase" lol
Taking a shit is out of the evolutionary priority.
Lifting things off the ground is out of the evolutionary priority
Maybe taking a shit while sliding on the ground catching a ball is more functional which would explain you sliding with an overhead punch while pulling on the Keiser in your trailer video. I guess it must be an evolutionary priority.
Aren't you lucky that people are getting dumber and dumber and buy into shit like that? And you've finally realized that the word functional is a marketing term because anything can be considered functional in the right context. It's a bit late to come to the realization that functional is bogus when it's in your name, isn't it?
That's the funniest part to me.
Here's a free tip. If we can move in that way, we can perform that task and it is therefore something we can functionally accomplish, making it functional. It may not be relevant to you, like say Ido Portals lizard walk, but the body is capable of functionally accomplishing it.
You're missing too much.
A turkey can run up to 60 miles per hour
No Craig😈
why doesnt this channel have 1M subs ?
Because it's quite bad.
take a look at the results
This a good question, and i think this video does a great job of explaining it. People don't want to address core problems before going out and working out because adressing core problems is not fun, its a grind. Just like addressing problems in finances, relationships, careers, consumption ect.....
Pretty basic. People are vain. They want to fulfill cultural standards, not natural ones. Fulfilling natural standards takes a shit ton of research. Fulfilling cultural standards is easy. Turn on the tv and watch a commercial. It's right there in front of you.
Because he's pushing an ideology hard with major gaps in his logic. Taking any and every chance to patronize and laugh at anyone who doesn't base 95% of their training on basic human movements due to fear of injuries that will never happen to cautious people.
If he realized that his specialties in training had it's place but wasn't the ONLY place, I'm sure he'd have a way bigger audience. But not everyone wants to watch a video on anterior pelvic tilt that's peppered with rants on why they're stupid for not training 2 hours a day to walk better.
The main argument of this video is bullshit.
Firstly, even if there are main activities that human beings in general have HAD to be able to do from an evolution stand point, from that it does not necessarily follow we need to do that today for optimal health, nor for optimal performance at a specific activity.
Secondly, you could extend that list of functions to tons of other activities like fighting, punching, lifting and so on, that have all been a major part of human lives throughout existence. You are merely applying a model colored by your own bias.
Thirdly, one of the main differences between us and other animals, it's our adaptability. Humans adapt our environment and hack the evolutionary boundaries that other animals are bound by. Thus, if you can majorly increase someone's strength with back squats, that's just another hack that has proven useful, even if the back squat is another "unnatural" thing outside the normal evolutionary frame work.
Nature doesn't share your bias, what works works, and just because people used to do these activities, does not mean modern humans have to train like that.
He is trying to make a point on the general concept of
Functional training. Functional training is highly individualized and what is a necessary functional movement pattern for a dancer who needs to have ridiculous flexibility in their hips will not be the same for an amazon k worker who simply needs to ocus on core and back stabilization and strength to lift packages all day.
Great point. He lost all credibility when he started the video with telling us about how he named his dog after a hinged socialist and stating it was because a current social popularity. Sounds just like the "trends" he's trying to bash
Functional fitness explained perfectly!
#FunctionalDolphins
1:43
Birds. You underestimate birds.
Here's a world champion UFC fighter, 170 lbs, and he cannot catch a chicken unless it is cornered.
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If you think we are only designed to walk upright better, than i disagree wholeheartedly. Some people express there functionality through running, weightlifting, jiujitsu etc. its being dogmatic to the point where it push the industry away rather than inviting people in.
I believe the human body is made for sword fighting. The human body is uniquely articulate. Articulation is our calling card. Tennis and ballet are the closest thing in modern time of the expression of the human body, besides the original sword fighting.
😂
Also...in regards to squats. The very fact that someone has to perform the exercise in a specific way (proper form) or risk possibly severe injury- along with that fact that the majority of people in a gym can't perform the movement without it being taught to them, should probably make the claim of it as a natural movement questionable.....
Dropping knowledge bombs again and again. Keep up the great work, Naudi. People don't want to hear the truth, they want to live in their bubble.
So gait training is functional training?
Training that optimise gait is functional training yes.
Do people improve gait by JUST walking and running.? No. That's is why Functional Patterns came into existence.
Read the blogpost on www.functionalpatterns.com
Flabian how about functional training for people using wheelchairs?
Yep, didn't even take the time to read the blogpost. Confirmation bias is a bitch
functionalpatterns I skimmed it. Very wordy to get your point across. What if a person cannot throw, jump, or walk? Im just challenging your philosophy, no need to conclude I am biased. There is a large population that cannot do those three "functional" movements. What would be functional for them?
Fuck youtube, does not inform me of naudis vids,i need these in my life! Bought the book and program, best investment i ever made, much love Naudi keep at it man
Yep, youtube is still peddling more Athlean-x and elliott hulse bullshit. I'm in the process of uploading my videos on our website instead of here in the future. Stay tuned
How can I be functional and alpha like you naudi?
Keep up the good work :)
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼FP🙏🏽🌎🙏🏽🔥💯
Whats your point???
I predicted he would waste the whole video babbling nonsense right after he said he likes Bernie Sanders. Turns out my prediction was solid. What's that about dolphins? Thank you anyway, God bless, you're a good man
Ur a. Idiot
Running and climbing... It's not difficult to realize if you look at it from an evolutionary standpoint.
habe to disagree big time the human didnt evole to walk we evoled to be able to perform complex movements. Walking is just one of them.
The most natural human movements are standing (and by extension jumping, which is hard accelerated standing) and turning (and by extension throwing, which is hard accelerated turning with a bit of good timing.)
The thing standing and turning, jumping and throwing, have in common? They are both instinct learned, profoundly easy even for the most unfit, and require nearly every muscle in your body to do.
No creature can go from prone to upright like human. No creature can change direction or throw like human.
And it is this reason why there is very little reason to train for it. Truthfully, it comes naturally, even for very unfit people.
Its impressive how someone can talk so much but say so very little. Functional fitness is like saying inner beauty, it objectively means nothing. Also might want to consider changing that thumbnail kinda fucked up.
How can training be not functional?
By targeting singular muscle groups and overloading them simply to increase muscle mass. Which is what 99% of people in gyms are doing.
Turned off 1/2 through an 8min video your still talking about your dog.
Thank you for not naming him Hillary 👍
alright you said biomechanics of head kick and grappling. also my mom has a buldging c3-c7. if you could throw me a bone I promise to site your work lol. hahahah
Dogs are Great OK we get it.
This is just appeal to nature fallacy... An incomplete one that too. Traits are defined wrt environmental adaptations. A hunter gatherer environment requires different training as opposed to agricultural and industrial environment. Humans have adapted to both of them. If we look at the modern industrial-digital environment then the goals become much more variable. The baseline goal is to take preventive measures for diabetes, arthritis, and other physio-anatomic diseases. Also, your argument doesn't take sexual selection into account. Muscular bodies are more attractive and likely to reproduce so any physical training regimen must take these into account.
Humans have adapted to do many things. The question is what serves humans best. Go to our IG and look at the results we get with people at all levels, including the people with neurdegenerative disorders. There are many perspectives on training and very few that actually get results. Ours do get results and it needs to be noted
I changed when he said Bernie sand.... Blaaa
great speech
Structure
one of the very few videos I felt the urge to dislike
Halfway through the video, I still don't know what functional training is but I know more about dogs now so that's nice.
lol, I'm sorry about that. It's just the industry has taken every opportunity to misconstrue what we are getting at so I have had to simplify the message as much as possible. Tune in towards the end and you'll get it. Again, I'm sorry I have to draw this out
I'm pretty interested in Functional Training. I'm 52 years old and I'm obese. I've had surgery on both knees and I suffer from lower back pain and sciatica. So, running is out for me. In fact, my Doctors said that running is not something I should ever do again unless in an emergency.
So anyway, I'm researching functional training and I started with your video. I'd like to know what it's all about. I don't want to hear about dolphins and birds and dogs and other members of the animal kingdom. I stopped the video at 2:42.
I'll be going elsewhere to learn about functional training. Have a great day.
If you want to reverse your shit, look up a plant based diet and watch "what the health".
lol exactly...I hate these "I ate like shit, didnt exercise, etc. for 30+ years and now im fucked up, fix me", posts.
It's all true. Everything you said. I always said I'll start tomorrow and then I never let tomorrow arrive. Until about 9 months ago. I began eating better. I began a mild, very mild exercise program. Not that strenuous. About an hours worth. I've lost 52 pounds. My cholesterol dropped from 249 to 150. All the various cholesterols I'm right in the middle of the range where I'm supposed to be. My blood pressure has reached close to normal ranges for the first time in years. So, that's a start.
I'm still in pain though. Standing up for too long. Walking very far. I know it's my fault. It wasn't somebody else making those bad eating choices for me. It was all me.I'm not asking for other people to "fix me". I'm looking for advice on what to do and the best way to do it with the wreck of a body I have. So I can fix it. I'm trying to watch videos like this to get pointers. To get advice. But hey, if all you want to do is criticize instead of helping then hey, I guess that's what you're all about. Good work....you're successful at it.
If you are really too lazy to watch and understand the video I'm going to summarize it for you: In the video naudi says, functional training should be designed for walking, running and throwing because these are our primary movements. Now your asking yourself "everybody can walk, why should we train it". Yes everybody (unless injured or whatever) can walk, but due to lots of sitting etc. our body built many disfunctionalities and if you walk, run, squat. deadlift, backflip or whatever with these disfunctionalities you not gonna end up fixing it which ends up in injury and pain (just look at 99% of our 60+ year olds and you know what I mean). Even ppl who can dance, backflip or do gymnastics get injured many times because they still have these disfunctionalities due to lots of sitting in the childhood in school, and they are performing extreme movements with those disfunctionalities which leads to injury, same for every other athlete no matter which sport.
Functional Patterns training therefore is an investment to not get injured while performing, no matter on which level you want to perform, It can be jogging, walking. But it also can be backflipping, gymnastics, martial arts, american football... Everything. But without fixing your disfunctionalities first, probability of getting injured is greater. Functional patterns are the "basics" you have to set to perform without getting injured all the time, if you want to put it in other words.
What can you do? Educate yourself about functional patterns training, im not gonna write a whole essay for you about anatomy and functional patterns.
Wow, great job and keep at it! FYI-- This video is right on though. Collect your patience and give another listen w/ some deeper thinking.
His brief digression into other animals was just a way (by preposterous examples) of making the most important point about the topic that can be made:
FUNCTIONAL Training = optimizing the fundamentals of an organism's natural/instinctive patterns,
NOT trying to gain eccentric movement skills it didn't evolve to need daily.
So Advanced Movement Training (like cartwheels etc) is different, and comes later, best if built on a foundation of functional capability so we can do the everyday things we were born to do, like "STAND," w/out blowing out knees or back.
Keep up the good work. Train your gait, alignment, rotation, strength and flexibility, and watch your knee pain improve. It worked for me and I have 10 fractured vertebrae. Be well! :D
He likes Bernie Sanders. Wow.
Just too dogmatic. You say squatting is important but not as important as throwing … pretty sure we’re supposed to drop into a deep squat to shit multiple times a day… I’d say that’s pretty important 😂 Hierarchy of movements makes no sense in a genuinely whole body/ holistic paradigm
No Only do they make pooddles walk like human but they hit them and abused them! Yes shame on this people. I do like like or share this videos. Humans who think is cute are sick & mindless people. Thanks for speaking out for them. Love Your videos. I learn lots from you.
It's a great talk, but there should be an example of how the term functional training is being misused. Because if I show someone doing a Deadlift correctly I know DeadLifts are a functional exercise because the form of the Deadlift is how you should be picking things up.
This is a very bad video, you said nothing. Scattered thoughts...you need a script.
So dumb, you want to relate function to origin of human species, if so no one needs training. And you say the major function is walk and run only. Come on....
No one said those are the only functions. Perhaps u should watch the video again
@@functionalpatterns will do...
Get to the point already!
agree with the principles of your methods but we didn't evolve from primordial soup millions of years ago lol. We adapted according to environment but evolution no evidence at all
If you look at the present for most people, our functionality is probably sitting.
If you go bit backwards in our evolution its walking.
If you go more backwards its climbing trees.
If you go more backwards its swimming.
I think it isnt as simple as you said:)
not totaly exact, we take 1000's of years to adapt to something . We had time to adapt to climbing, we almost had time to adapt to total bipedy, walking, running and throwing, because we do that for 1000's of years. But even today we ain't perfectly adapted to it (sacral plate for exemple). About sitting, we are far from adapted ! our body tring to accomodatee this new stimulus but that's all. when an organism adapt, his whole antomy and physiology change : muscle insertion, fibers orientation, type of joint, ligaments, bones shape...
Your concerns are not complicated. They have been thought out. Your perspectives make sense under a damaging context, but not in a health context. Think.
functionalpatterns with an increasing global population, cities of growing density, and environmental concerns, could you see bicycling becoming a functional movement for human beings in our distant evolutionary future?
You're on the right track bro but you gotta ask the question, What dictates what we are supposed to be currently adapting to? Is it our modern society and the fact that we sit often? Or is it what are bodies are (and still are) designed to do? Modern societies adaptations are not necessarily the best things to gauge our functionality from
yes maybe we can literally become chairs
first btw
Wtf
Lost me at Bernie Sanders...
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.
Great videos bro, keep them up in 2020! Always watching your videos and training clients using FP. I agree with your inclination towards Bernie and Fresco - nice ones.