Quote: (02-12-2013 06:40 PM)Hannibal Wrote:
The whole idea about "functional strength" needs to die in a hole. It's like we have strength training hipsters or something. Gymnasts hate on barbell strength trainers, serious kettlebellers mock raw strength trainers, calisthenics guys hate on anyone who lifts weights, and they all talk shit about bodybuilders.
The process to "body build" begins with the same program as raw strength training as far as barbells are concerned.
It's just that the bodybuilder focuses moreso on aesthetics and sarcoplasmic hypertrophy in all the right places, whereas the pure strength athlete goes for raw strength in whatever lifts he chooses. The bodybuilder still has to be strong as fuck to get that far.
At the end of the day, no one cares how strong you are if you're fat. Bitches don't know the difference between a 200 lb press and a 300 lb press if both athletes look exactly the same. They only know what they see.
I agree with everything you said. However, those douches that come to the gym and spend 45 minutes doing curls still annoy the fuck out of me.