What's up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM
Buzzwords are great.
They make us feel like we're all a part of
a community, speaking the same language.
And when it comes to working out there's definitely
a lot of them.
Today I'm going to cover the 6 biggest fitness
buzzwords and how quick the cool factor can
wear off if we start to misuse them.
So let's get started right away.
We'll go through each one, one by one.
Alright let's start it all off here with one
of my favorite, right off the bat, Functional
Training.
You see as a Physical Therapist sometimes
we get accused of being Functional Trainers.
Well take a look at this clip here.
Is this Functional Training?
So someone said yes.
I'll tell you, yes it is too.
Especially if you're looking to compete in
the Bosu Balls Olympics and win a gold medal.
Where that gold medal is given out to the
person that looks the most like a monkey f***ing
a football.
You see Functional Training is never defined
by the activity that you're doing, it should
be determined by the purpose of that activity
for you.
See if you're a Bodybuilder then doing bodybuilding
workouts is functional for you.
If you're a Powerlifter doing powerlifting
movements is functional for you.
Here at ATHLEANX what's functional for us
is to function like athletes.
So we're going to have to do speed training.
We're going to have to do agility training.
We're going to do classic strength training.
We're going to build our power.
All these things get wrapped up together so
that not only do we look more athletic, but
we can function like one as well.
It will never by about trading in our barbells,
and our benches and our dumbbells for Bosu
Balls and Stability Balls.
Purpose will always dictate your function.
Next up, CNS Burnout.
Look I get it, we love our acronyms here in
fitness.That's what I mean, let me give you
an example.
You see, if you're 1RM ATG Squats from your
W.O.D. are giving you DOMS maybe you should
start doing AMRAP workouts or a little bit
of H.I.I.T.
Cardio,
and then make sure you get enough BCAA'S and
MRP'S to avoid total CNS Burnout.
See what I mean.
Oh yeah you'll hear a lot about CNS Burnout
these days.
If you head to the gym you'll hear pretty
much everyone talking about it, everyone's
suffering from it.
You get 22 minutes on that Cardio instead
of 25, it's because of CNS Burnout, Bro.
If you get maybe 12 reps instead of 15, it's
because that CNS is sizzling and you just
can't get anything else.
Anybody that show up to the gym tired, CNS.
Now we all know, overtraining is a very real
phenomena.
We talk about it many times here on this channel.
And there's real value to the fact that people
who train, following programs that don't vary
your volumes in a systematic way, will eventually
lead to overtraining.
Especially if you're not sleeping properly
and eating right.
But, blaming everything on CNS Burnout as
a convenient excuse to not workout hard, is
not the right answer.
So ease up a little bit on this and push a
little bit more in the gym.
You're likely going to be able to push right
through that normal fatigue that we all feel
from time to time.
Next up, another favorite of mine as a Physical
Therapist is Mobility.
See these days Physical Therapists are of
course the Mobility specialists and everybody
know that they need Mobility Drills, or do
they?
You see, a mobile joint is always going to
be sandwiched between two stable joints.
In the case of your hips, that's a more mobile
joint that people like to address through
mobility drills.
But your low back better be stable and your
knee below better be stable in order to support
the mobility that's going on in the middle.
People get carried away.
Everything becomes more mobile.
They're working on mobility drills for their
fingers, their wrist, their elbows, their
shoulders, their scapula, it's not the case.
You don't need mobility everywhere and even
in the cases where some joints are supposed
to be mobile, people will be hypermobile already.
In that case, they don't need mobility drills.
So it's not a one size fits all solution.
You can look at an Ass to Grass Squat, people
think that, that is a great symbol of mobility.
But if you're getting there by sacrificing
mobility in a joint that's supposed to be
stable and you're not getting it through a
joint that supposed to be mobile,
then that's just one bad squat!
Guys, let's start using this buzzword right
or we're going to start hurting ourselves
pretty bad in the gyms.
Mobility is needed for some and it's certainly
not needed for all.
And especially not needed for all joints and
everybody.
Next up number 4, another one of my favorites,
Clean Eating.
Look, if you have to tell people that you
eat clean, you don't.
See people that eat clean don't say that,
they just eat right.
And they eat the way they eat.
And if you Eat Clean then that means there's
times when you don't Eat Clean.
It's like I say all the time, if you're on
a diet eventually you're going to be off a
diet.
So we have to start trading in the use of
clean eating for the way we eat with a lifestyle
plan and a lifestyle approach to eating.
Eat healthily all year round and you won't
be eating clean or dieting at any point in
your year.
You'll be eating right all 365 days out of
the year.
Next up, one that's became pretty popular
of late your W.O.D, your Workout Of the Day.
You see, I don't know at what point working
out became Pot Luck Dinner.
But for me, the next workout for me is the
next workout in my program.
The Workout Of the Day implies that today
this is what I'm doing.
Not any relevance to what I did yesterday,
no relevance to what I do tomorrow.
And if that is your approach to working out,
then you're just exercising.
You see, if you go at your workouts with a
plan that systematically builds on what you
did yesterday
and sets you up to become better at what you're
going to do tomorrow, then that's training.
I think it's time that we start doing a little
bit more training and a little bit less of
these W.O.D.'s
and you'll be a lot further on down that path
of what you want to be and look like and function
like by doing so.
Last but not least and one of the ones that's
been bothering me now for years, it's Core
Training.
You see guys all the time walking around the
gym saying, hold on, I've got to do a little
bit of core training, I've got to get a little
bit of core workout.
Before I leave let's do a couple core exercises
and they always point right here to their
Abs.
What does that mean?
Does it mean that it's just right here in
your Abs, a lot of people think that.
That's not the case guys, if you realize that
all those muscles that we focus on,
the rectus abdominis, and our obliques and
all the other muscles that actually have attachments
to our pelvis and back through our spine.
We realize that the core is about much more
than just your Abs.
Matter of fact, even movement in our peripheral
joints, like our arms and our legs can start
influencing our core.
If you're going to start pointing to your
core, you better start learning to point all
over your body because your core can be influenced
by every single move you do.
And here at ATHLEANX, I always say, we put
the core back at the core of every exercise.
Everything we do, every way we train you in
all of our workouts, there's a heavy involvement
of core
because we realize that the core is going
to basically involve all of your muscles in
your body, especially if you train athletically.
In the meantime, if you're looking for a training
program that teaches you not just the buzzwords
but how to use them and how to use them the
right way,
then head to ATHLEANX.COM, ASAP, and get the
ATHLEANX Training System.
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