Bodybuilding Exposed: Why It's Not Functional For Real Life

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In this video, Martin Rios looks at bodybuilding at discusses why it is not functional or great for sports. There have been many fitness influencers who are claiming that bodybuilding is functional. Martin Rios explains why the machines and the stable environment bodybuilders use makes it less functional. After watching this video, you will know why bodybuilding is not functional and why you should do athletic bodybuilding instead.

0:00 Intro
0:22 What is functional training?
2:20 Bodybuilding is not functional4:17 Stupid Counter Arguments
9:06 Don’t try and make bodybuilding functional

#bodybuilding #functionaltraining #gym

[wildbandicoot]

You are really helping a lot of people especially beginners. Keep it up Nowadays fitness isnt even about health and being fit.

[ebenezersureshworkaccount]

Glad you included Alex Leniodas's seated overhead press in your video at 3:20 after I recently commented on one of your previous shorts.

[dragonspicer]

who's the guy at 3:13. I haven't came across him in a while and forgot his name

[ASN]

I think it's somewhat "okay" to use just a few machines in your entire workout. People don't get how beneficial free weights are and even if your aiming for "hypertrophy", you can get the same results with functional movements and even get more advantages than a machine.

[nicho.grevstad]

Yo, u should a video about how u would periodize a program for vertical jump

[wiktordanecki]

As a bodybuilder I dont need my training to be functional in real life. I just like getting more muscle mass and it makes me happy👍

[jjustjoshingyou]

this dude changes the goalposts every 2 or 3 months at this point its actually laughable. In his mind, anyone who trains for bodybuilding purposes is just going to become stiff and slow (which might be the reason he’s so small after 6 years of training), when in reality, that is very hard for any natural lifter to do.

bodybuilders also don’t purely restrict themselves to machines. They do barbell rows, squats, bench press, deadlifts and so on. Also, martin takes shots at the leg extension and leg curl whilst doing tricep extensions and bicep curls.

[chribbat]

08:41. No body's gonna talk about how clean the goal was.

[VeganGains]

You never actually gave an explannation of what function in function training means and you only alluded to the idea of sports specificity. Bodybuilding isn't sport specific but the point of bodybuilding/strength training is a general type of training that applies to many different sports. Athletes in MMA for instance do bodybuilding style training like John Jones or Alistair Oveream so that they can be bigger and stronger for a higher weight class. It isn't sports specific but that is a general type of training that they need to do so that they can be better at their sport. If you want to debate/discuss this topic I'd be more than happy to have you on my channel. Message me if you're interested.

[colinmaclaren]

When In started lifting back in highschool, I also got better at disciplines like sprinting or shot-put. Even now, at the age of 41, my rhr is still below 60 despite doing barely any cardio at all. All the strength gained from lifting is very useful in daily activities like carrying stuff like children, furniture, or groceries up to the 4th floor. That's pretty functional for me. Usually you combine a compound exercise that also targets your stabilizers with one or two assistance exercises that isolate the target muscle.

[codywirth]

Wrong, optimal training skillwise for an activity would be PERFORMING THAT ACTIVITY because skill transfer is HIGHLY specific.
We lift weights to get stronger and bigger muscles, the end.
If you try to blend the two together under the guise of "fUnCTionAL TrAiNiNg" you simply end up with a muttled development of both while likely increasing for risk for injury.
For instance:
Awhile ago they tried to give NFL Qbs heavier footballs to throw in practice thinking it'll improve their ball speed with a regular ball in game. The result was they lost speed.
Because
A) Throwing a heavier ball created a different motor pattern
B) The muscles involved werent significantly stimulated
WHILE increasing their risk for injury
Instead you train the muscles involved through basic, high resistance, low skill movements that build general strength then AWAY from that, you practice the exact mechanics of throwing ideally under the circumstances in which you'll be asked to perform them. The weights build the strength and skill developments the power which is an offshoot of strength.

[talkingshounen]

Rate this Push (Chest & Triceps) workout
- Incline Bench Press (4x6)
- Machine Chest Press (4x8)
- Weighted Dips (4x6)
- Tricep Rope Pushdowns (4x8)

[nikolaynikolov]

Martin dared to put Alex Leonidas in his video. Blud lost aura

[QuickPick]

Leg extensions aren’t meant to be functional, they’re for growing your quads mostly

[RSuave]

Foremost, do what you find most fun! What's I find functional is swole privilege. Other men seek validation from me, and women give me attention. Instead of training for a sport. Just play the sport and look good.

[divinity]

4:05 i dont usually say stuff like this, but that has got to be the nerdiest, wimpiest,
and overall lamest way to hit your rear delts that i have ever seen.

Stuff like that is why I hate the idea of science based lifting. When taken to overkill, you take the fun out of training imo.

[halelogsoff]

But most bodybuilders, especially of olden days, use free weights over machines. Machines used in instances to isolate if desired.

[caustic]

5:37 What? That's not even true from what i know. Why else is strength training and hypertrophy training separated and are powerlifting and bodybuilding different? Why is one called strength training and the other called training for hypertrophy if the purpose of hypertrophy is strength according to him?

[Tomedits]

how i look at it (compound movements = more functional) (isolated movements = less functional)

[lspeed]

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