Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I love this guy...

Not like that, but I have been spending all of my free time reading all of the old post on Joe DeFranco's website and let me tell you it is time well spent. I take notes and review them and go in for more. Anyway here is a quote from a post that i was just looking at which i know a lot of kids need to see, now this was directed at a baseball player, but you can substitute any sport in instead.

"Unfortunately, baseball players who are smart enough to strength-train usually get convinced that “functional” training is the best bet for them. When I refer to “functional”, I’m referring to what most of the mainstream personal training community refers to as “functional”. That is, doing every exercise known to mankind balancing on a stability ball or wobble board. This is while using insignificant weights that couldn’t even get an 8-year-old girl stronger. In my opinion, this type of training does little to improve athletic performance."

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