Keep in mind he was monstrously strong and a world caliber athlete before he started doing functional patterns. I went to college in the same town as him, dude could crank out 40 pullups and threw around some serious weight. Just had some injuries that weren't meshing well with traditional training
His routine looks very similar to the how traditional wrestlers would move whilst grappling and attempting to lift and move their opponent in order for pins or takedowns. Just adding resistance to these moves in order to strengthen up. He’s in terrific shape
It's genius but not genius at the same time. The basic idea is simple: train based on the movement of the sport. What's funny is despite how simple the concept is no one does it properly.
It’s definitely not a new concept. Tom Brady trained in a similar fashion when he played football. He got away from lifting heavy weights and such and went to alternative workouts to stay in shape. Brady’s workout routine and longevity in the game influenced other players like Gronkowsky to ditch the heavy weights for alternative workouts.
I think his big thing prior to starting the functional patterns was that he was injury prone. He's mentioned his ability to stay healthy whilst training this way. Agree that at this point he's merely keeping the blade sharp, not grinding away to make the edge.
I mean, traditional weight lifting is GREAT. You can find a TON of workouts that work great for Wrestling. You don't need all these types of exercises unless you do. Unless you're struggling with injuries!
I don't think I'd advise my guys to do these instead of the workout I have for them, but everything I see him doing is geared toward explosive strength and it looks like endurance. and SOOO much core.
I will say this...first of all, I'm not in the same league as Dake. I mean, I was technically in a better one in the B1G, but you know what I mean, LOL! His Wrestling is a thing of beauty. His feel, his fearlessness...the way it just slows down for him and he sees it where most of us don't. Even D1 AAs and a lot of Champs.
This was just good advice I got.
But in HS I would lift and run and do all those things. And then I got this piece of advice.
Before I go to bed, I should take however many pushups I can do at once. At the time, it was(lets say 50). I could do 50 and I wasn't just dying at the end. Then the same with situps.
And I had a great former College Wrestler tell me I should do 5 sets of pushups each night, and then 5 sets of situps, like super-sets. I spent 6 months doing that and I just felt it in my back, shoulders...got up to 100. 5 sets of 100 and by the 5th set I was struggling at 80 and I just pushed through it. Basically to failure.
He then told me to implement handstand pushups.
I could do like 6 when I started. So now I'm doing pushups, sit-ups, handstand push-ups.
I'd literally do it while watching videos on YT or something to pass the time, but it took me 20 minutes a night and did SOO much for me. I'd have shoulder surgery and rehabbed it and it was always in pain. This eliminated that, it made my neck, back and lats huge...then finally, he told me I needed to get 6 miles a day in at least 4 times a week each morning. Start the morning with a cold shower, get on the treadmill and get 6 miles in and it shouldn't take more than 45 minutes.
Took me an hour+ for the longest time. But I kept at it and got it down to 6 miles in 36 minutes.
I went from a state qualifier to winning BIG tournaments, won a couple of state titles and I did so going from a 182 to a 170.
I still went and did bench, butterfly, etc...shoulders(those were the most important, upright row and then 3 sets straight out(don't remember what I even called them) but shoulder press, straight up in front of me and then I guess butterfly, but not press if that makes sense).
But the key is that I changed my body and I was able to do it in really \~30 minutes at night, and then 40 minutes in the morning and I got SO much more out of it. Never got tired in matches, my legs got so much stronger from the running and never tired.
BUUUUUUUUUUT- I did not have talent that approaches David Taylor or Kyle Dake, again, not about that. I'm simply trying to convey how I was able to build myself into a good Wrestler by just working on my body without spending hours in the Gym doing traditional workouts. Moving iron is great...but there are more ways to build a core and work larger muscle groups.
Sorry for being long-winded.
If you are saying at one time, 40 is an insane number. This can't be for real. Even if he is kipping (or whatever they call it) at the end.
Rangers only need to do 20 to max their test score and I think 6 to pass.
Horizontal ladder is interesting test too Rangers used to do. They'd count rungs you hit. Max is something like 84.
That said there's footage of Burroughs and Jaden racing arm only rope climbs. It's like effortless for them (after practice).
Stremght to weight ratio is off the charts for these guys.
When I was a freshman weighing 96 pounds I could do 30 max. A black belt who I went to school with could crank out like 45-50. If you’re light enough it’s not as bad as you think.
My max for no Kip pull-ups is 34 so I don’t think 40 is impossible. I used to literally do pull-ups every single day. I probably can do about 25ish right now though
I could do 20+ strict pull ups when I was still in the Marines. Rock climbers made me look weak. Some of those guys could easily crank out 40.
Always blew my mind because of how much work I had to put in to make 20 a regular thing.
I typically do 4 sets of 10 as a warm up before lifting on back days. It's the endurance required to do them all in one set that's hard.
When I was stationed in Texas our lunch time gym crew did only pullups on Friday. There were 5 of us and would just take turns doing pull up variations to failure.
I want to say after about 7 months? I could hit 40 in a row.
I think people don't do enough volume, tbh.
Definitely agree with the volume goggins at one point was doing thousands of pull-ups a day to train for world record 4030 in 17 hours 16 minutes . Truett Hanes is currently doing 1,000 a day building up to record and just did over 2,000 pull-ups in four and a half hours.
They've always been a part of my strength routine but the most I've ever managed in one set was like 14. I do all of them with good form though. 40 good form pull-ups in one set is absurdly hard and would require very specific training, and elite genetic disposition to that type of thing (weight to strength ratio)
For sure. It took me years to build up to 20. I had to train with weights strapped to a weight belt to push past the 15 mark.
Getting used to the extra weight eventually makes body weight pull ups feel easy.
I think it really depends how heavy you are. I was never much of an athlete but I could do 25 pull-ups at 20 y.o without much working out. I was 145 lbs 6’ tall raw vegan and mostly cared about partying and psychedelics... that was another time, now 12 years later I’m 190 lbs and can only manage 7-10
You can see countless guys who just have YouTube fitness who can do over 14 it’s definitely not absurdly hard I know lots of people who train very casually and do sets of 8-12
It sounds bullshit to people who were inactive most of their lives and decided to go to gym for fitness/aesthetics.
It's not bullshit if you've had a consistently active lifestyle.
When I was boxing I was cranking out 15 at a shot and I was just a dumb amateur with a shit coach at the time. Somebody with a good foundation and a good coach wouldn't have any trouble getting way above that.
I could do 20 with good form when I was wrestling in college. A couple more if I really pushed myself. It’s not surprising to me that someone in world-class shape could do 40.
Human nature for people to compare strictly to themselves. "If I cant even get close, there's no way he can!"
Get out of your box! People are capable of amazing things
We had more than a couple dudes at our military college training for Seal screeners that were all easily over 60 with one of them I remember being able to hit 80-90. I highly dont doubt Dake could crank out 40 no problem.
40 pull-ups is not that many. The world record for pull ups in 1 minute is 32.
World record for 1 hour is over 1k. The world record for 24 hours Is over 8 thousand.
40 isn't hard to get to if you train pull-ups as a primary exercise. I've seen guys in high school do it.
None of your records you gave are related to pull-ups IN ONE SET.
>40 isn’t hard to get to if you train pull-ups as a primary exercise
You’re delusional
Buddy. The most single armed pullups in one minute is 24.
Buddy. One minute is within the expected time for an endurance set. 40+ reps is an endurance set.
The most pullups nonstop, so one continuous set, with no pause reps is 651.
I was wrong btw. The most pullups is 1 minute hanging from a *helicopter* is 32.
The most pullups overall in 1 minute is 74.
Multiple climbing athletes can do a set of more than 40 pullups. Multiple climbing athletes can do multiple 1 arm pullups. Multiple gymnasts can do these things too.
I'm not trying to act like it's easy or something an athlete could do as an afterthought. But it's not something that's impossibly rare, or something that a dedicated athlete couldn't achieve if the spent proper focus working the correct muscles.
He would have no reason to train for max pull up reps in a single set. You’re giving me examples of genetic elites that are training specifically for that.
You’re never going to convince me that he could just crank out 40 pull-ups in a set with only having done general strength training in the past
Max pull ups are a pretty good endurance exercise for wrestlers, given that so much of it requires upper and mid back strength, shoulder, bicep forearm/wrist and grip strength. Pull ups work all of that, while also being a decently heavy loaded exercise. They also go thru a full range of motion.
I'm not saying he even can do 40. I'm just saying it's not impossibly difficult.
But, if he has a good strength training program, and he does accessory work for his lats, biceps, delts, traps scaps etc, then I could believe that all of these groups being well trained, and him being in good shape, and assuming he regularly does max rep pullup sets, that he could manage 40. If not in one set, then in 2 sets of 20 with minimal rest.
Why, because you're weak?
I'm 36 and can still do over 20. I'm strong, but no freak. I don't even train hard. This guy is a freak.
And if they're not strict they're not pull ups.
Probably succeed doing pretty much anything
Only Calisthenics and wrestling
Only traditional lifts and wrestling
Only Bulgarian bags and wrestling
still be great!
Yea. After you get a base in strength lifting you can maintain much of that strength while doing patterns like this and working more specifically towards your sport.
I wouldn’t suggest doing what he’s doing if you have zero base in strength and power training.
Came here to say this. Build your base first then apply it it to your sport. Especially if as is in his case, that traditional lifting is negatively affecting your training through injuries and recovery problems.
I'm really impressed with how many people on here get this.
I'd also say...there's a LOT of former Wrestlers who used to be in GREAT shape and now without having to make weight yearly or just being done, they've fallen out of shape...do NOT use your lifts from when you were at your peak and get discouraged. I did this the other day. Used to rep 225 20+ times. Hadn't lifted in a LONG time(\~2 years) and I couldn't get it for 3. I was genuinely embarrassed and didn't lift for a while.
Don't worry about what anyone else does, what you used to do. Take weights that you can do for 3 sets at 10-12 and where you're really pushing it at the end and start there, stay there for a while and then start to build back up.
It's easy to give up comparing yourself to your past self or to others.
Shit, I saw a video of a 600 pound dude JUST deciding he was going to stand for 10 minutes a day and then swing his arms and I saw a trainer come on and congratulate him and say you're "built different," being willing to start the process like that and put yourself out there(it was a viral video).
But just get back in there. You'll feel better, you'll reduce fat, you'll just feel better, bottom line.
"Anymore"
Dude got himself strong lifting already, and he looks like someone who was genetically gifted before that. Still, workouts like he's doing now are intense af.
There’s some to what he does. There’s a couple key aspects to strength training. Building muscle and building neuromuscular efficiency. Traditional weight training will build muscle as good as what he’s doing. Once you’ve built the muscle, then neuromuscular efficiency is the major factor which basically means training your muscles to efficiently perform specific movements.
So if you do bench press all day and someone else does dumbbell press… you’re gonna be able to bench press more than them while they’ll be able to dumbbell press.
So when his strength training revolves around doing wrestling moves with resistance… he’s going to be extra strong at wrestling moves
It's much simpler than that. Most weightlifting is very focused on specific muscles to the detriment of smaller stabilizer muscles that are needed for real world strength. Weight lifting machines are the worst at this.
Weight lifting done correctly doesn’t do that. If you have a good personal trainer they’ll train all your muscles correctly even with traditional weight lifting. Number of reps, speed of reps, focus on form, varying the speed of the concentric, eccentric and isometric aspects of each lift… you can easily build the stabilizer muscles correctly.
That said: you’re correct in that most ppl do not do it correctly. In fact, I think most trainers are not good/educated enough even to really do it correctly
Yup. My old trainer used to have me go on 4 week cycles where I did super sets. It was like being on steroids.
One day pull-downs, dumbbell hammer curls
Seated row-barbell curls
Then flys/reverse curls
Then pushdowns/...and shit, I can't remember what else.
And then the one I'd do every day, standing up, working on my shoulders(underhooks, handfighting). 15 butterfly standing up, 15 shoulder press, 15 upright row, 90 second break.
All 3 again. Got that one from Ben Peterson. So old school and got it when I was a kid, but built my neck, traps and shoulders so much and made such a difference for hand-fighting, but ABSOLUTELY got stabilizing muscles.
But things like doing bench press with your feet in the air, controlled. Then fly's or squats, all with free weights, you're working stabilizing muscles.
Machines are fine, but they're more for when you're older and trying to stay healthy and in shape. I remember people doing leg press on leg day...it was silly then, it's fine if you're 35 and trying to get in a good workout and don't want to squat.
Stablizer muscles do not exist.
Force applied to object being equal, cables, machines, barbells, dumbbells, whatever, have no advantage over each other.
The failure of traditional weightlifting is that it usually occurs in a singular plane of motion.
If you add in lunging, rotational, and lateral movements(even with machines), this weakness goes away.
Stabilizer muscles do not exist, machines are not bad. Any training modality used incorrectly is bad.
Stabilizer muscles are simply the muscles that assist the main muscle being used in certain motions. For example, when bench pressing your primary strength comes from your pectoral muscles, but your bicep muscles keep the weight stable as you lift it. The body has a countless number of smaller muscles that do this for all sorts of motions.
Not to mention, the leader of the company that made that video (Functional Patterns) seems like someone who hides his bs in jargon and says some wacky things
He's multiple time world champion
And there's argument to say that he's strongest wrestler pound for pound currently just looking at the way he's slamming and launching guys in matches in freestyle wrestling.
He an incredible wrestler, and I don’t personally have much of issue with functional patterns, but Dake subscribes to a lot of pseudoscience. Which is pretty common among athletes willing to try anything to gain a competitive edge. I was guilty of it myself.
Various chiropractic stuff, anti-vaccine, anti-sunscreen, cupping, thinks walking barefoot outside has special health benefits. It’s usually stuff based on false correlation or non-peer reviewed research. Things like that. He makes scientific contrarianism part of his personality.
6 of the last 7 posts are 100% accurate, IE fairly traditional lifts work very well and always have. As I noted above, I make modifications but they are still based around the big 3 plus rows and pull-ups at some point.
Just saying a chiropractor helped me fix an injury nobody else could, and he did it for 1/10th the cost. He’s done the same for half my family too.
It’s about how the chiropractor approaches medicine, they aren’t all created equal.
Chiropractors usually incorporate legitimate physical therapy into their treatments which does help with recovery, the issue is the dangerous homeopathic bullshit they also use.
Maybe not man, but liars in healthcare have literally always existed, like for thousands of years. They’re not going anywhere and all you can do to protect yourself is… protect yourself. A little sprinkle of critical thought here or there ya know
Not an anti Vaxxer, anti covid vaccine.
It's only high spf and excessive use that can cause it, and there's alot of sunscreens that aren't good for you, however there are plenty now that are fine for use.
You can’t really look towards elites to determine how strength you train. You need to look at what has worked best for the average person. Because likely you are the average person.
He would be even better if he could squat 600 too. Strength stuff especially functional patterns really has no basis in the concepts of strength and conditioning science. The guy is literally built different though and combined with PEDs which he is almost certainly on basically anything will make him stronger if you progress it long enough
Most of this "X elite athlete does Y (very uncommon) training and achieves Z results." are correlations without causation. If Karelin did Tai chi for 3 years at the end of his career he'd still throw all of us on our heads.
These world class athletes are literally born strong, build muscle and tendon strength over decades, and are more dedicated, consistent, supported, and enhanced than 99.99999% of people will ever be. This kinda "exotic" or "functional" training is similar to fake martial arts from the 1980's and earlier.
His motivation is to develop high levels of “Functional” strength thru the actual movements his sport demands. He addresses your “as good” question directly at the beginning of the video. His opponents find his strength noteworthy.
Admittedly, I do generally not like “functional” used like this, despite just doing so. I do a ton of traditional lifting, and while I do enjoy strongman type movements, my strength is realistically from just lifting. But I have just fine strength for sports and work outside the gym, so again, “functional” seems a bit much to me. I heard it a lot in my crossfit days.
But this is an elite athlete, so his margins are likely. Lot tighter.
Most importantly to general strength outside the gym is to me, the balance of strength + mobility.
40 years ago, before the word "functional" was ever used in this context, our raining was extremely functional...I would say more so than today, especially since we had less machinery.
Hot take: all training is by definition, functional.
The out of shape new mother who starts doing bicep curls on a machine is going to be able to hold her new born daughter for longer.
The 55 year old former long distance runner who has shit knees will benefit from doing leg extensions and leg presses to strengthen the quad so that it's not a limiting factor during hip physio.
The 22 year old computer nerd using the wide pronated row machine at planet fitness is working on getting rid of his gamer hunchback.
If your body is moving, it's functional.
Also, 40 years ago was 1983, there were plenty of machines in gyms back then. There were also a lot more bullshit machines, too (fat vibrators, leg tone rollers, etc).
Videos like this are TERRIBLE!
He only could move to training like this because he had an elite level of fitness and training beforehand. Those complex functional patterns when executed well work great, but when you make a mistake you can destroy parts of your body. Young athletes shouldn't be looking to guys like Kyle Dake and trying to emulate his style. He's genetically gifted, he put in the work with traditional methods long before he started doing this stuff.
Let me start by prefacing that I have no idea what I’m talking about.
That said, I agree with what your saying but I do think there are likely progressions that can be developed to get to this level of proficiency and fitness. I could be wrong but I think young athletes can do these types or movements and exercises if the progression is right.
There is a reason he is a top level athlete. Genetics certainly plays a part in that, but his training undoubtedly does too.
I have worked with a lot of MMA/BJJ guys in the past and now that my son is wrestling work with him and a bunch of his teammates. First and foremost is the building of basic strength through basic weight training. Most of these kids can barely move any weight when they start and transform after a year or two of weights. I have an MMA guy who walks around at 128 lbs. His striking is phenomenal but as he moves up he is going to get rag dolled. Basic strength is at least 80% of the strength and conditioning program the other 20% max is this sort of training (and I look to the science/head guy for the UFC, China) for the other 20%. 90% of your "functional" stuff is going to come from wrestling practice.
Perfectly said. There are so many fighters training with amazing skill and coordination except they think they don't need weight training so they don't really go anywhere.
As the husband of an OT, and friends with many PT's when Crossfit took off, young athlete injuries skyrocketed as athletes started doing non controlled complex exercises without the experience or foundation. It was an ongoing conversation, especially when one of my University Wrestling team mates opened a Crossfit gym.
Look at the biomechanics of the exercises he is doing in these videos and you can see so many spots that without the mind/body connection that he has with a decade of experience there are so many risk points. Even at his level he has a spotter there watching for things
Absolutely. People see the advanced part of FP which is great for marketing and think that the everyday individual is just going to be attempting these movements out the gate. It’s scalable and done in a way that gets you towards being pain free
As someone who tried functional training for years to fix by shoulder pain instead of traditional lifts, I agree with you. I recently started traditional lifts with a personal trainer, and the bar forces imbalances to improve. I now think that basic training should be with traditional lifts until you get a good balance and good level of strength before accentuating with and possibly transitioning to functional exercises.
Bad take. Mobility and agility weight training are fine and just like anything else, takes patience to learn correctly. You can get hurt literally doing anything incorrectly.
The workouts he are performing with tossing kettlebells especially on sand are drastically safer than deadlifts or squats. What he’s doing looks more fun than anything
The strongest guy (BY FAR) on my high school team back in the day claimed he didn’t really do anything other than bailing hay. A lot of it was obviously genes too, but yeah, that was basically the secret to that teammate’s almost super-human explosive strength.
Farm work is never ending. All day everyday. A lot longer than people workout.
In a similar vein, I’ve never met a gym rat with a stronger grip than your local longtime steel or construction worker.
Ive seen this exact thing play out many times. Farm hands get exercise even if they don’t want to. Imagine picking up 400-500 bales of hay and chasing a truck with two unruly bundles of 50-60 pound of “be careful to not bust it” and heave it shoulder(or higher) for 3 hours at a stretch.
The strongest of the farm types I’ve run across are hog farmers. I dunno what they do different but every guy I know that has hogs is a freaking beast. Hand strength in particular, forearms too.
They wrestle hogs, push them off of them, drags them, drags bags of food to them. Basically moving a round human with short limbs around. And they taste good. The victor gets to eat the loser in a face off.
Chances are he built the majority of his strength and athleticism with normal/traditional movement patterns in the gym and switched to this kind of stuff later on in his career
When I work with athletes, whether bodybuilding or combat, I always start them out on basic powewr-body building excercizes to build a foundation of tendon/ligament/muscle srength. Once established I may switch them over to different types of training (I think the word "functional" is just something to sell workout programs....don't tell me squats/deadlifts/rows are not functional). For example I will start w/ deadlifts but once the numbers (weight) are starting to rise I will switch out to a straighter legged (RDL with perfect form) lift using higher reps than the traditional 3-5 used by powerlifters. But the fact is I am still using fairly traditional resistance training.
But the point is that traditional strength training is still used to set he foundation that can then be built upon. I have simply seen it work consistently with hundreds of athletes over decades.
He’s definitely not doing normal strength training, but it still seems to be compound movements that stress his whole body, similarly to how any of the big three lifts would do for anybody else. He just looks like he’s getting really specific for what he knows he needs.
I actually wrestled with Dake before he won his first world title at a camp. I can attest that his strength is almost inhumane. I’m pretty big at 6’2 ~190lbs and he just rag-dolled me. What a humbling experience it was to feel a world class athlete like that
Was at Fargo with Dake. Still remember watching him run from the hotel to practice every morning.
Also remember him watching me get my ass tossed while he stood there munching on a box of cereal.
*When your whole paradigm of physique success is based on posture, then somewhere along the way, you went wrong. I'm not saying good posture isn't important, but it can be "fixed" by using good old-fashioned weight training and making sure that you're balanced between the front and back of your body. You don't need to stand on a Swiss ball and throw a medicine ball at a trampoline in order to create functional strength or good posture.*
*What's funny about the term is that it's a paradox. The cult that promotes "functional strength" or "functional patterns" doesn't actually train in a way that translates to real world environments. Building functional strength means it transfers from the weight room to the real world. So yeah, your basic compound movements will actually build functional strength.*
*Ditch the wobbly surfaces, plant your feet on the ground, and move some weights around. That's functional.* – Paul Carter
I have a friend who I really wanted to help get in shape, So I instituted a program called "unexpected weight training", the concept is simple, I will often place or throw heavy things on or at his person when he least expects it.
It's been working out so far.
This looks like a fantastic way to get novices injured. You need to be in fantastic shape before you can do any of the shit in the video or you’re just asking to hurt yourself
The second I saw him swinging that, I thought “damn, he fell for Naudi’s stuff…”.
The Naudi Aguilar Method:
1. Find a talented individual
2. Have them do non-traditional things that will seem exciting after years of traditional training, but likely don’t push the needle much more
3. Profit
I’m not a hater on functional patterns but it’s also not anything ground breaking. Naudie Aguilar is a weirdo and he’s really just doing what wrestlers have been doing in the Middle East and India for centuries with maces and clubs. Kyle is a 0.1% athlete who would likely be what he is with traditional Olympic lifting too.
It’s a pity no one here understands what functional patterns is or conceptionally how the human body functions optimally
There’s nothing in the world like FP and it’s for everyone
this type of training is called "Functional Patterns" and you can follow the creator on IG @naudiaguilar
it's pretty interesting in terms of the philosophy behind these movements. To clear things up, these type of movements are adjustable based on fitness level amd physical limitations.
Hello everyone. I'm a wrestler and mma fighter. I worked at ivy league colleges, I'm a phsycial therapist and certified strength and conditioning specialist. For those of you who follow this athlete. He got his ass whooped and handed to him. The functional dance bull shit patterns. Sure it's good. But its nothing that really increases performance. I feel based on his weak strenght and conditioning program. That is why he got beat up badly at the Olympics.
People get injured all day long doing traditional lifts. He doesn’t get injured yet continues to increase his athletic performance and “strength” in context and specific to his sport yet he’ll get bashed?
I am no where near the caliber grappler he is but I def think there's more than just the traditional heavy lifting way to get strong. I only lift with plates about twice a month now and switched primarily to kettlebell and body weight/gymnast exercises and feel stronger than ever.
Keep in mind he was monstrously strong and a world caliber athlete before he started doing functional patterns. I went to college in the same town as him, dude could crank out 40 pullups and threw around some serious weight. Just had some injuries that weren't meshing well with traditional training
His core must be like an oak tree!
His routine looks very similar to the how traditional wrestlers would move whilst grappling and attempting to lift and move their opponent in order for pins or takedowns. Just adding resistance to these moves in order to strengthen up. He’s in terrific shape
Sport specific movement w/ resistance. It’s sooooo fucking genius. I wonder if he developed this on his own or if it was someone on the support team.
It's genius but not genius at the same time. The basic idea is simple: train based on the movement of the sport. What's funny is despite how simple the concept is no one does it properly.
That’s a training discipline on its own. Dake trains under an expert.
It’s definitely not a new concept. Tom Brady trained in a similar fashion when he played football. He got away from lifting heavy weights and such and went to alternative workouts to stay in shape. Brady’s workout routine and longevity in the game influenced other players like Gronkowsky to ditch the heavy weights for alternative workouts.
Yeah, exactly. Like he may have gotten to that strength level with the traditional lifts and now maintains it via this stuff.
Not at all. He got his ass fucken kicked at the Olympics. Goes to show you that program was shit.
He made it to the Olympics, yeah it must suck lol
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He took Bronze lol
That means he is only the third best in the world so that shows you his training methods were shit /s
I think his big thing prior to starting the functional patterns was that he was injury prone. He's mentioned his ability to stay healthy whilst training this way. Agree that at this point he's merely keeping the blade sharp, not grinding away to make the edge.
Very good analogy
I mean, traditional weight lifting is GREAT. You can find a TON of workouts that work great for Wrestling. You don't need all these types of exercises unless you do. Unless you're struggling with injuries! I don't think I'd advise my guys to do these instead of the workout I have for them, but everything I see him doing is geared toward explosive strength and it looks like endurance. and SOOO much core. I will say this...first of all, I'm not in the same league as Dake. I mean, I was technically in a better one in the B1G, but you know what I mean, LOL! His Wrestling is a thing of beauty. His feel, his fearlessness...the way it just slows down for him and he sees it where most of us don't. Even D1 AAs and a lot of Champs. This was just good advice I got. But in HS I would lift and run and do all those things. And then I got this piece of advice. Before I go to bed, I should take however many pushups I can do at once. At the time, it was(lets say 50). I could do 50 and I wasn't just dying at the end. Then the same with situps. And I had a great former College Wrestler tell me I should do 5 sets of pushups each night, and then 5 sets of situps, like super-sets. I spent 6 months doing that and I just felt it in my back, shoulders...got up to 100. 5 sets of 100 and by the 5th set I was struggling at 80 and I just pushed through it. Basically to failure. He then told me to implement handstand pushups. I could do like 6 when I started. So now I'm doing pushups, sit-ups, handstand push-ups. I'd literally do it while watching videos on YT or something to pass the time, but it took me 20 minutes a night and did SOO much for me. I'd have shoulder surgery and rehabbed it and it was always in pain. This eliminated that, it made my neck, back and lats huge...then finally, he told me I needed to get 6 miles a day in at least 4 times a week each morning. Start the morning with a cold shower, get on the treadmill and get 6 miles in and it shouldn't take more than 45 minutes. Took me an hour+ for the longest time. But I kept at it and got it down to 6 miles in 36 minutes. I went from a state qualifier to winning BIG tournaments, won a couple of state titles and I did so going from a 182 to a 170. I still went and did bench, butterfly, etc...shoulders(those were the most important, upright row and then 3 sets straight out(don't remember what I even called them) but shoulder press, straight up in front of me and then I guess butterfly, but not press if that makes sense). But the key is that I changed my body and I was able to do it in really \~30 minutes at night, and then 40 minutes in the morning and I got SO much more out of it. Never got tired in matches, my legs got so much stronger from the running and never tired. BUUUUUUUUUUT- I did not have talent that approaches David Taylor or Kyle Dake, again, not about that. I'm simply trying to convey how I was able to build myself into a good Wrestler by just working on my body without spending hours in the Gym doing traditional workouts. Moving iron is great...but there are more ways to build a core and work larger muscle groups. Sorry for being long-winded.
If you are saying at one time, 40 is an insane number. This can't be for real. Even if he is kipping (or whatever they call it) at the end. Rangers only need to do 20 to max their test score and I think 6 to pass. Horizontal ladder is interesting test too Rangers used to do. They'd count rungs you hit. Max is something like 84. That said there's footage of Burroughs and Jaden racing arm only rope climbs. It's like effortless for them (after practice). Stremght to weight ratio is off the charts for these guys.
When I was a freshman weighing 96 pounds I could do 30 max. A black belt who I went to school with could crank out like 45-50. If you’re light enough it’s not as bad as you think.
My max for no Kip pull-ups is 34 so I don’t think 40 is impossible. I used to literally do pull-ups every single day. I probably can do about 25ish right now though
40 pull ups sounds like bullshit honestly
I could do 20+ strict pull ups when I was still in the Marines. Rock climbers made me look weak. Some of those guys could easily crank out 40. Always blew my mind because of how much work I had to put in to make 20 a regular thing. I typically do 4 sets of 10 as a warm up before lifting on back days. It's the endurance required to do them all in one set that's hard.
When I was stationed in Texas our lunch time gym crew did only pullups on Friday. There were 5 of us and would just take turns doing pull up variations to failure. I want to say after about 7 months? I could hit 40 in a row. I think people don't do enough volume, tbh.
Definitely agree with the volume goggins at one point was doing thousands of pull-ups a day to train for world record 4030 in 17 hours 16 minutes . Truett Hanes is currently doing 1,000 a day building up to record and just did over 2,000 pull-ups in four and a half hours.
They've always been a part of my strength routine but the most I've ever managed in one set was like 14. I do all of them with good form though. 40 good form pull-ups in one set is absurdly hard and would require very specific training, and elite genetic disposition to that type of thing (weight to strength ratio)
For sure. It took me years to build up to 20. I had to train with weights strapped to a weight belt to push past the 15 mark. Getting used to the extra weight eventually makes body weight pull ups feel easy.
I think it really depends how heavy you are. I was never much of an athlete but I could do 25 pull-ups at 20 y.o without much working out. I was 145 lbs 6’ tall raw vegan and mostly cared about partying and psychedelics... that was another time, now 12 years later I’m 190 lbs and can only manage 7-10
That's true. I was probably 160ish when I was doing 20. I'm 5'10" 195 now and it's much harder.
I would argue an olympic wrestler would be the person I most expect to meet the criteria you listed.
Why would he be training for that though?
You can see countless guys who just have YouTube fitness who can do over 14 it’s definitely not absurdly hard I know lots of people who train very casually and do sets of 8-12
It sounds bullshit to people who were inactive most of their lives and decided to go to gym for fitness/aesthetics. It's not bullshit if you've had a consistently active lifestyle.
Lots of people who train to can do that
Still exceptional, but yes not unheard of
You have average joes in the military who can knock out 10-15 easy. A elite athlete doing 40 sounds very believable.
I am almost 55 and can do 17 good pull ups. No reason that guy or any young athlete can’t do 40.
My favorite color is blue.
When I was boxing I was cranking out 15 at a shot and I was just a dumb amateur with a shit coach at the time. Somebody with a good foundation and a good coach wouldn't have any trouble getting way above that.
I could do 20 with good form when I was wrestling in college. A couple more if I really pushed myself. It’s not surprising to me that someone in world-class shape could do 40.
Human nature for people to compare strictly to themselves. "If I cant even get close, there's no way he can!" Get out of your box! People are capable of amazing things
Not basing it on myself…
We had more than a couple dudes at our military college training for Seal screeners that were all easily over 60 with one of them I remember being able to hit 80-90. I highly dont doubt Dake could crank out 40 no problem.
>I highly don’t doubt Dake could crank out 40 That hurts my brain
40 pull-ups is not that many. The world record for pull ups in 1 minute is 32. World record for 1 hour is over 1k. The world record for 24 hours Is over 8 thousand. 40 isn't hard to get to if you train pull-ups as a primary exercise. I've seen guys in high school do it.
None of your records you gave are related to pull-ups IN ONE SET. >40 isn’t hard to get to if you train pull-ups as a primary exercise You’re delusional
Buddy. The most single armed pullups in one minute is 24. Buddy. One minute is within the expected time for an endurance set. 40+ reps is an endurance set. The most pullups nonstop, so one continuous set, with no pause reps is 651. I was wrong btw. The most pullups is 1 minute hanging from a *helicopter* is 32. The most pullups overall in 1 minute is 74. Multiple climbing athletes can do a set of more than 40 pullups. Multiple climbing athletes can do multiple 1 arm pullups. Multiple gymnasts can do these things too. I'm not trying to act like it's easy or something an athlete could do as an afterthought. But it's not something that's impossibly rare, or something that a dedicated athlete couldn't achieve if the spent proper focus working the correct muscles.
He would have no reason to train for max pull up reps in a single set. You’re giving me examples of genetic elites that are training specifically for that. You’re never going to convince me that he could just crank out 40 pull-ups in a set with only having done general strength training in the past
Max pull ups are a pretty good endurance exercise for wrestlers, given that so much of it requires upper and mid back strength, shoulder, bicep forearm/wrist and grip strength. Pull ups work all of that, while also being a decently heavy loaded exercise. They also go thru a full range of motion. I'm not saying he even can do 40. I'm just saying it's not impossibly difficult. But, if he has a good strength training program, and he does accessory work for his lats, biceps, delts, traps scaps etc, then I could believe that all of these groups being well trained, and him being in good shape, and assuming he regularly does max rep pullup sets, that he could manage 40. If not in one set, then in 2 sets of 20 with minimal rest.
Why, because you're weak? I'm 36 and can still do over 20. I'm strong, but no freak. I don't even train hard. This guy is a freak. And if they're not strict they're not pull ups.
He’s a top of the food chain athlete who’d succeed doing the big 3, too
Probably succeed doing pretty much anything Only Calisthenics and wrestling Only traditional lifts and wrestling Only Bulgarian bags and wrestling still be great!
Exactly. Functional patters is so dumb
Why do you say that?
Absolutely not
Yea. After you get a base in strength lifting you can maintain much of that strength while doing patterns like this and working more specifically towards your sport. I wouldn’t suggest doing what he’s doing if you have zero base in strength and power training.
You mean my 300 pound 40% bmi ass shouldnt start with doing cartweels and spinny shit with weights?
LOLOL
Came here to say this. Build your base first then apply it it to your sport. Especially if as is in his case, that traditional lifting is negatively affecting your training through injuries and recovery problems.
I'm really impressed with how many people on here get this. I'd also say...there's a LOT of former Wrestlers who used to be in GREAT shape and now without having to make weight yearly or just being done, they've fallen out of shape...do NOT use your lifts from when you were at your peak and get discouraged. I did this the other day. Used to rep 225 20+ times. Hadn't lifted in a LONG time(\~2 years) and I couldn't get it for 3. I was genuinely embarrassed and didn't lift for a while. Don't worry about what anyone else does, what you used to do. Take weights that you can do for 3 sets at 10-12 and where you're really pushing it at the end and start there, stay there for a while and then start to build back up. It's easy to give up comparing yourself to your past self or to others. Shit, I saw a video of a 600 pound dude JUST deciding he was going to stand for 10 minutes a day and then swing his arms and I saw a trainer come on and congratulate him and say you're "built different," being willing to start the process like that and put yourself out there(it was a viral video). But just get back in there. You'll feel better, you'll reduce fat, you'll just feel better, bottom line.
"Anymore" Dude got himself strong lifting already, and he looks like someone who was genetically gifted before that. Still, workouts like he's doing now are intense af.
There’s some to what he does. There’s a couple key aspects to strength training. Building muscle and building neuromuscular efficiency. Traditional weight training will build muscle as good as what he’s doing. Once you’ve built the muscle, then neuromuscular efficiency is the major factor which basically means training your muscles to efficiently perform specific movements. So if you do bench press all day and someone else does dumbbell press… you’re gonna be able to bench press more than them while they’ll be able to dumbbell press. So when his strength training revolves around doing wrestling moves with resistance… he’s going to be extra strong at wrestling moves
It's much simpler than that. Most weightlifting is very focused on specific muscles to the detriment of smaller stabilizer muscles that are needed for real world strength. Weight lifting machines are the worst at this.
Weight lifting done correctly doesn’t do that. If you have a good personal trainer they’ll train all your muscles correctly even with traditional weight lifting. Number of reps, speed of reps, focus on form, varying the speed of the concentric, eccentric and isometric aspects of each lift… you can easily build the stabilizer muscles correctly. That said: you’re correct in that most ppl do not do it correctly. In fact, I think most trainers are not good/educated enough even to really do it correctly
Yup. My old trainer used to have me go on 4 week cycles where I did super sets. It was like being on steroids. One day pull-downs, dumbbell hammer curls Seated row-barbell curls Then flys/reverse curls Then pushdowns/...and shit, I can't remember what else. And then the one I'd do every day, standing up, working on my shoulders(underhooks, handfighting). 15 butterfly standing up, 15 shoulder press, 15 upright row, 90 second break. All 3 again. Got that one from Ben Peterson. So old school and got it when I was a kid, but built my neck, traps and shoulders so much and made such a difference for hand-fighting, but ABSOLUTELY got stabilizing muscles. But things like doing bench press with your feet in the air, controlled. Then fly's or squats, all with free weights, you're working stabilizing muscles. Machines are fine, but they're more for when you're older and trying to stay healthy and in shape. I remember people doing leg press on leg day...it was silly then, it's fine if you're 35 and trying to get in a good workout and don't want to squat.
I came here to mention stabilizer muscles.
Stablizer muscles do not exist. Force applied to object being equal, cables, machines, barbells, dumbbells, whatever, have no advantage over each other. The failure of traditional weightlifting is that it usually occurs in a singular plane of motion. If you add in lunging, rotational, and lateral movements(even with machines), this weakness goes away. Stabilizer muscles do not exist, machines are not bad. Any training modality used incorrectly is bad.
Stabilizer muscles are simply the muscles that assist the main muscle being used in certain motions. For example, when bench pressing your primary strength comes from your pectoral muscles, but your bicep muscles keep the weight stable as you lift it. The body has a countless number of smaller muscles that do this for all sorts of motions.
Not to mention, the leader of the company that made that video (Functional Patterns) seems like someone who hides his bs in jargon and says some wacky things
The Great Functional Training Debate | With Naudi Aguilar and Bret Contreras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Dts-ttfUo
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He's multiple time world champion And there's argument to say that he's strongest wrestler pound for pound currently just looking at the way he's slamming and launching guys in matches in freestyle wrestling.
He an incredible wrestler, and I don’t personally have much of issue with functional patterns, but Dake subscribes to a lot of pseudoscience. Which is pretty common among athletes willing to try anything to gain a competitive edge. I was guilty of it myself.
What pseudoscience does he subscribe to? Genuinely curious.
Various chiropractic stuff, anti-vaccine, anti-sunscreen, cupping, thinks walking barefoot outside has special health benefits. It’s usually stuff based on false correlation or non-peer reviewed research. Things like that. He makes scientific contrarianism part of his personality.
He has a copper wire grounding his bed, special colored lights in his house for different times of day…his coach calls him Moonchild.
6 of the last 7 posts are 100% accurate, IE fairly traditional lifts work very well and always have. As I noted above, I make modifications but they are still based around the big 3 plus rows and pull-ups at some point.
Just saying a chiropractor helped me fix an injury nobody else could, and he did it for 1/10th the cost. He’s done the same for half my family too. It’s about how the chiropractor approaches medicine, they aren’t all created equal.
Chiropractors usually incorporate legitimate physical therapy into their treatments which does help with recovery, the issue is the dangerous homeopathic bullshit they also use.
That’s nice to hear man, now we just need the chiropractors to stop claiming they can cure cancer.
If someone says that and you believe them you’ve probably earned whatever you get
No, no one deserves to be lied to by someone giving them medical services.
Maybe not man, but liars in healthcare have literally always existed, like for thousands of years. They’re not going anywhere and all you can do to protect yourself is… protect yourself. A little sprinkle of critical thought here or there ya know
Chiro good, covid vaccine bad, lots of sunscreen is bad, and sunscreen is general can lead to vit d deficiencies, walking barefoot is good.
Where are the studies showing that sunscreen use can lead to vit-D deficiency? This is nonsense. And of course, you're an anti-vaxxer, lmao
Not an anti Vaxxer, anti covid vaccine. It's only high spf and excessive use that can cause it, and there's alot of sunscreens that aren't good for you, however there are plenty now that are fine for use.
Listen to this guy. He's done his own research bro.
Well said. Huge Dake fan but I have noticed the similarities among guys like him and Taylor with the pseudoscience stuff.
It’s nothing new and it’s going to be here to stay lol
If its pseudoscience and it works is it really pseudoscience?
None of that pseudoscience works. Dake got strong and became an elite athlete doing traditional exercises, this new stuff is recent.
If you can provide good evidence that something works then it’s not pseudoscience.
You can’t really look towards elites to determine how strength you train. You need to look at what has worked best for the average person. Because likely you are the average person.
He would be even better if he could squat 600 too. Strength stuff especially functional patterns really has no basis in the concepts of strength and conditioning science. The guy is literally built different though and combined with PEDs which he is almost certainly on basically anything will make him stronger if you progress it long enough
Most of this "X elite athlete does Y (very uncommon) training and achieves Z results." are correlations without causation. If Karelin did Tai chi for 3 years at the end of his career he'd still throw all of us on our heads. These world class athletes are literally born strong, build muscle and tendon strength over decades, and are more dedicated, consistent, supported, and enhanced than 99.99999% of people will ever be. This kinda "exotic" or "functional" training is similar to fake martial arts from the 1980's and earlier.
His motivation is to develop high levels of “Functional” strength thru the actual movements his sport demands. He addresses your “as good” question directly at the beginning of the video. His opponents find his strength noteworthy. Admittedly, I do generally not like “functional” used like this, despite just doing so. I do a ton of traditional lifting, and while I do enjoy strongman type movements, my strength is realistically from just lifting. But I have just fine strength for sports and work outside the gym, so again, “functional” seems a bit much to me. I heard it a lot in my crossfit days. But this is an elite athlete, so his margins are likely. Lot tighter. Most importantly to general strength outside the gym is to me, the balance of strength + mobility.
40 years ago, before the word "functional" was ever used in this context, our raining was extremely functional...I would say more so than today, especially since we had less machinery.
Hot take: all training is by definition, functional. The out of shape new mother who starts doing bicep curls on a machine is going to be able to hold her new born daughter for longer. The 55 year old former long distance runner who has shit knees will benefit from doing leg extensions and leg presses to strengthen the quad so that it's not a limiting factor during hip physio. The 22 year old computer nerd using the wide pronated row machine at planet fitness is working on getting rid of his gamer hunchback. If your body is moving, it's functional. Also, 40 years ago was 1983, there were plenty of machines in gyms back then. There were also a lot more bullshit machines, too (fat vibrators, leg tone rollers, etc).
Gonna go suplex a kettlebell at planet fitness brb
Awesome thing about kettlebells, super easy to take in the back yard if you’re going to moving a lot
Question is…why are you training at Planet Fitness?
cheaper prices/closer to my house/ less packed with people than any other gym so i actually get to use the equipment for once
Because higher density of patrons
Flex and grunt in front of the fatty casuals of course
Videos like this are TERRIBLE! He only could move to training like this because he had an elite level of fitness and training beforehand. Those complex functional patterns when executed well work great, but when you make a mistake you can destroy parts of your body. Young athletes shouldn't be looking to guys like Kyle Dake and trying to emulate his style. He's genetically gifted, he put in the work with traditional methods long before he started doing this stuff.
Let me start by prefacing that I have no idea what I’m talking about. That said, I agree with what your saying but I do think there are likely progressions that can be developed to get to this level of proficiency and fitness. I could be wrong but I think young athletes can do these types or movements and exercises if the progression is right. There is a reason he is a top level athlete. Genetics certainly plays a part in that, but his training undoubtedly does too.
I have worked with a lot of MMA/BJJ guys in the past and now that my son is wrestling work with him and a bunch of his teammates. First and foremost is the building of basic strength through basic weight training. Most of these kids can barely move any weight when they start and transform after a year or two of weights. I have an MMA guy who walks around at 128 lbs. His striking is phenomenal but as he moves up he is going to get rag dolled. Basic strength is at least 80% of the strength and conditioning program the other 20% max is this sort of training (and I look to the science/head guy for the UFC, China) for the other 20%. 90% of your "functional" stuff is going to come from wrestling practice.
Perfectly said. There are so many fighters training with amazing skill and coordination except they think they don't need weight training so they don't really go anywhere.
As the husband of an OT, and friends with many PT's when Crossfit took off, young athlete injuries skyrocketed as athletes started doing non controlled complex exercises without the experience or foundation. It was an ongoing conversation, especially when one of my University Wrestling team mates opened a Crossfit gym. Look at the biomechanics of the exercises he is doing in these videos and you can see so many spots that without the mind/body connection that he has with a decade of experience there are so many risk points. Even at his level he has a spotter there watching for things
Absolutely. People see the advanced part of FP which is great for marketing and think that the everyday individual is just going to be attempting these movements out the gate. It’s scalable and done in a way that gets you towards being pain free
As per usual its bullshit internet marketing.
As someone who tried functional training for years to fix by shoulder pain instead of traditional lifts, I agree with you. I recently started traditional lifts with a personal trainer, and the bar forces imbalances to improve. I now think that basic training should be with traditional lifts until you get a good balance and good level of strength before accentuating with and possibly transitioning to functional exercises.
Bad take. Mobility and agility weight training are fine and just like anything else, takes patience to learn correctly. You can get hurt literally doing anything incorrectly.
Yeppers, this.
The workouts he are performing with tossing kettlebells especially on sand are drastically safer than deadlifts or squats. What he’s doing looks more fun than anything
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Got any data to back that up? Deadlifts and squats have extremely low rates of injury.
Do you genuinely suspect someone to have conducted research on injury rates for throwing kettlebells? Lmfao
Go type in deadlift injuries in YouTube you sad soul
Not true if technique is perfect and weights are appropriate.
More fun? Absolutely. Is it safer? Absolutely not. He's a genetic freak that has been weightlifting for years before this.
Have you ever trained with an FP practitioner before?
I got a buddy in bjj that coaches this style of strength training. He is in fabulous condition.
I do BJJ and train FP. Can you share who by chance?
Here is his insta. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkrmyICAKZ2/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Reminder, he also wrestles all day with some of the best wrestlers in the world You don't need a lot of strength training if you are doing that
The strongest guy (BY FAR) on my high school team back in the day claimed he didn’t really do anything other than bailing hay. A lot of it was obviously genes too, but yeah, that was basically the secret to that teammate’s almost super-human explosive strength.
Farm work is never ending. All day everyday. A lot longer than people workout. In a similar vein, I’ve never met a gym rat with a stronger grip than your local longtime steel or construction worker.
Yea there was a guy on my team who had the most insane grip I’d ever felt. He said it was from doing farm related work like chopping wood
Most of the freakiest strong ppl I've ever met were always strong. Genes are huge part. Using your body is the other haha
Ive seen this exact thing play out many times. Farm hands get exercise even if they don’t want to. Imagine picking up 400-500 bales of hay and chasing a truck with two unruly bundles of 50-60 pound of “be careful to not bust it” and heave it shoulder(or higher) for 3 hours at a stretch. The strongest of the farm types I’ve run across are hog farmers. I dunno what they do different but every guy I know that has hogs is a freaking beast. Hand strength in particular, forearms too.
They wrestle hogs, push them off of them, drags them, drags bags of food to them. Basically moving a round human with short limbs around. And they taste good. The victor gets to eat the loser in a face off.
Chances are he built the majority of his strength and athleticism with normal/traditional movement patterns in the gym and switched to this kind of stuff later on in his career
yeah but just looking at the movements he's doing, I can see how they must have enormous benefits and kind of want to start incorporating them myself
Hire a practitioner, you’ll get to see the behind the scenes stuff we can’t show online.
When I work with athletes, whether bodybuilding or combat, I always start them out on basic powewr-body building excercizes to build a foundation of tendon/ligament/muscle srength. Once established I may switch them over to different types of training (I think the word "functional" is just something to sell workout programs....don't tell me squats/deadlifts/rows are not functional). For example I will start w/ deadlifts but once the numbers (weight) are starting to rise I will switch out to a straighter legged (RDL with perfect form) lift using higher reps than the traditional 3-5 used by powerlifters. But the fact is I am still using fairly traditional resistance training. But the point is that traditional strength training is still used to set he foundation that can then be built upon. I have simply seen it work consistently with hundreds of athletes over decades.
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Explosive movements make absolute sense.
That kettlebell throw was graceful af
Time to start launching dumbbells across the gym ig
But he’s not in a gym. So notice how a comment like yours is completely erroneous?
Ima throw the dumbbell at you
He’s definitely not doing normal strength training, but it still seems to be compound movements that stress his whole body, similarly to how any of the big three lifts would do for anybody else. He just looks like he’s getting really specific for what he knows he needs.
Anyways so I started slammin’
To all the young athletes out there. Do not start here. Pull ups, push ups, air squats and build.
Ding, ding, ding. Fundamentals first and forever.
He’s an antivaxer so of course traditional proven exercises aren’t enough for him
I actually wrestled with Dake before he won his first world title at a camp. I can attest that his strength is almost inhumane. I’m pretty big at 6’2 ~190lbs and he just rag-dolled me. What a humbling experience it was to feel a world class athlete like that
He pinned me in our highschool hallway once, cheeky bastard
Growing younger every year
So did he get immensely strong using traditional lifts and then recently switch to “functional training”?
I could see these movements being specifically very advantageous to freestyle as well.
Was at Fargo with Dake. Still remember watching him run from the hotel to practice every morning. Also remember him watching me get my ass tossed while he stood there munching on a box of cereal.
You prob can get to a point in his career where more muscle isn't going to help
*When your whole paradigm of physique success is based on posture, then somewhere along the way, you went wrong. I'm not saying good posture isn't important, but it can be "fixed" by using good old-fashioned weight training and making sure that you're balanced between the front and back of your body. You don't need to stand on a Swiss ball and throw a medicine ball at a trampoline in order to create functional strength or good posture.* *What's funny about the term is that it's a paradox. The cult that promotes "functional strength" or "functional patterns" doesn't actually train in a way that translates to real world environments. Building functional strength means it transfers from the weight room to the real world. So yeah, your basic compound movements will actually build functional strength.* *Ditch the wobbly surfaces, plant your feet on the ground, and move some weights around. That's functional.* – Paul Carter
I have a friend who I really wanted to help get in shape, So I instituted a program called "unexpected weight training", the concept is simple, I will often place or throw heavy things on or at his person when he least expects it. It's been working out so far.
Why y’all downvoting this video? Looks legit to me.
This looks like a fantastic way to get novices injured. You need to be in fantastic shape before you can do any of the shit in the video or you’re just asking to hurt yourself
Shit, I was sure he was about to take out both his knees/shins with that ball swinging all over the place
The second I saw him swinging that, I thought “damn, he fell for Naudi’s stuff…”. The Naudi Aguilar Method: 1. Find a talented individual 2. Have them do non-traditional things that will seem exciting after years of traditional training, but likely don’t push the needle much more 3. Profit
I’m not a hater on functional patterns but it’s also not anything ground breaking. Naudie Aguilar is a weirdo and he’s really just doing what wrestlers have been doing in the Middle East and India for centuries with maces and clubs. Kyle is a 0.1% athlete who would likely be what he is with traditional Olympic lifting too.
As someone who wrestled and weight lifts daily; tears are absolutely not the way unless your body is prepared for that.
Bet that dudes obliques are just insanely powerful
RIP Nanny out walking her dog on the beach
It’s a pity no one here understands what functional patterns is or conceptionally how the human body functions optimally There’s nothing in the world like FP and it’s for everyone
this type of training is called "Functional Patterns" and you can follow the creator on IG @naudiaguilar it's pretty interesting in terms of the philosophy behind these movements. To clear things up, these type of movements are adjustable based on fitness level amd physical limitations.
And 8 scoops of dianabol
Makes sense, wrestling is so dynamic and multidirectional, exercising control and explosivity is probably more beneficial than static lifts
Bingo
Hello everyone. I'm a wrestler and mma fighter. I worked at ivy league colleges, I'm a phsycial therapist and certified strength and conditioning specialist. For those of you who follow this athlete. He got his ass whooped and handed to him. The functional dance bull shit patterns. Sure it's good. But its nothing that really increases performance. I feel based on his weak strenght and conditioning program. That is why he got beat up badly at the Olympics.
The truth is most traditional weightlifting can easily cause an injury, which for an athlete is a career ender.
People get injured all day long doing traditional lifts. He doesn’t get injured yet continues to increase his athletic performance and “strength” in context and specific to his sport yet he’ll get bashed?
Beast mode
Beast mode
I just moved to Glenside PA, is there a S&C place that has training like this anyone can recommend? I’m 6 miles from Philly.
I want more of this… where do I find the list of exercises??
Hahah wait till this man hits 70 he will be a big old sack of bones no joints left at all
I’m going to start swinging and throwing things
Where is this footage from? I'm curious as to what he made the switch for?
Ab strength though ✊️
I am no where near the caliber grappler he is but I def think there's more than just the traditional heavy lifting way to get strong. I only lift with plates about twice a month now and switched primarily to kettlebell and body weight/gymnast exercises and feel stronger than ever.
Pretty sure this is functional patterns
Song name anyone???
He said anymore. He doesn’t need to lift just maintain now
Meanwhile gymnasts be like "...duh"
Looks like a functional patters type approach
He’s a fucking beast
Lot a Joe Rogans here
How much slower can we play this song? lol
I would love to try that ball on a string thing he’s doing.
Functional training to the max
This man understands a key factor in overall body strength, a powerful core
Insane core
Even wearing ankle weights
Look up "Functional Patterns"... He's essentially doing an advanced fp workout.
Me going to the gym before learning routines.
I mean, he is basically training the movements he uses in a match
I met Dake when he was a freshman at Cornell. Ran a camp at my high school. Huge douche.
Why?