Originally Posted by
wenshu
Riddle me this batman.
I know JamesC knows all about this.
Assistance exercises. Many renowned powerlifting programs prescribe them. Identify a weakness, for instance the lower back (and by extension the hamstrings) in the squat, and target it with exercises that isolate that area to improve your overall performance. Weighted back extensions and reverse hypers. Or front squats to load the anterior chain more if your flexors and quads are the weak link. Exercises that are removed from the actual movements performed in competitions by varying degrees. By your guy's recycled logic those are all just gimmicks. I wonder how the estiminable Mr. Simmons would feel about that.
You don't need certifications in kinestesiology to know that doing one legged squats balanced on a bosu ball while juggling kettlebells on fire is retarded. But it is pure intellectual laziness to paint everything in broad stroke knee jerk powerlifting forum regurgitations when common sense will suffice.
"Durrrrr functional training is bad durrrrrr"
There is a reason they are called assistance exercises dude.
The core principles of strength training have always been:
Compound lifts for overall general strength.
Assistence work to develop that "parts you miss".
Even powerlifters do assistance work.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !