Functional Strength Training With Kathy Alvarez
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Functional Strength Training With Kathy Alvarez
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Moving correctly is the most efficient path to building muscle without pain. In this video @_kathy_alvarez_ is demonstrating some dynamic compound movements that target the obliques, lats, pecs, core and glutes in one shot. Really every muscle on the body is involved here. Pay close attention to the rotation she executes with her spine, and how these movements challenge the patterns of standing, walking, running and throwing. The long cable travel on these pulley machines is courtesy of @fpinnov
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Moving correctly is the most efficient path to building muscle without pain. In this video @_kathy_alvarez_ is demonstrating some dynamic compound movements that target the obliques, lats, pecs, core and glutes in one shot. Really every muscle on the body is involved here. Pay close attention to the rotation she executes with her spine, and how these movements challenge the patterns of standing, walking, running and throwing. The long cable travel on these pulley machines is courtesy of @fpinnov
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Functional strength comes with the ability to move your body in ways that respect our human frame. The movements you see @_kathy_alvarez_ performing here all respect our natural framework to stand, walk, run, and throw. This is where other training/strength approaches fall short. They’re stuck on progressive overload with stationary exercises that don’t improve your movement. This often leads to injury and a rehab process that relies heavily on isolation exercises. It’s safe to say the hierarchy
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Functional strength comes with the ability to move your body in ways that respect our human frame. The movements you see @_kathy_alvarez_ performing here all respect our natural framework to stand, walk, run, and throw. This is where other training/strength approaches fall short. They’re stuck on progressive overload with stationary exercises that don’t improve your movement. This often leads to injury and a rehab process that relies heavily on isolation exercises. It’s safe to say the hierarchy
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "Taking what was great about workouts in the ‘80s and making it better. If you look closely at the first clips, you’ll see movements with rhythm, bounce, and recoil. That style was actually more functional and dynamic than what most people are doing today. The problem was, they didn’t have the framework to explain why it worked or how to keep progressing it without breaking down. They were tapping into plyometric qualities without fully understanding the underly
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "Taking what was great about workouts in the ‘80s and making it better. If you look closely at the first clips, you’ll see movements with rhythm, bounce, and recoil. That style was actually more functional and dynamic than what most people are doing today. The problem was, they didn’t have the framework to explain why it worked or how to keep progressing it without breaking down. They were tapping into plyometric qualities without fully understanding the underly
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MOVE PAIN FREE
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "When what you do in the gym prepares you for the real world, the exercises end up having a lot more function built into them. This isn’t to say we don’t need weights or modern equipment, it’s about how we use them. What you see @_kathy_alvarez_ doing here with the @rg.bell mimics some of the patterns we encounter in daily life. These movements integrate rotation, timing, and coordination of the body’s oblique slings. They get you off the linear path most people
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "Every person you’re seeing here tried. They really tried. They went through the institution of traditional fitness, they trusted it, they did what they were told. Physical therapy, stretching, yoga, lifting, deadlifting, chasing mobility, chasing strength, chasing relief. It just didn’t work. It failed them. Not because they didn’t put in effort, but because the system itself doesn’t deal in mechanics, doesn’t deal in structure, doesn’t deal in reality. So when
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "When most people train, they focus on working their muscles in isolation. This isn’t always a problem, but it leaves out how our muscles are meant to work together. Once you start moving dynamically, running, jumping, changing direction, you realize the body is not designed to move through independent parts. It is built to transfer force through connected chains of muscle, fascia, and bone. The @vectortrainer loads those chains together. It teaches your hips, s
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The @functionaltraining.system gives you a way to get a solid workout no matter where you are. Most of the joint discomfort people live with does not come from being sedentary alone. It comes from a loss of mechanical coherence, or how well the body stays connected and coordinated during everyday movement. When that integration starts to break down, certain joints end up taking on more stress than they were designed to handle instead of that load being shared across the whole body. This instruct
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Functional Patterns on Instagram: "Erica talks about why she started FP, her experience with our @10weekonlineprogram and her now recently completed 3-day in person Human Foundations @fp.certified course in Toronto 🇨🇦 with @_pablo_martin__ These are the types of people that we attract into Functional Patterns. This is why our community continues to thrive and attract like-minded individuals who are committed to evidence based practice. Erica’s journey through our method, from online learning t
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This 72 year old had quite a troubled medical history. In only 40 hrs of training once a week she was able to feel and move better than ever. In the 1980s she underwent a series of health issues and surgeries. She was hit by a car while having a walk and crashed her against a wall, going into a coma for three months and suffering from epilepsy since then, in 2004. She suffers from restless legs syndrome. At different times in her life, she had a hystererctomy and an oophorectomy in order to cure
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