Comments on: Functional Training: Squats vs. Leg Extensions http://www.trainforhoops.com/functional-training-squats-vs-leg-extensions/ Practice in Proportion to your Aspirations. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Twoson http://www.trainforhoops.com/functional-training-squats-vs-leg-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Mark Twoson Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:19:51 +0000 http://www.trainforhoops.com/?p=586#comment-975 "Why are you lifting weight if you can't manage your own body weight?" For the most part, what you're saying is correct, but that sentence is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've heard in my life. Obese people who wouldn't be able to do a chin-up if they had a gun to their head *need* to start with strength training ASAP to boost mobility making it easier to move around and do other exercises, and boost their metabolisms. Even if a person is too weak to do a chin-up but they've very skinny, exactly how do you propose that they build up that strength without either a pull-down machine or an assisted chin-up machine? You can view these methods (or even the people themselves) as inferior if you like, but it's certainly not pointless. “Why are you lifting weight if you can’t manage your own body weight?”

For the most part, what you’re saying is correct, but that sentence is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I’ve heard in my life. Obese people who wouldn’t be able to do a chin-up if they had a gun to their head *need* to start with strength training ASAP to boost mobility making it easier to move around and do other exercises, and boost their metabolisms. Even if a person is too weak to do a chin-up but they’ve very skinny, exactly how do you propose that they build up that strength without either a pull-down machine or an assisted chin-up machine? You can view these methods (or even the people themselves) as inferior if you like, but it’s certainly not pointless.

]]> By: Victor Roffel http://www.trainforhoops.com/functional-training-squats-vs-leg-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Victor Roffel Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:05:49 +0000 http://www.trainforhoops.com/?p=586#comment-202 Absolutely infuriating isn't it? Those guys who put clients in machines get them injured and get more credit in the end for some reason... I agree that girls seem to get ACL injuries more often than males. Absolutely infuriating isn’t it? Those guys who put clients in machines get them injured and get more credit in the end for some reason…

I agree that girls seem to get ACL injuries more often than males.

]]> By: Coach C http://www.trainforhoops.com/functional-training-squats-vs-leg-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Coach C Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:28:08 +0000 http://www.trainforhoops.com/?p=586#comment-195 You're absolutely right. I tore my acl, but luckily, I had the proper training/rehab, which included a lot of lunges, leg curls with ankle weights, and moving in the pool. You’re absolutely right. I tore my acl, but luckily, I had the proper training/rehab, which included a lot of lunges, leg curls with ankle weights, and moving in the pool.

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