Haterade

H.A.T.E.R.S

Having
Anger
Towards
Everyone
Reaching
Success

Olympic/Powerlifter's- All bloated fat bastards, so what if you can lift heavy weight once, you can't do anything for more than 6 repetitions without breaking out in a sweat. This includes walking.

Bodybuilders- WEAK!! All the look of Athleticism none of the athleticism. Can't move functionally to save their life. Would probably make good poppers in a breakdancing crew since all they can do is move one joint at a time. oh and do not get me started on the smith machine work, the half (at best) squats and my all around favorite smith half squat.

Crossfit-The worst people alive. Awesome 60kg snatch bro! that 95 lb thruster is really manly. form? totally overated, who needs to learn how to do a clean when you can do an explosive power reverse curl and do not plan on going heavier than bodyweight anyway.

Pilates- Those little leg circles and drawing my belly button will really help when i go lift umm i guess myself lying horizontally in a sliding bed with my feet turned out. um if i ever find myself in that situation i'm all good to go.

Yoga- nice posterior pelvic tilt I'm certain that is normal. also love the absolute disregard to woolf's law as well as lack of muscle overall

Kettlebeller's- you and your 35.2 lb balls rock! why would i ever need to put up any weight a real man would lift when i have 35.2 lb balls

Endurance athletes- Injury= (number of repetitions x force)/ (amplitude x rest)
enjoy all of your knee/shoulder/hip/spine surgeries. Your sport never caused the injury though it was that ONE time you squatted/deadlifted/benched/overhead pressed/did a pull-up/dip/good morning/anything worthwhile that hurt you snot the literal millions of reps

Functional trainees- awesome walkout into spiderman lunge into pigeon pose into worlds greatest stretch then downward facing dog/ calf stretch, into overhead squat on the way up. so cool that you can move WITHOUT any weight. its appropriate to model movements after babies motor learning patters because you use similar resistance. also enough with the bands already

I think i covered most of the stupid comments people make about other styles of lifting not their own.

I powerlift but i'm not fat, am i as muscled as a bodybuilder no. as lean as a crossfitter no. as flexible as a yogi no. core aware as a pilates practioner no. as mobile as people who focus on functional training nope. Everything has a purpose and just as in program design the important things go first, for me its my competition lifts but having more muscle might keep less likely to be injured as well as stepping my sexy game up. kettlebells are great low impact explosive hip extension, cardio, and potentially awesome for mobility if done right. Everything is a tool that is helpful regardless of your goal, would i love to have the abs that the women of crossfit have? hell yes!

What ruins everything is our Dogmatic Zealous approach to things. The paleo-lithic male lived off of wheat and worms and usually died in his teens, that doesn't mean that a diet plan that recommnends more vegetables less food that you didnt make yourself and (god bless them) more bacon isn't awesome. i shouldn't make fun of a bodybuilder for being weaker or as strong as I am even though i weigh 2/3 what they do. Why, because thats how it should be. if i compete in a strength sport then i better be stronger than the guy that competes in a physique sport. If that is not the case then I failed miserably.

Don't knock it till you tried it. An honest sincere approach. Think kb's are stupid work to get a good score on the secret service test, compete in a GS meet, train for a compete in a PL meet oly meet, do crossfit for 3 months, tryout for the games, run the urbanathlon. do yoga and pilates for a month, run a 10k . Everything has it's benefits and drawbacks, each training style (if that makes sense) impose a specific demand on the body, that demand will elicit its own specific adaptation. Said adaptation will be exceptional greater to somebody that normally doesn't train in that style. Use the right tool for the job! the more tools you have at your disposal the better job you can do

Lastly i've done all of these (except try out for the CF games but i will see you in march kids) and i've added each of that to my personal toolbox and I am a better coach and athlete for it.

NOW STOP...... HATING'S BAD