Arguments For & Against Biomechanics 2 | ETP#91

Today on the podcast we are discussing arguments both FOR and AGAINST placing an emphasis on biomechanics in your training and programming. There are a lot of discussions surrounding biomechanics as it is a super hot topic right now. We found that many of the discussions were one-sided and didn’t quite portray both sides of the arguments equally. So that is exactly what we decided to try and do today for you. 

Keynotes from today's episode:

Biomechanics/Anti-Biomechanics
Biomechanics is the study of the structure, function, and motion of the mechanical aspects of biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to organs, cells, and cell organelles, using the methods of mechanics. Biomechanics is a branch of biophysics.

Arguments against biomechanics:

• People have been getting yoked for decades with free weights 
• If it worked for Arnold…
• Barbell basics 
• Just work hard (feels like biomechanics sort of goes against the way it was “meant to be” or whatever nonsense, of just smashing weight)
• Pull-ups for back 
• Biomechanic-optimized movements aren’t as “subjectively taxing”
• You need to do much fewer movements if you pick the big hitters. Isolating more stuff means you have to do more movements 

Arguments for biomechanics:

• Everything is biomechanics. Even if you try to optimize a barbell movement 
• Long muscle lengths = need to find where it is most lengthened 
• Minimizing joint issues / nonexistent since “switching”
• Learning/understanding why certain movements produce an incredible stimulus and others don’t
• Increasing tension on the desired tissues
• How do you know people wouldn’t have been more jacked with better movements?
• Improved program design. Less redundancy, better volume distribution.

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