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Things that do not exist: - Toning - Functional muscle vs “empty muscle” - Training past failure - Stabilizer muscles - Cutting exercises/bulking exercises

Anonymous 23h

wait to be clear, there aren’t muscles that are only stabilizers. but a lot of exercises do have stabilizing muscles for that specific exercise, those muscles just won’t be stabilizers in everything and you shouldn’t try to “train your stabilizers”, right?

Anonymous 1d

A few counterpoints: ever seen a construction worker vs a body builder? That absolutely is a thing as less showy but more practical muscles. There is such a thing as training past failure, it just involves a spotter helping. Stabilizer muscles absolutely are a thing, they’re more minute and help keep the right path of the weight during a lift.

Anonymous 23h

also toning absolutely exists, the definition of it is lowering bfp and increasing muscle, it just can go by other names as well (it’s essentially body recomp) and is often used with the wrong definition or by people who use that as a term to describe their goals because they don’t want to get “bulky” or some bs. basically the word has been a bit corrupted

Anonymous

#1 1d

no bc a bodybuilder is stronger than a construction worker

Anonymous

#2 1d

In moving heavy circles up and down yes. In practical things like moving a wheelbarrow full of concrete mix not at all

Anonymous

#1 1d

Actual IQlet take bro

Anonymous

#1 1d

TikTok lifting brainrot

Anonymous

#3 1d

Let me be more specific. Yes, bodybuilders are stronger than workers in almost every metric, I just meant the workers are stronger at what THEY do even tho they don’t look like it. By support muscles I meant you use muscles around the target area (like shoulders during chest press) that if are proportionally weaker than the target area will lead to poor form and potential injury due to lack of stability side to side.

Anonymous

#1 20h

Bro this is just mind muscle connection and training. Nothing is more “functional”, just that each respective person/job is used to their respective activities.

Anonymous

#1 19h

“People are better at the things they do all day 5 days a week than people who don’t do those things all day are” has nothing to do with “functional more practical muscle”

Anonymous

intrusive_thot 19h

That’s just being lean

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Anonymous

intrusive_thot 18h

Yes, the hamstrings stabilize in a squat, the back helps stabilize in presses, etc. When people say “stabilizer muscles”, it’s usually something along the lines of “machines aren’t functional because they don’t train stabilizer muscles”. What they actually should be referring to is just the coordination involved in free weight lifts

Anonymous

OP 17h

then they’re synonyms, that doesn’t negate the existence of toning

Anonymous

#1 16h

functional muscle is not real, but functional movements are. please stop confusing this it’s exhausting :/