The Importance of Functional Strength Training | Joe Rogan & Pat McNamara

Yeah, yeah. Yep. So you just find whatever's laying around, tire, cinder block. Yep, anything. Tree. You know, if I have a wall, I could do a lot with that. Let's say it's a five, six foot wall. There's a lot you could do with that. A lot you could do with just a tree. Some cinder blocks, you know, and then every once in a while guys will bring like a 90 pound sandbag or a couple kettlebells. Because now it's a thing. Right, right. They expect it. So they're like, all right, we want to do a Pat Mack workout after range day. And, you know, kudos to those guys because that shit, that's hard. You know, when you're on the range all day, working your ass off, and especially in the blazing hot sun, and guys hang out to do a workout with me, like bad kudos to you, bro. Well, people, one of the cool things about the internet is that people find other people that want to push themselves. Yep. And they find inspiration through guys like you, and there's, you know, dozens of guys like you online that are like fun to follow. You go, this guy's doing it, I gotta fucking get off my ass and go do it, because sometimes people just need an example. They need someone to look at and go, and it literally can change the way you live your life. No doubt. You see a guy who's doing what you're doing, you're like, god damn it, he's fucking intense all the time, he's getting after it, look at his beard. I want to be like Pat. Like, look at you over here. There's a cinder block, yep. I love that. That's an Eagle Lake Texas, probably three years ago. What's the smoke? Is that exhaust fume or gunshots? The owner, I know what that, he was smoking, it was a smoker. Oh, actually. Yeah, he was making meat. Oh, nice. Yep, yep. Yeah, but those are hard workouts, man. Those swings in between the legs like that, that's how you build the real core strength. If you're back and you know, your whole, the whole spinal column. Yeah. Keep it tight and strong. You know, it's funny, you get, even today I read, I'm reading some comments about whatever it is. There's a lot of stupid people out there when it comes to like not understanding the right way to work out. Right. And I want to tell these guys, hey man, two things. One is if you do what you've always done, you're gonna get what you've always gotten. Number two, I didn't go home last night and smoke a bunch of crack and dream this shit up. I mean, there's, I've done a lot of freaking research, a lot of, there's a lot of time and effort that's gone into this. And they'll say, hey man, you're gonna throw your back out doing that stuff. No, motherfucker, that's building your back. You know, working that transverse plane is what guys neglect a lot. See here, here we go. I'm gonna get on this freaking soap box, I swear to God. Go ahead, go, get on the box. Do a box jump first. When most guys, when most guys work out, they live in what I call a sagittalistic environment. You know, three planes of motion, frontal, sagittal, transverse. So they're in this sagittal world doing bench press and concentration curls. Out of the three planes of motion, I would say that transverse is most important. Additionally, when we work out, I would also argue with confidence that it's the plane of motion that is most neglected, that transverse plane. I like to tell guys that in the transverse plane lives life-saving and ass-kicking. There are four reasons why we should exercise. This is max opinion. One, self-preservation longevity. Good for your health. Stronger, longer. Motion is lotion. Number two, the ability to save your own life. Having that confidence, knowing, yep, I could pull myself out of that burning car or over that wall, whatever. Number three, more importantly to me, is being Batman. The ability to save somebody else's life. So that's three reasons. The last one, kicking somebody's fucking ass. So when I look at work out, I look at those four things right there. Not like cosmetics or anything. Cosmetics is a cool byproduct. If you work out right, you're gonna look better. You look better, you feel better, you're more confident, you're more confident, you perform better because confidence and performance work hand in hand. Sure. So, there's no freaking magic elixir to it. And it's hard. Yeah, people like to see, like if you do bench press, you see your chest puff up, they see those results. I always tell people if there's one exercise I would recommend, like people who do jujitsu. Turkish get up. Right. It's the least romantic. I did those last week. It's the least romantic of all workouts. Nobody wants to do those goddamn things. Go to a gym, you can go to a hundred gyms, if you're lucky, you'll find one person doing Turkish get up. Every gym will have someone, someone somewhere is doing bench press and someone's doing curls and lat pull down machine and all that normal shit. Yeah, working out, it's kind of their, it's like in an acronym, you know, they're working in a world, like a muscle and fitness world still. And that's fine, working in isolation, if that's your job. There's three people who, three types of people who should work out in concentration, like doing a curl or something, you know, a concentration curl, a professional bodybuilder. All right, that's your J-O-B, man, that's your sport. Number two, you're recovering from surgery and atrophy, so it's physical therapy. Number three, you got no fucking idea what you're doing. Or you're a model, you're trying to look sexy as fuck. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? Right. That's possible too. That's right. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, right. So they fall in that same category. Trying to look pretty. Yep, trying to look, yep. Yeah, if you, it's just not, what you really need to, with exercise, is something that's gonna mimic what you would actually do in real life. Picking up things, moving them around. Like farmer walks. Farmer walks, very unglamorous. Carry a heavy-ass kettlebell in one hand and just walk around for like a half a mile. I mean, your fucking forearm would be dying, your legs would be killing you, your core is gonna be shaking. It's amazing. And I like the way you put it, carry it on once, you know, low to one side of the tongue. Yeah, that's what you gotta do. They try to do it with two arms, but with two arms, it balances out and then it's really just a grip and a leg exercise with a little bit of lats and traps. But really what you wanna do is one, 100 pounder on one hand, carry that bitch. Everything is just kinda balance it out and then turn around, put it on the left hand. Yeah, it's great. We do, at my gym, a lot of that where we load one side of the tongue. One of the things I love to hear is a guy will say, man, I'd never see you doing the same thing. Yeah. Like, well, I pretty much don't because I don't wanna fall into a rut of complacent adaptation, you know? So even guys will say, do you do like Oly lifts? See, yeah, of course, every once in a while, I'll probably do a deadlift, a standard deadlift once every two months. But I'm doing variations of that like a shovel deadlift or a suitcase, deadlifts that suck in, like you said, are not glamorous. Yeah. I'll throw those in a bunch. But- Do you do much cardio? Here's how I knock out cardio is I have a formula with this, I have a program, Combat Strength Training. I got an e-book and a website and all this. So is your program something that people could sign up for? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah, they could buy the e-book. What's the website? CombatStrengthTraining.com. Yep. And the formula is work in anaerobic chunks, insert it to near metabolic threshold to meet anaerobic goal. And then like 30, 35 minutes. So that doesn't include warmup, you know? So you're good, whatever it is. For me, it's like bag work or something for warmup, just to make sure everything's loosey-goosey. The older you are, the more you have to warm up, man. Damn, don't jack yourself up. It's called fitness, not brokenness. Yeah, that's another thing that people don't like to do because it's not glamorous and because people get lazy. They don't wanna do that workout, the pre-workout. They don't wanna do all the skipping rope and all the just switching stances and jumping jacks and all that stuff. But you really need to break a sweat, a real sweat before you actually start lifting weights. And then even if you lift weights or do anything, like say if you're gonna do kettlebells, I'll start off with 35 pounds. I'll do everything nice and light at first. I don't start off heavy. Nope.