Hypertrophy for Functional Fitness

Book excerpt: In today's culture, we like to label and categorize things. We label athletes as a Powerlifter, a CrossFitter, a Bodybuilder or an Olympic Weightlifter. But the fact of the matter is that the physical greats have a breadth of capacity beyond their label.This book is dedicated to the men and women who have paved the way and opened the door with new thinking, applications, and training practices. It's never "thinking outside the box" once you realize, there is no box. It is all just training. We are conditioning the body to respond a certain way to a stress to give us the desired effect. Whatever that effect might be or however you are able to elicit it, we are all operating under this same basic principle