It's Okay to Want to Look Good

Increasingly, functional versus nonfunctional training looks like a distinction without a difference.

Longtime fitness pros remember a time when the term “functional training” didn’t exist.

 

The phrase came into common usage in the early 2000s as a corrective to the bodybuilding approach to training popularized by magazines like Flex and Muscle and Fitness, both of which I devoured when I was young.

 

Bodybuilders, the argument went, don’t train to do anything. They only trained to look better. And looking better, the implication was, was silly. Self-indulgent. Not serious.

 

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