Specificity in Functional Training: Better Exercise Selection for Sports, Athletics, MMA, & More

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Specificity in training essentially means choosing exercises that most closely resemble the activity you are training for. For example, a functional coach might use exercises that involve the transverse plane (cable woodchop/cable punch out) to train a batter how to swing. Likewise, exercises like the truck push may be superior to the squat for running speed.

But is this a golden rule? Does specificity always apply? The likes of Mark Rippetoe disagree and even point to another effect: interference. Could training with a movement that is "similar but different" result in complicated neural networks that harm technique?

In this video I discuss that question to death while drawing on a number of theories and phenomena like dynamical systems theory, contextual interference,

What is the best way to train for a sport or event?

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