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Weight triaining is the same way.
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Yup. There's plenty of examples of programs that aim to bring up your core lifts by solely focusing on those specific lifts..
- Korte's 3x3
- Bill Starr's 5x5 (beginner, inter, advan)
- Mark Rippetoe (same)
- Smolov Squatting
- Olympic weightlifting in general
- and many others..
This all ties into what I've been saying to every novice that passes by here. Develop a strength base via a program just like this, THEN focus on all the bodybuilding isolations. I'd rather see a novice put in the time under the bar for 'x' amount of years, bring his bench/squat/deadlift up to
at least a 200/300/400, THEN begin focusing on the higher reps, lowered intensity, isolations, ect. There is a stark difference between a novice who started off focusing on hypertrophy vs. one who focused on strength and paid his dues.
But that's in a perfect world, and I really haven't met a person who was gung-ho to faithfully steer clear of isolations and drop sets in favor of hard work!
Too boring I guess..
And BTW, as they PROGRESSIVELY load the bar with these kinds of full body routines formulated around the SQUAT, they WILL be not only functionally strong, but have attained a TON of mass provided their see-food diet was in order... (as per my sig(s))