A Serious Question
What is a functional trainer or a functional therapist? Does that mean there are non functional and dysfunctional trainers and therapists?
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 9/02/2006 02:29:00 PM
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Functional Path Training
The Functional Path is a path that had been traveled many times before but had fallen out of use in favor of smoother paved roads that promised faster and easier results. Seeking to follow and better define the functional path is a continuing journey, fortunately it is a journey that many have traveled before. Functional Path training is getting back to the basics of movement. It is learning to tune into the body and it’s inherent wisdom to produce rhythmic flowing movement.
9/2/06
About Me
- Name: Vern Gambetta
- Location: Florida, United States
Vern is currently is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several teams in Major League Soccer as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men’s World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and Director of Athletic Development for the New York Mets. Vern is recognized internationally as an expert in training and conditioning for sport having worked with world class athletes and teams in a wide variety of sports. He is a popular speaker and writer on conditioning topics having lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe. Vern's coaching experience spans 36 years at all levels of competition. Vern has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He received his BA from Fresno State University and his teaching credential with a coaching minor from University of California Santa Barbara. Vern obtained his MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.
1 Comments:
This one gets me going. Who came up with this title?? I read and listen to lots of world renowned "Functional Strength Coach's", guru's, trainers & PT's.. I just read an article were a Functional S&C Coach stated
"Strength and conditioning coaches are being talked down to by PTs who've never done the job and don't really understand. The key is to learn from the PTs without letting them dictate your programming. The knowledge is excellent, but the application can be a bit sketchy. A guy who can't lunge has no business doing multi-planar lunges".
So as a CPT I should not let a Functional S.& C. coach dicate my program towards my everyday people? but when and athlete walks through the door apply something different?
"A guy who can't lunge has no business doing a multi-planar lunge" so he should not get in and out of his car?
A bit extreme, but so are their athletes.
I use this Functional coach as model because lots of CPT's listen and apply his and his colleagues method's of Function to "everyday people/athletes.
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