Functional Path Training: Real World Coaching

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.

10/2/06

Real World Coaching

I made a comment in my Friday blog about real world coaching and someone wanted me to comment on what I meant by that. To me real world coaching is getting down and dirty, working in the field, in the weight room making a long term with an athlete or a group of athletes to see them through a training year or a career. It involves dealing with the “24 Hour” athlete not this hours client. It is very labor intensive and involves an ever changing blend of sports science, coaching and above all art and feel for the athlete. It can be no teach or high tech depending on the situation. It is about accountability and results; it is coaching as a way of life. A good coach must equally as committed as any great athlete. It is more than writing workouts, it being there during the glory times and during the down times. It is not about fame and fortune; it is about personal satisfaction in a job well done, that is real world coaching.

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At 10/4/06, 3:18 AM, Anonymous said...: Life brings a lot of pressures on our time and attention. To keep an overriding principle such as you describe allows coachs to maintain focus on what really matters.

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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.

Functional Path Training

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Real World Coaching

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