Drawing the Line
I have received quite a few emails with links to a well known drug coach who is now on a lecture tour of
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 1/19/2007 08:02:00 AM
6 comments
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.
1/19/07
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.
6 Comments:
I hope the Australians don't get corrupted with the nonsense that goes on in the U.S. I don't know if you're referring to him, but Remi Korchemny has already reared his ugly head there. From my ATC point of view, I've always been impressed with the Aussie school of rehab and sports conditioning. Their integration of manual therapy with functional exercise has had a big influence. Just look at the APTA's last combined sections meeting.
He is not referrring to Remi, but Vern, you nailed it.
Hi Vern, I agree we should take a stand against everyone promoting illegal substances. However, the person in questions athletes were already the best in thier respective countries before they used drugs and others who don't use drugs also use his system with thier athletes to great success.
To ignore someones ideas because they have been used dishonestly is like avoiding olympic weightlifting because of its reputation as a playground for illegal subjstances or ignoring the advice of Mel Siff because he promoted Louis Simmons (who suggests competing in non drug tested meets to keep the playing field level!).
Thank you for making a stand anyway.
I come from place of being drunk only once in my adult life, never coming remotely close to even considering sampling any form of illegal substance. Consequentially and consistently with my personal mantra, I denounce cheating in sport and as you put it, I do not play with those that partake in such tactics. BUT, my beliefs do not limit my ability to see through BS and open my mind to potentially useful information even if it comes from someone who has made interesting choices.
We all have BS, or more accurately paradigms, that form us as individuals. Some of the things you say here on this blog cause my BS radar to go off just as when I communicate it causes others BS radars to siren. No one is right or wrong, they are just our personal paradigms and it just is.
I believe we can learn something from everyone in life anyone, I do not have to be associated with them but I can still learn, and what I learn is determined by the sizes of the pores in my filter.
The reality is Vern that his 'infamous' athlete won a gold medal, albeit briefly, in an epoch where many athletes were fueled by questionable performance enhancement techniques thus maybe reducing the association of success and drugs and increasing the relation between success and coaching.
Was it the drugs or the coaching you ask. I ask how much of his remembered performance and very fast time can be attributed to his 'choices' in the grand scheme of all things that create gold medal performances and how much can be attributed to coaching based on what I know - my filter in action?
Interesting to hear if you share the same opinion of all training ideas USSR? Let's get real, drugs do not wholly make 9.79 runners, genetics and high quality coaching has a massive part to play as well.
I know of many a respectable coach who have learned much from him in terms of results, I KNOW there is coaches you know and respect that have also and have a a high level of association with this coach.
But you are right, there is plenty of sound accurate information out there and his is not the only way it is just a way. All it takes is for people, like yourself, to continue to provide sharing opportunities.
Kudos to your for sharing and thank you for doing so!
BPH
Vern
I'm suprized that you're slagging a great coach. He runs one of the most popular strength and conditioning sites on the web, and nowhere did I see ANY promotion of illegal substances.
Is it a matter of trying to attach yourself to something you really can't grasp or attain on your own?
Where are your records Vern? How many athletes did you send to the Olympics? Try none.
I'm not an advocate of anything illicit, but do remember that this coach did expose the industry in general for what it really is.
Perhaps you should go over to his website for a visit..clearly you need to take your own game up a notch.
Your feeble mindedness is laughable at best, in a few short weeks this coach brought more to the Australian scene than anyone thought possible.
Its high time that the past is recognized just for what it is..the past.
A
Jealousy is not an attractive quality, Vern.
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