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.
Excellent article in todays New York Times on "Drawing in." The title of the article is:"Everything you knew about good abs may be wrong." It was written by Paul Scott who did a great job reseraching the article. Here is the link http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/fashion/22FITNESS.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=fashion
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 2/22/2007 07:17:00 AM
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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.
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The topic has been turned upside down and STILL very few people get it.
Here's an interesting tidbit:
I've done workshops with Paul Hodges who is one of the "drawing in" pioneers and he doesn't agree with how most people are using his research.
I've had a lot of correspondence with Stu McGill, of Low Back Pain research fame, and he encourages an abdominal brace in lieu of low threshold recruitment or in other words he feels isolating transversus is a problem in and of itself…
What's so interesting is that NEITHER of them truly understands each others research and the low threshold approach turns into the abdominal brace approach pretty fast....sure, they are different, but not as far apart as people think...
Lastly, NO ONE is talking about a total body coordinative (feedforward) system that encompasses the transversus or in other words train total body balance in gravity and the core gets naturally integrated. The isolation of the core is ONLY for people in rehab and/or with highly specific needs...
Sorry about any grammar issues; wrote in this in 30 secs flat...
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