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.
Are coaching and personal training different? You better believe it is different. Training someone for a short period of time is not the same as the commitment to work with an athletes training for a year or a career and having to manage that training with all that comes with it. Coaching deals with all the variables. You can’t pop in and pop out on an hourly basis and be a coach.
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 4/10/2007 08:51:00 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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Personal Training = Count Reps, basic exercises, some gimmicks to bring back clients...More $$$$
Coaching = Teaching. No ones want to coach or teach the non-athletes. They all want to work with the athletic kids. So they can sit back and say, "Look at what i did with that athlete".
TC
Agreed, but as I told an aspiring strength coach this past weekend, those "non-athletes" help you find out what kind of teacher/coach you truly are. If you can reach them and get them better, you have done something special!
JB
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