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 measurable and functional mutually exclusive? Is being able to see it, feel it, touch it, good enough or do I have to be able to measure it to prove it? Are performance improvements good enough? Isn’t that ultimately what coaching is about?
posted by Vern Gambetta @ 10/24/2007 06:48:00 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.
4 Comments:
Its all about performance improvements in real competition. Charles, NY
Depends who you are dealing with. I treat what I can see the same as data, I just don't have a method of quantifying what I see the same way as measuring sprint speed, vertical jump etc..
Many times I think the "quantifiable data" doesn't always show the real improvements athletes have made in their movement abilities.
Mark Crabtree MS,ATC,CSCS
Parents, coaches and athletes like to have quantifiable data, sometimes you need to justify the training by being able to show improvement in ways that others can also see and understand.
Vern I agree with you but I also believe in testing to be able to quantify improvements. However it is impossible to quantify all improvements and there is always going to be a gap between testing and reality
This is an interesting post. It is also very educational following the why behind the training plans:
http://www.krisfreeman.net/2007/10/27/testing-camp-coming/
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