Functional Training Handbook
Functional Training Handbook
Covering a broad spectrum of specific sports, the book details the individual challenges involved in improving performance, preventing injuries, and rehabilitation for each of the sports covered, as well as providing generic functional strategies of benefit to everybody.
With roots in the Prague School, based on the work of Drs. Karel Lewit and Vladimir Janda, this handbook brings training and conditioning to a new level. Combining elements from prevention to rehab to performance, the Functional Training Handbook offers readers a foundation from a contemporary view of the way we approach functional movement.
I thank Dr. Liebenson for bringing this book together, and recommend it for a variety of professionals interested in improving functional movement, including physical therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning specialists.
Reach a whole new level of physical training with Functional Training Handbook, whose big-picture approach to movement fosters lifelong health, mobility, and athletic development. This practical guide delivers clear, how-to- information, an array of sport-specific guidelines, and key principles that will keep your clients at peak performance. Join the revolution to improve sports performance, treat injury, and re-train patterns with this comprehensive guide to the body and its movement. Features: Sport specific chapters include Baseball, Basketball, Cycling, Dance, Football, Golf, Hockey, Mixed Martial Arts, Olympic Weight Lifting, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming, Surfing, and Tennis. Emphasis on functional exercise explores the physics of weight-bearing and balance to reduce repetitive motion injuriesGuides to injury prevention, safe workouts, re-injury avoidance, and practical strategies for active athletesNow with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to: Complete content with enhanced navigationA powerful search that pulls results from content in the book, your notes, and even the webCross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use
Fitness trainers and avid gym goers often reference the importance of doing functional training, and in an interest in wanting to do the best types of workouts, people who hear this advice are usually keen on taking up functional exercises themselves.
Many beginners have never heard of functional strength training, and even people who have been training for a while may only have a vague understanding of functional training but little practical knowledge of how to do functional strength training.
Functional strength training, often just called functional training or functional exercises, is a type of fitness training that aims to mimic movement patterns that help you use in your everyday life.
Although these are just two examples, it can be seen that functional exercises can help prepare the body for everyday activities that require foundational movement patterns, which are essentially functional movement patterns.
Another reason that functional strength training exercises are becoming increasingly important is that we have become more sedentary, sitting for large portions of the day, whether for work or otherwise. In doing so, we lose the mobility, strength, and neuromuscular coordination that we need for some of these common movement patterns and physical demands.
Whereas functional training really focuses on multi-joint, compound strengthening exercises like squats and push-ups, strength training can include additional types of muscle isolation exercises like biceps curls or a leg extension exercise machine.
These types of strength training machines are not functional strength training exercises because while they do increase s