Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Total Number of Reviews: 16
Editorial Review: Reach a higher level of athleticism with Functional Training for Sports! Functional training is a complete system of athletic development that focuses on training the body the way it will be used in competition, making it the most efficient and effective form of training today. Author Mike Boyle, renowned strength and conditioning coach formerly with the Boston Bruins, addresses movement, body positions, and abilities that are essential for success in competition. Through Functional Training for Sports, you will improve your total athleticism, enhance your performance, and reduce injuries through exercise progressions that will spur your development potential for specific movement patterns you commonly use in your sport. Providing tests for you to determine where to start, the progressions focus on training for the torso, the upper body, and the lower body. The book also provides detailed programs that incorporate the exercises and methods for these progressions. As you master each progression, you will be preparing yourself to perform in any situation with notable improvements in stability and balance, reaction time, core strength, and power.
This whole-body, sport-applied system makes Functional Training for Sports your key to today's most effective and efficient training!
Excellent resource 5 out of 5
I have been reading and working out with this book for a couple of weeks, and I am very pleased. It is clear and concise (for the most part, I had trouble deciphering a few of the exercise descriptions). I especially like how he organizes the exercises by body area and then by difficulty. This helps me design my workout, even as I progress in strength.
One warning, he uses a certain level of technical jargon. He occasionally uses terms such as flexion and extension (as in "flex the knees" or "extend the hips"), abduction, and some of the anatomical names of joints (as in "Scapulothoracic Joint," the joint between the shoulder blade and rib cage). If you don't know these words, you probably will still do ok with the book. However, the tone of the book is more geared towards an athletic trainer or a fairly curious individual who is training himself.
I am not a trainer, but I am in massage therapy school. I have more than the average knowledge and curiosity about body movement, so I especially like the explanation and theory he gives for this training approach. As some reviewers have pointed out, he doesn't present scientific research. He presents his own findings from his experience, and the experience of some his colleagues around the USA, with training athletes at many levels.
Personally, I have experimented with a variety of training approaches, and his findings resonate with what I have learned through my own experience. These exercises make sense to me, and I feel that they are working really well for me. That's enough for me, but I'm no elite athlete and I'm not training any elite athletes, either. If your career is on the line, or something like that, maybe you will want more air-tight evidence before you commit to this system.
must have for personal trainers 5 out of 5
if you are a personal trainer or just someone looking for sport specific exercise, this is a must have for you collection. some of the theories on this book are now outdate but the exercises are terrific
functional training for sports 5 out of 5
like the title says. I'm a veteran personal trainer and find this book to be one of the most useful in my library. Clear & concise, thoughtful. Indispensible.
Great Read 4 out of 5
This book is excellent and worth the read. It shows how Mike Boyle trains his athletes and gives you different ideas/exercises on how to train athletes. The only problem I have, is that it is too text heavy without enough pictures to explain the text. Even with this being said, you can figure out how to do the majority of the exercises based on the text alone. If you want to learn how to train athletes properly, I would definitely get this book.
Functional training 4 out of 5
Is ideal for personal trainers, athletes or anyone who wants to improve sports skills and knowledge, its a great complement for diferents sports
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