Insights into Functional Training: Principles, Concepts, and Application

While studying human function is an evolving and continuous process, comprehension of function will help you view movement from a new perspective that will lead to a paradigm shift in your exercise program design. This book will help you develop consistent skills based on human movement and help you enhance function through creative latitude while adding multiple tools to your productive toolbox. We study functional anatomy to understand how motion is a product of the cause and effects of movement, limitations, compensations, and the resultant actions. Based on an understanding of the continuous thread of connective tissue, adjacent muscles, and soft tissue, we can view motion and begin to ask the very important questions of what?...how?...when?...why? The answers to those questions will guide us in treatment and exercise programming for our clients and patients. CONTENTS Foreword Preface Chapter One— Insights into Functional Training: Principles, Concepts, and Application Chapter Two— A Three-Dimensional Joint-by-Joint Approach to Movement Chapter Three— Functional Anatomy—An Evolving Perspective Chapter Four— Working Around the Joints Chapter Five— Flexibility Highways: The Road to Enhanced Functional Performance Chapter Six— The Big Movement Rocks—Simply Important Chapter Seven— Blending Tradition with Functional, Integrated Training Chapter Eight— The Functional Assessment Chapter Nine— Preprogramming Insights Chapter Ten— The Variability of Program Design Chapter Eleven— Movement Training for Special Populations Chapter Twelve— Programming around The Joints Chapter Thirteen— Using These Insights in Your Work Appendix One— Overview of The Six Flexibility Highways Appendix Two— Hip and Knee Strengthening Progression Appendix Three— Shoulder Reconditioning Progression Appendix Four— References Appendix Five— Human Motion Associates Health History Dedication Linked Index