Functional Training

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Take your performance to the next level with Functional Training. Author Juan Carlos Santana brings you his revolutionary approach to training and conditioning methods sure to improve your function in any sport or activity. Functional Training covers the recent breakthroughs, the most exercises, and proven programs that you can follow or incorporate into your existing training plan.

Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific exercises and programming, Functional Training is a comprehensive resource for every athlete, coach, and athletic trainer. Covering the concepts, exercises, progressions, and sequencing on which a sound functional training program is based, it addresses the needs of more than 11 sports and features 135 exercises, including body weight, bands and pulleys, dumbbells and kettlebells, medicine balls, and stability balls.

Functional Training features a three-tier approach for integrating functional movements into an existing strength program. Through assessment and analysis, you’ll identify the movements and muscles involved in your sport, then select the best exercises and programs based on desired results and performance goals. In addition to quick exercise sequences and personalized programming to address the big four sport skills, more comprehensive programs can be developed to address your athletic and performance needs and goals.

No matter what your sport, Functional Training will help you achieve optimal results.

From the Publisher

Juan Carlos Santana demonstrates.

Exercises and programing for training and performance goals

Functional Training features a three-tier approach for integrating functional movements into an existing strength program. Through assessment and analysis, athletes will identify the movements and muscles involved in their respective sports, then select the best exercises and programs based on desired results and performance goals.

Sample pages

JC’s Training Octagon

JV Program

Combat sports page 1

Combat sports page 2

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Human Kinetics
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2015
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1450414826
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1450414821
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.8 x 10.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #333,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #213 in Weight Training (Books) #289 in Sports Training (Books)
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