Purpose Driven Movement
Description
Are you a personal trainer, performance coach or fitness enthusiast who wants to understand the world of functional training?
Do you want to know how to incorporate tools like kettlebells, battle ropes and functional bags into your workouts in a purposeful way? Are you looking for a logical, comprehensive and road-tested guide to functional movement and fitness?
Look no further.
Dan and Tarek, co-founders of the Functional Training Institute, have created the Adaptive Functional Training System for those wanting to go deeper into the world of functional training. Stemming from years of research and compiled by industry experts who have tested and integrated these methods into the real world of fitness.
Purpose Driven Movement will show you how to:
- Coach with purpose by building a strong coaching vision, mindset and technique
- Assess with purpose by understanding how to detect, correct and prevent poor movement patterns and injury
- Move with purpose by progressing through the 5 Pillars of Functional Training, which showcase the key functional movements and tools
- Program with purpose by taking a structured but flexible approach to exercise planning and selection in service of your goals
- When these four components come together, a great coach is in the making. If you want to master the art of training and coaching for truly functional fitness, Purpose Driven Movement is your definitive guide.
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Content
Introduction 17 The problem of dysfunctional 'functional training' 18 Introducing the Adaptive Functional Training System 23 Who is this book for? 30 Part 1: Coach with Purpose - The Art and Science of Coaching Coaching Foundations: The 3 Cs 33 Culture 36 Connection 45 Challenge 54 Coaching Technique: Cuing and Feedback 63 Cuing 64 Feedback 77 Conclusion 84 Part 2: Assess with Purpose - Injury Awareness, Prevention and Monitoring The Background Story on Fitness and Injuries 87 Injuries in fitness: what are the statistics? 89 How effective is injury prevention? 91 Injury screening and prediction 95 Are you injury aware? 97 Effective Injury Screening 99 The three layers of dysfunction 102 The injury prevention screen 111 Be a champion of injury prevention 119 Part 3: Move with Purpose - The 5 Pillars of Functional Training Pillar 1 - Restore Function and Movement 123 Common questions 124 Warm-up activity 129 Joint rolling 129 Soft tissue work 130 Mobilisations and activations 131 Stretching 153 Mobility flows and movement prep 156 Pillar 2 - Develop Proper Movement Patterns 163 Bodyweight movement: sling systems and primal patterns 165 Suspended fitness 172 Crawling and Animal Flow® 176 Pillar 3 - Load the Foundations 187 Training the stabilisers of the body 187 The exercises 192 Pillar 4 - Build Strength and Power 209 Training with kettlebells 211 The exercises 216 Pillar 5 - Integrate Complex Movement Patterns 233 The battling rope 234 Progressions and complexes with the battling rope 238 Complexes with other tools 251 Part 4: Program with Purpose - Bringing it All Together Programming Theory: Behind the Adaptive FTS 267 Understanding periodisation 268 The macrocycle/training plan 272 The mesocycle/training phase 275 The microcycle/sessions 276 Program review 285 The Adaptive FTS Program 287 Background information 287 Sample Adaptive FTS 12-Week Program 289 Adapting the program for different clients 299 Next steps 301 Resource pool 303 Coach with Purpose 303 Assess with Purpose 304 Move with Purpose 304 Program with Purpose 305
