Functional Training Online CE Course With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Functional Training ebook
• Online study guide
• Online continuing education exam

Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific exercises and programming, Functional Training is a comprehensive resource on the training and conditioning methods you need to improve client performance in sports and their function in everyday activities.

Covering the concepts, exercises, progressions, and sequencing on which a sound functional training program is based, the ebook addresses the needs of more than 11 sports and features 135 functional movement exercises. The exercises incorporate bodyweight training and a variety of equipment: 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 each sport, then select the best exercises and programs based on your client’s desired results and performance goals. In addition to quick exercise sequences and personalized programming to address the big four sport skills, you’ll also learn how to develop comprehensive programs to address unique athletic and performance needs and goals.

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the difference between functional training and sport-specific training.
• Identify the advantages of functional training over other conditioning techniques.
• Explain the four pillars of human movement and why there are four pillars.
• Manipulate a variety of functional training exercises for specific body segments into an effective program.
• Identify the proper use of functional training independently and in conjunction with other training programs.
• List the key variables in developing functional training programs.
• Describe the three ways to integrate a functional modality into a traditional workout.
• Design a functional training program that meets specific training and athletic goals.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning professionals looking to learn more about functional training.

Part I. Function and Functional Training
Chapter 1. Functional Training Defined
Chapter 2. Foundations of Functional Training
Chapter 3. Performance Continuum

Part II. Exercises
Chapter 4. Essentials
Chapter 5. Supporting Cast

Part III. Programs
Chapter 6. Program Design
Chapter 7. Pure Functional Programs
Chapter 8. Hybrid Programming
Chapter 9. Sport-Specific Programs

Juan Carlos Santana, MEd, CSCS, is the founder and director of the Institute of Human Performance (IHP) in Boca Raton, Florida. IHP has been recognized as one of the top training facilities in the world and the best core-training facility in the United States.

Santana has been part of the strength and conditioning programs for several Florida Atlantic University sports teams over the last two decades. He is responsible for the strength and conditioning programs for men’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, track and field, women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s swimming.

A member and certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Santana is also a member and certified health fitness instructor with the ACSM. In addition, he is a certified senior coach and club coach course instructor with the U.S. weightlifting team and a level I coach with USA Track and Field.

Santana currently is on the NSCA Board of Directors and is a sport-specific conditioning editor for the NSCA Journal. His professional responsibilities have included serving as NSCA vice president, chairman of the NSCA Coaches Conference, a member of the NSCA Conference Committee, and the NSCA Florida state director. As a college professor, he has taught sports training systems and strength training at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). An FAU graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise science, Santana is involved in several ongoing research studies with numerous universities and is working on his PhD in exercise physiology.

Founded in 2001, IHP provides an unparalleled training environment for elite athletes, including Olympic athletes in a variety of sports; world-class tennis champions; NFL, NHL, and MLB players; world champion Brazilian jujitsu and mixed martial arts fighters; numerous NCAA Division I teams; and hundreds of nationally ranked teen hopefuls from a cross-section of sport disciplines.