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New Functional Training for Sports 3rd Edition Online CE Exam With Ebook
Author: Human Kinetics
This title will be released on November 02, 2026
$75.00 USD
Human Kinetics strongly recommends that you complete your exam within the calendar year of your date of purchase to ensure approved credits do not expire for your organization.
This package includes the following:
- New Functional Training for Sports, Third Edition, ebook
- Access to online video via HKPropel
- Online continuing education exam
New Functional Training for Sports is the go-to resource for functional training, with proven methodologies from Michael Boyle, one of the world’s leading sport performance coaches. In this third edition you’ll find the latest concepts, methods, exercises, and programs that maximize your clients’ movement in competition.
Updated and revised throughout, this edition provides a range of new content to help trainers and coaches design programs focusing on the demands of sports, including these:
- Over 25 new videos added to the library
- Expanded assessments that now include strength, power, and speed testing
- New material on speed training and hamstring training
- A new chapter on advancements, tools, and technologies such as velocity-based devices, force plates, lever bells, DVRT sandbags, flywheels, isokinetic sleds, bands, and chains
- Revised training programs for multiple levels of athlete development and performance
With functional assessments to help determine the needs of each client, self-reinforcing progressions, and an online video library containing over 100 exercise and drill demonstrations, New Functional Training for Sports, Third Edition, has everything you need to optimize your athletes’ training.
After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.
Learning Objectives
- Recall the origins of functional training and provide a working definition of the concepts behind it.
- Analyze which sport demands are important to emphasize in developing training programs.
- Use common standards for assessing performance in multiple physical domains to rank athlete performance.
- Describe the mechanisms behind foam rolling and its uses over multiple body regions.
- Create an appropriate and effective warm-up routine to prepare for higher-level activity.
- Develop a comprehensive core training program that addresses all aspects of training the torso safely.
- Design appropriate and effective training routines for lower body training.
- Incorporate the appropriate ratio of pulling and pushing exercises into a well-rounded upper body strength program.
- Learn how to create plyometric training routines and design effective ACL injury prevention programs.
- Identify proper Olympic lifting techniques and other power movements that help to develop athletes with explosive power.
- Manage the speed and agility aspects of the training plan to improve both characteristics in team sport athletes.
- Employ a wide variety of functional training tools that can be incorporated into a periodized strength program.
- Integrate functional strength training and conditioning into a comprehensive sport performance program.
Audience
Certified fitness professionals, personal trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches.
New Functional Training for Sports, Third Edition Table of Contents
Foreword by Ben Bruno
Chapter 1. How Functional Training Works
Chapter 2. Analyzing the Demands of the Sport[ME1]
Chapter 3. Assessing Functional Strength, Power, and Speed
Chapter 4. Foam Rolling and Stretching
Chapter 5. Dynamic Warm-Up
Chapter 6. Core Training
Chapter 7. Lower Body Training
Chapter 8. Upper Body Training
Chapter 9. Bodyweight and Light Implement Power Training
Chapter 10. Loaded Power Training
Chapter 11. Speed and Agility Training
Chapter 12. Performance Training Program Design
Chapter 13. Performance Enhancement Programs
