Functional Training for Sports (3rd Edition)

Train to perform at the highest level.

The third edition of New Functional Training for Sports is the go-to resource for proven methodologies in functional training from Michael Boyle, one of the world’s leading sport performance coaches. With updated and revised content throughout, you’ll find the latest concepts, methods, exercises, and programs that maximize athlete movement in competition.

The third edition includes a range of new content to help athletes, trainers, and coaches design programs focusing on the demands of their sport. With more than 300 full-color images of foundational movements, exercises, and drills, this is a great reference to ensure safe and effective training. Updates to the text include the following:

• 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 athlete, 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 training.