Wednesday Rehab : FUNCTIONAL TRAINING, ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OR CIRCUS ACTS?

26th October 2016 Off By thomas

FROM THE REHAB TRAINER LIBRARY

Topic:

FUNCTIONAL TRAINING

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OR CIRCUS ACTS?

By Wayne Rodgers – Sports Physiotherapist

Functional training has become the buzz-word and programming trend in the health and

fitness industries over the past few years. In gyms, personal training studios and physiotherapy clinics in all manner of exercises are believed to have incredible

athletic, therapeutic and performance enhancing benefits, simply because they are taught

under the banner of “functional training”. Recently some of this practices have crept into the Strength and Conditioning areas.

The attached article by Wayne Rodgers gives his views on the topic.

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