
Purpose Driven Movement
A System for Functional Training
By: Tarek Michael-Chouja, Dan Henderson
eBook | 12 March 2019
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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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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
ISBN: 9780648430742
ISBN-10: 064843074X
Published: 12th March 2019
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 308
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Grammar Factory Publishing
























