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New Michael Boyle book: Advances in Functional Training
Training Techniques for Coaches, Personal Trainers and Athletes by Michael Boyle
The cover athlete is Ingrid Marcum, during her win at the 2009 Nationals
In the seven years since the publication of his first book, Functional Training for Sports, new understanding of functional anatomy created a shift in strength coaching. With this new material, Coach Boyle presents the continued evolution of functional training as seen by a leader in the strength and conditioning field.
After an introduction into his new thinking, Michael uses ten basic sections to present everything a strength coach or personal trainer needs to understand modern training theory, beginning with his joint-by-joint approach to training, along with details of his use of Gray Cook and Lee Burton’s Functional Movement Screen. Next he discusses injury avoidance, treatment, rehab and training after injury. Then he updates the reader on the current thinking in core training, back pain, and on how the hip musculature works, and how it fails. We learn his philosophy on cardiovascular training, and see what has worked for the athletes training in his facility.
In the second half of the book, Michael shifts to training strategies, including which exercises he uses today and which he’s discarded, what equipment and tools are in use on his gym floor, how he develops speed, and, of course, there’s a large section on his now-famous single-leg training. Finally, we get to program design, where he puts the entire package together to mesh theory with daily reality. He’ll teach you the basic objectives of a sound program, and then over the course of 32 pages, he’ll show you exactly which programs he uses in a variety of client and athletic circumstances.
The category sections include:
- Mobility and Flexibility
- Injuries
- The Core
- The Hips
- Cardiovascular Training
- Developing Athleticism
- Equipment Choices
- Exercise Choices — The Basics and Single-Leg Training
- Program Design
- Sample Programs
You can grab a pdf of the full Table of Contents here.
This book is in stock and available for shipping.
The official release date is January 10th; bookstores and online stores such as Amazon.com will have the book available for order after that date.
on December 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 am
Laree,
Do you plan on having an e-book created of this?
Daniel, I hadn’t thought about it, actually. It doesn’t seem like the type of book that works well as an ebook. I take it you disagree?
on December 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
In 5-10 years, almost all books will be digital. Went I got my masters 2 years ago, all the text books were digital. It’s the way things are going…Still, I like having something tangible in my hands when I read. Reading Atlas Shrugged on a computer monitor doesn’t quite do it…
Edit: As to the quick future of digital books, I fully agree. I didn’t realize text books were digital, though. I think I should probably get a Kindle so I can understand note taking on an ebook reader — that’s my main stumbling block on the idea of reading this kind of book electronically. The second hold-up for me as a reader and as a publisher is the desire to wait until the digital format war is won and everyone is using the same format.
PS: Jim, excellent progress. 49 pounds is terrific! I’ll stick your site in my feed reader.
on December 6th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I like this article. Great tips. I like to incorporate kettlebells into my workouts too. Really good for functional fitness.
on January 16th, 2010 at 3:32 am
Is this avaliable to purchase in the UK – I am a massive Boyle fan and i cant find it anywhere! – Cheers
Two options, Ben. First is to order from us; we ship the next day, freight is $12.95 and the book will arrive in 7-10 days. Second option is Amazon.com. I’m not sure how long it takes to filter from Amazon US to other countries, but Amazon US will have these shortly. I believe they have stock arriving from our distributor now, but with the pre-orders, those are already taken. I’m not sure how long it will take for this to sort out and become regular “in stock” at Amazon.
Here’s the link if you want to buy it now:
http://www.davedraper.com/fitness_products/product/BMBA.html
Thanks for asking. Laree
on October 16th, 2010 at 3:40 am
Hi,
Is this being distrubuted in the UK. Im struggling to find it over here!
Cheers
Ben
on October 18th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Ben, see the note above — answer is the same, basically — we sell via our website or via Amazon.com, but don’t have any overseas distributors. Thanks again for asking.
on November 30th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Amazon.ca and Chapters.ca both have Advances in Functional Training via some mercenary merchants who are charging $85 and $97 respectively for the book. Buying direct adds about 30-60% to the cost of the book because of international shipping rates. What’s a guy to do? N/A from Human Kinetics.
Hope the feedback is helpful. A group of us wanted to order four copies.
T
on December 1st, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Hi, Tom,
Sorry for the trouble — the only way I know to help is that we do ship internationally. That book ships well in a flat-rate package, $13.45 for the shipping. I don’t know how to get it listed at international Amazon stores, however we do sell it via Amazon US, and they ship internationally for about $13.
Human Kinetics won’t be able to help with this one since they didn’t publish it.
Thanks again for your interest. Hope this works out for you.
on December 14th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
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