Take your performance to the next level with Functional Training. Author Juan Carlos Santana brings you his revolutionary approach to training and conditioning methods sure to improve your function in any sport or activity. Functional Training covers the recent breakthroughs, the most exercises, and proven programs that you can follow or incorporate into your existing training plan.
Offering strength, endurance, power, and sport-specific exercises and programming, Functional Training is a comprehensive resource for every athlete, coach, and athletic trainer. Covering the concepts, exercises, progressions, and sequencing on which a sound functional training program is based, it addresses the needs of more than 11 sports and features 135 exercises, including body weight, bands and pulleys, dumbbells and kettlebells, medicine balls, and stability balls.
Functional Training features a three-tier approach for integrating functional movements into an existing strength program. Through assessment and analysis, you’ll identify the movements and muscles involved in your sport, then select the best exercises and programs based on desired results and performance goals. In addition to quick exercise sequences and personalized programming to address the big four sport skills, more comprehensive programs can be developed to address your athletic and performance needs and goals.
No matter what your sport, Functional Training will help you achieve optimal results.
Lucian Nedelcu (verified owner) –
Great book
Juan Rodriguez (verified owner) –
very complete book
Torres (verified owner) –
Easy to read, amazing content, no doubt why JC is a highly respected coach.
anthony norman (verified owner) –
Great book
Mary Ellen Morse (verified owner) –
Fabulous. Comprehensive. Ordered it recently and have been using it at the gym. Provides a ton of focus and variation that helped me break out of the winter rut. Another winner from JC.
Marco Costa Registration 442621323559 (verified owner) –
Excellent book! It helps me on my profissional life and my clients too.
It’s recomended for all of sports Coaches and athletes.
Cheree R. (verified owner) –
Carlos Santana is one of the most knowledgeable trainers on this planet regarding functional training and building “usable “ strength. I am a spinal surgeon and he has he has worked with my patients from professional athletes to weekend warriors with truly remarkable results. Wether you are a physical therapist, strength trainer, or someone who just wants to get really ”functionally” strong: This book is a must read.
Andre Drummond (verified owner) –
Great book! This book is a must have for any fitness professional’s library. Tons of new and creative exercises with detailed instruction and demonstration to go along with it. Whether you’ve been a coach for days or decades, this book makes designing programs fun and easy for any athlete or client.
Andrew Lancaster (verified owner) –
A must own for anyone into fitness training. Well written with concise explanations and great examples of how to apply functional training principles to actual exercise programming. This is an excellent resource!
Dave G. (verified owner) –
I am an Exercise Physiologist and research a lot. This is an excellent book!
kevin chaitoff (verified owner) –
Best personal training book I have ever read!
JC got me motivated to exercise and strengthen my core. In addition, by following his recommendations, I lost #12 pounds of fat and scored a 6 pack set of abs….Thank You JC!
NK (verified owner) –
What an amazing book. The improvements I have made physically after reading this have been tremendous. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in brining your physical fitness to the next level.
Abby Heffern (verified owner) –
This book sets the standard for functional training, and as a new student at IHPU, it completely changed the way I approach programming. JC’s detailed compilation of exercises and progressions makes this a must-have for any fitness professional, coach, or athlete–and his deliberate application of these exercises within program design makes you take a second look at what you’ve been doing and why.
samuelchimezie (verified owner) –
Great content !!!