Functional Training for Sports by
Michael Boyle
Must Have For Personal Trainers
Reach a higher level of athleticism with Functional Training for Sports!
Functional training is a complete system of athletic development that
focuses on training the body the way it will be used in competition, making
it the most efficient and effective form of training today. Author Mike
Boyle, renowned strength and conditioning coach formerly with the Boston
Bruins, addresses movement, body positions, and abilities that are
essential for success in competition. Through Functional Training for
Sports, you will improve your total athleticism, enhance your performance,
and reduce injuries through exercise progressions that will spur your
development potential for specific movement patterns you commonly use
in your sport. Providing tests for you to determine where to start, the
progressions focus on training for the torso, the upper body, and the lower
body. The book also provides detailed programs that incorporate the
exercises and methods for these progressions. As you master each
progression, you will be preparing yourself to perform in any situation with

notable improvements in stability and balance, reaction time, core strength,
and power.
This whole-body, sport-applied system makes Functional Training for
Sports your key to todays most effective and efficient training!
Personal Review: Functional Training for Sports by Michael
Boyle
I have been reading and working out with this book for a couple of weeks,
and I am very pleased. It is clear and concise (for the most part, I had
trouble deciphering a few of the exercise descriptions). I especially like
how he organizes the exercises by body area and then by difficulty. This
helps me design my workout, even as I progress in strength.
One warning, he uses a certain level of technical jargon. He occasionally
uses terms such as flexion and extension (as in "flex the knees" or "extend
the hips"), abduction, and some of the anatomical names of joints (as in
"Scapulothoracic Joint," the joint between the shoulder blade and rib
cage). If you don't know these words, you probably will still do ok with the
book. However, the tone of the book is more geared towards an athletic
trainer or a fairly curious individual who is training himself.
I am not a trainer, but I am in massage therapy school. I have more than
the average knowledge and curiosity about body movement, so I
especially like the explanation and theory he gives for this training
approach. As some reviewers have pointed out, he doesn't present
scientific research. He presents his own findings from his experience, and
the experience of some his colleagues around the USA, with training
athletes at many levels.
Personally, I have experimented with a variety of training approaches, and
his findings resonate with what I have learned through my own experience.
These exercises make sense to me, and I feel that they are working really
well for me. That's enough for me, but I'm no elite athlete and I'm not
training any elite athletes, either. If your career is on the line, or something
like that, maybe you will want more air-tight evidence before you commit to
this system.
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