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    2007 NSCA Presentation

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    By Vern Gambetta on July 15, 2007 Vern Gambetta's Blog

    LONDON — The prosthetic legs double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius uses provide less air resistance than normal legs, the IAAF said Monday.

    The following is the introduction and summary of my presentation at the 2007 NSCA Conference. I will post my comments on the conference tomorrow.

    Following the Functional Path

    Everything Old is New Again

    Goals

    Challenge

    Inspire

    Provoke

    Educate

    Define the field of Athletic Enhancement

    What I am going to say may not be particularly profound if you look at the individual parts of this presentation; but when you step back and look at the whole presentation you will learn.

    Let?s use today as a jumping–off point. This is where we are:

    The bottom-line tends to be the bottom–line

    The focus is on ?super? exercises and ?magic muscles?

    The means and the end are not connected

    ?Not only is the old becoming today?s new?most coaches do not know what the old was.? Kevin McGill

    Yesterday is gone ? the future is now

    Learn from the past ? Successes as well as failures

    The Story

    Following the Functional Path to Building and Rebuilding the Complete Athlete

     

    Change is constant

    Coaches lead change

    Coaches = ?Change engineers? Kelvin Giles

    Building on Old Concepts

    Are we limiting ourselves?

    Is it evolution or revolution?

    Back to the future ? Very little that is new

    Buzzwords, Fads, Myths, Half Truths, and Lies

    Functional Training Core Training/Stabilization

    Closed Chain Alignment

    Stability Ab Obsession

    Lactate & Soreness Need to ?Feel the Burn?

    Fit for what? Aerobic Base

    Good Feet Fooling `em with the 40

    Machines are safer Rotation is dangerous

    Problems

    Early specialization

    Lack of fundamental movement skills and a general fitness base

    Extended competitive seasons

    Decline in quality of coaching

    Dominance of equipment ? Marketing

    Explosion of injuries

    Recommendations to Define the Field

    Do not trivialize ? Do not try to pick the fly poop out of the pepper

    Seek knowledge rather than information

    Specialize in being a generalist

    Get a mentor not a guru

    Achieve mastery

    Be a leader, not a follower

    Understand the spectrum of the demands in the sport you are working with

    Training is more than exercises and training methodology ? it is application of the principles of sport science and sound pedagogy

    Beware of the ?Sheep Walking? phenomenon

    Think, Think, Think

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