Personal trainers. There are some great ones. It is a saturated field. It is very rare to find someone who has made a major impact in this area. Someone who has changed the landscape and continues to bring something new, something innovative, something scientific. I happen to know someone who has. That person is JC Santana.
Whenever I am in South Florida, I train with JC at his Institute of Human Performance (IHP). He has changed my life and helped me deal with long-standing injuries that were always aggravated by typical gym workouts. I needed something natural, simple, and safe. That is what JC teaches. He calls it functional training — and it is the future.
Almost every traditional gym features thousands of square feet filled with hundreds of pieces of equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. In stark contrast, JC’s functional training gym setup allows for lots of room as needed, with only some basic equipment around the perimeter. Functional training is about movement, not equipment. Therefore, a set of dumbbells, a kettlebell or two, a couple of medicine balls, a bench, some bands, and a few stability balls can allow anyone to turn a room, a parking lot, or an athletic field into a functional training area.
JC has a new book out entitled Functional Training. 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.
Almost every traditional gym features thousands of square feet filled with hundreds of pieces of equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. In stark contrast, JC’s functional training gym setup allows for lots of room as needed, with only some basic equipment around the perimeter. Functional training is about movement, not equipment. Therefore, a set of dumbbells, a kettlebell or two, a couple of medicine balls, a bench, some bands, and a few stability balls can allow anyone to turn a room, a parking lot, or an athletic field into a functional training area.
JC has a new book out entitled Functional Training. 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.
