ACL KNEE INJURY...
ROTATOR CUFF DYSFUNCTION...
HELP PREVENT
COMPETITIVE INJURIES

WITH A FUNCTIONAL
APPROACH TO TRAINING

"How do you avoid an ACL knee injury, rotator cuff dysfunction, and other common competitive sports injuries?" Injury prevention should be the focus of program design for all competitive athletes. During the competitive season, most athletes often have limited time to adequately prepare their body to handle the imposed demands of their choice of athletic sport(s).

Some injuries are inevitable and will happen to the most prepared because of the "collision" impact of most competitive sports. On the other hand, most injuries can easily be avoided by being functionally prepared. Think about it, a much lower risk of an ACL knee injury, rotator cuff dysfunction, and other competitive injuries.

THE BEST WAY TO TREAT ANY INJURY IS PREVENTION

To lower the risk and possibly avoid injuries all together, it is important to understand and implement the appropriate exercises and progressions to safely and comprehensively prepare the human body to improve its movement capabilities without incurring injury. With this mindset, most injuries like an ACL knee injury, rotator cuff dysfunction, and any other competitive injury can be avoided. "How is this to be achieved?" The answer is an integrated approach using Functional Training!

"THE HUMAN BODY IS DESIGNED FOR MOVEMENT!"

A simplified look at the human body would serve as a great starting point to better understand the efficiency of functional training and how this training methodology can effectively be applied.

The construction of the human body reveals a master design. It is a work in progress and it is highly adaptable to a variety of conditions and stresses. The human body is a unit, a kinetic chain, where movement is more than just individual muscles contracting and relaxing. Each link in the kinetic chain has a specific role to play and each link is part of an integrated whole resulting in efficient flowing movement!

To better understand, imagine when a baseball player is throwing a baseball. The entire shoulder complex must work efficiently as a unit to accelerate and decelerate the arm as it moves at a high rate of speed. If the shoulder complex and muscles surrounding it are not properly prepared, a predictable pattern of dysfunction and injury occurs. Proper training of the shoulder complex enhances dynamic function of both the shoulder and arm during functional movement patterns.

Normal function of the major joints of the human body is crucial for both optimum performance and injury prevention. Having abnormal joint function produces poor movement patterns, faulty muscle activation patterns, early muscle and body fatigue, and ultimately injury. Training functional movement patterns will allow greater carry-over of the functional exercise to the sport motions being performed because of the muscular activation patterns are more similiar to the movements required in the sport. In other words, functional training will increase your body's chances of getting rid of wasted movements that "feed" into patterns of dysfunction and injury!

SUMMARY

The purpose of Functional Training exercises is to improve performance. Therefore, all training that improves performance is by definition functional. No matter how you choose to look at it, just know this - functional training exercises will help you tap into the "Wisdom" of your body!

ARE YOU READY TO DEVELOP STRENGTH YOU CAN USE?

STRENGTH TRAINING ROUTINES

FITNESS TRAINING PROGRAMS

SPORTS TRAINING PROGRAMS

STRETCHING FOR INJURY REHABILITATION

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