Movement: Functional Movement Systems: Screening, Assessment, Corrective Strategies

I highly recommend this book for those who want to find new insights on ways to critique their athletic performance and improve their overall well-being. Both my long-distance running and yoga postural work is on a new and better qualitative plateau through implementing his approach on regaining fundamental movement skills through intelligent and dynamic whole-body exercises. I especially appreciate his philosophical discourse on human development and self-limiting exercises.I now use barefoot running as my default way to run. I happily engage in those mindful 'tune-ups' and energetic 'test runs' because I can see real improvements. I use my barefoot running and yoga postural work to gain new insights on how they compliment and improve each other.I have more understanding of my dysfunctions by studying this book. My guess is postural refinements can be made by everyone no matter how good these patterns may be as long we appreciate and respect nature's gift to us,'movement'. Cook is especially aware of creating neural pathways when automatic resetting of fundamental movement skills fails to spontaneously emerge.I also like his pithy saying such as: Move well and move often...and don't build sports specific training on fundamental movement dysfunctions.New York Times writer Broad would not be so negatively criticized by the yoga community at large if they could temper their critiques by first evaluating their own and their students' basic movement skills to see how 'authentic' they really are, After all, Dr Loren Fishman during his webinar at "Yoga-U Online" mentions how injuries while doing 'Hero Pose' are mostly incurred by yoga teachers themselves.Postures that injure the hamstring tendon at the sit-bone are well known to be epidemic in the yoga community. Gray Cook's and Doug Keller's insights on muscular engagement and whole body movements go a long way to both identify postural problems and apply remedial techniques to both heal and regain better postural health for both our sports and 'practices' and for our everyday movements in life.

I think it's safe to say this book's verdict is out: it's excellent. There is gold here just in getting more ways to relate the concepts to patients/clients because Cook does a great job giving analogies. There is some repetition, but it feels like repeating key concepts and/or allowing chapters to stand on their own. It's not a book you just sit down and read. You have to take notes, think about what he's saying, and even take time to do more research. Cook's website movementbook.com has loads of supplemental information and getting certified in FMS allows you access to forums.I bought the Kindle version a couple of years ago, and I rebought the book to get the PDF version from the publisher's website (otpbooks.com). You get the Kindle and ePub formats as well for the same price. It's sometimes difficult to read textbooks in Kindle format, but it's nice to have there since it's smaller and more portable than an iPad. I think textbooks are better suited to stay in PDF format because the pictures and diagrams make sense.

Amazing book. Very under rated. I am a trainer exercise science major aspiring med school student and this is still the best book I have ever read. Most relevant. I do recommend supplementing the read with other material or you may get lost if you are just entering the world of fascial lining and tissue in general.This book will make you a more competent health professional and provide a lot of answers to questions you might have otherwise went to the grave asking. Questions as simple as why does the hip compensate when squatting when flexibility is within normal functioning range in all the lower extremities.Also find answers to questions as complex as. When squat looks functional within reason, with minimal compensation but client (be it yourself of someone else) experiences pain on the return or deceleration phase of the mid part of a squat. You will learn the facial meridians, lines they intersect and the importance and correlation between regions of the body you would have otherwise never thought of. Simple things like rehabilitative fixes for issues like this and many others.

You will probably learn a few things from this book but i was a little off put by the author's communication style where he goes on an on about stuff and tends to repeat himself in different ways throughout the book.Book needs a heaping dose of brevity and specificity, and dare i say i thought it needed a few more pictures in it . I'm still going to give it 4 stars though because everyone else in the fitness industry started taking ideas from this text.If you are interested in sports training, coaching or just healthy, pain free physical improvement in general without wanting to sift through a bunch of crap i would get Mike Boyle's 'Advances in Functional Training.'

I understand both how and why some people may be overwhelmed by this book. It is quite comprehensive and probably not suited for the beginning practitioner.For many, this work may raise more questions than it answers.However, this reformation of approach to fitness training and the healing arts is nothing short of genius.Granted, as comprehensive as 'Movement' is, when you have finished reading you are not even half way down the rabbit hole.There is a series of tools available for you to begin to master the processes of correctives.Personally, after being a fitness professional for over 20 years I have thoroughly incorporated the concepts from this book and FMS certification into my practice. I look forward to further research into the usage of the functional movement screen.Kudos to the author on his concepts and principles.

Great book! I wish the book had a hard cover, but I don't regret the purchase.

0bRead thoroughly for best results, we really need to apply these simple yet effective methodologies in our daily routine for a really fit body

This book is amazing. Physical trainers that work with top athletes have to study and not only to read books like this. I can recognize people that dedicated all the life to the high quality studies and applications and that are really expert like Gray Cook and team or Michael Boyle or others. Hope you guys to meet in some place to share my method with you. Thanks to write this masterpiece. Gianluca Carbone Tennis Coach and Physical trainer author of The Awareness Game.

All books of this author if you want to learn about functional training

Excelente libro!