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VERN GAMBETTA hosts this website to share his insight and ideas on Functional Training and Rehabilitation. If you are an athlete, coach, physical therapist, athletic trainer, strength & conditioning coach, personal trainer interested in cutting-edge, optimized athletic development and rehabilitation techniques there is information here to help you. Vern is an internationally renowned coach, author and speaker who is recognized as a pioneer in Functional Training.

THE GAMBETTA METHOD represents a unique and innovative approach to training and rehabilitating athletes based on thirty plus years of experience working with a multitude of sports at all levels of competition.

What is Function? Full spectrum work, in multiple planes, using multiple joints, incorporating full range of motion that is proprioceptively demanding.

What is Functional Training? Training that incorporates a full spectrum of training methods, designed to elicit optimum adaptive response appropriate for the sport or activity being trained for.

• No one system of the body is emphasized to the exclusion of another.
• No one training method or physical quality becomes an end unto itself.
• Each athlete is a case study of one–
  respect the individual.
• Be real – Avoid artificial restraints and positions.

The goal of Functional Training is to develop Athleticism, the ability to perform athletic movements (Run, Jump, Throw, & Lift) with sound technique at optimum speed, with precision, style and grace within the context of your sport.

Meet Vern Gambetta and find out more about the Gambetta Method.