Online Courses: Purpose Driven

Balance

The Time of Transformation

Gary Gray says balance is the key to everything. He has worked with everything from senior citizens to world class athletes and what he believes distinguishes a successful athlete isn’t only their strength, stamina, or speed, it’s often their ability to balance and to recover quickly. In this course, Gary explores the exciting functional world of balance. Accompany Gary as he explains the pure essence of balance and displays training techniques such as the Balance Matrix Warm-Up and Balance Reach Tests in three-dimensions.

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ACL Prevention

Threshold Training

It seems that there is no more common or potentially devastating injury in sports than the torn ACL. But, what can be done, not so much to repair the torn ACL, but to prevent the injury from happening in the first place. For answers, we turn to one of Americas leaders in training and rehab, Gary Gray. In this course, Gary explores and explains the proper Function of the ACL.

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An Overview of Applied Functional Science™

Our Gray Institute online educational module entitled An Overview of Applied Functional Science™ is presented in three logical parts. Part One describes Applied Functional Science™ as the convergence and integration of the physical sciences, biological sciences, and behavioral sciences. These three sciences are individually defined and their significance to their contribution to Applied Functional Science™ is outlined. In Part One you will gain an appreciation for how Applied Functional Science™ takes us on a journey.

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Jump-Jop-Hop

Load Better to Explode Better

Jump-Jop-Hop Explosion is a workout designed to functionally enhance the body’s ability to perform “ in this case, the body’s ability to defy gravity. The workout is not only intended to increase one’s vertical, but also to protect one from injury, as well as to improve one’s strength, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, coordination, agility, power, speed, and reaction.

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Balance Escalation

The Synonymy of Balance and Motion

Balance is a much-needed (and often-forgotten) area of focus for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance.  Balance Escalation is a workout designed to strategically, three-dimensionally, and sequentially improve balance.  Balance is a component of fitness that dramatically influences one's strength, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance.  This workout properly blends balance with motion to greater expand one's functional threshold to allow one to better perform in any task, activity, or sport.  A great feature of this workout is how it uses authentic motion - such as foot "

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Core Conversion

Training the Core to Functionally Do More

The Core Conversion workout is an efficient and effective way to train the body’s true “core” – the nose to the toes – in all three planes of motion, utilizing a strategic sequencing of lifts, lunges, squats, squat thrusts, and push-ups. This workout is the perfect blend of strength training, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance that trains the body to not only feel better, but to function better.

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