Bruscia - The Functional Training Bible

Guido Bruscia

The Functional Training Bible

Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd.

2015 by Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd.

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Warning

Before you start any training, please consult your physician. The recommendations in this book are not to beconsidered as medical advice.
Those who use the techniques included in this text do so at their own personal risk.
The translation, digital storing, reproduction, and adaptation rights, whether total or partial, by any means(including micro-film and photostat copies) are reserved in all countries.

This book has been very carefully prepared, but no responsibility is taken for the correctness of the information it contains. Neither the author nor the publisher can assume liability for any damages or injuries resulting frominformation contained in this book.

To my family, for never failing to embrace me.

To Ester, my partner and muse, for our life together.

To my grandmother Sara, 106 years old, still functional today.

To Ernesto Rossi and Sabrina Parrello (and their children Ettore and Giovanni),

for their great, true and unconditional friendship.

This book was born many years ago and is the work of the author and of all those who have been for him, even if unaware of it, a source of inspiration and ideas:

Emilio They (a friend and master never mourned enough), Marco Neri, Steve Cotter, Michael Boyle, Robert Dos Remedios, Alwin Cosgrove, Martin Rooney, Stuart McGill, Todd Durkin, Josh Henkin, Michol Dalcourt, Gray Cook, Marc Lebert, and many others who, for reasons of space (and memory!), I cannot mention.

Thank you also to all the friends, students, and colleagues who follow me with affection and respect.

Here, too, I can do justice to only a few of them:

Eda Maistrelli, Roberto Braghiroli, Claudio Arena, Emanuele Gollinucci, Roberto Cappelletti, my students at the Hamazon courses in Piombino and Castiglione della Pescaia, Bruno and Serena and the Mensana gym staff in Grosseto, Marco Giannoni and the Palestra Azzurra gym staff in Follonica, Mirko, and Cesare and the Living Club gym staff in Piombino.

Thanks also to the companies that help me with my work:

Elika Editrice

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Ever since humankind appeared on earth, people have always interacted with the environment in their own way.

Civilization has brought infinite advantages to the life of human beings but has also made them weaker and more imperceptive. The senses of smell, hearing and touch, proprioception, and the various organic capacities have all undergone modifications in the course of evolution from our ancestors to the present day. The result is that, while on the one hand we live in heated homes, on the other, a gust of wind is enough to send us to bed with a fever (Marlo Morgan, E venne chiamata due cuori).

Galen, one of the fathers of medicine (131-201 AD), wrote in his work De sanitate tuenda:

...This is what I consider as physical exercise or gymnastics, a term connected with the gymnasium, where people go to anoint themselves, enjoy a massage, engage in wrestling, discus throwing or other sporting activities.