Reviews

This book is an ocean of valuable information that will help you get the most out of your clients, patients, or both. There is so much detailed information and supportive data to provide a rock solid rationale to understand the importance of functional movement for screening, assessment, and corrective strategies.

This is a book that you will refer to again and again to understand fundamental human movement patterns and how to apply sound principles to allow the people you work to have a strong foundation, before loading them with weights. That just makes perfect sense. As Gray puts it, "Don't put fitness on dysfunction." This is what is so remarkable about the FMS approach.

The information is this book will allow you to better serve your clients and meet their goals safely, based on proper screening and corrective strategies that may be necessary. You're short changing the people you work with, if you don't read and apply the material covered in this book. This is such a tremendous and highly valuable book that I can't say enough about. You will constantly refer back to it and it will change your perspective on how you work with your clients or patients.

Also, a great complimentary resource is movemementbook.com. Be sure to take advantage of that, as well. Cheers and well done!

I have read and re-read this book many times over. The margins are filled with notes, paragraphs are highlighted, and paper clips are stuck throughout to mark pages. It seems every time I pick it up, I read something else of value and say, "How did I miss that before?"

Gray Cook and his team have done a superb job of laying out the details with FMS.

Highly recommend

I have been to a FMS seminar. I am certified In the functional movment screen. I have been using it for the past year with my clients or at least i thought I had. I had certainly found people with good movement and people with bad movement. When I found a poor pattern I would throw exercises from the book at it like 00 buckshot hoping that something would work. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. Of course I thought " I'm an awesome trainer, I'll just coach the bad pattern right out of them." After reading the book It slapped the stupid right out of me. I am now on my way to using the FMS like it was designed to help restore good movement pattern to every person that I can. It explains everything you need to know to start using this system in passionate, conclusive way.

Gray takes some time to explain why he wrote the book but once I got over that I was almost overwhelmed by the length & depth of the detail.

As a coach and competitor I agree with erring on the side of caution. Go to the Professional. He also asks that we look deeper into basic movement patterns and rectify basic movement deficiencies before teaching new skills.

The screening process does a simply, thorough job within the scope of any diligent coach, and if you value your athletes this is a must.

All in all a very enlightening book that some may find heavy going - but worth the effort.

The book is a must have for every "FMS guy".
It is a comprehensive and full view of Gray system.

Even if you're not an "FMS guy" by definition, but you're interested in screening and assesments that's the kind of stuff you should be searching for.

Movement will move you..."the best laid plans often go wrong."-(Robert Burns). If you have plans for today, your expirience will stem from your fundamental perception. Perception is as simple as the "allegory of the cave"; even a child can comprehend it's logic. What you see is not always what you get. We must understand what cannot be seen by the eye. Almost an infinite number components make up a single expirience. "Movement" has helped to micro- and macromanage the fundemental expirience processor, the body. This body did not need this book to move, but I know this body will "First move well, and then move often"-(Gray Cook). "Things live by moving and gain strenght as they go"-(Bruce Lee). Gray Cook's "Movement" is a sign of life; buy it, borrow it, get it some way, you won't be dissapointed.

When Gray Cook speaks, the training and therapy world listens. Great great book. If you are familiar with the FMS approach, this will reconfirm your beliefs in the need to have a comprehensive screening process. If this is your first contact with Cook and his team, this will create and new way in which you view all movement. Gray Cook is very thorough in all of his work and this is no exception. Some might think it is information overload, but it all has a purpose. Make sure you read from start to finish. Do not skip ahead. This "skipping ahead" is the problem with our current approach to fitness and movement. The application of this material will take you and your clients beyond the fitness freaks who think that the more you sweat, grunt and puke, the better (and tougher) you are.
Matt Marchant
Marchant Training Method

Well what can I say another great product from Dragondoor.

Grey Cook's book Functional Movement Systems is a fantastic tool for PT's and other health professional.

It is great to finally see a book that we all can use to benifit our clients or paitents.

I am wondering if you are going to run some FMS courses in Australia.

I live in Perth Western Australia and would like to do this course as I believe it would reinforce the knowledge I have gained from this book.

Thanks again for a great product DRAGONDOOR.

Darren Skelton
www.bodymindconditioning.com.au
www.aikidoyoshinkanwa.com.au

If you have had the good fortune to attend the FMS seminar, you know that Gray Cook is knowledgeable, enthusiastic, passionate....about the way that we move. The 400 pages of this book "recap" the "live" FMS and then some!! It will be maintaining a "front row" position in my health and fitness library.

The information packed in this book is a must have for any serious trainer of anyone serious about their own training. There are so many strong fundamental points made in this book you will need to read it several times, I cant thank Cook and Burton enough for have an incredible system and standing by it.