The Complete Idiot's Guide to Functional Training Illustrated teaches readers how to prepare their bodies for everyday activities, whether it's shoveling snow from a driveway or carrying a suitcase around the airport, without throwing out their backs or waking up the next morning as stiff as a board. Unlike books on resistance training, which focus on appearance and on isolating muscles for maximum development, the goal of functional training is to get the various muscle groups to work together to accomplish real-life activities in real-life positions. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Functional Training Illustrated provides readers with a complete program to improve their functional fitness goals, including: bull; bull;A functional fitness self-assessment. bull;Over 120 exercises using resistance bands, wobble boards, kettlebells, medicine balls, and one's own body weight. bull;Beginning, intermediate, and advanced exercises that target one's current fitness level and allow for further development. bull;Over 300 photographs demonstrating the proper movement for each exercise bull;Warm-up and cool-down exercises. bull;Sample workout plans that enable readers to get personalized results. Justin Price, MA, is the owner of The BioMechanics, a personal training and functional fitness facility in San Diego, California.

He is the 2006 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year and its National Personal Training Spokesperson. He works with clients of all ages and abilities to help them function better so they can achieve their health and fitness goals. As a well-known international presenter and advocate of functional fitness, Price educates other fitness professionals in his methods throughout the year with seminars, workshops, DVDs, and articlesmany of which focus on the basic elements of functional fitness training. He also maintains a hands-on role working with clients at The BioMechanics' facility and has been a consultant for NBC, Newsweek, The New York Times, The LA Times, WebMD.com, Women's Health and Fitness, Men's Health and Fitness, Shape Magazine, Self Magazine, and The American Council on Exercise. Frances Sharpe is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Medical Tourism. She has ghostwritten a dozen consumer health books for some of the nation's most renowned physicians in addition to having written hundreds of articles for major magazines, including Health, AARP The Magazine, and Women's Health and Fitness.