Weight training makes you better at handling weight. In performance and life it is not sheer weight lifting strength but a succession of small skills, angles, varied positions, balance, and leverages that are the real determinants of strength, but that type of strength is not measurable, weightlifting strength is measurable. Resistance training through a spectrum teaches how to use and apply strength in motion, to use momentum, to use position. It provides the background for the solution of the ongoing problem of human movement.
Vern is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several MLS teams as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men's World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets. He has lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe and has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He has a BA in teaching with a coaching minor and an MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.