The Practical Exploration and Developmental Reflection of Functional Training-Team China

Under the profound background of professionalized and commercialized world's competitive sports, the high intensity and concentrated schedule of competitions put forward new demands on athletes' physical capacity, which also bring in the evolution of traditional strength and conditioning training.The prosperity of American professional sport in recent years advanced the development and progression of principles and methods in performance training area.The Chinese Olympic Committee collaborated with the Athletes' Performance, which is a representative organization of US training system, during the preparing time of London Olympics.This cooperation successful brought the new training concepts and methods to national teams.This article introduces the three main parts including FMS test, Physical therapy and Functional training, analyzes the revealed problems and makes a conclusive comment on the practical exploration of Functional Training-Team China.Towards the stage of domestic strength and conditioning field, coach's education system and development of professional association, critically inheriting abroad training systems as well as constructing native characteristic system, the article gives revelations and also provides with relevant suggestions to the future development direction of Chinese performance training.