About GAIN
GAIN’s mission is provide a global platform for education, innovation and motivation in athletic development. GAIN focuses on the possibilities for enhancing human movement through an emphasis on connections between all disciplines to enable adaptable athletes to reach their full potential.
The GAIN Conference started in 2007 with 12 attendees and 4 instructors and has grown to nearly 100 attendees from all over the world. GAIN is a community of professionals eager to learn and willing to share ideas and information. Members come from a variety of backgrounds: athletic development coaches, sport coaches, physical therapists, ATCs, doctors, and physical education teachers.
GAIN is not about more exercises, sets, reps and training methods it is about passionate people who pursue excellence with honesty, integrity and respect to make a difference in the lives of the people we coach and teach.
About Vern Gambetta
Vern Gambetta is the founder of GAIN. He is widely regarded as the founding father of functional sports training and the author of several books including “Athletic Development.” He has been coaching for nearly 50 years, gathering experience across nearly every sport imaginable:
- Track & Field: Co-founder of USA Track & Field coaching education program. Edited Track Technique, the technical journal of USA Track & Field. Associate editor of the IAAF technical journal, New Studies in Athletics.
- Baseball: Director of Athletic Development, New York Mets. As Director of Conditioning pioneered conditioning for baseball with model program for Chicago White Sox. Consultant to Cincinnati Reds and the University of Texas.
- Basketball: Assistant conditioning coach for Chicago Bulls. Conditioning coach for Canadian National men’s team and the Canadian women’s team.
- Soccer: Conditioning coach for Tampa Bay Mutiny. Conditioning Coach for US Men’s World Cup team. Conditioning coach for New England Revolution. Consultant to Chicago Fire. Consultant, University of Virginia Women’s Soccer. Consultant, University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer.
- Hockey: Consulted with San Jose Sharks.
- Tennis: Conditioning coach for Monica Seles. Consultant Billy Stearns Tennis Academy, Sarasota, FL.
- Softball: Consultant to Australian women’s softball, bronze medalists Olympics.
- Swimming: Consultant to the Carmel Swim Club, Harvard University Women’s Swimmimg. Consultant to University of Michigan women’s swimming, Consultant, Kenyon College Swimming. Consultant to Mission Viejo Natadores.
- American Football: Consultant to San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.
GAIN Faculty
Each year GAIN invites world-renowned experts in a variety of fields to participate at GAIN. Below are some of our faculty members over the years:
- Vince Anderson
- Mike Bahn
- Randy Ballard
- Martin Bingisser
- Jack Blatherwick
- Frans Bosch
- Dean Benton
- Daniel Cipriani
- Ken Clark
- Frank Dick
- Clay Erro
- Landon Evans
- David Epstein
- Tracy Fober
- Nick Folker
- Nick Garcia
- Greg Gatz
- Homayun Gharavi
- Kelvin Giles
- Grace Golden
- Finn Gunderson
- Nick Hill
- David Joyner
- Michael Joyner
- John Kiely
- Bill Knowles
- Steve Magness
- James Marshall
- Brian McCormick
- Steve Myrland
- Dan Noble
- Lachlan Penfold
- John Perry
- Ryan Podell
- John Pryor
- Joe Przytula
- Jimmy Radcliffe
- Angus Ross
- Ed Ryan
- Stephen Seiler
- Greg Thompson
- Peter Vint
- Chris Webb
- Peter Weyand
- Gary Winckler
- Leonard Zaichkowsky
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