Gray Cook

Gray Cook, the author of Athletic Body in Balance, is a practicing physical therapist and a lecturer for Functional Movement Systems, Perform Better, Titleist, Dragon Door, North American Sports Medicine Institute and other industry leaders. He works with professional athletes and teams in a variety of sports, and regularly contributes material to text books in the field of physical therapy and sports conditioning.

As I began my work with Gray at the end of 2009, I knew of him as the guy who created the Functional Movement Screen, and a guy who commanded my attention whenever he popped up in an instructional video or podcast. He’s one of those brilliant instinctive guys, so much so that his seminar participants sit in amazement, and wish some of that vision would rub off on them just by watching.

I knew all this about him, but what I didn’t know was how hard working he’d be, or how attentive to my publishing needs. The six months we spent editing, rewriting and adding material to the new book Movement turned out to be his busiest travel season of the year. And yet each morning new material would show up in my email box, each day’s additions more interesting than the previous.

Anyone involved in the science and art of human movement will find something unexpected on every page of Gray’s new book, a one-liner that will leave you pondering for hours. Movement is at the printer now, and will be available in late July.