Charles DeFrancesco is the owner of Fit and Functional and Consultant
to Pure Fitness Group with locations in Westchester and Greenwich. His
company owns and operates personal training and corporate wellness
programs in these facilities. Charles is also the head consultant to
Westchester Sports and Wellness in Eastchester, New York and enjoys
working with many local schools to assist with creating fun and eective
exercise programs for kids.
Charles specializes in trainer education, fuctional assessments, exibility
and treatment of sports injuries. He is certied by the National Academy
of Sports Medicine (NASM), National Federation of Professional Trainers
(NFPT) and Equinox Fitness Group (Prenatal Certied). He has specialty
certicates for Functional Exercise Specialist, Cardiac Conditions (AFPA),
attended Equinox Fitness Training Institute (EFTI) and has attended and
hosted numerous strength and condition seminars.
Along with these certications, Mr. DeFrancesco is a a contributing author
to the NFPT Certied Personal Trainer manual (NFPT Study & Reference
Manual: The Fundamentals) and has assisted NFPT with the creation of
various courses to include advanced trainer workshops. Charles has also
written continuing education courses approved by the American
Council on Exercise (ACE) and National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Charles is the Director of Continuing Education at NFPT and has been a
Board member for over 4 years.
Mr. DeFrancesco is the main author of this book, Functional Foundations:
The Principle of Functional Training, and has written numerouse articles
and presented lectures on the essentials of core rehabilitation and
exibility. Some of his work can be seen on PTontheNet and Personal
Trainer Today.com. Charles’ active research and implementation of
rehabilitation and conditioning of himself and his clients has been
essential in the prevention of injuries as well as the preformance
enhancement. Mr. DeFrancesco continues to work with clients and
doctors from a number of erent disciplines to set up programs and
appropriate training sta for their respective rehabilitation facilities.
Dr. Robert Inesta earned his Doctor of Chiropractic degree at New York
Chiropractic College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was
inducted into the Phi Chi Omega Honor Society. He was the recipient of
the Frank DiGiacomo Technique Award for distinguished excellence in
manual adjusting procedures, and the Levittown Health Center Award
for distinguished excellence in diagnosis and case management.Dr. Inesta is a certied Chiropractic Sports Practitioner and Certied
Strength and Conditioning Specialist. His extensive post graduate training
consists of functional rehabilitation, functional soft tissue therapy and
biomechanics, clinical neurophysiology and electrodiagnosis and
nutrition. He is certied provider of Active Release Techniques, Graston
Technique and Kinesiotaping.Dr. Inesta’s main goal is to help his patients to reach their goals in the most
ecient and eective way. He is sonsistently pursuing new information
and treatment methods in order to provide the most cutting-edge care
package.He has worked with a wide variety of patients, including athletes at the
high school, college and professional levels, post operative patients,
pregnant women and children. He has lectured on topics including sports
medicine, functional training, biomechanics, injury prevention and
nutrition and has co-authored articles on functional training.For more information vist us online at: http://www.NFPT.com