I received an email from the NSCA that was unique in my 30+ years of membership. They recognised my long-term membership, and sought my opinion. I don’t recall that ever happening before. So I shared it with them. At the end of the questionnaire there was a box to tick if you were happy for […]
I’m going to give you a brief economics lesson because we are holistic teachers. So if you find that boring or offensive, you can shut down, close the email and go back to whatever you are going. After all I know there are many who, for whatever reason, have interest only for the narrow focus […]
With the Australian central ‘bank’, the Reserve ‘Bank’ of Australia, cutting interest rates to an all-time low, many industry commentators came out and put their spin on the decision. Amongst them was the incumbent governments Treasurer, who suggested: “”Now is the time to borrow and invest, whether you be a household or small business – […]
Many have noted the rise of popularity of the strength sports, particularly Olympic and power lifting. A spin off from the training facilities offering ‘Crossfit’, many suggest, which is a positive for the respective strength sports (and equipment suppliers to these sports!) What has also become apparent is the trends in training in some circles. […]
Shortly after the ‘stretching before training and games is bad’ paradigm raised up in the late 1990s, a default position was also promoted – to stretch afterwards. Ironic (or tragic) in that in my opinion for the most part, those promoting this position don’t stretch and have low competency and personal scores in flexibility. I […]
The new athlete said to me: “I do my mobility work and then I feel good for a while but during the workout I feel all stiff again.” I said: “Before we go any further I just to make it clear I don’t use the word ‘mobility’, at least not in the way it is […]
I recently received a email where the writer asked: “ Dear Ian, I’ve come across your single leg 2 part routine limping into October online. This I believe is the gold dust I have been looking for. I’ve been attempting to create something similar to this without realizing it! Is this something you would still […]
I was near the finish line at a high school yesterday watching over 100 thirteen to fourteen year old boys complete a cross country race. As I do everywhere I studied their shape and development. Apart from the expected changes some were experiencing consistent with entering the early teen age years, there was another noticeable […]
Belle Gibson admits lies http://a.msn.com/09/en-au/AAbxp2B What do you think about a person lying about their cancer story to promote themselves? Personally, I think it’s unacceptable for any person to use a fraudulent cancer story to promote themselves. In fact, I think its unacceptable for a person to promote themselves on cancer at all. I suspect […]
One of the great challenges for a person (including the ‘professional’ coach/consultant) is to design a strength training program around a body part or line of movement specialisation program. This challenge was reflected in this question i received from a KSI client: Since I no longer train for sporting prowess/performance (basketball and track), but simply […]