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 […]