Entries by Ian King

14 signs that the collapse of the modern world has began  

An excellent article has been placed on the KSI forum (http://bit.ly/sb6ILE) – ’14 signs that the collapse of the modern world has began’.  Consistent with our holistic approach to training, we cover all topics that affect your lifes. Not everyone wants to be exposed to this, however that is none of our business. Our business […]

Update re KSI Coaching Program  

With the increased interest in our coaching program, combined with our growing awareness of how unique, special and powerful our coaching programs are, we recognize the need to simply and streamline the program, allowing all to investigate whether this is a fit for them, and progress along the path up to at least the level […]

Caught in the web of confusion re stretching  

I recently received this excellent question that I believe typifies the mess most find themselves in due to the way information is brokered and thinking controlled by those seeking to be the gatekeepers: Subject: To Ian King, About your article in T-Mag #89 (Lazy Man’s Guide..) Please Help Hello, I really need help about stretching […]

The child and the injury – Pt 2  

The older sibling was not at our 10 year old team training. He was waiting at the car with him mother, waiting for his younger brother to finish. The mother said to me: “Did you know that ‘Peter’* did a grade two strain of his calf on the weekend?” The boy’s 12 years old. It’s […]

The child and the injury – Pt 1  

There we were, ten or so ten year old boys and myself – in the middle of the oval, in a circle – conducting the pre-training stretching routine as I do. As I have done for over thirty years. Obviously it has evolved somewhat, and this version is adapted to the age group and time […]

Economic reflections of a coach  

I was tucking my son into bed recently when he “Dad, can you explain to me why you say there are big problems with the economy?” As any parent would know, this is not the best time to engage in a high level discussion, however he asked, and I did my best. That was my […]

The Top Five Dumbest Exercises

My motivation for writing this article is the continual damage to bodies and wasting of time and energy I witness on a daily basis. For the last thirty years I have worked in physical preparation to save people from damaging their bodies and wasting their time with inappropriate training methods and exercises. Perhaps naively I […]

Burnt at the stake

One more time won’t kill me In 1997 I labelled the 1980s as the decade of aerobic training: You could call the eighties the decade of researching aerobic training, –King, I., 1997, Winning and Losing And I challenged the dominant values of that decade, only to be figuratively speaking burnt at the stake as a […]

He never did – a lesson in gratification

A young personal trainer wrote to me and said something along these lines: I am a (hopefully) up and coming strength coach …. He never became a strength and conditioning coach. He later wrote to say something like this: I plan on returning … in the spring and will be trying to get in touch with […]