I was receiving requests from some of my coaches to write about the barbell hip thrust. They knew I didn’t buy into it, yet I had remained silent. They were tiring of the market pressure for them to conform, and wanted me to make a statement. So I began to prepare, to research. Didn’t take […]
Prior to the publishing of the Lines of Movement concept in the late 1990s no-one gave a ‘rats-arse’ (an Australian colloquialism) about the glutes. At least no one outside of a therapy clinic. Twenty years later the glutes have been given the same prime time rating as the Swis ball got in the late 1990s. […]
The Golden State Warriors were 1-3 down to the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 NBA Finals Playoffs when Kevin Durant made a return to the court after about a month layoff with a calf injury. His presence made a difference and the Golden State won the game, taking the playoffs to 2-3. Kevin paid the […]
In Australia the name Brian Kerle is synonymous with basketball. Here are a few reasons why – Represented Australian in basketball including the 1972 Olympics Assistant coach Australian team 2nd on all time NBL Championships won as coach (4) 2nd (Equal) on all time Grand Finals Games as coach (12) 3rd on all times NBL […]
During the 1980s I began to research methods of categorizing strength exercises. By the end of this decade I had developed a concept I called ‘Lines of Movement’. After trialling this method for about ten years, I released details of this and other methods I had developed for categorizing exercises. I structure this organization under […]
In the 1950 and 1960s strength training began to appear in US sport. In 1969 Boyd Epley became the first full-time strength coach hired in the US college system. However the dominant belief at that time about strength training was that it made you slower. As an excellent example of this are the words attributed […]
In the early stage of my coaching career I was exposed to the belief that studying, internalizing and implementing the latest trends in training was an optimal path for improving coaching competency. During my first decade of professional development (the 1980s) I embraced this paradigm. However as I entered my second decade (the 1990s) I […]
20 years ago the bodybuilding community got its first taste of Get Buffed!™ when a series of programs were published in the online magazine t-mag.com (as it was known then). “Ian King has gained a great deal of popularity amidst the hard-working and smart-working core of bodybuilders who want a more complete understanding of […]
Steve Oliver was trained by Master Rickson Gracie (9th Degree) & Marcello Rezende (4th Degree). He holds a Black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He has more than 20 years of experience in BJJ with a further 11 years of boxing experience. Not to mention over 10 years of power lifting and over 4 years […]
A young adult was watching a physical coach performing a pre-training static stretch with a large group of young athletes. They turned to those around them and said: “You know they are wasting their time!?” The coach whose professional implementation judgments they were calling into question was myself. The year was 2018. Which type of […]