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 […]
In this podcast Ian King chats with Eric Chessen, founder of Autism Fitness. The mission for Autism Fitness as a business is to provide not just fitness programs, but effective and reliable fitness programs for every individual with autism and related disabilities. Autism Fitness also serves as a bridge between the professional fitness and autism […]
Cathy’s powerlifting career started when she was 14 years old, and wanted to improve her tennis & heard that the top girls in her age group were weight training. By the time she was 16 years old, she had accumulated Open NZ & Commonwealth Records and represented NZ in her first Women’s World Championships (no […]
Paul Briggs is a fighter whose career took into to the top in two disciplines – Muay Thai kickboxing (2 time World Champion) and boxing (fought twice for a World Title). His combined Fight record of 109F (97W 2D 10L and 56KO’s) makes him one f the most successful fighters to come out of Australia. […]
Jon Jon Park grew up the son of legendary bodybuilder Reg Park. Jon Jon represented Britain in swimming in the men’s 100 metre butterfly at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Join us to learn about Jon Jon’s personal experiences as an athlete and his insights into the ways of his famous dad, the late Reg Park, […]