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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The child and the injury – Pt 2
/by Ian KingThe 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
/by Ian KingThere 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
/by Ian KingI 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
/by Ian KingMy 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
/by Ian KingOne 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
/by Ian KingA 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 […]