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The World is Flat!
/by Ian KingPopular stories have humans believing the world was flat and that Christopher Columbus, in his late 1400’s explorations to the America’s, travelled in spite of this belief and the risk of ‘falling off the edge’ of this flat earth. If this were true, Columbus showed courage and shaped the world as a result. As a race […]
Enough to make your blood boyle
/by Ian KingI looked, and looked again – surely not! I couldn’t believe my eyes! There on the ‘net on an ‘industry leading’ site was three stages of a strength progam that KSI had provided a client some years prior. Being given away as a PDF download – free! How is that possible!? For the duration of […]
Performance coach. Really?
/by Ian KingThe following is an extract from Ian King’s latest book ‘Barbells & Bullshit’ – due to be released later this month. I have noted a trend over the last decade or so for physical preparation coaches involved with athletes and sporting teams to refer to themselves as ‘performance’ coaches or directors. In fact, this title […]
Surely they can perform better than this!
/by Ian KingMany years ago I met a gentleman at a NSCA trade show who owned a major equipment distribution company in the industry, and who had a booth at the trade show. He seemed a genuine person. So recently when I learnt his company was distributing my material – just without my name on it and […]
There is no such thing as a functional exercise
/by Ian KingThere is no such thing as a functional exercise or training program. It’s time to put some perspective on the use of the word ‘functional’, which has become somewhat of ‘catch-cry’ since the start of the 21st century. I believe it has probably gone too far now, and too many reputations on based on it, […]
What is the future of an industry that condones this type of behavior?
/by Ian KingIn 1998 and 2000 I published the How to Write and How to Teach books. I then took some of the How to Write content and made it more user-friendly for the end user in Get Buffed! 1999. Most appreciated the contribution I made through these writings. They were based on my experiences and conclusions […]