Should I stretch before or after training?
Shortly after the ‘stretching before training and games paradigm raised up in the late 1990s, a default position was also promoted – to stretch afterwards. Ironic (or tragic) in that in my opinion for the most part, those promoting this…
Mobility Training is Fake Stretching
By Ian King
Mobility training is fake stretching
The new athlete said to me: “I do my mobility work and then I feel good for a while but during the workout I feel all stiff again.”
I said: “Before we go any further I just to make it…
Are your single leg training concepts from the 1990s still relevant?
By Ian King
Are your single leg training concepts from the 1990s still relevant?
I recently received a email where the writer asked:
“ Dear Ian, I've come across your single leg 2 part routine limping into October online. This I believe…
When Buff is 'Bad'
By Ian King
I was near the finish line at a high school yesterday watching over 100 thirteen to fourteen year old boys complete a cross country race. As I do everywhere I studied their shape and development.
Apart from the expected changes…
Ian King's Exercise Innovations
By Ian King
#1 Assisted Squats
I developed this exercise shortly after my first knee reconstruction in 1983, to assist me continue squatting without pain and minimizing wear. I called it 'assisted squats'. Following that I also found it effective…
The Top Five Dumbest Exercises
By Ian King
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…
Burnt at the stake
One more time won’t kill me
By Ian King
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…