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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ian King's Top 10 Lessons and Influences

A while back we asked some of the world's top strength coaches and nutrition gurus to share their most powerful tips, but when Ian King tackled this assignment, he decided to go about it in a different way. Instead of simply listing his top…
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Ian King's Top 10 Lessons

By Ian King A while back we asked some of the world's top strength coaches and nutrition gurus to share their most powerful tips, but when Ian King tackled this assignment, he decided to go about it in a different way. Instead of simply listing…
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The Lazy Man's Guide to Stretching

15 minutes to (joint) freedom! By Ian King The following article is a reprint. It first appeared in issue #89 of Testosterone Magazine. If you're reading this article, I'm going to assume that you're interested enough in learning how to…
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The Ian King Cheat Sheets - Part II

by Chris Shugart Think of this as the Cliff Note’s to the Ian King 101 class. Here you’ll find the highlights of Ian’s training principles that have changed the way most of us workout. If you missed part one, you can find it here. Stagnant…