tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23206615923884756182024-02-18T21:42:14.526-08:00King Sports Internationalteaching the world how to trainAbout Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-68676942690889822802017-06-29T03:20:00.000-07:002017-06-29T04:41:05.179-07:00Why are you ignoring the message from Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, and Novak Djokovic?<div class="MsoNormal">
There is a better way – Part 1</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">More athletes are having their athleticism
destroyed, their careers shortened, and their long term quality of life
threatened because of they way they are being trained than ever before in my
lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The athlete training world has
lost the plot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not concerned or don’t
buy into this statement?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you don’t
read any further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s heaps of more
valuable articles on the internet for you to read, such as how to create
hypertrophy in the absence of skills, or the exact liquid temperature to
consume your glutamine in the absence of any focus on foundational
nutrition…For those that resonate with <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my concerns, I invite you to stay with
me.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is that my opinion or is it a scientific
fact? It’s my opinion. Now those who don’t know or don’t appreciate (or don’t
want to do either for various reasons) the depth of experience training
athletes or track record in identifying limiting factors in sports training and
performance and innovating solutions that have led to this opinion – you may be
forgiven for discarding my opinion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However before you disregard my conclusions
on the state of athletic preparation, <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want you know you are also disregarding the opinion of a couple of athletes that have also to train differently to what most are doing</span> - Tom Brady, Kevin
Durant and Novak Djokovic<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The way we train athletes does more harm
than good. That’s the message I have been sharing since the 1990s. And it is
not just getting worse. It is reaching diabolical standards.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In fact I believe that most
injuries are actually caused by the way athletes train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only injury acceptable is an unavoidable
impact injury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Virtually all soft
tissue injuries are avoidable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
imagine that - training, during which focus is geared towards performance
enhancement, may induce most injuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Isn’t this ridiculous!<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In fact from my experiences
and observation, the greatest effect that I have seen from most physical
preparation is to detract from these five factors, not enhance it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine that - training and being worse off
for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well how do you think the
athlete would feel if he/she found out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yeah, they’re real fit - to sit in the stands in their team uniform and
watch!<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[2]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">…from my observations, most
physical preparation programs do more harm than good. They may give short term
results or confidence to the athlete, but result in significant performance
restrictions and or injuries long term…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quite
simply, the majority of training programs are flawed from a physical
preparation perspective and are causing the increased injuries</b></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> </span></span></b><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[3]</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For those not familiar with these three
athletes who share my opinion, allow me to provide a quick bio. Tom Brady is
the most successful quarter back in American Football history with five Super
Bowl Championship rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin Durant
just won his first championship ring with the Golden State Warriors in the NBA.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Novak Djokovic has been dominating
men’s tennis internationally during the ten years, frequently occupying the
coveted No 1 world ranking. He is considered one of the greatest tennis players
of all time, with a 80+% match winning rate (the second highest in the Open
Era).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So what does Tom Brady have to say?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: font000000001f04ca10;">“I have been
blessed to learn the right methods, through my nutrition, hydration, pliability
and proper rest. It's really not that hard if you do the right thing."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[4]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No
mention of maximal loading or hypertrophy training. In fact he apparently stays away from lifting heavy
weights, and focuses on flexibility</span><span lang="EN-US">.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[5]</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What does Kevin Durant have to say?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: ProximaNova-Regular;">"All
the strength coaches were laughing at me and s---. They were giggling with each
other that I couldn't lift 185 pounds and I was like, 'All right, keep
laughing. Keep laughing.' It was a funny thing because I was the only one that
couldn't lift it and I was struggling to lift it. I was embarrassed at that
point, but I'm like, 'Give me a basketball, please. Give me a ball.'….I was
ranked the last person in camp, drills-wise. I was the worst player, and the
first player didn't get drafted. That tells you a lot about the significance of
that s---."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[6]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What does Novak Djokovic have to say? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The following statement comes from his first
coach, Jelana Gencic, who guided him between about the ages of 6 years through
to his early teens.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Djokovic said
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">“Jelena was one
of the people that had a huge impact and huge influence on that part of let’s
say my profession, being flexible and taking care of my elasticity of the
muscles,” he said Saturday. “Because she taught me and convinced me that if I
stayed flexible, not only will I be able to move well around the court and be
able to recover well after the matches, but also I’ll be able to have a long
career……</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a></span></b></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you look at how the world is training
athletes, its obvious that the majority are disregarding the messages from this
dominant sporting icons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allow me
acknowledge one of the most likely criticisms. That the opinions of these three
athletes does not override the fact that thousands of other athletes have
trained more trend like – heavy load, excessive volume, to high levels of
fatigue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I acknowledge this counter
argument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are right. You can always
provide evidence to support both the for and against of any argument.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However allow me to share what I believe is
one indisputable fact – that the evidence provided in the case studies of these
three athletes confirms that you can become the best in the world without the
training proposed by most coaches and engaged in by most athletes. The way most
train is not a common denominator with success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not necessary,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its not
optimal, and I suggest in most cases does more damage than good.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I suggest that conforming to the dominant
trends will is a common denominator with injuries, reduced athleticism,
shortened careers and a lower quality of later life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The great thing about human life is we get
to choose what we believe in. If you as an athlete choose to embrace the
mainstream approach, fantastic and good luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are a coach and also choose to believe in and embrace the current
dominant training methods, I trust in the future you take time to reflect upon
the outcomes, and be accountable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visit
with your athletes 20-40 years after they have retired, and see how they are
going. And take responsibility.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For those athletes and coaches who are
concerned about the direction of training and want to believe there is a better
way – congratulations. There is a better way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have spend the last four decades discovering better ways to train, and
we teach<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>these better ways when we work
with athletes or coaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example,
the KSI Coaching Program aims to provide you with the tools to train athletes
and others in their highest and best interests, with no interest in what the
dominant trend is or will be in the future.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The training world is now one where you
will get a job whether you are great or incompetent – there is simply demand for
services. However if you want to go beyond simply ‘getting a job’, if you want
to do the best by the athlete, to fulfill your potential – you are not going to
achieve these goals training the way everyone else is training.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What is happening is not good enough, and
the athlete is paying the price. The good news is there is a better way. The
question remains – will you go there?</span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US">Note:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In July 2017 we are offering selected
physical preparation coaches the opportunity to spend 21 days with my top
coaches and myself; through webinar and forum interaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not for everyone. Here are some of our
pre-qualifications criteria:</span></div>
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conclusion that there is a better way (for both you and your clients).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You need to have taken some
action to date to study KSI material (not including free online articles).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">21 days with us during which you will get
an inside look at who we are, what we do, and why we are totally confident we
lead the world in athlete preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Email <a href="mailto:info@kingsports.net">info@kingsports.net</a> immediately if you
want to be part of this program and qualify.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">King, I., 1997, Winning &
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">King, I., 1999, So you want to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">King, I., 2005, The way of the
physical preparation coach, p. 66-67<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-80145629820928165542017-06-12T03:57:00.002-07:002017-06-12T04:07:54.040-07:00Be part of the solution<div class="MsoNormal">
On a Saturday morning I watched a group of
girls aged approximately 6-8 years old performing walking lunges in their
warm-up for club sport. It was early morning on a winters day, and every single
one of them was using both hands on their lead knee as they struggled to come
out of each rep. Heart breaking. Tragically I can see this in all sports of all
age groups in the fields and playing arenas in any city in the western world.
At least anywhere with internet connection, where dominant trends spread more
rapidly. A predominance of misguided,
non-effective, career killing and quality of life damaging training methods.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m sure the coach, a middle aged and
enthusiastic man, was well-meaning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the same way the misguided physical coaches globally are for the most part well
meaning – for some reason they don’t ask the question and dig deep enough to
understand there is a better way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the case of walking lunges in the warm
up its potentially life-changing knee degeneration being created in group of
unsuspecting and trusting minors.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">If you share my vision that the direction
of training in this world is heading in an inappropriate direction you can be
part of the solution, rather than being part of the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because as KSI coaches we are very clear in
our vision – there is a better way, athletes and clients training to be better
deserve that better way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
committed to giving them the best so they can be their best. This is measured
by zero injury and superior outcomes in training and competitive. Podium
performances.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">However if you, like the coach that winter
Saturday morning with his group of 6-8 year old girls, leave your training
decision inquires at the level of ‘well EVERYBODY is doing this’, then I’m
confident you shouldn’t bother reading any further. On the flip side, if you
share my beliefs that what is being done is simply not good enough, then read
on.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I appreciate that possibly the vast
majority of sports and physical preparation coaches care more for conformity
than about the results. That’s normal. That’s average.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not going to change. 90% of every group
is committed to conformity and being ordinary. 5% are drive to be good. 5%
won’t rest before greatness is achieved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You choose your group, your tribe. You can be
ordinary and average. Or you can be good. Or you can be great. At KSI we are
driven to be great. You can share that vision, not just in lip service but in
the same metrics we use to objectively confirm the superiority of the KSI way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I appreciate that possibly the vast
majority of physical preparation coaches care more for the perception of
popularity, how many hits on their website, how many social media followers,
than their ability to positively impact the lives of the end user.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or how low their body fat is, or how big
their biceps are. How much ‘knowledge’ they have, or how many certificates they
have. However there will also be some of you that are drawn to the impact you
have on the end user, more than the perception you create with your peers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Throughout my professional career I have
solved problems the world faces in training through disruptive innovations that
ultimately path through the ‘three stages of truth’ – first they are rejected,
then ridiculed and then adopted and claimed by a trend-spotting marketer from
the north-east or the south-west!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">KSI Coaches are taught these innovations at
a level of excellence not imaginable to the rest of the world. And they are
taught innovations that have not been released into public domain, as they rise
through the levels and become trusted teachers of the KSI way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">We put the athlete/client first. We let
impact determine our results. We let our results do the talking. We under
promise and over deliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We prefer the
marketing that comes from the way we change peoples lives over the marketing
most use on social media to create a perception of themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are humble and solution focused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We make a difference in the lives of others,
and in doing so make a difference in the lives of our coaches. Our coaches live
a lifestyle most can only dream off, as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a result of giving athletes and clients training results more can only
dream off.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s your choice. You could be part of the
solution, the KSI way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Note:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In July 2017 we are offering selected
physical preparation coaches the opportunity to spend 21 days with my top
coaches and myself; through webinar and forum interaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not for everyone. Here are some of our
pre-qualifications criteria:</span></div>
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for at least 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You need to have come to the
conclusion that there is a better way (for both you and your clients).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">You need to have taken some
action to date to study KSI material (not including free online articles).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">21 days with us during which you will get
an inside look at who we are, what we do, and why we are totally confident we
lead the world in athlete preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Free.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Email info@kingsports.net to learn more.</span></div>
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About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-33976489231828371702017-05-17T19:41:00.001-07:002017-05-17T19:43:02.914-07:00The four stages of the physical preparation coaches career<div class="MsoNormal">
In my fourth decade of professional
involvement in the sport and fitness industry I have reached many conclusions.
I acknowledge they are generalisations, however these hypothetical models help
all of us understand human behaviour.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Based on both my own personal experience
and my experience seeking to help, educate and guide others professionally, I
have formed the following model.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Stage
1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blinkered and gullible</span></b><br />
Years: 0-10 years into their career</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The first phase I see occurring is when a
newcomer to the entrant is simply in awe of the opportunity they have been
given, which is nice to see. However this often comes with tunnel vision on
what is needed for long-term success, and this phase is characterized by an
exclusive and what I believe is an unbalanced prioritization of professional
development. Sets and reps. How may grams of glutamine per quantity of liquid
and what temperature should the liquid be. The longer it goes on the less
productive it becomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However they are
blinded to this and the typical mentor they choose is not helping them develop
a more balanced approach.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In this phase the young or new coach is so
easily impressed with the shiniest, loudest objects that they are not really ready
to be students of what I call a balanced life and true success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are more likely to do what ‘everyone’ is
doing than make wise choices as to what’s best for them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Stage
2: At the crossroads</span></b><br />
Years: 5-15 years into their careers</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">This is the period during which the
newcomer is no longer a new comer, and has been involved long enough for the
shine to come off their experience, and some home truths to settle in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this stage the physical preparation coach
is at a critical point or crossroad in their career. They are aware of certain
frustrations and limitations and now they are deciding – will they do anything
about it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a critical point in
the career.</span><br />
There is some discussion in the human
potential industry that if significant changes are made here for the better
prior to the age of 28 year, there is much hope for their future.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">State
3: Embracing or denying change</span></b><br />
Years: 10-20 years into their career</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In this phase and path, coaches have chosen
not to embrace change, and retreat to what is easiest – doing nothing. They
accept that the way is has been is the way it has to be and close off all
options to change. This is the path taken by the majority, whose desire to
confirm is greater than their courage to create change. You can see human potential
shrinking as the years pass.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In this phase and path, coaches have
embraced change and are challenged by developing the new values and skills
required to succeed in the direction they have chose to solve their frustration
and fulfill their potential. This is the minority.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">State
4: Living with or without the fruits</span></b><br />
Years: 20-40 years into their career</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">For those that chose to deny the
possibility of change, of learning new skills, of fulfilling the potential, the
final stage of their working life is one of silent desperation. A life of ‘if
only’ but often unspoken. This is the lot that most face or will face. That is
human nature.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">For those with the courage to make the
changes, they spend this life phase enjoying the fruits of their willingness to
take risks, to learn new skills, to change.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">To complete the cycle of life you could say
there is a fifth stage –</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Stage
5: Retiring in comfort or destitute</span></b><br />
Years: Last 10-30 years of life</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Those greater majority who choose the safe,
unchanging, what everyone else is doing path will live in a standard of poverty
never expected or seen in modern history, due to the demographic changes and
lack of social security funds available to support the aging population. It
will not be pretty.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The minority who chose change and had the
determination and courage to break the stereotype will live with a level of
comfort not enjoyed by their less courageous peers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Conclusion</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">There are a few points I want to stress
here. Firstly the above categories are arbitrary and intended to provide a
message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly I don’t believe you
need to accept any stereotype. You determine your own path. Thirdly, it is
never too late. I like the saying ‘It’s better late than never’. So don’t feel
you have missed out, or ‘missed the boat’, so to speak. There is always
opportunity.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Having said that, if you are not driven to
change, then get comfortable where you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Its not about what you have, its about what you are willing to do to
improve and change your circumstances.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The KSI Coaching program is aimed to give
coaches a life where they have choice. Choice with where they live, why they
work, where they work, who they work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a path that has been available for nearly twenty years. During
this time we have been able to reach a number of conclusions, as we continually
refine the path.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Firstly this is a path that typically takes
a decade to master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have heard the
saying:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">“It takes 10,000 hrs of practice to achieve mastery in
a field”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">--as
popularized by Malcolm Gladwell.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Sounds daunting. Where does it begin? By
taking action</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">--</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> Chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching ascribed to Laozi.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<u><span lang="EN-US">Footnote:</span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In June 2017 we are offering a special
21-day KSI Orientation program for those who are seriously considering starting
that journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some
pre-requisites. We ask that you send us an email at <a href="mailto:question@kingsports.net">question@kingsports.net</a> describing :</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">How/where you fit into the four
stages of the physical preparation coaches career; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Why you believe KSI may be that
better way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you have had to date (you will need to have made a step of studying our
material other than what’s on the internet)</span><br />
This is a free program however you will be
expected to meet the above criteria and you will be expected to work and keep
up with the 21 day program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will
be one webinar weekly and other mid-week tasks competed in your own time. During
this program you will get to look under the (motorcar) hood (to use an American
car analogy) and we will get to look at you and determine how committed to
change and suitable you are for the KSI Coaching Program.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I received an email from a young man on the
subject of stretching, a classic case of humans choosing conformity over
thinking. The email went like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">“Recently I purchased your Legacy book. The book is full
of training gold, especially important information is about stretching.
You should spread the truth about stretching. I can`t believe how everybody is
wrong with this dynamic stretching B.S. Static stretching rules. I´m more
flexible than ever, feel great, and it does transfer to dynamic motions.” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">I was really impressed that this young man
sought to gain a personal experience about stretching prior to reaching a
conclusion. He thought for himself, in the face of dogma to the contrary, and
reached a conclusion contrary to the dogmatic teaching.</span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for spreading the ‘truth’ about
stretching, that’s what i have been doing for nearly 40 years now.
The challenge is most people don’t want to think independently. The famous
Dr. Albert Swcheitzer when asked in about 1952 reached the same conclusion. Earl Nightingale tells this story in his 1956
audio ‘The Strangest Secret’. (A must listen to!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Here is the transcript:</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">“Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert
Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The
great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, “Men simply don’t
think!”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now as far as the truth or wrong, I tend to
avoid these words where possible. To ignore the value of static stretching and
replace it with dynamic stretching - or to leave your static stretching
till after the workouts. These are mistakes.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However I understand how static stretching is
promoted, and I understand most people are more committed to conformity than
fulfilling their potential.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have watched many of those who have
achieved marketed position of influence in this industry promote their values
on stretching. I know personally that the minority of these influencers
who actually train don’t stretch, and never have. To acknowledge they have missed the point in
training as regards stretching is not going to happen in their lifetimes.
And the influencers who don’t train have no chance of knowing personally the
best alternatives or combinations.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for conformity, I again refer to the best
selling (in the true sense of the word, not in the way current industry
marketers use it) for one of the best comments on conformity:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a
wonderful book called Man’s Search for Himself, and in this book he says:
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is
conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity and
people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are
going.” </span></i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Imagine if referencing and crediting were
the norm in this industry? wouldn’t that be amazing! instead of this
encouragement to lie, cheat, steal and plagiarize…]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Now concepts are promoted with great dogma,
which is why I have historically encouraged people to challenge and ignore the
dogma:</span> </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Not only are you taught with a degree
of dogma in formal education, you are often taught not to think –
rather to accept ‘this is the way’. Certain informal education
teaches you to think for yourself (as we do at KSI) or teaches you a
different perspective to the one you were taught to dogmatically adopt in
your formal education. Exposure to this can cause some initial unease.” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don’t suggest knowing the truth, however I
have reached conclusions and encourage others to do the same, even if they are
contrary to the dominant paradigms:</span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I don’t know about truth, but I can say that blind
and dogmatic teaching of this by personal trainers and others
has contributed to some serious misconceptions…” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[v]</span></b></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My
strong recommend has been to:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Resist the
temptation in program design to conform to mainstream paradigms simply for the
sake of conforming, no matter how dogmatically they are presented, or how much
you may be ridiculed or ostracized for trusting your intuition over conformity.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[vi]</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not
to be confused of course with a thinly paraphrased paragraph that followed a
year later in an article at t-nation.com from another ‘author’….</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US">“When designing training programs, resist
the pressure to conform to any tradition or system of
beliefs, no matter how dogmatically that tradition or those beliefs are presented, or how much you get "slammed"
for not conforming.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">[vii]</span></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My message to the young man who wrote to
me, and to you to, is have the courage to think for yourself! And if you need
help, I wrote the book ‘Barbells & Bullshit’ to help you. If nothing it
will shock you into realizing that your own conclusions will be far more
accurate and ethical and better for your than the self-serving dogma dished up
by many who seek to exert their influence for reasons other than a pure
intention to serve you. You can get this book in hard copy or e-book. If you email me at <a href="mailto:question@kingsports.net">question@kingsports.net</a> sharing your commitment to think for yourself, I would love to give you a free copy of
the e-book.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the choice is yours – to think or to
conform. Just don’t expect the masses to be so brave!</span></span></div>
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Conditioning Coach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Professionally and your lifestyle)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I recently met a young man whose chose to
move into the personal training industry from a non-related industry by
managing a team of trainers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t
work out (no surprises there) and he was to reduced to earning the income that his
competence dictated. Very little. Now he is dealing with bankruptcy.
He chose to sidestep the issue of developing personal professional competency
for the highly promoted business model of hiring trainers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Before you conclude that this story is
simply an isolated extreme case, let me bring this home – there are so few
people in this industry who possess competence that you probably haven’t met
one. And that means you are most likely also incompetent.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Before you lash out take a moment and
consider the following.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So what do most trainers to in the absence
of competency? To solve this little problem? Market.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Again before you get to knee-jerk
reactions, please don’t state I’m anti-marketing, as some have in conversation
with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to be very specific – a
service provider who needs to market is probably incompetent, and using
marketing to compensate for this lack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With only 24 hours in a day competent service providers don’t need to
market. They need to hide.</span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I ran a seminar in Los Angeles recently on
business building for physical preparation coaches. There some interest from
prospective attendees on how to market via social media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let them know very quickly that I not only
will not be teaching them how to market their services, I would definitely not
be endorsing them getting into the same stinking marketing pond as the masses
in their industry.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some what is the result of your
incompetency? I don’t really need to tell you, but here are a few of the
symptoms:</span></div>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Not enough clients.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Not enough great clients.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Clients failing to turn up for
appointments.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Clients not staying with you
for very long i.e. high attrition rate.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Low hourly rate.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Worry about where your next
client is going to come from.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Time poor.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Working weird unsustainable
hours.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Financial struggles in life.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Wondering if you should change
professions.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Latching onto the latest shiny
object in certification (mostly trend based) and wondering why nothing changed.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Inability to support a
dependent adult. Forget about having kids.</span></li>
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Now you’ve either resonated with what I
have said so far or your values have been so threatened you have got poisonous
in your mind and started texting nasty things about me to your buddies. That’s
okay, I used to the latter…</div>
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For those who are still with me, let me
help you.</div>
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Want to get out of the crab bucket where
99% of the industry is struggling?
Choose competence. So what is competence? Here’s my working definition
of competence:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In the absence of marketing; and in the absence of an association
with a gym, sports team, sports institution, commercial company, or
professional organization, you are able to generate an endless demand from A
class clients willing to pay you triple figures per hour.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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[Thanks to the April intake of the KSI
Time, Money & Happiness 21 Day Mentoring Program for showing me how you prefer
to shape this definition!]</div>
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In other words, sitting in your garage gym
at home, high paying enthusiastic clients line up to see you.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Fairy tale? Not al all. This is one of the
performance criteria we achieve through out now 18 year old KSI Coaching program.
This is what we create.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So what’s the downside? It takes time and
commitment, and the right vehicle. It might take 5-10 years to achieve
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However once you have it, no-one
can take it away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So what do most do? Look to marketing
instead.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In the early 2000s a young Los Angeles resident
wrote to me with. They really, really wanted to work with athletes:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“…I have read [your book]
"so you want..." thoroughly. While I agree with your statements it is
easier for you with an established record to attract new clients than it is for
an "outsider" like me to break in</span>…</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'd
like to move out of the personal training field and train athletes exclusively
but bills need to be paid…”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">They didn’t possess the delayed gratification
required to achieve competence. So how did they create the perception of having a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">“…stable of Olympic level athletes….’</span></i></div>
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…a few years later? Marketing. Marketing mixed with a dose of deceit.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">You see this, and you are encouraged to
model this behaviour.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So what’s wrong with marketing? Firstly it
doesn’t solve your problem. You are still incompetent professionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly it wears off. You are going to need
to keep on doing it, and that’s really time consuming. Once the clients find
your limits professionally they are out of there. And you will never get off
that marketing merry-go-round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">And then how do you give yourself a unique
marketing position (USP) in a world where everyone is marketing the same
claims? You don’t. Unless you go to telling lies, which is tragically not only
the norm in this industry:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The reality is that the lies in fitness far
outweigh the truths….” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[ii]</span></span></span></a></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">…it’s encouraged:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">“… <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It's OK to tell a lie</span> if you know that
it's a lie... Once a personal trainer or performance specialist knows the truth
then, they can tell a little white lie to make the sale or to get the client on
board. The key to selling fitness lies (clever play on words) in knowing the
truth but, also knowing when to lie….” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">Is that who you are? A liar? For the most
part, I don’t believe so. It takes a special person to bullshit year after year
and still feel comfortable with themselves.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Now for those who are driven to action to
improve their competence remains the challenge of selecting an educational path
where you truly will achieve competence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the late Jim Covey would say:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">“Before you lean your ladder up against a building,
make sure it’s the right building!” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2320661592388475618#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">[iv]</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you tie your cart to the wrong horse
your time and money invested will be of little to no use in changing your
competency</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you are attracted to my definition of
competency, and you would like some of that yourself, before you select a
mentor or teacher, ask yourself – how do they shape up against this definition?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now before I wrap some of you might have
been wondering why I said:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and in the absence of an association with a
gym, sports team, sports institution, commercial company, or professional
organization,…”</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">They all offer great opportunities – if you
like depending on others for your future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If you open a training studio, locals will
come. You will have clients. However would they travel to you if you closed the
gym and moved 30 minutes drive away? Probably not. They are simply clients of
convenience, not really making a massive effort to get to you.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">If a sports team - especially a high
profile team - employs you you can get some extra clients by marketing this
fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For as long as this marketing fact
is relevant. In other words, you might expend a bit of energy wondering and
worrying who will give you your next contract, as you depend on this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The same goes for a sports institution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the same for an association with a
commercial company – it’s great whilst you are their seminar spokesperson, but
what if they find a new, younger and better model? Where will your income come
from?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So they are all great short-term income
options. However I suggest that for the most part, any clients you attract are
because of your association with these organizations, not because of your
competence. And you probably don’t want to find out whether you have stand-alone
competence – so you are going to hang on to the organizations with desperate dependency.</span></div>
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If you truly want to be in control of your
destiny, competency is the solution I recommend. We’ve been giving physical preparation
coaches the best option to achieve competency, and we’ve been doing it for 18
years as the time of writing this article. Yes, we are not the best at
marketing. But on your side, have you been doing what everyone else is doing? Being
attracted to the bright, shiny objects? Empty vessels making the most noise?
How’s that been working out for you….So yes, our web site and marketing are
sub-par. But we just happen to produce physical preparation coaches with the
greatest competency, who attract an endless demand of A class clients lining up
to pay triple hourly figure for their service.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You decide….marketing or competence. If you
chose competence, here’s where you can get started: <a href="http://kingsports.net/Coach/courses/menu.htm">http://kingsports.net/Coach/courses/menu.htm</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-45663453514263756352017-03-15T05:46:00.001-07:002017-03-15T06:00:57.225-07:00Mentoring in nutrition – extracts from communication <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">During this month we’ve been running a nutritional
mentoring program based on a holistic approach to nutrition, exclusively for
new customers of nutritional supplements. Our goal is to give participants a
taste of the work we do with our elite athletes globally. The program has
involved webinars, forum exchanges, one-on-one-phone discussions etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following is a taste of some of the
written exchanges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
nutrition for training…</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My recommendations regarding feeling the
body pre, during and post training, revolve largely on the timing of the
trading relative to the last meal or snack. So if you day changes and the time
between the last intake and the commencement of training changes, you can
adapt.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's go over this in more detail
on the next webinar!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
adoption of the current dominant trends…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">I look forward to learning more about what your needs are and
cross-referencing that to your current intake. One thing that stands out to me
is the 'popularity' of your current intake. I may be different, but my
philosophy is that if you are doing what the majority are doing, it's not good
enough. I'm either concerned for you or excited for the opportunities this presents,
depending on whether you want the half glass empty or half glass full
perspective! (Or perhaps depending on whether you are my athlete or an athlete
my athletes will compete against!)</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On diversity
in food selection…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">Great to see you are aware that if you lower your blood sugar
levels too much you tend to make poorer food decisions. So I agree eating the
same thing regularly may be better than missing food altogether and entering
this risk. However we will review your food log and ensure your food variety is
adequate, as to optimize whole food based nutrition, breadth of food type is
important.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
fruit…</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. A piece of fruit on its own does not
constitute, in my opinion, a balanced snack. <br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Look to have your daily serves of fruit
less than or at less no more than your daily serves of vegetables.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. If you are looking to lower body fat to
extreme levels and find carbs are not conducive to this goal, you may have to
reduce or remove fruits.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. If you are not subject to reducing your
bodyweight or bodyfat, or if you are in energy system sports, you will value
fruits more.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you have concerns about the glycemic index of fruits, review the options and
select fruits from the lower end of the index.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Look to vary your fruits, both within
the day, and within the year.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7. One way to ensure diversity in fruits is
to eat seasonal fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Watch out for the source and preparation
of fruit. Much of it ranks in the foods with the highest contaminants.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Wash your fruit before eating it.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10. When travelling and you have concerns
about GI risks, select only fruit that has a skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the flip side, when you trust the fruit,
sometimes the skin (where edible) has the most fiber!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
snacks….</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From our review of your food logs and discussions with you
during our webinar calls, we will reflect and advise on your meal frequency and
food selections. There are few things that stand out already, and this includes
the apparent lack of reliability regarding the snacks. For me a snack just
means a smaller intake, however not a lessor importance in terms of
consistency. Your value of a snack may benefit from further review.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
water consumption…</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Water is also an interesting aspect. There is more debate about
the value of water and the optimal intake of water than there is actual water
consumption! In my opinion and experience it is unlikely you are taking in
enough water. In environments with varying seasonal temperatures, I find the
cooler months leaving you unaware that you are not taking in enough water, and
the hotter months leave you not being able to consume enough to replenish
anyway!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
micro-waving food…</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Its difficult to imagine that there are no implications to the
heating process used by microwave ovens on the food. So at least minimise it's
use as you are</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know many who like you have become wary of microwaves and perhaps
rightfully so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the flip side some say
they struggle to find evidence of the dangers of microwaving. I suggest that the
evidence has to be over whelming to overcome the resistance by commercial
interests to suppress the risks. Take vaccination for babies - how hard does
the medical community work to criticize and ostracize anyone who challenges the
health risks of the child vaccination regime? Try not complying fully with a child’s
vaccination schedule and you will find out first hand…</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
travel…</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some key things to consider nutritionally
speaking when travelling:<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Have melatonin or similar in your kit
should you have challenges getting sleep in a new environment or time zone<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Increase your probiotic and or digestive
enzyme use when eating foods you are not usually eating.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Plane food is getting worse, so look to
carry your own nutrition on the plane where you can. Use your preferred choice
of meal replacement bars on long haul flights where it is not practical to
carry on other whole foods (if you are travelling overseas you will have less
challenges bringing commercially produced bars into counties than you will have
with whole foods. If you have whole foods in your possession when entering a
new country, I suggest throw it out before entering customs!)<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Ensure your fluid consumption is high
when travelling. Your fluid loss is increased in the dehydration of the plane
cabin at altitude and in compressed air e.g. it is believed you can lose up to
1.5 liters of fluid in the average 3 hr flight. This is rarely addressed
adequately, and in the fine tuned world of elite sports can be the difference
between winning and losing.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Have anti-diarrhea medication in your
travel kit should your GI system be affected by food you are not used to or off
foods.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* if travelling to a colder climate
increase your Vit C and or immune supporting supplements and foods.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Increase your overall micronutrient
intake (read vitamins and minerals) to counteract the stress of travel.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Use natural light or darkness to help you
either stay awake or get sleepy, depending on your goal, in a new time zone.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
‘break-out’ meals…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">As for the pizza and occasional sweets, i have no issues with
that. It's what we do most of the time that matters, providing that a stray
down the dark side doesn't leave us straying too long!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On nutrition
and energy challenges for breadwinners with dependents…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">In my writings i have spoken about different stages of your
career, and it appears you are moving into that stage where you have
dependents, and realize that there is more to life than sets and reps. This
presents an interesting conundrum. Firstly, the need to improve your financial
offence to support a growing family; and the second (and sometimes it feels an
opposing need) to have the quantity of time and energy to share experiences with
your family. We are the original holistic company and obviously in the bigger
picture there are many different aspects to this challenge, one that anyone who
is a breadwinner and seeks to have a family faces.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However from the nutritional perspective alone we now excitedly
enter a domain far beyond the narrow focus of whether you can do that extra rep
in the gym. We now enter a short, medium and long term health focus. Do you
have the energy as a relatively young person to give to your family? </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will you have
the ability from an energy and non-injury mobility perspective (and i use the
word mobility in what i consider the appropriate sense - the ability to be
mobile (not the misinformed and confused use of the word dominating the last
decade or so as a subterfuge for the absence of appropriate stretching!) in the
middle and later stages of your life! Now that's a whole new ball game, and no
amount of DMA, BCAA, ABCDs and another hyped up acronym of the latest
supplement to be promoted by the bodybuilding publishers who just happened to
be the ones who 'invented' the supplement, are promoting!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On fiber supplementation….</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the ease of obtaining adequate fiber in the diet is related to
the accessibility of high quality non-processed whole foods. It is possible to
achieve your fiber requirements without supplementation, but in the real world
where we are time-poor and distracted, don't look down on supplementing your
fiber. In the ideal world we would spend all day growing, tending to,
harvesting, preparing, cooking and eating our crops and other foods sources. We
don't. For the majority that era has passed.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On nutritional
supplementation for pregnancy and child rearing…</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have
mum on at least a high quality high potency broad spectrum
multi-vitamin/mineral (if not more) during pregnancy and breastfeeding. We can
talk more about the benefits to both mum and bub. For example, for mum, as the
baby grows in the womb and presses more on the rectum, defecation becomes more
challenged. this presents health risks in itself. A high quality high potency
broad spectrum multi-vitamin/mineral such as the one we recommend will help
minimize the risks in this are. This is just one example of the many and varied
benefits of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy etc. Of course, seek
medical advice regarding all of this. And remember if you want your kids to
take vitamins, they need to see you doing it first!</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
nutritional influences in the sport and fitness industry….</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This industry spends too little time focusing on the legacy and
lifetime works of individuals such as Linus Pauling and too much time focusing
on the ranting’s of a person whose legacy will be their lifetime commitment to
over-exaggerating the training effects of the latest supplement their company
has trademarked! Really, some of those editors must be about 400 lbs of pure
muscle by now because of all those amazing supplements that 'slapped on 15lbs
in 7 days of lean rock-hard muscle mass!'</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On fluoride….</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the bulk of my life dentists have insisted that amalgam
(mercury) is the strongest and best filling material for teeth with no
side-effects. Nice theory if the teeth were not connected to the rest of the
body...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now how does the rest of the body react to fluoride and mercury
exposure?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the same profession that in the first few decade of the
20th century believed that removing the teeth early in life was the best way to
avoid fillings later in life. Nice theory, but what is the impact on the body
of having no teeth?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The advancement into the middle of this century was to drill the
teeth out and fill them with mercury to prevent holes and fillings being
needed. Nice theory, if you want to have weakened teeth and mercury poisoning…</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On
looking to the future…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626;">We are in for a great time, and a time that is our vision will
reset your mindset about nutrition for better for life, and for the betterment
of the life of those who depend on you, including your children, and their
children, and their children' children!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The above is just a sample of</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">some written communication. During the
program we strive to meet each participants needs and answer their extensive
and diverse questions. Keen to be part of our next Nutritional Mentoring
Program?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Email </span><a href="mailto:info@kingsports.net" style="font-family: inherit;">info@kingsports.net</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with the following in
the subject field ‘I want to be part o the next Nutritional Mentoring Intake!’ to
get the ball rolling towards being part of our next intake!</span></div>
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-12189639325463990572017-02-27T02:29:00.000-08:002017-02-27T02:29:06.078-08:00Hoping to catch up to the other schools in strength & conditioningAt the end of a coaching session where I was giving back, along with a number of other of former elite athletes in a specific sport, the coordinator introduced me to a young man who he explained was a teacher at a private school who had been entrusted with the task of introducing ‘strength and conditioning’ to his school, with the specific intent of ‘catching up to the other schools in their association as far as strength and conditioning’. <br><br>
I didn’t want to say anything to the young man, to spoil his eagerness, so I kept a straight face. But inside I cringed – ‘catch up to the other schools in strength and conditioning?’ Why would you want to do that? It should more accurately described as ‘catching down’. <br><br>
Let me explain.<br><br>
In the 1970s not many high schools had gyms and in the ones that did have, there was no formal programming and no ‘strength and conditioning’ service provision. Firstly because there was no such thing as a ‘strength and conditioning coach’, as the term ‘strength and conditioning’ was an afterthought by a professional organization with a strength focus that belated wanted to expand their focus without changing their acronym (you can read more about that in my original writings on this subject in ‘So You Want to Become…’). And secondly because organized physical preparation (as I prefer to call it) was not even provided to the majority of western world elite adult teams at that time.<br><br>
In the early 1980s in Australia the majority of 18 year and older elite athlete that I worked with (and there were thousands) were what I called clean skins. They had never done formal physical preparation. I only had to undo the imbalances that their sport had created in their body. I summarized at that time it usually took three years of solid supervised and individualized training to clean them p to the level of being injury free for the most part for the rest of their career. <br><br>
Fast forward to the second decade of the 21st century and what’s changed? I inherit broken athletes from the age of 12 upwards. ACL reconstruction, stress fractures of the lower back, shoulder and hip surgery – you name it. So what’s changed?<br><br>
Many in the respective sports would tell you it’s just the sport – it’s inevitable. I don’t agree, and my experience doesn’t support this. Some will say the athletes are bigger and stronger and the impacts are greater. Really? Aside from non-specific strength tests, my experiences and observations don’t support this. A more recent trendy explanation is that the athletes specialize too early. Sounds good, and it may be a contributor, but for me this also fails to explain the difference. So what is my conclusion?
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In the 1970s and 1980s athletes gaining exposure to formal physical preparation as they entered elite ranks around 20 years of age typically retired at about 30 years or age. So that’s about 10 years. What if that retirement was forced more by physical preparation inducted injury than age or their sport? Now holding that thought for a moment, what if take those same flawed training concepts and applied them to a 20 year old? They would be out of the sport by about 20 years of age!
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And that’s my theory. In fact I go as far as to say if a young athlete is talent identified around 8-12 yeas of age, and has the (mis)fortune of being exposed to ‘elite strength and conditioning’ – they will be injured by 16 years of age, undergone significant sports-injury related surgery by 18 years of age, and unable to play their sport by about 20 years of age as a general rule.
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So in summary when I see the same flawed training methods applied to adults being applied to young athletes, I fear for their future.
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So what makes me conclude that most training is flawed? During my last four decades of seeking answers and excellence in how to train, I have reached certain conclusions and theories on what it takes to create or avoid an injury.
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Are my conclusions the same as the masses? No. Should this be a concern? Only if you are a conformist. If your dominant need is to be liked, and to achieve this you need to be like others, then you would be concerned by the fact that I have reached certain theories that differ from the mainstream. On the other hand if you realize that to get a different and ideally better result than the masses, you need to train differently – then you would be excited.
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In my opinion the only improvements we have seen in training is in the ability to measure it, the technology of equipment, and the technology of the surgery to repaid the injuries.
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Could it be possible that what the majority – and that probably means you – are doing more damage to good in their training? That is my suggestion. Is it popular? No. Is it easy to discredit? Yes. Does this what ever else is doing approach to training result in the best possible sporting out comes? No.
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So if I am on track, why do most continue on this path? The answers lies there. Because most do it. And the majority are so insecure about their actions they seek comfort in the masses. Will the get away with it? Legally yes, because the interpretation will be that is what is accepted practice. Should they be able to sleep at night? I suggest not, if they have a conscience.
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Why I am I so firm about this? I speak for the athlete. My heart goes out to the legally minor young athlete who has an adult guide them to life-long, career threatening, quality of life threatening injuries. There is a better way - I teach it openly and have done for decades. I believe that perhaps in the next generation, after my time on this earth, what I teach will be accepted as the final stage of truth as described by 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer – ‘accepted as being self-evident’.
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But what about the one or two generations of young athletes who paid the price in their ‘strength and conditioning’ training between 1980 and whenever a better way is accepted?
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So did I get excited for the young man empowered to bring his school ‘Strength and conditioning’ program up speed with other schools in their association? Not al all. I felt sad for the by-products of this intent. The young, innocent and trusting athletes. They are not, in my opinion, going to ‘catch up’. They are going to ‘do down’ in their athletic development.About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-69104612861153449482017-01-14T03:54:00.002-08:002017-01-14T04:10:40.185-08:00A KSI coach in every town! Wouldn’t that be nice!I was sitting enjoying lunch today in Melbourne, Vic AUST with a friend of KSI. They shared a challenge, seeking my assistance. A New York colleague of theirs had approached them to service a client of theirs who was visiting Australian from the US for a few weeks in association with the first tennis Grand Slam event of the year, the Australian Open, played in Melbourne.
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So did I have any coaches I could refer to in Melbourne was the question,, and the challenges. I didn’t. Tragically we don’t have a KSI coach in every town!
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Reminded me of a situation a few months ago where a US based friend of KSI was looking for us to refer a KSI coach in Spain for their client, a person associated with the band U2. Now we were able to find a coach however they were only a L1 KSI coach. We would have preferred a higher-level KSI coach.
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I put out a call on our KSI Coaches private Facebook Page, and no surprise, no response. looks like we are going to have to throw our net out wider, something we're reluctant to do - because with a coach that has a bit of this and a bit of that in their tool box (even if one of those 'bit off's is attempts to apply their interpretation of the KSI way), the training approach cannot be guaranteed, and nor can the outcomes. You can appreciate our reluctance to refer to the unknown...
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So…. it’s our challenge – more KSI coaches, ideally one in every town! And the benefit belongs to the client getting a better and predictable training service, and to the coach getting the referral!
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Ian King
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Want to put your hand up for this? Respond in the next 48 hrs to info@kingsport.net About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-80624062525047237592017-01-12T01:10:00.001-08:002017-01-12T01:13:41.254-08:00Time, Money & Happiness for the Physical Preparation CoachI was sitting having dinner in North America in October last year with a large group of industry professionals, all accomplished in their own right. One of them was talking about the conference he had presented at during 2016 and I asked the question ‘What was one of the key things that stood out to you about the conferences or the trends evident?’ I didn’t expect the answer.<br><br>
He said ‘The number of how to make more money presentations. At one of them there were 20 presentations, and 16 of them were about how coaches and trainers can make more money.’<br><br>
This got my attention, as whilst I don’t believe in the blind following or need to conform to trends, I find value in studying trends to understand human behavior and direction of thinking.<br><br>
There is no other way to say this - physical preparation as a profession is a relatively low income earning profession. Statistics suggest the average western world income is about $50,000, and the stats I have been exposed to suggest that the average physical preparation coach (all disciples) earns less than $50,000. (Remember this is not gross income, this is take home pay).<br><br>
So it’s no surprise that the industry has gravitated towards solving this problem. I certainly did, back in the 1990s. More on this later.<br><br>
So I became more focused on this trend towards the teachings of ‘how to make more money in this industry’. I came upon enough web sites to support the trend, and enough ‘trend spotters’ who were ‘fat loss guru’s’ in the early 2000’s and have now morphed into the dominant trend of financial and business educators for the physical preparation industry.<br><br>
And I came upon an excellent article from a professional organization who seek to be one of the dominant go-to bodies for professional development. An organization with its fair share of peer-reviewed editorializing. I have concluded that this article is an fair reflection of the dominant thinking of the industry. That there is a need to earn more money, that there is a growing interest, and that the solutions suggested were indicative of the current solutions offered industry wide.
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I might be a bit old-fashioned but there is nothing like a written article to provide clarity and confirmation about dominant thinking, as opposed to attempting to objectively assess the message in say internet marketing. So I am thankful for the author of this article for his efforts, and stress that any comments relating to this article should not be interpreted as being critical of the person or derogatory of their work. I am truly grateful for their efforts.
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But at the same time I have serious concerns for the receiver of the message.
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Back in the 1980s when I took on athletes as clients the majority of them had never done any physical preparation work before – they were for the most part clean skin and easy to shape in their values and beliefs about what they needed to do in training, as well as easy to shape physically.
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Now most athletes have not only had prior training experience, the majority are broken physical and in some cases mentally by the time they are in the late teens. In the spaced of 3 decades I have gone from picking up ‘clean slates’ to doing damage control. I believe that the contemporary elite athlete (my market) would be better off if had they had kept out of the physical preparation training they have done during their teens and so on. Just like the 1980s and earlier athletes.
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It can take years to salvage the bodies of these athletes. If they can be salvaged. The majority of talent identified athletes who have been in ‘high performance’ training squads from their early teens will be injured and out of the sport by around the age of 20 years.
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So how does this relate to you?
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The athletes I refer to have been trained by physical preparation coaches whose influence has included the post 2000s period, where unsubstantiated yet highly marketed training information and influences dominated the professional development landscape. I say this from a unique perspective. I watched too many key board warriors, who have never trained with any success, never trained anyone else with any success – in fact some downright failed to attract any client base of athletes at all (don’t believe me – I can show you emails….) – reinvent themselves with skillful internet marketing sprinkled with the license to create a perception of their ‘experience’ and ‘success’ that, well, was simply not true. And people bought it.<br><br>
I have one such physical coach in a professional development course with me in the mid 2000s. I had them write a program for an athlete, and then analyzed the program. I could see the influences – it was after all the ‘most’ were doing at the time’ and I asked them – ‘Why did you write this?’ I followed this up with ‘Have you ever done these exercises?’ To which the answer was ‘No I haven’t’. Once the student coach acknowledged his source, I said ‘Guess what – the ‘author’ hasn’t done these exercise either!’. <br><br>
The 2000s witnessed an explosion of made up crap, aimed to give a leg up to those seeking to become ‘experts’, for personal ego and financial gain. Some who bought into this said ‘Well what’s wrong this with?’ Let me say this – if you adopt and share methods that are a product of a desperate yet creative individual lacking in integrity, how do you have to add value to the life’s of others in a meaningful and substantial way? Your influence failed to and therefore turned to bogus and oft-times plagiarized content through they usual e-book delivery method etc. <br><br>
If you need any further help understand why selling things that lack value or have less value than claimed, study the sub-prime driven financial crisis in the US between 2006 and 2010. The world was left with absolute clarity that selling fraudulent overvalued mortgaged backed security that really didn’t have the claimed value will result in collapse.<br><br>
From what I have seen the ‘financial education being taught currently in the sport and fitness industry has the same absence of value and integrity that the post 2000 internet-guru based information has. And the risk shifts from damaging your body, to wasting time and effort seeking ‘financial freedom’. It’s one thing to arrive in your golden ages physically broken. Its and additional burden to reach the end of your working life to realize you have been led down the garden path.<br><br>
So what are the alternatives? Let me share with you a time-tested perspective, from a person who reputation has been established on under-promising and over-delivering, straight shooting, to hell with marketing, no bullshit, tell it as it is. <br><br>
In the early 1990s I realized the limitations as outlined in the article I refer to (reference below). I became a student of money, time and business. Nearly a decade later, in the late 1990s, I wrote a book on the subject (Paycheck to Passive – Going from working for a living to having a life) and began teaching anyone who would listen about money. This has helped a lot of people financially. I won’t make the claim as one of our Internet gurus has – (“…we’ve been helping millions of men and women.…”). Suffice to say there are people who have publicly credited us for moving their financial education forward substantially. What I am saying is its real.<br><br>
I also provided some excellent business development guidance in my book ‘So you want to become a physical preparation coach?’ (2000), again which served a lot of industry personal.<br><br>
From 2000 we set out to mentor our coaches and other business partners in financial education. We did so quietly and personally, as opposed to loudly and mass-produced. <br><br>
However now that financial education for physical preparation coaches in now a trend subject, with our strength experts one day, fat-loss gurus the next, and business and financial educators the next – the message stands to be lost amongst the bogus claims of rags to riches, multiple 7-figure income business etc.<br><br>
Now I know there will be some who say ‘So what Ian, any information being shared is good; leave them alone’, as was the typical response to previous alerts to the bogus ‘bibles’ of training. My message is not for you. <br><br>
My message is for those who firstly realize there is a problem surrounding money in their working lives, seek a solution AND have the intuitive realization that the market is full of land-mines full of bogus ‘experts’.<br><br>
Now let me clarify – the article I referred to above contained excellent, fundamental concepts. I was actually impressed and happy to see these concepts being taught, such as the limitation of selling your time for money. My concerns go beyond the accuracy of the fundamental. <br><br>
In relation to anyone teaching financial freedom to our industry, my questions include: <br><br>
1. What level of mastery in financial freedom does the ‘teacher’ have? <br>
2. What reproducible by others business success do they have? <br>
3. What is the true long-term upside of the strategies they are teaching? <br><br>
Lets touch upon these three briefly.<br><br>
1. What level of mastery in financial freedom does the ‘teacher’ have? <br><br>
For example, how long could this person walk away from their business and not experience much of a downturn of income? Do they typically spend a few months a year on holiday, travelling and enjoying their ‘financial freedom?’ <br><br>
2. What reproducible by others business success do they have? <br><br>
Who are some of the ‘millions’ of people they have helped transform their life financially – what is the answer to these same questions to their students?<br><br>
3. What is the true long-term upside of the strategies they are teaching? <br><br>
Do the strategies they recommend really result in ‘financial freedom’? How many people have you met in your lives that have achieved financial freedom from these strategies? E.g. selling e-books and other information on the internet?<br><br>
Lets ask this simple additional question – how many first generation, self-made multi-millionaires from physical preparation have you met in your life? (not the internet perception – the reality)<br><br>
Now I appreciate that at different stages of your career you have varying levels of interest in this subject. In my ‘Money and the Physical Preparation Coach Course’ (2016) I dedicated a unit to identify and discussing the concept of ‘stages of career’, sharing the following ‘stages’:<br><br>
Phase 1: Blinkered and gullible - Years: 0-10 years into their career<br>
Phase 2: At the crossroads - Years: 5-15 years into their careers<br>
Phase 3: Embracing or denying change - Years: 10-20 years into their career<br>
Phase 4: Living with or without the fruits - Years: 20-40 years into their career<br>
Phase 5: Retiring in comfort or destitution - Years: Last 10-30 years of life<br><br>
I go into more detail about these phases in that course. None-the-less, I imagine that only those in Phase 2 are still reading, and have concerns on this subject.<br><br>
However, rather than assume this, I have some questions for you:<br><br>
<b><i>1. Firstly, do you believe there is a problem, at least in your life, as it relates to your financial future? <br><br>
2. How many years have you been in the industry?<br><br>
3. What are the frustrations or challenges you experience?<br><br></i></b>
No I know it’s tough (especially for us males and our alpha sisters), to acknowledge we have a ‘problem’. Let me share a key paragraph outlining some key ‘problems’ as identified by the article I referred to earlier (1): <br>
<i><blockquote>“The life of a personal trainer can be great, but trading time for money inherently limits income possibilities with only 24 hours in any given day. Furthermore, only so many of those hours are even available to work with clients. In an effort to make more money in that limited time, personal trainers are often forced to sacrifice personal priorities, service quality, and relationships. This can sometimes lead to frustration, burnout, and ultimately, career changes. The average personal training income in the United States is thought to be between $35,000 – $45,000 per year… These numbers seem great for passionate personal trainers starting out, but what about years down the road? Those who want to support a family, retire at a decent age, or create freedom in their career must take steps to rise above these industry averages.” (1)<br></blockquote></i>
Does that help? Great, here’s what can happen. Participate in this ‘survey’ and see where it can lead. Send your responses to info@kingsports.net with ‘Ian, here is my MTH&TPPC survey response’. <br><br>
References <br><br>
(1) Drake, J., and NSCA Personal Training Quarterly, 2016, The training trap – building financial freedom in an appointment-based career, NSCA December Issue Member News
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-87699439082719660612016-10-30T17:56:00.000-07:002016-10-30T18:01:45.475-07:00Trump or Clinton? <i>How the 2016 USA Presidential elections will affect you – no matter where in the world you live</i>
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There are few key things that I feel many may be missing the point on about the current 2016 USA Presidential elections. Firstly there is too much focus on the messenger and not the message. Secondly there may be an assumption that is just about America, not about non-Americans living elsewhere in the world. And thirdly, a lack of forward thinking about the implications of the outcome.
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Firstly - the message vs. the messenger. Granted it’s been a campaign that may have taken gutter politics to a new high (or low). And I can understand how anyone could be distracted by that. But let me bring you back on focus. It’s not about the messenger. Take Donald Trump. I see a lot of commentary on his personality, or on the allegations of his treatment of women, or on his own word selection about treatment of women, and so on. Or take Clinton, with focus on her email management or Benghazi or her husbands track record with women.
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Firstly, let me be politically correct – what I am about to say is not endorsing the values or behaviours that either person has been criticises for. What I believe is however that the point is being missed. Go beyond the individuals - consider the bigger picture. This is the first time, to my knowledge, and in my lifetime, a complete political novice has been a front-runner for Presidency of the United States.
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This is the message – that enough Americans are fed up with or frustrated by or disillusioned with the solutions offered in their adult lifetime by career politicians that enough of them are supporting an alternative. I suggest this is more about people power and one of the greatest shifts in political and social patterns in my lifetime that it is about Trump or Clinton.
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And why? I suggest that a growing number of people in the US (and potentially other countries around the world) are concerned enough about their future that they are willing to endorse change. And that means they must be really disillusioned and questioning main-stream to-date accepted ways of governance. And that, for me is massive. There is a message in this, a ‘huge’ (no to paraphrase Donald!) message. We are possibly witnessing one on the most significant shifts in social and political thinking of the masses, based on I suggest financial realities. The system is just not working for a growing number of people.
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In summary on this point, I suggest take your gaze off the personalities involved (the messengers) and look at the message – a proposal be the people, even it is only the Republicans to date in this pre-election (11 days away) moment - that there is a viable alternative that they are willing to support other than a career politician.
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Now for the second point. Perhaps too many of us – myself included at times – have considered this an ‘American’ thing, that it doesn’t really matter to or affect those who are not US residents or citizens. Perhaps this is not so. What if the outcome of this election affected every country in the world and every citizen of every country in the word? And how might this occur?
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In the first instance, considering the size of an impact of the US on other countries globally, it would be naïve and short-sighted to assume that there would not be a flow on affect to every other country. Now just how much impact may depend on many variables including the extent to which your country trades with the US. However there is a second potential impact. What is the same social wave of unrest, as I have called it, sweeps your country and impacts major decisions such as national elections? This is a very strong possibility, that the world may be moving into a different phase.
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Thirdly lets talk about the post election impact. No, I am not talking about whether Donald jails Hilary if he is elected. Or if Hilary has retribution for Donald if she is elected; or whether Donald’s accusers will prevail; or whether the FBI will bring criminal charges against Hillary. I am talking about how our lives may or may not be impacted post election. Have you considered that?
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I have, and I believe it’s something you should consider, and form your own opinions on before I share my thoughts on this with you – which I plan to do.
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So there you have it. I trust I have stimulated you to give serious reflection to this moment in time, and perhaps have given you a new perspective on what may be happening – to us all, currently, in the US.
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-25868729021585679612016-06-12T21:56:00.000-07:002016-06-12T22:14:34.598-07:00Knee injuries - How can you hope to solve the problem using the stimulus that caused the problem?As a student of sports training and competition I took up the opportunity to watch the exercise selection from the waiting room at the physical therapists. I was surprised at the amount of quad exercises used over the weeks of my observing.
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Later as I lay on a table in the therapy clinic I listened to a young male client answer the question from this physical therapist.
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Therapist: Okay what have we done so far? <br>
Patient: Squats.<br>
My mind: That’s one.<br>
Patient: Wall squats.<br>
My mind: That’s two<br>
Patient: Lunges.<br>
My mind: That’s three.<br>
Patient: Walking lunges.<br>
My mind: That’s four.<br>
Patient: Step ups.<br>
My mind: That’s five.
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So far, the workout was 100% quad. I shook my head and said a prayer for the patient. Now to be fair I did see one non-quad exercise being done later. But the first five and the overwhelming majority of exercises being used in the rehab program for what I believe was an ACL surgery patient were quad exercises.
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I found this ironic, because it was this very profession some 30 years ago that brought me attention to the risks of ‘quad dominance’ in muscle balance and its relationship with gait and joint integrity. And here I was, some three decades later, and they were creating that exact same condition.
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I took this quad dominant concern, along with my own observations, quite seriously and spend a decade or so developing and refining before publishing a concept I called ‘Lines of Movement’ in 1998. You might not recognize the concept title I gave it but you will recognize the terminology by virtue of the prolific unreferenced and uncredited publishing by people who knew better.
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In relation to the lower body, I developed the concept to ‘hip dominant’ exercises to counter the concern I learnt from my therapist colleagues about ‘quad dominance’. Now, nearly 20 years after I first published this concept, my theories about the risks of quad dominance have become greater and clearer. I rank the muscle imbalance presented by quad dominant training as one of the highest correlates with ACL ruptures and similar.
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If I am track, then the question can be asked:
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How can you hope to solve the problem (ACL rupture risk) using the same stimulus that contributed to the problem?
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Now I understand that there are many reasons why most will disregard this message. Firstly, and most importantly, because the majority of ‘performance’, ‘injury prevention’ and ‘injury rehab’ strength training does just this – create quad dominance. And to accept this and change would take the emotional intelligence to conclude one is off track and needs to redirection one’s training programs. That’s the biggest reason the message will be ignored.
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I understand this. I understand others are waiting for ‘evidence’. I say look at the changing injury landscape. This injury was extremely rare in the 1980s, and even after the surgery became available there was not an instant increase in ACL incidence – so the low incidence was not because the surgery was not available. It was just a rare injury. It is not any more. So what changed? Why are so many athletes suffering from this injury now? But this would take again a degree of commitment to excellence and a detachment from ego that few are committed to.
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Evidence is, I suggest, another way of saying I will only do it when I see most others doing it, and when I am doing what most others are doing, I feel ‘right’ and ‘safe’.
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What I do say is this – not withstanding the frequent medical claims I here quoted by patients all too often about how their graft will be stronger than the one their Maker gave them - 50% of all ACL patients will have repeat knee surgery, and 100% will have premature degenerative changes such as osteoarthritis. I would not wish this on anyone. If it was your child would you want this?
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So while the masses wait the quarter to full century it may take for the ‘evidence’ to ‘allow’ them to take note of my conclusions, another generation or more will suffer from life changing injury and surgery such as the ACL.
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It does not have to be this way for you and those in your care, however that is up to you.
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-19578112899608226482016-06-01T16:15:00.000-07:002016-06-01T16:15:12.096-07:00Throwing the players under the bus – a strategy for failing as a coachThe first game of the season showed promise with the team winning the first half easily, and then holding on for the second half to win the game. By the second game this pattern of decline in dominance as the game went on became worse, and the team lost the second half.
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I had fears of what was to follow, and my fears were amplified when the field announcer stated the final score and congratulated the visiting team for winning the second half. It was just the announcer looking to give a positive to the losing team, but he had inadvertently drove the nail further into the coffin of his own team.
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As I feared, the coach told the team in the post-game talk that they were not fit enough. This code for something’s not working, I’ve got no idea what, but it must be your fault and the easiest blame strategy is ‘you are not fit enough’.
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Predictably they trained the team harder in non-specific conditioning work as well as rugby drills during the following week. During the next game the team were the flattest they had been, with limited on-field talk. They almost lost the first half, and ended up drawing the game. This outcome was exacerbated by the fact that the opponent on this day had not won a game in the season to date. Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone took into account that they had played and lost to the competitions top teams.
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So what do you do next after blaming fitness? The post-game coach’s speech focused on the lack of intensity, telling the players they needed to play and train with more intensity. I am not sure how you naturally bring more intensity when you are more tired than you needed to be, but that’s the way this scenario played out.
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During the week, as you can expect, the team were trained in a way that resulted in the coach happily stating that they had brought more ‘intensity’ to training, inferring this would serve them well in the upcoming game.
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In the upcoming game the team lost for the first time, failing to score a single try, and conceding nearly half a century of points.
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So what do you do now that you have gone down the path of throwing the players under the bus? You start dropping players. So about 55% of the way through the season players are relegated, with the ensuing drop in personal confidence you can expect from players dropped without knowing why.
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How did this work? The next game resulted in a score against that exceeded half a century. Now it was against the second strongest team in the competition, but the fact this team scored as many points as they did against a lowest rank team (a team that the losing team had easily beaten) suggested that the outcome was unnecessarily out of context to the losing teams potential.
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So where do you go now? Shuffle players around, playing them out of the position you had them in for most of the season? Basically you run out of options.
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Few would disagree that athletes benefit positively from people believing in them, especially their significant others. And who more significant than their coach? On the flip side, again few would disagree that negative impacts potentially result when a coach directly or indirectly tells the athlete they are lazy, don’t try hard enough, are not intense or focused enough, or are not good enough to play at that level.
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The challenge with any coach who fails to interpret the cause of their outcomes is further failure. However this failure is magnified in it’s consequence in the team culture where the coach takes the path of throwing the players under the bus.
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Whenever I hear a coach who by words or actions blames his players, I see a lesser future for the coach. To put it bluntly it’s a path to failure. This applies no matter what level it is occurring at, bet it the national team or a local kids team.
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I have had the fortune of working with coaches who have the strength to deflect the pressure on their team. The long serving Queensland rugby union coach John Connolly was one of these. I was impressed with his choice to absorb the pressure and not throw the players under the bus. However these coaches are the overwhelmingly minority. From my experience, I have observed the majority of coaches blame the players, failing to understand that firstly what goes on is a product of their leadership, and that the act of blaming the players is in the short term the kiss of death to their team’s culture and in the long term the kiss of death to their coaching career success.
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Few coaches develop their coaching abilities to the level of being able to consistently and successfully interpret the cause of their wining or losing, and I accept this. However my suggestion that even in the absence of this high level ability, coaches could benefit from avoiding the popular habit of throwing the players under the bus.
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NB. The above is fictional story to illustrate the message.
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-7932199083515240022016-05-15T16:47:00.000-07:002016-05-22T18:27:43.919-07:00Stop injuring the athletes - ACL reconstructionsBy Ian King
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I was stretching beside the oval whilst debriefing my son following his high school rugby game and I looked. Three teenage boys from the opposition school were standing nearby, and two of them were in knee braces.
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I have been saying for decades now that the rate of injuries to athletes is unacceptable and unnecessary. If fact those familiar with my writings would be appear of my zero tolerance attitude – we can prevent them all.
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It has been tragic watching the advent then the rise of the ACL surgery since its introduction around about 1980. A positive sign is the discussions that are now occurring. In two different countries two separate article were published recently, one by a former elite US athlete who never fulfilled his career due to injury and the other by sports medicine advocates in Australia.
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One of the many limiting factors in the effectiveness of any intervention that is stimulated by this growing awareness of injury incidence is what I call interpretation. Image ten coaches watching the same game where their team say lost the game. How many different interpretations will come from these ten coaches if they are independently arrived at? Could be ten. And how many of these coaches are high achieving in terms of their association with championships or whatever is the measure of success at their respective levels? At best one of them. And chances are that the coach with the most accurate interpretation.
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Understanding why athletes get injured is no different – it is subject to interpretation. And listening to the interpretation provided by this sports medicine expert as to why the incidence of ACL ruptures in the young athlete is so high let me with little comfort that anything will change.
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You see these experts cited the reduction in childhood play as the primary cause. I have heard the dominant interpretation amongst my North American colleagues – that the increased injury rate in young athletes is due to the lack of diversification in sports played in formative years and that the athletes are specializing too early.
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Both lovely theories, and both have validity in the bigger picture of long term athlete development. But both, in my humble opinion, miss the target. And this is where you come in. You are going to either adopt one of the theories presented here (including my theory) of form your own. Whatever path you choose, I ask two things.
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Firstly understand the seriousness of your interpretative decisions. You have the live, the quality of life and the livelihood (the US athlete only dropped 5 million dollars…..) of the athlete in your hands. I know you didn’t sign the Hippocratic Oath but for the sake of athletes all over the world I hope you would adopt this attitude:
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<center><i>First, do no harm.</i></center>
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Now based on a number of factors I am not optimistic that you will take the most effective path. Why am I so negative? Firstly that most of you will do what most do. And from my perspective, this conforming path gives you social comfort but leaves you under-performing on your potential, and the athletes will path the price. Secondly, most of you will lack the experience or competence to make optimal decisions. And thirdly few of you will be in a position to monitor the cause-effect relationship of training and injuries through multi-year controlled environments.
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So if you are have not been too offended and are still reading, leaves me to the second request. I respect whatever path you take, and I accept that most of you will miss the target. But what you can do is every few years take stock, reflect, and change your mind. Get better at avoiding injuries in the athletes who trust you. Now this will require taking responsibility for your decisions rather than avoiding responsibility, which in sport is easy to do. It will also take humility and the willingness to let go of any dogma. So I understand this request is a large one, but I make it with optimism.
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I want you to act before the duty of care concept from the legal perspective is your driving force. You are getting away with doing things today that are causes serious injury because ‘everyone’ is doing the same thing and ‘science’ has not yet ‘confirmed’ that what you are doing is causing the injuries. But one day, science will catch up and you will be held responsible for doing the things you take for granted now, like endless walking lunges, failing to stretch the athlete, and for developing the quad dominance that your current training programs are – just to name a few. One day these debilitating practices will be frowned upon. But you don’t have to wait till everyone has caught up. You can work these things out now and, for the sake of the athletes, make the changes and STOP INJURYING the athletes!
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So what, in my humble opinion, has brought on the rise of incidence in ACL surgery? There are many factors, and in every case the hierarchy will be different, and this level of individual interpretation is nigh impossible in a world that struggles with accurate generalized interpretation. However, for the sake of starting your journey to serving the athletes better, I raise three of what I consider up the top end of contributing causes in most cases. I list them alphabetically to avoid any further message of which is more important or correlative.
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I will also give examples in each case to demonstrate some of the influences in my conclusions.
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<b>1. The introduction of strength training and the inherent quad dominance in the program design.</b>
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Using the young athlete as a time line, based on my experience dealing with post high school elite athletes in Australia, there were few if any formal strength training programs in high schools in Australia prior to the early to mid-1990s. I suggest, and this is a hypothesis, that you could track the rise of ACL injuries in young athletes (12-24 years) along beside the rise of strength training programs in high schools and find a strong correlation.
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Am I saying that strength training is bad for young athletes and should not be done? Not at all. What I am saying is that if strength training with the same imbalances as exist traditionally in adult or elite programs is applied to kids, they will suffer injuries early. And that is what is happening, I suggest.
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I propose a second hypothesis – if you could track the rate at which strength training has been offered to younger and younger athletes in the high school programs, with the rise in incidence of ACL ruptures in younger and younger athletes, I suggest you would see a correlative pattern.
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Now these same imbalances have been inherent in adult elite programs since I have been studying strength training for sport, since its inception around 1970 in the US.
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During the 1980s I began forming a conceptual theory that I called ‘Lines of Movement’, to understand how inherent imbalances in traditional program design could quantified. I published this concept for the first time in 1998
Here is the fundamental message:
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<blockquote><i>After many years I have decided that there is two family trees in lower body exercises – one where the quad dominates, and one where the hip dominates. When I say hip I mean the posterior chain muscle groups – the hip extensors; which are gluteal, hamstrings, lower back – they’re your hip extensors. And I believe this – the head of the family in the quad dominant exercises is the squat. That’s the head of the family. And there are 101 lead-up exercises to it and there’s a few on after it as well. But the core exercise for the quad dominant group is the squat. It’s the most likely used exercise in that group for the majority of people.
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The hip dominant exercises – the father of the hip dominant tree is the deadlift – which when done correctly would be the most common exercise of that group. There are lead-in exercises, and there are advanced exercises from it.
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So I build my family tree around the squat and I build my family tree around the deadlift. And I balance them up. In general, for every squat exercise or every quad dominant exercise I show in that week a hip dominant exercise in that week. And what do most people do in their program designs – they would do two quad dominant exercises for every hip dominant exercise. What is the most common imbalance that occurs in the lower body?
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….To balance the athlete I work on a ratio of 1 to 1 of hip and quad dominant - in general. And I can assure you – most programs you’ll see are 2 to 1 – quad and hip.
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That’s a concept I’m sure you’ll have never heard before because this is the first time I have spoken about it.</i>(4)</blockquote>
<i>The following is a sample list, not in any order, of the major muscle groups of the body that I published:
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<blockquote>A sample list of muscle groups, not in any order.(5)
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Hip dominant (e.g. deadlift and its variations)<br>
Quad dominant (e.g. squats and its variations)<br>
Vertical pulling (i.e. scapula depressors e.g. chin ups)<br>
Vertical pushing (i.e. arm abduction e.g. shoulder press)<br>
Horizontal pulling (i.e. scapula retractors e.g. rows)<br>
Horizontal pushing (i.e. horizontal flexion e.g. bench press)</blockquote></i>
The subsequent dilution of the origin of this concept has gone hand in hand with its failure to impact the athlete’s outcome to the extent it could have. I can only recommend you go to the source, to my original writings, summarized in the ‘Legacy’ book or more extensively in my ‘Legacy Course’ (Level1 KSI Coaching Program). I understand that those looking for opportunities to discredit my message may call ‘marketing!’ at this point in time, however those that know me better understand it’s not about the money, it’s about the athlete. And if that’s the best way at the moment to help the athlete, and I suggest it is – so be it.
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I identified the imbalances of the lower body musculature and found a way to teach the risk and solution in the 1980s and taught it in the 1990s. I have since advanced my theories but the historic content would serve you really well as a base point.
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<b>2. The failure to address length and tension of the connective tissue</b>
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As a student of training trends and optimal training it has been extremely interesting to say the least to watch the trends in this area of training during the last four decades. The rise of connective tissues is undeniable, and the effort to find solutions pitiful. I suggest that the only thing my colleagues are concerned about is whether they are being trend conforming, dressed up in the behavioral term ‘cutting edge’.
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Let me put it this way – more and more and younger and younger athletes are being exposed to strength training, and experiencing tissue shortening and tension increases. And the best that is bring offered is dynamic ‘stretching’ and foam rolling?
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Again let me be clear – I am not saying that either is bad or of no value. What I am saying is this.
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Dynamic stretching is barely stretching and does not replace the role of static stretching. And as for the dominant discouragements to the masses of the post 2000 era – that pre-training static stretching will make you weak and or increases your injures – injuries could not get much higher and the dominant value is stretching is minimized, what is done is predominantly dynamic. It’s not working! It never did! All I have to offer is four decades of professional application with an intensity and desire for optimal outcomes that few can match. Who cares about my experience? I can assure, the thousands of athletes who I have given injury free high performance careers to have.
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Now foam rollers – the only reason you have heard about this option was because small equipment distributors in the US realized the profit in re-selling a piece of foam and instructed their seminar speakers to project expert (and I suggest overnight expertise) opinions on the value of rolling, to the extent that it was placed in the sequence of training sessions as a mandatory must do – and the non-trendy static stretching was left out!
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Now anyone who has truly been involved in athlete preparation has been having their athletes roll on tennis balls and similar forever. But not instead of stretching and not as a replacement for massage. Rolling is great, but if you fail to keep it in context you under-perform for the athlete.
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<b>3. Fatigue</b>
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There is a point in time for even the well-conditioned athlete that the incidence of injury, especially what some mistakenly assume to be ‘impact’ injuries, increase rapidly. Here’s a third proposal or hypothesis – if you could track the level of fatigue of the athlete with those that suffer ACL rupture I suggest you would find a strong correlation. Now this hypothesis is probably the hardest one to test, I appreciate that.
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I have witnessed the highest incidence of ‘impact’ injuries including ACL in the sporting teams with the highest volume training. I could name example coaches whose careers I have been monitoring for years and in some cases decades to understand the correlation between training volume, fatigue and injury incidence.
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This is a risk that all coaches face at all times, requiring them to monitor their training volumes. The interpretation is made more difficult by realities such as the fatigued athlete could injure early in the game and we could say it can’t have been fatigue because it happened early in the game. Remember the residual nature of fatigue.
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<b>Conclusion</b><br><br>
There is a growing albeit belated awareness of the high incidence of injuries such as ACL injuries in athletes, and in particular the younger athlete. Whist this is nice, and supports the strong concerns I have expressed for decades, my concern is also whether it will lead to any real intervention of this trend. My concerns are based on whether the interpretation of the cause of these injuries is accurately identified and isolated.
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I provide three factors that I believe are highly correlated with the risks of ACL injuries, and provide three hypoesthesia that perhaps my more learned academic colleagues may one day investigate, to aid the thinking of the masses who wait for social proof such as this:
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1. That you could track the rise of ACL injuries in young athletes (12-24 years) along beside the rise of strength training programs in high schools and find a strong correlation.
2. If you could track the rate at which strength training has been offered to younger and younger athletes in the high school programs, with the rise in incidence of ACL ruptures in younger and younger athletes, I suggest you would see a correlative pattern.
3. If you could track the level of fatigue of the athlete with those that suffer ACL rupture I suggest you would find a strong correlation.
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However rather than waiting for the lagging indicators of science, for the sake of the athlete I hope that at least one coach might change their mind about how they train as the result of this article. I know the power of what is offered here, I also understand the power of conformity and dogma, and the over-riding desire of the majority to be like the majority, resulting is slow change. Thousands if not millions of athletes will get injured during this slow change, as has occurred during the last few decades.
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What I would like to do is this – if you are a high school coach (physical or specific sport) and what I have said has resonated with you – and if you school would like to receive a 10 part video program I created last year titled ‘The Zero Tolerance to Injuries Video Series’, provided the school is making the purchase and it will be made accessible to all in the sports department, I would live to arrange this for you at no cost. Email my office at info@kingsports.net and ask us how you can receive this.
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<u>References</U> <br>
1) http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/writer/jon-solomon/25584164?utm_content=buffer0f307&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer <br>
2) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/orthopaedic-surgeons-call-for-sports-injury-prevention/7382198<br>
3) http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2016/05/bst_20160504_0836.mp3 <br>
4) King, I., 1998, Strength Specialization Series (DVD), Disc 3, approx. 1hr 06m 00sec in.<br>
5) King, I., 2000, How to Teach Strength Training Exercises
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-78847979131678526402016-05-09T15:56:00.000-07:002016-05-09T16:28:27.187-07:00To be a student - or notA physical preparation coach enrolled in a financial education course with my company. Initially his quiz responses were typical – acknowledging that he was in a financial position that he was not happy with and felt a strong need to change. But within a unit or two his responses began changing, showing more agitation and anger. After Unit 4 he quit, and demanded a refund.
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Here is an exchange with lessons for all.
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Subject: Course Refund
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<i>Hello, I purchased your course on "money". I'd like a refund of that purchase. I do not think you should be giving any financial advice based on the content that I've just seen. This is just the start of my issues with this so-called course. Any means at your disposal to issue a refund is highly appreciated. If you have any questions please call me. Thanks you,</i><br>
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Now I didn’t really need this email – after reading the course quiz submissions, the refund was inevitable!
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<i>Xxxx - Ian King here. I just called as you asked but only got your voice mail After my team shared your quiz responses including
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* this course fucking sucks dude you are a fraud <br>
* This is terrible – maybe you should sell your services to wall st mr king <br>
* The world’s best economists can’t predict with relative accuracy as to what may happen in the future so how can you
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I would have refunded your money irrespective of your request below, for many reasons. We have strong desire to help anyone, such as yourself who is less than excited about doing business with us, move on to service providers more suited to their needs.
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We were excited to give you your money back, so you should see that refund come through. I trust you find service providers more suited to your needs to achieve your financial goals, or any other aspect of your professional development. Thanks.<br></i>
--Ian King
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Now you would expect a subsequent response, but you never know, and you never know what shape it will take, and here it is:
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<i>Hi Mr. King, I just finished playing basketball, so I missed your call.
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Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the vulgar feedback. As a coach in this industry I appreciate and respect your longevity and wisdom as it pertains to physical preparation. So with all due respect, I regret and I apologize for my reaction.
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That said, I do stand by my assessment of the course. Here is my attempt at constructive feedback.
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• The delivery of the course is laborious - I believe it's a 6 step process to read your pdf and take unit test. Way too many steps. Also, some of the links don't work.<br>
• The content, well, is haphazardly pieced together and the message is one of gloom and scare, and just not very good. In a course like this I think it better to discuss the following strategies: Elements of a Business Plan. How to raise money and the elements of equity and valuation (selling a business, multiplier and ebita. Taxation strategies. I can go on.... I thought I was going to get this from the course or at least a little more insight from this angle given your industry success.<br>
• I also believe mindset is highly individual phenomenon. I think it's dangerous to talk about this unless you know an individual on a personal level. Remember, we are all snowflakes...generalizations just don't work.
Thank you for your professional response to my very unprofessional reaction. Best,<br></i>
--xxxxx
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This showed enough humility to warrant reaching out and teaching I shared the following:
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<i>xxxx – thanks for your email. I have been around long enough to know that everyone deserves a chance to be emotional in their response in the heat of things, then typically calm down afterwards. Been toe to toe with some of the biggest egos in the sporting world so seen it all, so I understand where you were coming from and you have shown a lot more positive character traits in your subsequent email than your initial responses! That didn’t do you any favors but you are big enough to realize that in hindsight so good on you.
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I’m also used to pushing peoples buttons in the industry. As a leader in training concepts, I almost always get abused when I released my ’new’ theories. (not new for me because I put things through a 10 year minimum testing period before I put publish them). What I have learnt from watching reactions is those that kid and thrash the most are those who are not doing what my ’new’ training method suggests, and to save face in front of their peers and clients they typically make the most vicious attacks. Then are those who take it one step further and start teaching my methods as if they originally innovated them, hoping no-one hears about their unprofessional initial responses.
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So this is the price I know I pay as a person whose life works has changed the way the world trains, even though many in the world don’t know the origins due to the phenomena described above. So I have had a lot of practice being the target of vindictiveness!
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One lesson I learnt from one of my may influences was a lesson from one of the worlds best platform speakers from the end of the 20th Century and a man whose cassette (yes, cassette) sales still hold the world record - Mr Denis Waitley. Denis transitioned from being a warrior (fighter jet pilot) to being a teacher of personal development, and he says “Anger is threatened values’. From this clarity I understand that when someone’s values are threatened they get angry.
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When I taught that functional strength is more appropriately developed through a sequence of bodyweight unilateral to loaded bilateral movements, I felt the anger of those who were not doing this, and whose value set were the most threatened. When I taught that speed of movement in strength training can be measured, communicated using a digit timing system, and varied, I felt the anger of those who were not doing this, and whose value set were most threatened. When I taught that static stretching should precede lifting, and that control drills should precede lifting and that abdominal exercises should be done by most people most of the time as the first exercise, I felt the anger of those who were not doing this, and whose value set were the most threatened. When I taught that balance is needed in strength training and one could use my Lines of Movement concept (horizontal push and pull, hip and quad dominant), I felt the anger of those who were not doing this, and whose value set were the most threatened.
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To be clear, I teach holistically and have done from the early days (that alone will be a trend in itself one day in this industry!) and therefore I also teach on the subjects of personal development, business development, financial development and spiritual development, in addition to sets and reps.
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Now there are two things that could cause an industry professional to push back on me as you did. Firstly, the heresy of daring to teach ‘outside my little box’. I get the same from sports coaches when I teach technical and tactical development – I feel the anger of the coaches who were not doing the strategies I taught, and whose value set were the most threatened. Secondly the fact that I raise points that are downright confronting to individuals and the stark reality causes a defensive reaction.
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I will never forget this happening in a seminar in Boston in the late 1990s. There was one particular strength coach who started out calmly in the audience, but as I unrolled my ’new’ training concepts to the audience, the steam rose in his head! I knew he was not doing any of the things I taught, and his protégés and all whom he had positioned to see him as the local ‘guru’ were in the room. It was not going to end well! He couldn’t wait to the of the day to change his ways so he did what most do when fear creates the desire to attack. He gathered his followers at the mid-morning break, convinced them the content was terrible, the delivery was terrible, and the only possible salvation was for them all to leave right then and there. They did, but to this day I am sure he knows that the only salvation was of his ego. I could have overlooked this act, as I did with yours, but his subsequent act of creating a publishing and seminar stream based on the very work he walked out on, without a single measure of the source, placed him as a lessor man than you.
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You see you ‘fessed up and apologized. He just kept acting without integrity. Now where is the lesson in this? I share this with you for a number of reasons, including with the intent to help you understand that the most successfully self-promoted gurus in this industry are not the role models that I would endorse, yet they succeed in way-laying well meaning industry professionals looking for direction. As a result too many in this industry are never empowered to fulfill their own potential.
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I genuinely feel for the majority misguided individual in this industry, whose role models leave them with an impossible to resolve scarcity mentality affecting all aspects of the live and family. Money is one example of this. The ego, as a colleague of mine by the name of Michael Callejas likes to say (see, it’s not difficult to give credit!) - is not your amigo!
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Before I do allow me to comment on your statement:
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That said, I do stand by my assessment of the course.
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You have found rational reasons to support an emotional decision. That’s okay, but you don’t have to. You can let go of being right and move forward. I don’t mind too much about right and wrong. There’s a great saying – you can be right or rich. So you won’t see too much (hopefully none!) dogma in the following because I happy for anyone to be right, because my focus is elsewhere!
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Now if you are still reading, I will also take time to respond to your effort of providing feedback.
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1. The delivery of the course is laborious. Yes, that is right. And for the most part, that is my intention. You, had you read deeper into the course, would have learnt about my concerns about the information collecting nature of this industry. When I first released the Level 1 KSI Course as it now is, I was shattered that my life work was for the most part going to form a badge of honor – on the library shelf! I could see that most were just printing off the units and not bothering to read it. I made a decision that even if it costs me money – and it does, because as you have done, the current crop of industry professional want to be wowed with bullshit, and given a whole heap of ‘information’. I refuse to be part of that, to endorse this.
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So I make you work for it. If you are not committed enough to take a few steps, you don’t deserve to get the next unit. This provides a pre-qualification filter to sort out who deserves my information, who will use it in the manner intended I.e. Apply it in a practical real world sense, where the real learning is taking place; and who is going to treat it as if most sellers do – whose primary intent is to wow you will flashy made up shit and make it as easy as possible for you to be motivated to give them your money.
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So the laborious part is not going to change, although we are always looking at ways of smoothing the action steps, so this will get better with time.
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Now another reason I don’t like to just ‘give’ the information but rather pre-qualify the user, is to weed out those who have the post 2000 value promoted by a certain little group who self-servingly promote its okay to lie, cheat and steal - who have no hesitation in changing the copyright symbol to their own and change the front cover! Now of course I would never be so gross as to use those words, but you get the message!
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2. The links don’t work: Now let’s talk about the links not working. They actually work - they just don’t work on all computers all the time. Clearing the cache helps, but I take responsibility for this as much as I can, and we are looking to refine this over time.
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3. The content, well, is haphazardly pieced together: Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But I can’t say yet whether the sequence or content will change – I would rather allow time in the hands of the readers who complete the course to help guide this.
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I’ve only been a student of this subject with intensity for about 25 years so I am a bit green, and I will get better. I published my first book on financial education in 1999, but that might have been haphazard in your eyes also, and again I would say – maybe it is and maybe it isn’t.
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4. The message is one of gloom and scare: I appreciate this concern and from memory I not only apologized for this perception but stressed that (you might have quit the course before you got to this) that it’s bad news for those who refuse to change, take action; and good news for those that are willing to face up to it, learn new habits of the mind and habits of the body. The money is not leaving the market – its just changing hands.
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But yes, I can see why the majority would think what I focused on was doom and gloom. I maintain that what I have done is my best to forewarn and prepare my industry colleagues for a changing world, irrespective of whether we experience a major economic downturn during 2016 or 2017.
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Perhaps you and I do not share the same views on the world – I see a world where there are too many people living one economic mishap away from economic ruin. I see a world where to many have no assets, no savings and no hope of supporting themselves in retirement. I see a world where too many children’s parents compromise on the health and time spend with them due to their economic circumstances. I think that gloomy. What I seek to do is to give people education as a lifeline to get out of these circumstances. Of course not everyone wants it. Some find id offensive, or not good enough in delivery, or haphazard or any other reason to stop the train of possible change and stay where they are.
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5. You have better ideas on appropriate content: I read what you said were better ideas and content. Now let me do this as gently and as humbly as I can ‘Dude (now I don’t normally talk like that but I am using your words!) - are you the teacher or the student?!’
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One of the greatest challenges in learning is being willing to empty your cup, be the student, put on the white belt.
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<i>“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”</i><br>
—Stephen Hawking
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Let’s be really brutally honest and with no disrespect, but calling a spade a spade because life’s really do depend on this – are you really in a position, based on your financial position, to be the teacher? Now I don’t make that decision. You do. It would appear you have already done so, as you fired me as your teacher.
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In summary to this point, and with as much care and respect as I can muster, I am going to pass on your pointers on content. There’s a bigger lesson for you in this, but lessons are taken by students, not determined by teachers.
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5. What you thought you were going to get from this course: I get this. From my double major in sociology I understand that the conditions for a revolt are set when the expectations and reality don’t meet. Having said that let me get out of theory mode and into real world talk. I don’t give you want you want, I give you what you need. If you knew, really knew what you needed, you would not be where you are today. So get over this discrepancy between what you expected and what I gave you, or stay where you are.
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In the early 1990s I was just like you in this regard. I sat in a multiple thousand-dollar seminar (not a $47 one like you spat the dummy about) and expected to get days of sales and marketing. So when it was obvious that I wasn’t going to get that, rather days of personal development, I had to make a decision. Spit the dummy, demand a refund, and go home bitching and whining about the rip-off fraud that guy was. Or to say to myself – okay Ian, you tried it your way and it didn’t work. So maybe you will be better off shutting up, emptying your cup and being a student. And that, ‘dude’, was one of the great turning points in my life. So I know where you are coming from. I just can’t be on your cheer squad.
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6. It’s dangerous to talk about mindset in general terms as its dangerous: Now xxxx, I think you may be scraping the barrel now but I’ll honor it as I have done the above.
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Firstly, is it better to individual rather than to provide group training? Of course it is. But no-one does it. We are in an industry where more people sell group training than individualized programs!
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Now on the subject of individualization. Its strange getting a lecture on this because I have been one of the strongest advocates on this subject over the last few decades. In fact one of my greatest criticisms of the industry is that the competence to individualize training is so low, it would barely move the arrow on a meter!
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I’ve written often about how much angst I experience providing a generic program for what was called T-mag back in 1999. Anyone who was around then would recall the ‘Limping Program’ you know, the one where I recommended unique bodyweight exercises be integrated into conventional strength programs, and everyone thought I was a lunatic – until it became apparently popular and let to many books on the subject written by the leader of the Boston seminar walkout.
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Now I went through the same pain writing programs for my four book sequel Get Buffed! As well as the Book of Muscle. Now in hindsight, did I do the wrong thing? Did I ‘damage’ anyone? Or did I help more people than hinder by this act of generalization?
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xxxx you know the answer. And you probably know you are using the time-tested technique of false fear attached to an at may stop people doing stuff….Like when I was a kid and they said if you go swimming you will get a cramp and drown…but I didn’t…and then when I was a teenager they said if you do ’that’ you will go blind….and I still can see….and then in the 1990s they said if you massage someone without having a certain costly certification you will damage peoples nerves…but I didn’t….and then post 2000 the world was told that if they statically stretched they would injure and when that scare mongering wore out it was switched to ‘if you static stretch’ you will go weak…
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I guess you can see what I really think about your last point!
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Now for a belated conclusion. As a student, I have learnt I can shoot the messenger, or I can study the message. The more you do of one, the less you do of the other.
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Yes, I responded with more than you expected, but I confess is as much for anyone who will read this as it is for you, and I don’t determine who becomes the student. I can give student tips, like leave your ego at the door, put on white belt, empty your cup, don’t preach to the teacher until you have solid evidence that you can do better….and so on. But I don’t determine who starts the journey of the student, nor do I pick who stays the path and who quits. You know what I am saying first hand!</i>
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Ian King
Want to do this course? http://bit.ly/moneyandtheppcoach-prequalifyAbout Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-57211349047575004052016-04-27T17:27:00.004-07:002016-04-27T17:28:51.098-07:00You don’t want to be the best you can be<b><i>You want to be just like everyone else</i></b>
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I am sure if a survey was taken of physical preparation coaches the majority would say there goal was to be the best they can be. From my perspective, I suggest that is not the dominant focus. I suggest that the desire to be like everyone else is far greater than the desire to be the best one can be. And I suggest that the price paid for this default is lost opportunities for both the professional and the client.
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During the 1970s very few people participated in the exercise know as the squat, or double knee bend. The belief was squats were bad for your knees. Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits?
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During the 1980s the majority of mixed energy sports athletes participated in a higher volume aerobic training block in their General Preparatory Phase. The belief was that it was neither safe or optimal to expose the athlete to other training modalities without first gaining a level of aerobic fitness. Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits?
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During the 1990s the majority of physical preparation coaches included Swiss ball exercise in their program design. The belief was that performing an exercise, any – actually vertically all – exercises. This was based on the dogma that the additional balance challenges produced a superior training effect, and that this was definitely going to transfer to all sport and life activities. Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits?
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During the 2000s the majority of physical preparation coaches selected almost exclusively from the so-called ‘functional exercises’ (although I am not really sure what that is) in their program design. To do any exercise sitting on a bench or lying down was heretical. This was based on the belief that standing and multi-planar movements were superior in their training effect for all people at all times, and would definitely provide a superior transfer to sport and life. Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits?
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During the 2010s the majority of sports coaches and physical preparation coaches refuse to use static stretching, replacing what little stretching time is dedicated to stretching with ‘dynamic’ stretches. This is based on the belief that static stretching makes you weak and leads to injury and dynamic stretching is safer, more functional and effective. Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits?
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The one question I asked throughout the above is - Did the majority come to that conclusion based on their personal experiences, or did they simply accept the dominant beliefs and habits? I suggest they did not come to these conclusions based on any form of personal experience. I also suggest that they didn’t even think. They just accepted and did.
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So what would I need to see to believe that a physical preparation coach was making an attempt to be the best they can be? The most important criteria I am looking for is evidence of thinking. That the key questions have been asked, including but not limited to;
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• What is the best way to train? <br>
• What can I do to fulfill my potential as a coach?<br>
• What can I do to fulfill the potential of my client/athlete?
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Now call me simplistic, but I am skeptical as to whether the majority has applied this approach. Here are a few considerations.
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Let’s take squats for examples. Prior to about 1990, when a slew of ‘research’ was published extolling the benefits of stretching, did the did the majority of physical preparation coaches have collective personal experiences that squatting was bad and then collectively and coincidentally post 1990 have personal experiences to the contrary?
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Let’s take the Swiss ball for example. Prior to about 1990 few knew the word Swiss ball and exercises upon it. Up until this time did the did the majority of physical preparation coaches have collective personal experiences that Swiss balls and exercises on Swiss balls were useless and then collectively and coincidentally post 1990 have personal experiences to the contrary?
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Let’s take stretching for example. Prior to about 1995 it was okay to statically stretch, and commonly done. Post 1995 it wasn’t. Now did the majority of physical preparation coaches have collective experiences prior to 1995 that static stretching was the most effective way to stretch, and then post 1995 all reach personal conclusions to the contrary? I suggest not.
Now I respect that for many of you my proposition is flawed as I place a premium on thinking, at a time in the world and in our industry where the dominant belief that what you think is irrelevant - just read the research and see if ‘research supports it’. This is essentially not only the antithesis of thinking, I also suggest that this don’t think just believe in the research mentality is actually contrary to the intent of the origin of science.
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For me objectivity is the key.
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Scientific objectivity is a characteristic of scientific claims, methods and results. It expresses the idea that the claims, methods and results of science are not, or should not be influenced by particular perspectives, value commitments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors.
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And even though science claims this I don’t believe it is always the case.
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Science in theory is intended to provide objective analysis. I believe this way has been lost in many cases, where the research conclusions are influenced by the researcher, who in turn may be influenced by the provider of the funding.
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<i>For all the lip service we pay to science, everyone knows that it is commerce that runs the show. As the Spanish proverb goes, ‘He who gives the bread lays down the law’. Science today typically serves the large corporate interests that fund it. In a world conceived by the financial and corporate leadership who effectively rule it, the purpose of the human being is to contribute to the economy as an increasingly efficient unit of production and as an increasingly efficient unit of consumption. The financial and corporate elite establish effective social policy, and commercially funded science gives them the technological wherewithal to execute it.</i>
--Laurence G. Boldt, 1999
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I believe you can be more objective than certain modern ‘scientific’ conclusions:
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Now I admit it’s not easy being an objective thinker. Throughout history thinkers have been subject to a variety of suppressions and restrictions by authorities.
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Take Roger Bacon (c. 1219/20 – c. 1292) for example, the 13th Century English philosopher. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by Aristotle
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<i>• After 1260, Bacon's activities were restricted by a statute prohibiting the friars of his order from publishing books or pamphlets without prior approval.
• The Condemnations of 1277 banned the teaching of certain philosophical doctrines, including deterministic astrology. Some time within the next two years, Bacon was apparently imprisoned or placed under house arrest.</i>
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon
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Here are some of the thinking that Bacon and others were ‘not allowed to engage in’ at various times in the 13th Century:
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The banned propositions included:
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<i>• "That there is numerically one and the same intellect for all humans".<br>
• "That the soul separated [from the body] by death cannot suffer from bodily fire".<br>
• "That God cannot grant immortality and incorruption to a mortal and corruptible thing".<br>
• "That God does not know singulars" (i.e., individual objects or creatures).<br>
• "That God does not know things other than Himself".<br>
• "That human acts are not ruled by the providence of God".<br>
• "That the world is eternal".<br>
• "That there was never a first human".</i><br>
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condemnations_of_1210–1277
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History is littered with examples of suppression of freedom of thinking.
Now if you are still reading this article, and if you resonate with the belief that you should reach your own, objective conclusions, then here is one phenomenal role model to guide and inspire you. Buckminster-Fuller, considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century, wrote:
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<i>I jettisoned all I had ever been taught to believe and proceeded thereafter to reason and act only on the basis of direct personal experience … Exploring, experiencing, feeling, and - to the best of my ability - acting strictly and only on my individual intuition, I became impelled to write this book...</i>
--Buckminster-Fuller, referring to his book 'Critical Path', 1981.
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I am not alone in my encouragement to you to temper your compliance with the dominant ‘scientific’ theories:
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<i>I think that in modern Western society, there seems to be a powerful cultural conditioning that is based on science. But in some instances, the basic premises and parameters set up by Western science can limit your ability to deal with certain realities. For instance, you have the constraints of the idea that everything can be explained within the framework of a single lifetime, and you combine this with the notion that everything can and must be explained and accounted for. But when you encounter phenomena that you cannot account for, then there's kind of a tension created; it's almost a feeling of agony.</i>
--Howard C. Culter and the Dalai Lama, 1998
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Again I share I am not seeking to be disrespectful of science as it currently is.
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<i>Research is nice and I'm definitely not critical at all of the contribution of academics. But my decision to train a certain way is not based on the latest research. It's based on the conclusions I've reached on cause and effect relationships in the real world. People can become too infatuated with the concept of science.
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For me, success in sport is about winning. Athletes aren't going to get offended if I don't comply with the latest research. They just want to win. So the research is nice, but it's always going to be limited. We're not dealing with a college age volunteer in a six week program; we're dealing with a human being that's been working for fifteen to twenty years to take his body beyond where it’s gone before. </i>
--Shugart, C., 2000, Meet the press: Coach of Coaches – An interview with Ian King, t-mag.com 29 Friday 2000
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I also acknowledge that the easiest thing to do is to conform. However I encourage you to reflect on this perspective on conformity:
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<i>The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.</i>
--Rollo May
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I have been encouraging you to resist the pressures of conformity for:
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<i>Resist the temptation in program design to conform to mainstream paradigms simply for the sake of conforming, no matter how dogmatically they are presented, or how much you may be ridiculed or ostracized for trusting your intuition over conformity. Make our own minds up based on a combination of respect for your intuition, the athlete/client’s intuition, the results, and in respect of the body of knowledge available. </i>
--King, I.., 2005, The way of the physical preparation coach (book), p. 17
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It is rewarding to see individuals chose to be objective, to trial training methods and reach their own conclusions, even if they are contrary to the dominant beliefs:
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<i>“…from young, I was led to believe that an individual's level of flexibility is determined by genetics. As I grew older I got stiffer and when I started my formal education, I was educated that flexibility is not a vital determining factor in sports and that dynamic stretches were more than sufficient to both warm-up the joint and muscles, as well as to improve flexibility.
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To be honest, with all the research papers and articles being put through my mind at that time, it did seem logical for a naive mind that was easily convinced. However, I am glad that I was shown the art of stretching…I have never experienced such levels of flexibilities in my life and I'm thankful that I chose to open my mind to a concept that was challenged by the origins of my knowledge in this field. I spend close to half or on some days, more than half of my time stretching my frontal muscle groups & performing tension releasing work with my 'poor man's masseur' as it has significantly improved my overall health. Stretching will also and always be a main training tool/stapler in the programs that I design, due to it's massive benefits that I have attained and am still experiencing.”</i>
-Tze, KSI L1 Student Coach
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In essence I am suggesting that if you do what everyone else is doing, you are not only failing to fulfill your potential, you are failing to fulfill the potential of your client:
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<i>Look at it this way. If you do it the way everyone else is doing it - all things being equal, how are you going to be better than everyone else? Realistically changes do occur (albeit slowly) in sport training - because someone dared to do it differently. These people gain the advantage, are at the cutting edge. The sheep follow. Which do you want to be? </i>
--King, I., 1997, Winning and Losing, p. 30
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<i>Give you a hint - if what I teach is what the majority do, I would be very concerned. I want to do what few do, to get a competitive advantage. </i>
--King, I., 2003, Ask the Master, (book) p. 32
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<b>Conclusion</b>
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I am going to be straight – if you find yourself doing what the majority are doing, and your goal is to be the best you can be - you should be very concerned. I see this as evidence that you are not thinking for yourself, rather that you are conforming.
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Now this is not bad or good from one perspective – even Master Sifu in the movie Kung Fu Panda will tell you there is not such thing as good or bad! If you have no desire to fulfill your potential, if your personality is such that you would prefer to conform, then keep going. The world needs all kinds, and the statistical reality has a pattern of talking about the 90-95% that just want to be average, the same as everyone else.
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But if you are seeking to be the best you can be, to give you clients the best opportunity to be the best they can be – to be in the 5 to 10% of high achievers – then you need to stop seeking to be like everyone else and think for yourself!About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-44988258695660497282016-03-30T20:50:00.003-07:002016-03-30T20:52:51.316-07:00Show me your mentor and I will predict your futureWhen we start out in the industry its unlikely we fully appreciate the impact of those who we model. The late Stephen Covey, the author of the best-selling book ‘Seven Habit’s of Highly Successful People, spoke of making sure that was the building you want to climb before leaning your ladder up against it.<br><br>
I have sat and heard the sadness of too many who some ten plus years later have confided or inferred their regrets of how they have spent their time, money and emotions during key phases of their career.
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When a coach is new and young and starry eyed it’s understandable they may be attracted to the newest, latest or loudest or shiniest object. It understandable that their perceptions are shaped by the dominant industry trends when they arrive at the scene.
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However no matter how understandable this is, life is too short to spend pursing empty paths. For the last few decades I have suggested that young coaches check out the life behind the marketed images of individuals before seeking to model them.
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Everyone has different interests and goals, and my hope is that some decades into your time in this industry you can look back with pride and satisfaction about how you choose to invest your time, money and energy.
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And remember – the mentor you choose may be an excellent predictor of your future. So choose with wisdom.
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-86961320886610886032016-01-20T03:17:00.000-08:002016-01-20T03:17:16.502-08:00The illusion of knowledgeImagine if you came upon someone with a lifetime of experience supported by an incredible success in helping people fulfill their potential. After a period of communication they offered guidance based on this experience. What would you do?
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I can tell you what most do. About 90% plus of the population will seek to analyze the ‘information’ based on their existing paradigms.
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Let me say this as gently as I can – if you knew the answers now you would be have all the success you seek. And in reality, you don’t know the answers and you would benefit from letting go of the ‘information’ you have to filter the guidance from those who you benefit from following and modeling.
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Even when I place a disclaimer along the lines of ‘I will only give you my time and experience if you demonstrate your willingness to be a student and take action’, the point is often missed.
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Recently, following a complimentary profession of low level professional guidance via private messaging, I made the following offer:
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<i>“…yes, life changes and you need to adapt. You also need to get more serious about things like xxxx and xxxx for the xxxx and xxxx. the latter of which I have pretty clear guidelines for but only for those who will act on my advice, not for those who want opinions…”</i>
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To which ultimately the response was:
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<i>“Thank you Ian...I would like, of course, before committing ….to know what these xxxx are, by whom are they produced, and to find out more about their production and,
consequently, their respective effects/mode of action…I am sure you can appreciate my reticence and my need to find out more about xxxx, for the very same reasons.
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xxxx (and ever more so, given their isolative nature) and xxxx potential accentuation effects should be carefully considered, especially their effects on overall balance when used concomitantly, so I would certainly like more info before going down that route...’</i>
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This is a lost opportunity. The guidance will not be forthcoming because the student was not ready. I would not work professionally with this perspective and therefore would not do this in a complimentary sense either.
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Here’s a quote that offers guidance on this point worth reflecting on:
<blockquote>“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”--Daniel J. Boorstin </blockquote>
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-45728997122391649252016-01-14T16:27:00.001-08:002016-01-14T16:27:44.893-08:00Questions are the answerI share the following exchange as a great example of and learning moment in the concept that questions are the answers.<br><br>
<i>Hello, I was curious about your products available and had some questions
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1. Does your Legacy book contain the same content as your Legacy course (minus the audio and video)?
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2. If I pay for and begin the legacy course, does this course include/cover content from your other books/audio/DVDs products or is it all separate 'exclusive info' and these all need to be purchased separate or does the course cover it all. For example, in the legacy course do you cover the concepts talked about in the endurance, flexibility, strength training, speed specialization DVDs, periodization and integration series, recovery methods series, bar bells and bull shit, foundations of physical prep etc.? If not at what point, if at all, is any of this covered throughout different level of courses, level 2? I ask because everything is pretty vague in description and makes it confusing on your site. as well I'm trying to figure out if doing the legacy course is the wrong way to go in that it just covers the concepts in general, and the better route is to purchase some DVDs/books etc.
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3. I can’t find much if any info on what level 2 and up covers.
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4. As well I see you have audio/DVD/books with the same titles. Does this cover the same content just in different formats? For example there is barbell and bullshit DVD, audio, and book. Do they cover the same info but are just in different formats??
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Sorry for all the questions but i enjoy your work and would like to learn more but trying to figure out what exactly i am purchasing is a little confusing to me.</i>
--Brendan
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Brendan – great to hear from you. And great questions! Here are sone answers:
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<i>Q1. Does your Legacy book contain the same content as your Legacy course?
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A1 The Legacy books is a condensed version of the course. For example the course has 1,500 pages of text – the book as 200 or so. So the theme is the same, but he content depth is very different. This is the audio an video, also as as you are aware.
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<i>Q2. Does this course include/cover content from your other books/audio/DVDs products or is it all separate 'exclusive info' and these all need to be purchased separate or does the course cover it all.
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A2. The Legacy course is a synthesis of my original concepts so you should see some overlap with most of my publications, as my works rely on my original works, not imitations or trends.
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Can one course cover it all? I hope not. If I could condense my 35 years of experiences totally into one course I would be concerned about the brevity of the content I can share. So whether you see it as a positive or a negative, I have chosen to spread the KSI coaching course over 7 levels that typically takes 5-10 years to complete. And part of this curriculum or educational journey is studying from existing artifacts.
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So I guess in summary, no, this is not a ‘one course covers it all’ As I seek to record my life works, I hope that my life has amounted to more than the content for one course.
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I appreciate that few have the experiences I have had in coaching, or the gift to synthesize and innovate, so I understand it may be challenging to understand how my works are so different. I can only say that perhaps the few that truly appreciate the possibilities of this are those who have been through the journey.
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To give further guidance, I believe that all professional should do the KSI courses first, and study the various artifacts as the stages of the course when prompted. When a person picks and choses which artifact and when this lacks structure and guidance, and in addition, we have taken a number of the artifacts (e.g. Specialization series) off the market in that they cannot be purchased until a certain stage of the KSI coaching journey.
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<i>Q3. I can’t find much if any info on what level 2 and up covers.</i>
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A3. Yes, we keep our content low key for a number of reasons. Firstly, I am over being copied by fitness industry marketers who fraudulently represent themselves as the author of my works and imitate my educational offerings from the name to the method of structuring delivery.
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Secondly, I take the philosophy that when the student Is ready the teacher will appear, and until L1 in completed, L2 is a mute point. I appreciate that my approach costs signups and income, but that is not my focus. My focus is doing the best, doing the right thing by people, not having the most people in my courses. So giving up money and numbers is not an issue for me. I just myself on how my coaching changes lives, not on the number of friends on my Facebook page or the turnover of my business or any other popularity marker.
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<i>Q. 4. As well I see you have audio/DVD/books with the same titles. Does this cover the same content just in different formats?</i>
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Q4. Yes, typically it does
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<b>Conclusion</b>
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I trust my answers have gone towards answering your questions. Never apologize for asking questions. Questions are the answer, and when there is no questions there are no answers. For example many go to seminars and sit there like stunned mullets because they are so used to the speaker feeling obliged to impress them with an over-dose of ‘information’. I would prefer to say little, and if there are no questions the student is not ready, and I will go home and ride my John Deere tractor or train myself, something more stimulating than role playing as an expert to information collectors whose ability to really impact peoples life’s and change the world is missing because they have modeled perception creators, not true value adders.
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I keep things low key and slightly vague to weed out those who do things because they are marketed sharply to from those who are on a genuine path of learning and self-fulfillment. You have shown early positive signs of being a student and now taking action in the first step.
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Your questions are also a gift to use as we reflect on the impact of our communication through our web content on you and learn from this. It helps shape our direction, so thank you.
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Ian King
About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-24738430379369833052015-12-10T02:24:00.001-08:002015-12-10T02:37:28.698-08:00Strength training makes you weak and should not be doneWe’ve been conducting some studies lately and have reached the conclusion that strength training is bad and should not be done.<br><br>
The protocol we have been using has been to complete a set of near Repetition Maximum reps in the squat, and to test vertical jump and speed within a few minutes of the sets. <br><br>
There was a direct correlation between level of muscle fatigue and reduced strength, power and speed. There is also a direct correlation between the number of sets and the decrement in strength, power and speed.<br><br>
The evidence is clear – strength training makes you weaker and slower, and should not be conducted. If you must do strength training, the lower you Repetition maximum you go the less strength, power and speed you will loose, and the less sets you do, the same applies.<br><br>
I have conferred with a number or colleagues on this and it is our learned recommendation you stop strength training.<br><br>
Whilst this position has not been formally adopted by any professional development associations, we are confident we will find enough academics and marketing gurus whose lack of strength and understanding of strength should be sufficient motivation for them to temporarily adopt a falsehood until they conduct further personal investigations and gain a higher level of knowledge and personal competence in this area, which will be followed by a range of trend based crappy e-products that create short term cash and the perception of marking leading knowledge, advocating the use of strength training. <br><br>
And due to the fact that, in the 1950 words of the great Dr Albert Schweitzer, 'man does not think' (read - most humans are too dumb or at least have been dumb-downed to question powerful presented paradigms and trends} this will be a really easy sell.
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By then, there will be a generation of humans who struggle to loose the conditioning that strength is bad, and who will pass this myth on to their children in a highly non-scientific way, and another if not more generations of humans will suffer for this falsehood that suited the vested interests of a minority.<br><br>
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PS. Make sure the masses don't hear that if you waited a few more minutes to test strength it would be a different outcome...<br><br>
PPS. How is that blindness side-effect going?....About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-18910863482426764012015-12-05T22:48:00.000-08:002015-12-05T22:48:28.283-08:00The post 2000 fitness ‘professional’ – the long road backI often comment on how there’s some really distinct believes and behaviours that I believe identify the persons new to the ‘fitness industry’ post 2000, as a result of the ‘influences’ they were exposed to in this heavily internet marketing based decade. This is a decade I have called a number of things from the Decade of Deceit to the Decade of Bullshit. And these poor souls brought their blank slate into this environment. It’s been an interesting phenomenon to observe. I believe it sent this gullible, trusting cohort on a money and time wasting merry-go-round of confusion.
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When someone shared this article with me, written by a Oliver Cummings out of the UK, it summed up this experience better than I could, because he lived it. I learnt from reading the article he fitted the description to a T- a post 2000 entrant to the industry, and he got caught up what most if not all post 2000 newbies got caught up in. To his credit it looks like he has begun the long journey back from this, and in his own words, its been a long road back. <br><br>
A question I have of those who suffered this fate, this post-2000 intake or cohort - can the mind ever be emptied enough recover from the information they absorbed during this decade when they were so malleable?<br><br>
Here’s the article, and here’s the authors contact details: oliver_cummings@hotmail.co.uk
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1) Becoming a Functional Trainer specialising in movement patterns. After graduating in 2002, I went on and got my fitness qualifications to work in a gym and quickly found out I didn’t know much so I started reading lots of books on the latest wave of training that was hitting the states – functional training. Shit I was doing it all wrong, barbell curls and any form of sit ups were now on the banned list. So off I went to Canada after devouring the previous 12 months study material to get qualified as a Functional Trainer. From squatting on swiss balls, doing single leg work on wobble boards, stability cushions, to lunging in every angle imaginable with a rotational twist always involved, sometimes even blindfolded..yip that was the “advanced stage..”, and performing countless core drills and exercises to activate the transversus abdominis and other core muscles I didn’t know existed, I wore that t-shirt loud and proud. Apparently my clients and myself were using corrective exercise to improve how our body’s functioned in real life. All this twisting and bending was how we were meant to move as human beings. And I was sold the idea that there would be a transfer over to speed and strength due to being able to recruit my stabilisers much more effectively. Result? Strength and power went backwards, and the back pain that some of my clients and myself were suffering from at that time got worse. This was back in 2003-2004. That shit never worked then and doesn’t work now, no matter how much the new governing body selling their certification program try to convince us.
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2) The assessment guy. As part of becoming a functional trainer who now specialised in movement patterns, I needed be able to assess and correct. This consisted of a comprehensive assessment of posture, balance, flexibility, and movement assessments. The assessment took 1 -2 hours to complete for one person which bored the life out of clients, myself included if I’m being honest.
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The results of the assessments were now showing that most of my clients and myself were dysfunctional in some way or another– from leg length differences to over tight muscle groups, shoulders not being level on either side, too much forward head carriage, to core being weak and a lot more. The results highlighted red flags which now needed priority in programme design and prevented me from giving clients a lot of the traditional lifts in the gym, these big compound lifts could now kill us. Training programmes were now called Corrective Exercise programmes and consisted of 4 phases of development lasting 6-8 weeks each before you were allowed to pick anything heavy up off the floor. By the end of stage 4 you had lost the will to live never mind lift heavy.
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What I’ve learned from experience is that every training session is a testing session. Coaching involves observing clients closely – looking at how their body moves while they perform the warm up and during the training session itself. Things can be corrected on the spot with proper coaching cues. For Gaelic players and soccer players, with a sound athletic programme in place that accounts for structural balance there is no need to spend 4-8 weeks focusing primarily on movement prep and core activation work. All these things can be part of the overall programme but not at the expense of getting the real job done in the weights room – developing explosive strength and power.
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With all the work going into FMS and core work over the past few years there seems to be little carryover in preventing injuries going by the global epidemic in sports injuries. As an observation after doing a few thousand hours of assessing normal clients and Gaelic players, a lot of the movement tests can be learned in a relatively short period of time. I still assess all new clients but the difference now and back then is that I’m more specific on what I’m testing for whether it’s a sports person looking to improve speed or a new client with a long term injury. Most of the time all I want to see if there is a major difference between left and right, and if pain exists when they move. After that were good to train.
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3) Buying into the whole core myth. This ties in with the first two points. Spending an extensive part of your training time strengthening and activating the core muscles means nothing if your ankles, hamstrings, or neck are weak. Where can all this new core strength go? Your ankles are continually breaking down, your hamstrings are tearing every other game and you think training the core will correct these problems. Fantasy land. I used to believe this too until I found much more effective ways of training for both injury prevention and performance.
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Here’s another thing, if you’re sucking your core in to activate your transversus when doing any form of athletic or core training you are destabilising the spine and making the core weaker. If you’re being taught to do this by a physio or anyone else like I was years ago in my functional trainer days then you need to direct them to the work of Dr Stuart McGill a professor of spine biomechanics who has done extensive research on patients and elite athletes with back injuries. Ask any boxer to suck in his abs when punching or when being punched to see his response, or a powerlifter at the bottom of a squat or deadlift – that weight won’t be coming back up again. Instead learn to brace the abs. Squeezing a crap activates the abs more than all that “suck your belly button in” nonsense.
Train the abs just like any other body part, no need to specialise unless there is a major weakness, and don’t forget to blast the lower back, when it gets stronger the whole mid-section does too.
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4) Joining the Anti-Stretching Establishment. At the time of studying for a sports science degree the research was coming out that static stretching did not reduce injuries and it actually decreased power output if performed before a training session. So I basically stopped stretching and focused instead on dynamic warm up movements. Problem was I sitting all day at university, my hips were becoming chronically tighter, and doing 10-15 minutes of dynamic movements only loosened them up for the training session ahead but did not correct the tightness that was restricting movement. And in today’s day and age this is a common theme for people who drive to work and sit all day over an office desk.
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As with any type of training there’s a time and place for all types of stretching. If certain muscles are experiencing chronic tightness get them stretched statically and hold the stretch for 2-5 minutes, 15 second holds don’t cut it as most of us have experienced. Other muscles not as tight can be stretched dynamically, with bands or with PNF.
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As much as strength training can enhance athleticism and improve a person’s physique, I’ve learned to incorporate a lot more stretching into the programmes over the years as opposed to 100% dynamic based stretching, and as a result seen a reduction in soft tissue injuries, better range of movement at the bottom of squats and other lower limb exercises and an improvement in stride length while sprinting especially with Gaelic players. For clients pressed for time, static stretching for the lower body specifically the hip area can be performed between rest intervals during upper body training sessions to accommodate training economy. And for coaches who overthink about calming the parasympathetic nervous system down too much doing all this static stretching then weigh out the pros and cons. Having banged up hips from years of sports training won’t benefit performance.
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5) Training every client for body composition goals and thinking they need to be at an impressively low level of bodyfat to gain recognition as a trainer who knows what I’m doing. I fell into the trap of thinking every client had my goals – which was to be as lean as possible at all times during the year. Problem was I wasn’t listening to what their goals truly were. If you were a male I wanted you at 10-12% or below bodyfat and if you were a female 15-20%. And in the process I don’t want you having a life away from the gym because that means you won’t hit those figures. And we got to get you in there in 12 weeks or less.
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What I’ve learned is that not every client wants to walk about lean or ripped. Some clients just want to get healthier, lose weight to look respectable, and be able to train 3-4 times weekly to feel good about themselves. For quite a few this is much better than doing nothing at all to improve their health or fitness. Being satisfied overweight and not getting healthier or improving fitness levels is not what I’m talking about here, going to the extreme of not being able to eat out and enjoy food on the banned list for 3-6 months is. For competitive athletes, and females and males getting ready for figure or bodybuilding competitions who I have dealt with that’s a whole different ball game. And clients who sign up specifically for a transformation challenge obviously the guidelines are a lot stricter.
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But for people new to fitness and those already involved who don’t want the extreme approach the key is compliance and to find what is sustainable long term while keeping the client involved in fitness, otherwise we lose them.
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As a side note to this, back in my body composition days, I used to keep my subcutaneous bodyfat at no higher than 12% year round, because I needed to be able to do it myself and to gain respect from clients who would see that if I can be relatively lean all year then I must know what I’m doing. My theory was true to a certain extent but over time I’ve found that the reality is 9 times out of 10, clients or potential clients don’t care if a trainer has a six pack or not. Looking like a sack of shit obviously isn’t a good advertisement for business, being in shape is and can help..a bit. BUT the only thing they truly want to know is can we help them achieve what their looking for. If you’re a new trainer on the scene – that means 3 years or less and you think the current trend on social media of showing what you ate for breakfast and displaying how lean your serratus anterior is I’ve got news for you – clients don’t give one shit. That does not inspire or motivate or help get you new clients.
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Arriving at Westside Barbell in Columbus Ohio back in 2008 to spend 2 weeks with Louis Simmons, and after spending the previous year or so training Westside style and mixing it with a strict paleo diet which I had been eating anyway since 2004, Louie shook my hand welcomed me into the gym and asked me if I was a tennis player. Thanks Louie. So much for getting lean.
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6) The ball buster. I’ll keep this brief. Training should be conducted with proper intensity and positive stress should be applied at a progressive rate over time so as to get an adaptation response. If too much stress is applied overtime and the person struggles to adapt to the new stress then signs and symptoms of over-reaching can start to show up. That’s when it’s time to back off. If every session is the ball buster, harder than last time, longer than last time etc then progress stalls. We eventually set people up for failure. Being the hardest trainer in town delivering the hardest sessions in town is the one of the first mistakes the new trainer makes to create an impression and looking back I did it too. Not that my sessions are any easier now or less intense, the difference is periodisation of intensity and volume over 4-8-12 weeks periods to get the best possible training outcome. When delivering sessions now I’m asking myself, will this help and progress the client or leave them so tired and fatigued they have a hard time recovering from it. Training clients into a state of exhaustion seems to be a current trend in the fitness industry whereby if they are not on their back wiped out at the end of it the session then it wasn’t productive. From a recovery point of view this is called bullshit. My primary role is to provide a safe and effective coaching environment, and to help a client, not exhaust them.
Having a team of paramedics land at one of the gyms I was working at before soon taught me a lesson to calm the fuck down with clients. The minimal effective dose to get the best training response is always the best method. Anything beyond that is a waste of time and messes with the whole recovery process - that forgotten piece of the training process where we do nothing but do the most important thing.
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7) The more I learn the less I know. Becoming too emotionally attached to one style of training was something that I suffered from years ago. I’ve invested a fair chunk of my income since 2002 on certification programmes, seminars, workshops, and in private internships, not to mention taking time off from work to shadow coaches at the top of their game in NFL, professional boxing, English and Welsh rugby, and functional nutrition/medicine in America, Canada, and Europe. I look back at the early days and realise that with the few strength and conditioning, nutrition and fitness qualifications I had gained, some good others not so good, that I was becoming attached to certain styles of training and nutrition. Why?
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It’s all I knew at the time and I had just spent a fair amount of money and time getting qualified in them so I did become emotionally attached to some of them. Plus I went to these courses and internships to learn with an open mind which I still do, but at the beginning I opened my mind up too much to new ideas that my brain nearly fell out. The old saying that a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous is so true in the fitness industry and hands up it applied to me before. I look at some trainers today who have been in the industry less than 3-5 years which is nothing and they fall into the same trap of believing everything they have been taught in the weekend certification programme they attended or the 4 year sport science degree they have recently completed or worse the latest e-book. Now when I attend seminars or complete certification programmes
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I’m looking for that 5-10% piece of information that I feel could be valuable and can be integrated into my system of training. I’m not looking to radically change everything come Monday morning when back at work, I’m looking to fit different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together so that I can now offer a better way of getting results with clients or teams. Having interned with some of the best coaches in the world and applied their methods over a 12-13 year period I’ve a bit of an idea of what works now and what doesn’t and in comparison to 10 years ago I’m much better at detecting bullshit when I’m looking at new methods from both certification programmes and coaches. I’m still searching for answers to stuff I haven’t figured out and there’s a lot of stuff I haven’t figured out yet.
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8) Gurus are a dime a dozen. This follows on from the last point. If you’re a new trainer then you need to learn fast that nobody has all the answers. I used to believe every word that came out of some coaches mouths but found that when I applied some of the information it didn’t work, sometimes results got worse, and sometimes their advice accelerated results greatly. It all gets back to the famous Bruce Lee quote “absorb what is useful, discard what is not.” Every coach has flaws, every training programme has flaws, nothing perfect exists in the training world no matter what the guru tells us or the latest up and coming coach who has had a bit of success over the last 3 year period. The world of strength and conditioning does not begin and end with any one person’s methods no matter how successful they have become. The key is to learn from different coaches and see what works for yourself in your environment.
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How do you pick a coach to learn from? Here’s a few tips. Look at their background. How many years have they been coaching? Anything less than 5-7 and be careful. What is their track record? What coaches at the top did they learn from themselves and how many? Success leaves clues. Pick people who have had success, have been in the industry for a respectable period of time, and have learned a lot from other successful coaches at the top themselves.
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Bonus tip – being successful on social media platforms and having a good few thousand raving fans and likes means nothing. As for online coaches who have more online clients than people in real life, that isn’t coaching. That’s cutting and pasting programmes and sending it off to the new online client. The best coaches who I have learned from, you won’t find on social media, ever. They are too busy in the real world coaching some of the best athletes in the world. That’s not to say there aren’t any top coaches on the internet, there’s quite a few using the internet to get their information out there. The problem is there is a lot of bullshitters using social media to make themselves look like experts. If their blogging and answering questions on the internet at peak gym times Monday to Friday then you got to question who the hell their coaching in real life.
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9) The business of fitness marketing. During the whole time of interning, and attending seminars and courses the common piece of business advice from a lot of the coaches was that when you start to produce results the clients will soon knock on the door. This is partly true and to this day a fair chunk of my business whether it is individuals or teams still comes from referrals which I am always thankful for. There have been times in the past however when business was really bad. Leaving a gym I had worked at for 6 years in 2009 to start working in another gym resulted in losing quite a few clients due to the new gym being geographically too far away to travel for a lot of clients. After quickly discovering that thinking good thoughts and spreading love and positivity out into the universe didn’t attract new clients it gave me a good kick up the arse to start reading reality books like business and marketing. Something that I felt I didn’t need to know and actually hated the thought of to be honest, but it needed to be done as I was self-employed and running a personal training business meant if I didn’t have clients I didn’t get paid and just like everyone else I had bills to pay.
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Fast forward 6 years later and I still haven’t really applied anywhere near the amount of the marketing info that I have learned but have become a lot more clued up on the overall business side of things and now appreciate the value of understanding and knowing my numbers, tracking, and generally keeping account of everything. I have during this time read and followed leading figures in the fitness marketing side of things, and have signed up and paid quite a bit for business mentorship programmes. Having already learnt from my past mistakes on the training side of things, I was now able to make a good decision whether Coach X from sunshine coast in some part of America (who I had never heard of before) and was promising to show the secrets to getting more clients than you can handle and earning a 6 figure annual income was legit or a fraud.
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I’ve put 6 figure in as it’s the common trend in their advertisements. Their mystical methods that had them running massively successful gyms and bootcamps yet they decided to sell up and teach their principles to gullible personal trainers because there must be more money in that, or they didn’t actually run a successful business at all. What you will find with a lot of these fitness marketing gurus and companies is that 90% of their information products comes from basic books on business and marketing, with the language slightly changed to suit fitness. If you want to learn more about business do yourself a favour and read anything by Michael E. Gerber or Michael Port before you blow money on some guy who for all we know could be and likely is running an imaginary 6 figure business while sitting with his laptop in the bedroom of his parent’s house.
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There are however really good business coaches out there who have and still do run successful gyms and other fitness businesses. Find one stick to his methods and don’t get lost amongst all the rest of the noise.
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The key point to understand if you’re new to the industry - learn your trade first then study business but don’t leave it to 8 years down the line like I did. But get a handle of the basic business stuff from day one as it will help. On the other hand if you know more about Instagram and other forms of social media than you do about proper programme design and coaching then your priorities are all wrong.
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A really good tip for letting people know you’re a trainer on Facebook is to do the following. Go on a diet that absolutely kills you for 12-16 weeks, knock some strong fat burners and whatever else down the neck during this time, train cardio on an empty stomach 5 mornings weekly and weight train in the afternoon. I’m assuming you’re in your twenties and have no family commitments or anything outside of the gym to distract you – you know like real life stuff. Once you’ve leaned out get the fake tan on and get a photo shoot done.
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Once you’ve nailed that now you can start advertising for clients on social media. Here’s the rules. Peter Thomas after your name and designer boxer shorts for the profile pic. Daily motivational quotes will now be the norm from here on in not to mention pictures of your breakfast just for extra inspiration. And remember to hit that beast mode button after every training session just in case we forgot about your AM workout that happened 4 hours beforehand. Now go search for that ideal high end client who will stick to your realistic guidelines for getting in shape. Marketing made simple.
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That’s pretty much it, I could go into much more detail on any of the above points and I could share much more but I honestly haven’t got the time. Hopefully the new kids on the block learnt something and the more experienced guys in the industry can associate with some of the points.
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To finish off I just want to let any coaches know my internship programme will be starting in January 2016. Level 1 National Trainer will last for one weekend and if you pass all practical and written exams you can proceed to Level 2 International Master Trainer which will take 2 weekends to complete. Once you complete Master Trainer Level 2 after 2 weekends you will have your name put up as an affiliated link on my website. This will help clients in your local area find you. But if you don’t reinvest into the programme and retake exams within a 2 year period I will take your name down off the website because I’ll be teaching completely different material in 2 years, and what you were taught 2 years previous to this won’t work anymore. This is the way a lot of fitness qualifications are done now so my Master Trainer Award will be no different. Get signed up on the link below."</i> </blockquote>About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-57966309285188658192015-10-30T06:19:00.000-07:002015-10-30T06:19:16.095-07:00Can you give it to me for a discounted price?Can I have a discount? Vs. I wish to pay full price <br><br>
I received a request recently from a customer – ‘Can I have a discount?’ Why? 'Because I’m really short of cash this month.'
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I’ve dealt with this more than a few times however on this occasion I wanted to share the lesson with more than just the asker.
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There was a time when I would have say ‘Sure’ as I felt for the story of challenge combined with want, now.
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Or perhaps influenced by the fear of a loss of a sale.
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However over the last few decades I have been exposed to a number of mentors who have taught me that I actually do not serve the person by giving them the impression that to have more they don’t need to change.
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Here’s one of those influences, Jim Rohn:
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<i> “I wish to pay full price for every value…For what it will make of me….If I wish to have more, I must become more….Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.”</i>--Jim Rohn
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Another reason Jim taught was the value in paying fair price or earning something rather than being gifted something:
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<i>"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.</i>"--Jim Rohn
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So now I say, as much as it hurts me on earlier values, I am not serving you by giving you a discount for no other reason than you asked for one based on how tough life is for you financially.
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I know many teachers who share this value, based first on what they do, and secondly then what they teach. In fact I heard one just a few days ago say the same thing, and another person influenced by Jim Rohn amongst others.
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Perhaps the lesson will be received. Perhaps not. And in case you were interested, the full price of the item was 44 dollars….We collectively expended more time in writing emails than the value of any discount could have been…
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When I hear something ask for a reduced price simply because they perceive something to be out of their reach, I conclude they have not been exposed to these lessons, so I choose to pass on the wisdom of Jim Rohn and others.
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In conclusion, another Jim Rohn wisdom:<br><br>
<i>"I used to say, "Things cost too much." Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, "The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is that you can't afford it." That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't "it" – the problem was "me."</i>-- Jim RohnAbout Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-46693450631342682272015-10-19T19:43:00.000-07:002015-10-19T19:44:37.675-07:00I’ve learnt a few keys to failure!One of the benefits of talking to people about taking action and potentially experiencing change in life is that you get to learn about how the average person thinks.
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Napoleon Hill wrote a famous book called ‘Think and Grow Rich – The Keys to Success’ on the basis of his chats with highly successful people. I believe my chats are leading me to form the content for a manuscript of a similar kind – just the opposite ‘The Keys to Failing!’
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So in the lead up to Season 3 of the KSI Leveraged Challenge I have been doing my best to give away $1,000, free training, mentoring with myself - in a program that can and has changed peoples lives.
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At the same time every week this year I watch a certain man’s business outperform and out earn mine – despite him passing away over a decade ago. And his wife and children are the beneficiaries of this. Now we will catch up and exceed his business success, and whilst I do feel a bit embarrassed that at least 2 of my former colleagues have passed and still out-perform me from the grave, here I am talking to people who may never take the action to have this potential reward! I can assure you they will not be generating income for their family post their working life, or post their life. They are committed to failing.
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I heard a phenomenal quote recently as I studied some seminar footage, where the speakers minimum requirement was they had to be 7 figure income earners per year. Not turnover, personal income. That’s right, a million or more per year or you can’t speak. And yes, it was not a physical preparation seminar….
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And one of the speakers said words to the effect:
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The <b>average</b> person…
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….works out how (or if they think) they can do it.. <br>
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The <b>above-average</b> person….
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…says yes…<br>
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…and then works out how to do it.
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And the challenge with that is the ordinary person doesn’t know how to solve their challenges, other than using the solutions that got them to their current challenges. So they don’t know how to do it and will never figure it out because the answers only come after you start! So they are right – they can’t take action or change!
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So if you are looking for reasons not to take action and not to change, and are committed to being as you are and hoping things don’t change around you too much, you can use this!
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So, in case this turns into a series, here’s one of the ‘Keys to Failure’! Say:
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<i>‘I can’t do it until I have worked out how to do it!’</blockquote></i>About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-42411112339877560412015-10-16T04:24:00.001-07:002015-10-16T04:35:57.974-07:00KSI L1 Graduate Coach Interview - Tui KateneFirstly, congratulations on completing the KSI U Level 1 course! And thanks in advance for taking the time to share your experiences with the reader. To get started, I’d like to ask:
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<b>1. How long have you been in the industry and what is your current role?</b> <br><br>
I’ve worked in the industry for over 20 years and held pretty much every position, gym floor worker, Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer and Manager. Now I own my own gym and service my local community. When I’m not training, I get a few quality personal training sessions in with some of my members.
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<b>2. How did you first get involved in the industry?</b><br><br>
The gym thing has always been a major part of my life, I started working out in the gym when I was 15, I had just made the New Zealand Touch Football Team and when I wasn’t playing or running around with my ball, I would be in the gym. I’d hang out there for hours, watching, learning and listening, then I was offered a part time job as a student and, that was it…Hooked! <br><br>
<b>3. What do you see as the ideal position to be in and why?</b> <br><br>
My ideal position would be to be coaching high performance athletes. As a four times international athlete myself giving back to the industry that helped build my sporting career would be the ultimate. <br><br>
<b>4. What type of clients do you deal with and is there anything you are planning to change with regard to your client base?</b> <br><br>
I work with clients of all shapes and sizes, makes and models, from the everyday person wanting to get fit and healthy to elite athletes representing New Zealand. In the near future I’d like to work predominantly with elite athletes and focus more on high performance sports conditioning. <br><br>
<b>5. What led you to start the KSI Coach program?</b> <br><br>
I attended a powerlifting 3 lift course in August this year run by Cathy Millen. Cathy talked about KSI Coach Program and her own experiences in working with Ian King. Something resonated with me about the information Cathy delivered and I decided the best way to learn more was to commit some of my time to starting the KSI Level 1 Course. <br><br>
<b>6. How was the experience of doing the KSI Coach program?</b> <br><br>
Wow best decision ever! There were so many light bulb moments, from Milo the Greek wrestler in 6th Century BC to legend Charlie Francis. The KSI Coach program just made so much sense.
What have been the biggest lessons you have taken from the KSI Coach program?
The biggest lessons have been so many, and I find myself going back and revisiting my notes on a daily basis. If I were to name a few of those key lessons they would be:
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• It’s ok to follow your intuition <br>
• It’s ok to trust your instincts and resist the temptation to conform.
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Ian King you are a Legacy!<br><br>
<b>7. In your opinion and experience what makes the KSI unique?</b> <br><br>
There is nothing like KSI, you will not find the history behind the concepts anywhere else. No one else will be able to give you the detailed facts “no holds barred” like Ian. Ian says it how it is, and makes sense of it. Ian talks from experience, he talks with honesty and integrity. In my book nothing beats that.<br><br>
<b>8. What are some of the frustrations you have faced in your work and what are some of these that you have found a solution for?</b> <br><br>
The biggest frustration I’ve had over the years is clients who think they know what’s best for them because they read something on google. They get caught up in wanting to do whatever the latest trend is. I guess I look at the trend now and google and talk a lot more about where these trends or programs have come from. I talk a lot more about the history of where these ideas come from, and the type of people who are writing or developing these trends, commercialism, marketing, to name a few.<br><br>
<b>9. What are your plans for the future?</b><br><br>
Initial plans are heading to Canada in November for the Commonwealth Powerlifting Champs then back into KSI Level 2 for a starter in 2016. I’d really like to increase my athlete client base for 2016 so that’s on the cards.<br><br>
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10. What do you like to do in your spare time?</b> <br><br>
Hang out with my cats, Rocky and See-me, for relaxing, Surfing for fun and a diving for seafood (kaimoana) for dinner. <br><br>
<b>11. What do you belief are the greatest challenges facing our industry and or someone in this industry?</b> <br><br>
People and PTs being influenced by what they see on the internet and following exercise trends. It’s crazy. I see new PTs coming in giving ad hoc advice about trends and making up their own version without knowing the correct technique. It’s scary, creates bad habits, which in turn creates injury. A problem I believe the industry will suffer from in the near future.
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<b>12. What advice do you have for anyone considering starting the KSI Coach program?
Just do it! Nothing comes close.</b> <br><br>
Again, thanks for taking the time to share your experiences. Every time anyone completes a task they set out to do they stand out, as not everyone does this. So well done, you deserve a big pat on the back!About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-28175458206784294282015-10-13T23:36:00.001-07:002015-10-13T23:44:47.331-07:00KSI L1 Graduate Coach Interview Sebastien ButtigiegFirstly, congratulations on completing the KSI U Level 1 course! And thanks in advance for taking the time to share your experiences with the reader. <br><br>
To get started, I’d like to ask:
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<i>I have been working in the industry for almost 7 years now. I began by completing my Cert III in Fitness to become a gym instructor and work in a gym, which I did for a couple of years. I followed that up by completing my Cert IV in Fitness and becoming a Personal Trainer, which I also did for a period of time. I then decided to go back to study and complete my Bachelors Degree in Exercise and Sport Science, which I completed earlier this year.</i>
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<b>2. How did you first get involved in the industry? </b>
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<i>I had been weight training for a year or so when I decided to do my Cert III in fitness as a way to develop my own knowledge of training and the processes of the human body. After completing it, I found that I had really enjoyed learning everything and that the fitness industry was something I was quite passionate about. I managed to fall into my first gym job, when a friend of mine was leaving the gym that he worked at for another job. I spoke with the manager who I knew quite well by this stage and said that I had completed my qualifications and that I was looking to get some work in a gym. Things just went from there.</i>
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<b>3. What do you see as the ideal position to be in and why? </b>
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<i>Ideally I would one day like to be working alongside elite athletes in a strength and conditioning setting within a sporting team such as an AFL club, EPL soccer team or even NBA or NFL team. I love working with regular people that are looking to get into better shape, however, having grown up within such a big sporting family, I would love to be able to get involved at the highest level to help these athletes prepare and achieve as much success as possible.</i>
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<b>4. What type of clients do you deal with and is there anything you are planning to change with regard to your client base? </b>
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<i>Currently I work with a range of clients from older women looking to improve their lives, lose a little bit of weight and get in better shape, to helping out with teaching/running strength and conditioning sessions for teenage athletes. I have also recently started working at a new studio, which deals more with a fitter clientele and those looking to transform their physiques. In the New Year I am aiming to get my foot in the door at an AFL club and start developing experience working alongside elite athletes.<i></i></i>
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<b>5. What led you to start the KSI Coach program? </b>
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<i>I attended a lecture by Ian earlier in the year, after being recommended to go by my mother and fellow USANA colleagues. I found the talk to be extremely informative and it gave me the hunger to learn more about what Ian has done and how I can get to where he has gotten to within the industry. I did some research in the days following and spoke with Ian on the internet and he told me about the KSI Coach program. I looked into it and it immediately appealed to me, so I signed up.<i></i></i>
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<b>6. How was the experience of doing the KSI Coach program? </b>
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<i>At the time of beginning the program it was a bit hard to keep up with regularly doing things, as I was in the final 6 months of my uni degree at the time and was being bombarded with assignments left right and center. However, once my degree was finished it was much easier to sit down and really absorb as much as possible from the program. Everything was easy to follow and the information presented gave me the thirst to attain even more knowledge about the KSI way.</i>
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<b>7. What have been the biggest lessons you have taken from the KSI Coach program? </b>
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<i>The main lessons that I have taken away from the program are to not just take someone’s word and believe that it is the be all and end all of it. I found it extremely enlightening that so-called “experts” that I had received information from over the years, had in fact been ripping off information that was developed by Ian in the first place. I have also started adopting some of the strategies that Ian has developed with regards to exercise prescription, techniques and programming protocols within my own training and that of my own clients (obviously being mindful to not claim them as my own ideas).</i>
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<b>8. What are some of the frustrations you have faced in your work and what are some of these that you have found a solution for? </b>
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<i>The most frustrating thing that I have found is dealing with clients that do not have a strong work ethic and seem to only be training to tell their friends that they are going to the gym. The large majority of the time the clients that I have dealt with have been amazing, they have gotten the results that they want, by putting in the hard work that it takes to achieve those results. It is clients like that, who make it a joy to do what I do. It is frustrating when a client comes along and as soon as the going gets a little challenging they make up a myriad of excuses as to why they cannot do something. I have found that over the years, with more experience and more knowledge, I have been able to gradually change these characteristics in certain clients and help them to develop a better attitude towards their training. I have still not mastered the ability to motivate 100% of the clients that I deal with and to get them to do the hard things outside of the gym (i.e. changing their diet habits, stretching, recovering), but I feel as though I am getting much better at this.</i>
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<i>Within the next few months I aim to get a position working within the strength and conditioning department of an AFL team, even if it is only a voluntary part-time position. I also want to complete the KSI Level 2 program and be eligible to participate in Levels 3 and 4 of the program next year. I want to attain my ASCA Strength and Conditioning accreditation as well. Most importantly I want to learn more and more in order to become the best coach that I can possibly be.</i>
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<b>10. What do you like to do in your spare time? </b>
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<i>When I am not working or training myself I like to spend my spare time with my lovely partner, (as it is hard to spend quality time during the week with the hours we both keep). Playing with my two dogs and I am also a musician and play a variety of instruments along with singing. After a long hard day I do enjoy sitting down on the couch to watch a good TV Show (get into Modern Family if you haven’t already!) and playing a computer game or two with my little cousin. </i>
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<b>11. What do you believe are the greatest challenges facing our industry and or someone in this industry? </b>
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<i>Working solely as a personal trainer is hard, as you only get paid for the time that you are physically training with someone. Week to week that time can vary quite a lot, as it is highly dependant upon the client, how they are feeling day to day, how busy they are at work, how much money they have, whether they are going away on holidays etc. Whenever people are strapped for cash it is things like personal training that get dropped first as it is not a priority for most people, which is totally understandable. It is not a consistent form of income and at certain times of the year it can be quite difficult, especially during Christmas where their money is going elsewhere or they are going away on holiday. Also through the middle of winter, a large majority of the people I come across lack the motivation to train.</i>
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<b>12. What advice do you have for anyone considering starting the KSI Coach program?</b>
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<i>The best advice I could give is to simply do it! You won’t regret it.</i>
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Again, thanks for taking the time to share your experiences. Every time anyone completes a task they set out to do they stand out, as not everyone does this. So well done, you deserve a big pat on the back!
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Ian King
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Learn more: http://bit.ly/KSICoachingProgram </blockquote>About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320661592388475618.post-29023380724829577062015-10-10T06:43:00.000-07:002015-10-10T06:44:58.512-07:00We don’t care, just leave us alone to talk about sets and reps I've really gone out on a limb in the last 6 months to warn as many who will listen and give them a chance to prepare, to take new directions in life. I’ve taken a real risk because I’ve seen how many people opt out when I dare to write about money. It would be a lot easier to write about popular shallow things, such as how to buff your biceps in 3 days using an little know secret that you can only learn by signing up for my next course…or something as benign and deceitful as that which is typical of what’s offered in our typical industry marketing.
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It's amazing how so many in physical preparations shut down, opt out, walk away. They don't want to talk about anything than sets and reps. It will be interesting how that plays out in their 'golden years'.
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How that will support them when they are grey hairs....how that will put their kids through education…fund their medical costs…support their parents as well as their kids….put food on the table….
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I guess they want things to stay the same, keep getting the average PT income of 20--40k/year....and that was before the potential downturn…and that income will look like a fortune compared to the income they will receive in the later decades of their life.
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However things are not going to stay the same, and I believe you have two choices in change. You can choose change and it hurts. Or you can have change forced on you and that will hurts a lot more. And I believe that type of pain is on the horizon for many. Well actually, the majority - based on what I see of so many turning their back on this information, concluding that they don’t need it.
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I’ve been studying specifically the risks of 2016 for the last decade and a half, and few were talking about it back then. Now it’s become a mainstream discussion with
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When a Harvard professor is writing for the Washington Post singing from the same song sheet as those who have been calling the risks of 2016 for over a decade, you know the evidence is mounting. The author is Lawrence Summers is
a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury
secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an economic adviser to President Obama from
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There were a few paragraphs that really stood out to me. Firstly the way so many in physical preparation appear to be putting their head in their sand. They are low incomes now, with little upside even in a ‘normal’ economy. In a downturn they will be screwed. But they want to keep doing what they are doing.
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<blockquote>As always when things go badly, there is a great debate between those who believe in staying the course and those who urge a serious correction. I am convinced of the urgent need for substantial changes in the world’s economic strategy.</blockquote>
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, as the role model of success appears at least the fitness industry to be more about the perception of greatness defined by likes and friends, and very little about competence or quality of life.
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I’ve been studying the impending financial period and solutions for it for a long time now. And when I see what I see regarding people not wanting to do things differently, not willing to learn new values and skills, I really relate to this statement by the authors:
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<blockquote>As always when things go badly, there is a great debate between those who believe in staying the course and those who urge a serious correction. I am convinced of the urgent need for substantial changes in the world’s economic strategy.</blockquote>
So what does this mean to the physical preparation coach? Insert the words ‘;hsyical preparation coach’ for ‘world’s policymakers’ in the below statement, as you truly are your own policy maker:
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<blockquote>What does all this mean for the world’s policymakers gathering in Lima? This is no time for complacency. The idea that slow growth is only a temporary consequence of the 2008 financial crisis is absurd. The latest data suggest growth is slowing in the United States, and it is already slow in Europe and Japan. A global economy near stall speed is one where the primary danger is recession.</blockquote>
I will repeat – <b>this is no time for complacency</b>. Reminds me a lot of the stories from the Titanic – when people suggested it was time to leave, most might have thought ‘It can’t be, this ship can’t sink!’. I suggest that is exactly what we are seeing now….
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Who are you going to be? The ones in the water drowning or the ones in the life boats?
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Read the full article at http://bit.ly/Theglobaleconomyisinseriousdanger About Ian Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839185539073230691noreply@blogger.com0