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Q. What's the difference between the Get Buffed! 'Ian King's
Guide' Series Squat, Bench Press, and Deadlift - and the
KSI Ian King's Guide to Powerlifts; and the Get Buffed! 'Ian
King's Guide' Series Power Clean, Power Snatch, and Overhead
lift - and the KSI guide to Olympic lifts?
Q. What value can i get from the 'Ian King's Guide to
Individual Stretching' program?
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Q. What's the difference between the Get Buffed! 'Ian King's
Guide' Series Squat, Bench Press, and Deadlift - and the KSI
Guide to Powerlifts; and the Get Buffed! 'Ian King's Guide'
Series Power Clean, Power Snatch, and Overhead lift - and the
KSI guide to Olympic lifts?
- The 2 power lift programs
are exactly the same footage. The only difference is the GB
one comes in three individual cases, and the KSI one comes
in one big plastic case. Also the GB version has the GB logo
on the cover of the cases, and the KSI versions have
different graphics on the case. The same applies to the
Olympic lifting footage – as per above, only the way they
are presented is different.
- --Ian King
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Q. What value can I get from the 'Ian King's Guide to Individual
Stretching' program?
Wanted to email you a note of thanks for the "education" I
received from you concerning stretching - more specifically -
static stretching.
Prior to learning of your methods I could sense that my training
would come to an end due to an increase in the amount of small
injuries I was getting ( I was 36 years old at the time). I was
also visiting the chiropractor once every 3 weeks.
Then I read and incorporated your stretching article (lazy mans
guide to stretching) on the t-mag web site. Those nagging
injuries started to disappear.
Next I attended your 3 day boot camp in Toronto which I followed
up by obtaining your video series on flexibility. This allowed
me to train injury free for the next 8 years and reduce my
visits to the chiropractor to less than once per year
Here's where it gets ugly - I started to read about dynamic
stretching and how all the "experts" preferred this to static
stretching. They said static stretching pre-workout reduced the
amount of load one could use. Apparently dynamic stretching
allowed for a better warm-up and allowed one to lift greater
loads. Also, studies were being referred to that showed static
stretching pre-workout did not reduce or eliminate soft tissue
injuries.
So what did I do? I decided to stop all static stretching and
started to incorporate a dynamic stretching routine pre-workout.
Did it allow me to lift greater loads? No. Did I start to
acquire little nagging (and some not so little) injuries? Yes.
Here's the embarrassing part. I maintained this pre-workout
dynamic stretching routine for the last 10 months. I guess I
really, really wanted to give it a chance. After all, the
experts were recommending it and apparently there were studies
to back up their claims. I even purchased and read a book from a
Ph D who specialized in back injuries and the rehab of these
back injuries. Even he specifically recommends no stretching of
the back.
I am now 45 years old and I was back to visiting the
chiropractor once every 3 weeks. My flexibility was to the point
where I had great difficulty getting into my car - lack of
flexibility in my back and neck and those nagging injuries were
accumulating. I moved like a robot when getting out of bed in
the morning due to stiffness. It was then that I decided to go
back to my old method of static stretching.
After one thorough session of STATIC stretching my back
stiffness was significantly reduced within 24 hours. Within 48
hours my entire body had less stiffness. I then decided to get
really radical and try static stretching pre work-out. The
workout was one of the best I've had in a long, long time.
Greater range of motion and no aches and pain at certain joint
angles. Did I have to reduce the load being lifter? No.
Ian - please consider this a long term (approximately 9 years)
experiment verifying your theories (again) on static stretching.
Thank you very much!
--Al
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