#49 Move Better, Get Stronger and More Resilient with Coach Ian Vaughn

Tune in to this week's podcast episode featuring Ian Vaughn. Coach Vaughn is from Palmdale, California. He is based at Viking Valhalla Training Center and provides professional one on one training for any goal. He has traveled all around the world learning from the best minds in the fitness industry and preaches his own craft before he teaches it. He’s a certified fitness and nutrition coach, StrongFirst Kettlebell instructor (SFGII), Flexible Steel, Stick Mobility, and is a steel mace & club specialist. Coach Vaughn utilizes unconventional training modalities which sync into a singular system that brings a new sense of awareness of how to move better, get stronger and more resilient in your life endeavors. He’s now published four ebook programs and a paperback book for steel mace training to better educate people around the world.   In this podcast we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Fire fighter training 02:44 - Kettlebells and Strong First Certification 04:28 - Body leveraging, power, and torque 06:02 - Moving with load for aesthetics 11:28 - Teaching the kettlebell swing 14:38 - Ian’s books and their target demographics 18:09 - Training approaches during the pandemic 19:15 - Training clients with Parkinson’s 21:50 - Farmer carries and grip strength 26:10 - Squat variations and their efficacy 34:54 - Stick Mobility single leg system 36:59 - Box gyms   More from Ian: https://www.instagram.com/coach_vikingvaughn/ ttps://www.coachvaughn.net/