Click here to view rticles from Thomas Kurz's column on training including:

1. Misconceptions on Stretching and Flexibility and the Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Side Split (Box Split or Chinese Split)

2. Difficulties with Doing a Side Split

3. The Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Front Split

4. Kinds of Flexibility and the Right Role of Splits in Taekwondo, Karate, and Kickboxing

5. Right Stretches for High Kicks with No Warm-Up

6. High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment for Great Height and Power in the Side Kicks

7. High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment for Great Height and Power in the Roundhouse Kicks

8. Questions and Answers on Practicing High Roundhouse Kicks

9. Stretching and Injuries

10. Questions and Answers on Injuries

11. Questions and Answers on Injuries (continued)

12. A Well-Run Workout: The Warm-Up

13. How to Select Exercises for a Warm-Up

14. A Well-Run Workout: The Main Part

15. A Well-Run Workout: The Cool-Down

16. Examples of Good and Bad Workouts

17. Weekly Training Schedule

18. Principles of Conditioning for Sports and Martial Arts

19. Sequence of Conditioning Exercises for Fighters and Martial Artists in Long-Term Training and in a Single Workout

20. Beginning Strength Exercises for Abdomen and Lower Back

21. Advanced Strength Exercises for Lower Back — Your Best Insurance against Back Pain

22. Martial Arts and the Squat

23. Strength Exercises for Hip Flexors — the Main Kicking Muscles

24. Questions and Answers on Strength Exercises

25. More Questions and Answers on Strength Exercises

26. Advantages of High Repetitions and Deep Breathing During Exercise

27. Questions and Answers: What Exercises to Do and When

28. More Questions and Answers on What Exercises to Do and When

29. Rules of Thumb for Conditioning

30. Age and Stretching

31. Gender and Stretching: Are Women More Flexible than Men and Can Women Benefit from Tom Kurz's Stretching Method?

32. What It Takes to Train Right for Strength, Power, and Flexibility in Sports and Martial Arts

33. Errors in Stretching for Sports and Martial Arts

34. Errors in Training for Endurance in Sports and Martial Arts

35. Errors in Training for Strength in Sports and Martial Arts

36. Errors in Training for Speed in Sports and Martial Arts

37. Errors in Training for Technique in Sports and Martial Arts

38. Individualization of Training in Sports and Martial Arts

39. Individualization of Fighter's Instruction

40. Individualization and Accessibility of Training

41. Gradual Increase of Training Loads

42. Three Methods of Gradually Increasing Training Loads

43. Practical Application of Principles of Training I (Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the principle of gradual increase of loads in endurance training)

44. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part II (Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the principle of gradual increase of loads in strength training)

45. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part III (Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the principle of gradual increase of loads in technical training)

46. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part IV (The principle of continuity and systematicness of the training process)

47. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part V (The principle of economy of effort)

48. Sports Psychology and Rational Training

49. Functional Training

I'd recommend Stretching Scientifically by Thomas Kurz, 4th Edition

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.