Fitness Challenges – My First Hyrox

Tomorrow I will do my first Hyrox fitness event which has been my main focus of the year. Annoyingly, I have had a succession of calf injuries so I have missed over 3 months of run training and havent run for a month. I am going to turn up and give it a go but as this...

Health Research – Weight Training Over 50s

I was discussing this week the research that looked into the effects of weight training and aerobic exercise on mortality (your likelihood of dying) in 60 and 70 year olds. This was covered by the BBC when it came out.   It showed that doing just weight training alone...

15 Years Not Drinking… Lessons I have learnt!

I realised that I am past the 15 year anniversary from when I last drunk any alcohol. The process of how I changed this behaviour is a lesson in retraining your mental and neural connections. Like most rugby players I would drink on weekends after the games and drunk...

Anti-Sitting Stretch Routine – Follow Along

One of the major issues we now all face is developing a bad posture through excessive sitting. Most people spend the vast majority of the day sitting down. As a result the body adapts your posture to be good at sitting. This means we experience less pain sitting than...

Make Sure You Address These Neural Pathways

Your neural pathways are what govern your habits and the vast majority of your behaviour patterns. While motivation and willpower capture most of the headlines it often gets forgotten why you even need motivation in the first place. The reason most people search for...

Handling Multiple Health & Fitness Goals

A couple of conversations with clients this week came back to the issue of getting fit vs getting in shape vs getting healthy. The reality is most people struggle with all three areas yet each time they do embark on health & fitness drive, they charge after all of...