Exercise Is A Skill, Not A Personality Trait

Many people believe they either like exercise or they don’t. In reality, enjoying exercise and sticking to it often comes down to developing a series of skills. These include controlling effort, body awareness, injury management and learning how to persuade...

Beyond Willpower – Why Plans Fail

The Experts Hangout podcast episode I recorded a couple of months ago came out this week. We spent 90 minutes discussing motivation, food, fitness, behaviour change, why people start and stop exercise, the reasons diets fail and what actually makes change stick long...

The Experts Hangout Podcast

In this 90-minute conversation we discuss motivation, behaviour change, food, fitness, why diets fail, why people start and stop exercise, GLP-1 medications, emotional eating and what actually creates lasting results.  If you have ever struggled to stick to a diet or...

How To Stop Late Night Eating

Many people struggle with eating too much at night and assume it means poor willpower or lack of discipline. In reality, evening eating is often driven by hunger, habits, stress, social routines or simply eating too little earlier in the day. If you understand the...

A Better Way To View Health & Fitness

Most people view health and fitness in an unhelpful way. They expect motivation to stay high, results to be linear and themselves to always be in control. These three analogies explain a better way to understand fat loss, behaviour change and long term fitness...

Your Body is NOT Your Age

I’m in Barcelona and have just finished a Hyrox race, a good end to this current training block. A personal best but not a great performance. Last year I went to Sweden for another Hyrox and visited the Vasa Museum, home to a huge old warship that sank almost...