Some people appear to be born achievers whereas many of us feel that greatness in whatever form is the destiny of some other lucky person.
Feelings of not having the skills to start something knew; not having the knowledge to progress our career; not being confident enough to meet new people and make things happen are [...]

For the next 12 weeks I’ll be trialling the new style Intense Conditioning with some other poor bastards.
This time there is more focus on strength and power and the physique side of things and a whole new world of nutrition beyond the outdated and overrated protein, carb, fat arguments. This is about performance through health [...]

Most people a week before going home for Christmas are thinking about Christmas trees, eating 15lbs of Turkey in one sitting and how to stitch up Uncle Tommy with a whoopee cushion.
I’m usually in this category, but this year found myself in the freezing valleys of South Wales with the UK’s top strength and conditioning [...]

Since I’ve started getting into sprint distance triathlon training I’ve been playing this balancing act between various training methods as I don’t want to sell my soul to aerobic exercise and carb overload as is typical of many in the sport! We all know that carbicide is often the reason for the failure of most [...]

In Part 1 we discussed how life is a set of waves. Learning how and when to ride the waves and learning to spot which ones are worth riding, is the key to fulfilment, happiness and developing the physical appearance and capabilities of the Bionic Man.
In training, the key to this is carefully planned deload [...]

Most people don’t train hard enough. Anyone who has spent five minutes in any commercial gym across the world will know this to be an indisputable truth.
However, at the other end of the spectrum we have those who have a complete inability to accept that they are not in fact the unbreakable machine they like [...]

I’m a massive fan of Vibram Five Fingers.

Like many people i thought they were ridiculous at first – another scam to rob me of my hard-earned!
On the contrary it has helped spread my toes out which have always been more cramped than a EuroTunnel train taking illegal immigrants back to France.
This has helped with my [...]

Eddie Izzard completed 1100 miles in 51 days in his crazy running challenge this week.
This is an AWESOME, inspiring ridiculous achievement. No arguments there. Brilliant.
Guesstimating he averaged 4-5mph, that’s 220-275 hours of exercise.
If fat loss is about calories burnt during the session and doing lots of cardio, if he burnt 450 calories per hour that would [...]

The Storm Force Fitness UK Kettlebell Tour kicked off this weekend up in Newcastle and the guys and girls kicked ass! In fact the boys were put to shame in some of the tests throughout the day!
Katie and Lorna are machines and it was great to see girls pushing themselves hard – too many are [...]

Unless you happen to have wondered into a job as a professional athlete or won the lottery last week, the chances are you struggle to find time to do all the training you want to do.
Often this is simply because you haven’t realized that you do actually have the time and that you’re going to [...]