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there is more focus on strength and power and the physique side of things and a whole new world of nutrition beyond the outdated and overrated protein, carb, fat arguments.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 [...]

I had an awesome session this morning – here’s how it went down!
A1: 5 x 5 Power push ups with clap behind back
A2: 5 x 10 Lying single arm med ball throw (think front crawl upside down!)
B1: Handstand push ups 5 x 3-5
C1: Seated row 3 x 8 @ 75kg
C2: Dumbbell chest press 3 x [...]

The chances are if you’re reading this you know me fairly well and you know I don’t mess about when training myself or other people!
Because of this, I get many emails from new friends asking if they could handle the Intense Conditioning program, so here’s the no-bullshit lowdown including stuff you may not know….
1) ‘Fat [...]

Anyone who has any knowledge of fitness beyond the Nintendo Wii, should know by now that interval training must be part of your training whether you’re in it for fat loss, improved running speed, lactic acid tolerance or simply hardcore conditioning and pain tolerance.
However, there’s more to it than ‘run as fast as you can [...]

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 bet you’re reading this hoping for some magic core strengthening, rotational power exercise to give you the midriff of a half lumbar-jack, half Chippendale hybrid.

Well sorry to disappoint you but this one’s more about time management and I don’t just mean replacing your 29th email check of the day and X-Factor re-runs with a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]