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THE COMBAT COACH ⚔️
🇬🇧 | Ex-Royal Marine & Fi****ms Officer
⚔️ Tactical Performance for Military, Emergency Services and Everyday People
DM “Ready” to learn more

25/10/2026

Put yourself in the situation

Apply for the role.
Book the event.
Go for selection.

Do the thing you’ve spent months telling yourself you’ll do when you’re ready.

Because eventually, preparation can become another way of avoiding finding out.

You might fail.

You might find out you’re not as fit as you thought you were.

You might struggle more than you expected.

Good.

At least now you know.

Some of the biggest lessons I’ve taken from the military, policing, training and these events have come from putting myself in situations where there was absolutely no guarantee I’d succeed.

And sometimes I haven’t.

But I’d rather put myself on the start line, give everything I’ve got and deal with the outcome than spend years wondering whether I could have done it.

And when you do put yourself into those situations, remember this:

Don’t let your body language quit before you do

When it gets hard, your head will want to drop. Your shoulders will slump. You’ll stop talking. You’ll start showing everyone around you exactly how much you want it to end.

Fight that.

Head up.
Keep moving.
Have a laugh.

If there’s a selection process, assessment, event or challenge you’ve been thinking about doing,

Stop waiting to feel completely ready

Prepare properly. Put yourself in the situation.

And find out.

You’ve got this

24/10/2026

The goal isn’t won on your good days.

It’s won on the hard days when you show up anyway.

For years the reward after a long shift was a takeaway. A “well done, you’ve earned it.”

But the job was always going to have those days.

There was always going to be another late finish, another hard one. Those small decisions, the ones that felt earned at the time, set you back weeks on your journey without you even noticing.

What you actually deserve is to keep showing up for your kids, for your work, for your assessment centre and to be at your best when you get there.

Chase it on the hard days. That’s where it’s decided.

****ms

23/10/2026

These are the sessions where you earn it.

5 rounds into a finisher

Round 1
400m run
10 pull-ups

Round 2
400m run
10 pull-ups
20 triple threats

Round 3
400m run
10 pull-ups
20 triple threats
30 press-ups

Round 4
400m run
10 pull-ups
20 triple threats
30 press-ups
40 sit-ups

Round 5
400m run
10 pull-ups
20 triple threats
30 press-ups
40 sit-ups
50 squats

Finisher

1-mile best-effort run

Targets: circuit sub-30 min · 1 minute rest · mile sub-7 min

This is how you get tested on assessment day. Just you, your own bodyweight, doing it again and again, for hours on end with barely any rest.

So if you’re training 5 days a week, you should get through this comfortably. If you can’t, something’s not translating and better you find that out now than on the day.

I used sessions like this every week when I was training, alongside my strength work and my runs.

So test yourself, see where you stand, Comment your time below!

16/10/2026

Welcome to the world, our beautiful little girl!

It’s been a crazy couple days.

I can’t put into words how proud I am of my wife. She’s been through so much over the last couple of days, and the strength she’s shown has been incredible.

Words genuinely can’t describe how blessed we’re feeling right now.

There hasn’t been a girl born on my side of the family for 3 generations, so you can only imagine how excited everyone is to finally have a little girl joining

Our family is now complete as a family of 4, and I couldn’t be happier.

I can’t wait to watch you grow and show you the world together.

Welcome to the family, little one. You’ve already got us all wrapped around your tiny fingers.

🩷

11/10/2026

Ultra done. ✅

4 weeks after the last 50K, it was a quick turnaround to get back out there and put another one away.

Thought the hamstring was going to hold up but 12k in and it had other ideas. Good thing is it pretty much was numb by 30k.

Since leaving the corps there hasn’t been many things that have challenged me physically and mentally like these have and it been good to get back into the mindset for them.

You’re always going to come up against those mental barriers. The standard is what you do when you hit them.

A massive part of even getting to the start line was having my Mrs in my corner supporting me, especially while we’re imminently expecting our 2nd.

Now it’s time to rest, recover, then get back to it. 👊🏼

08/10/2026

Incidents like this don’t happen every day. I know that, you know that.

But they’re becoming more frequent, and there’ll come a time where you’re the one facing it. Maybe once a shift. Maybe once a day. But it’ll come.

And when it does, you want to be the officer your team looks to and thinks: I’m glad they’re next to me. I’m glad we’ve got them on our team, because they can actually deal with this.

There’s no better feeling than being able to protect the public and back up your colleagues on some of the worst days imaginable. That’s the job. That’s why you joined.

But if you’re sitting there counting down to the next bleep test, telling yourself you’ll start training again soon, that’s the mindset that keeps you as the officer nobody wants showing up.

It’s time to train for the moment. Not the test.

If you’re struggling with that, DM “READY”, and I’ll show you the type of officer we build.

****ms

07/10/2026

Comment PRESS UP below for a free guide on how to improve your press ups.

A lot of the time we jump straight to the exercises to improve our press ups, but we skip the bit that actually matters.

The technique.

And that starts with getting the position right.

These are the most common points I’ve see .

Hips too high, arse in the air. All that does is force unnecessary pressure onto the front of your chest and shoulders, and then people wonder why they’re tiring out so quickly.

Body weight too far forward, shoulders coming out over the top of the hands. That just makes the whole thing harder than it needs to be.

No tension through the body.

You want to force that body weight back towards your feet and create tension head to toe. Then when you drop, you use that explosive power to get down and back up into lockout as fast as you can, no wasting time in the bottom.

Get that right and your shoulders sit in line with your hands. It’s a stronger position, less wasted energy, and you’ll get a lot more reps out of yourself.

Fix the position first. The numbers come after.

04/10/2026

Sunday reset.

What a few weeks it’s been!

3 months left of the year. That’s it.

Clients have been flying. Nothing better than watching them hit numbers they didn’t think was possible.

But none of it works without balance. Train hard, work hard, then switch off and be present with the ones who matter. (Especially if it’s feeding your mate on his knees)

Whatever you’re chasing, there’s still time to make it count.

Let’s go. 👊🏼

01/10/2026

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