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05/11/2026

Every single Sunday I cook four pots. That's it.

It feeds me and my family all week. Keeps me lean year-round. Stops the 3pm crash.

And I'm not spending my Sunday weighing grains of rice, or my week eating chicken breast out of a Tupperware box.

Comment POTS and I'll send you the full video: the four pots, plus the three things I've done to my kitchen so I barely think about food the rest of the week.

04/11/2026

Multi-day. Horrendous terrain. 15–20kg on your back. Not much sleep.

By day two, the blokes are knackered.

No one can turn the incline down on the mountain. The hill is the same hill for everyone.

And the energy it takes to keep those walls up in your head just isn't there anymore.

The guys come back lighter. Like something's shifted.

03/11/2026

On the Isle of Wight my legs gave up long before my lungs did.

Now, if I'm out on a walk and going somewhere anyway, I bang out 100 walking lunges. Ideally with a bit of weight.

Forwards. Sideways. Every direction. Hilly walk? Find a park bench and do 100 step-ups.

Strength work for free, and it carries you through ultras in the mountains.

It sits on top of the four 45-minute sessions I do every week. The session itself is free.

Comment FRAMEWORK and I'll send it to you.

02/11/2026

My first ultra was 110km round the Isle of Wight. I was 26 and thought I'd smash it.

I've never been in that much pain in my life. On the day, and for about three weeks after.

Now I run five ultras a year. Mountain races, often carrying 15–25kg.

No long training runs eating my weekends. Four 45-minute sessions a week.

Comment ULTRA and I'll send you the full video: the 5 habits that make it work.

31/10/2026

We hold an identity based on what we could physically do. When we can't do it anymore, it feels like we're losing who we are.

Man to man: your worth isn't a 5K time or a two-mile tab with 20 kilos on your back, from when you had a whole different level of support around you.

That old standard is a reference point. Not a number you should still be hitting.

Full video's on my YouTube.

30/10/2026

To a lot of driven men, rest is just the absence of training. A day off is a day they didn't do anything.

So they never actually recover. They stop for a bit, then load more on.

Recovery isn't an ice bath. It's more of what recharges you, less of what drains you.

In the Marines we had Hexie TV: light a little fuel burner, sit round, watch the flame.

Comment MAP and I'll send you the full video.

29/10/2026

Everyone tells you the same thing. Go all in. Be more disciplined. Push harder. Wait for things to calm down, then start properly.

One of the men I coach did exactly that. Every four weeks: a new niggle, burnt out, back to square one. Each time starting further back.

For a driven man, discipline was never the problem. The advice doesn't break the cycle. It speeds it up.

I built a free assessment that shows you which pattern you're stuck in.

Comment ASSESSMENT and I'll send it to you.

28/10/2026

From about 10 years old to 27, including the whole of Commando training, I did no zone 2 work at all.

I was fit enough to pass out and be a fit bloke at my unit.

Because I moved all day. I still do: bike on the school run, 15–20kg in a pack on the dog walk. About 4–5 hours a week I never count as training.

Full video's on my YouTube.

28/10/2026

28/10/2026

Happy Birthday, Royals!

Have a random collection of me at war and getting sh*tfaced in random boozers.

I look back with great memories.

To The King