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Lift With Leighton

I help you build unstoppable momentum with your physique and routine through Life-First Training

03/09/2026

Sick of seeing how weak and fragile people are becoming because they’re scared of their numbers on a screen going down.

If there’s one thing you can’t quantify with a score, it’s just how much s**t we can put up with.

Imagine watching people run 250 mile ultra marathons, seeing women go through pregnancy, coaching people who work two jobs and STILL get their training in…

And then deciding that your sleep score was too low to take that extra rep in the gym.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t look after yourself - of course you should.

But stop being scared of things not being perfect. Life very rarely behaves the way you want it to. Brute force is an excellent tool to carry yourself through the tough times.

02/09/2026

Biohacking is one of the stupidest fads I’ve ever seen.

Spending a ridiculous amount of money on things that help you gain an imperceptible edge - for what?

Here’s a better idea:

Live your life like you mean it.

Do good, train hard, socialise, get in the great outdoors, share experiences with people, do something that scares the s**t out of you.

A really cool way of thinking about life is this:

“What can I do right now that will look and sound amazing when I show my kids”

Your kid won’t give a f**k that you took methylene blue for a month or skipped caffeine in the first 30 minutes of the day.

But they will sure as s**t want to hear about the time you hiked the largest mountain in Asia, or look at your old training pictures and think you were an absolute stud.

I just saw Brian Johnson decided to skip basketball training because he drank caffeine too late in the day and disrupted his sleep.

Be the guy that still turns up to the gym with a hangover from an amazing night and still smashes a PR without giving a single f**k about your ‘health markers’.

02/09/2026

For what it’s worth, I have never really understood the concept of balance. Some plates have to spin faster than others at pretty much all times.

Life is seasonal - we can excel in training, but maybe work takes a back seat for a few months. We can be more social, but that might mean coasting in your sessions for a while.

I am, however, a massive believer in always finding the time to be intentional about reducing stress and grounding myself.

There are incredible benefits in learning to activate both branches of the nervous system when we need to.

The parasympathetic (rest and digest, or ‘feed and breed’) helps us to relax and think rationally.

The sympathetic (fight or flight) can be switched on when we need to be aggressive in our training or our work.

One cannot exist without the other. All PNS = no drive, no ego, no achievement. All SNS = burnout, stress, health issues.

Be intentional where you need to be, but also just learn to chill the f**k out. We get one trip around, make it one you are proud of.

02/09/2026

How many times do you open this app and get shown a 0.001% physique, someone making 10K/mo and think that you are behind?

We are all dealt different cards, but only you can decide what to do with them.

I made this account 5 years ago. I’ve had 2,750 followers for 2 years. It might take me 5 more years to hit 5K. And you know what?

I’m cool with that.

Run your own f**king race.

01/09/2026

Chest pump on a leg day, must be the banana pancakes 🥞

About 4 hours kip each of the last two nights, keep getting woken up by f**king roosters and a cardboard bed 😂 but took major progressions regardless

Oldest of old school gyms today, rusty plates and broken equipment 100% makes you go harder. Keep your health club gyms

31/08/2026

3 years of engagement to this 💎

Can’t promise you a wedding anytime soon since we’re spunking the pot travelling the world, but here’s to an indefinite amount of time globetrotting and making new memories ❤️

31/08/2026

Very happy with Layton’s gaining phase - all starting to come together.

There’s a 4KG difference between these two shots that are around a year apart.

Which doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re at his level of training advancement, it’s absolutely huge.

Similar levels of body fat here, but what’s most remarkable is this:

He’s training 3 days per week on a lower volume split.

As a new dad who works two jobs, we realised that we needed to take the approach that maximised results for minimum time spent in the gym.

Priority #1: Spend time with his missus and little girl

Priority #2: Keep building his coaching business along with his full time role

Priority #3: Keep pushing the needle where we can

There’s been a massive mindset shift that we needed to make, too - he gets 2-3 hours of sleep at best (newborns for you), and yet we are still able to take progressions on a weekly basis by managing his load and life stress, and with a few little tactical tweaks here and there.

The goal is to push him to 90KG (7 more to go, probably take another year) and then peel everything back to achieve his best physique to date.

Couldn’t be prouder of this fella 🙏🏻

29/08/2026

What an absolute banger of a podcast this was.

Thoroughly enjoyed this chat with - got stuck right into the volume debate, old school vs science-based lifting and regulating your nervous system for better results in sessions.

Won’t want to miss this one, the link is in my bio.

28/08/2026

I always loved the form factor of mags, but never really used them because I have small hands and find my forearm pump massively limits my sets.

I had a quick thought to throw a hand towel on there and it worked so well - probably the most I’ve ever felt my lats in a pulldown.

A few cues for pulldowns in general that really help you connect with the movement:

1. Think about driving the elbows straight down into the hip crease, not back. The lats will be fully shortened when the bar/grip gets to about chin height.

2. Work with an emphasised stretch. Starting from a stretched position puts your lats at a mechanical disadvantage, which is great. The lift becomes relatively harder at the start of the concentric phase. More effort = more larger fibres recruited for the movement.

3. Push the floor away with your feet and keep the pad as low down as possible. We create a huge opposing force by driving the knees up into the pad, which increases the amount of absolute force production per rep