Recovery
The Day After You Went Hard
You emptied it yesterday. Today the temptation is to do nothing at all, and that is isn’t your ideal move to recover.
Jeremy Reilly
Support Systems
What a Competition Day Looks Like From the Floor
Move-Lift-Work is today. If this is your first time, here is what the next six hours feel like.
nutrition
The Day Before: What to Eat and When to Stop
Move-Lift-Work is tomorrow. Nothing you do today makes you fitter. It’s like cramming in study the night before an exam, except you’ll be doing even more har…
nutrition
Vitamin D From October to March
From the middle of October until the end of March, the sun in this country sits too low for your skin to make vitamin D from it.
Training
The Press-Up: A Standard Rarely Met
The press-up is the movement people are most confident they can already do, and the one where our standard surprises them.
stress management
Training When Work Is at Its Worst
The deadline moved, you are behind, you are answering emails at ten at night. An hour in a gym seems a luxury.
Sleep
Dark Mornings Are Coming
It was light at half five in June. This week it is not light until seven, and by the end of the month the clocks go back and it will not be light until the m…
nutrition
The Plate, Not the App
If you want to eat better, do not start by downloading something. Two weeks in you are weighing porridge, guessing at a restaurant meal, and deciding the who…
Support Systems
Move, Lift, Work: What the Three Parts Are
Move-Lift-Work runs a week today, Saturday 10 October. Entries closed on 21 September, so this is for the people already on the list, and for anyone who want…
Training
How a Strength Cycle Works
You will have noticed the same lift coming round on the same day each week, with a number written next to it. That is a strength cycle. Here is what it is do…
Lifestyle
Momentum Is Easier to Keep Than to Build
September gave you your routine back. Term restarted, the fixed schedule returned, and if you stuck with two sessions a week from the start of the month you …
beginners
Twelve Weeks From Today
Today is the 30th of September. Twelve weeks from today is the 23rd of December. Twelve weeks is long enough for the following to happen.