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 …
Lifestyle
Training
What Two Sessions a Week Buys You
The question comes up near the end of most first phone calls, usually apologetically. What's the minimum? People expect to be told five.
Lifestyle
Your Watch's Recovery Score
You wake up, reach for the phone, and it tells you you're 34% recovered. You haven't sat up yet.
beginners
Coming Back After a False Start Somewhere Else
You joined a gym in January. You went four times in the first fortnight, twice more in February, and then not at all. The direct debit is still going out.
Active Ageing
Testosterone After Forty: What Training Does and Doesn't Do
The ads have found you by now — Numan, Manual, a finger-prick test through the door, a mate who says he feels twenty-five again. Meanwhile you're tired at 3pm and the middle is softer than it was.
Nutrition
Ultra-Processed Food: What Matters
The headlines have been consistent for a couple of years now and the shopping is more confusing than it was. Ultra-processed food is bad. But. Wholemeal bread is ultra-processed. So is the protein bar in your gym bag, and so, on most classifications, is a supermarket hummus.
Support Systems
Bringing Your Partner Along
You've been training a few months, it's going well, and it seems obvious that the person you live with should come too.
Nutrition
The 4pm Crash
Four o'clock, and you want something sweet and a coffee. You're not hungry. You're flat.
Lifestyle
Term Time Is the Best Training Structure You'll Get All Year
Term starts this week, and the week gets its fixed points back. Drop-off, pick-up, clubs on the same evenings they were on in June.
Support Systems
September Starts Tomorrow. Here's How to Begin.
It's the last day of the summer holidays. Tomorrow the term starts, the diary resets, and for about a week everyone in Amersham is open to doing things differently. That window is short. If you've read this blog through August — the fear of being the worst
Active Ageing
What Meaning to Get Back Into It Actually Costs
There's a cost to meaning to. Nobody puts a number on it, so it feels like nothing — a decision sitting harmlessly on a shelf, available whenever you're ready. So here is the number. From around thirty-five, an adult who does no resistance training loses somewhere
Sleep
The 4:45 Alarm Only Works If the 9pm One Does
Everyone who commits to early training in September commits to the alarm. Almost nobody commits to the other end of it, and that's why most of them have stopped by half term. The 5:30 session is an evening decision, made at about half past eight the night