Fitness Lessons from Rome

Fitness Lessons from Rome

Last weekend I went to Rome, which meant I was surrounded by thousands of other tourists at the Colosseum, Vatican, and other tourist spots. When you’re around so many people, you get to see the true state of health & fitness in society.   I often discuss...
Continued Fitness Gains

Continued Fitness Gains

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what an optimal fitness program would look like and described how I would structure it in terms of aerobic, resistance, and flexibility training. The ideal plan had a lot more exercise in it than most people are currently doing. Because...
AI Podcasted Me

AI Podcasted Me

This week stumbled upon Google Notebook Lm which is an AI tool that will make a podcast out of your book or notes on any topic. So, I uploaded my book and it created a very convincingly real podcast which you can listen to below: In the fictional discussion between...
Why I Never Took Steroids

Why I Never Took Steroids

I’ve competed in a range of sports: 400m running, rugby, bodybuilding, samba, and now Hyrox. In all of these, taking steroids would have offered a significant performance boost. This day and age taking PED’s (performance enhancing drugs) is very common, it...
An Underused Tool in Nutrition

An Underused Tool in Nutrition

Today I was having one of my core conversations with a fairly new client. It was about taste, which is one of the most overlooked elements of any nutrition plan. In an effort to eat “clean” or measure food intake people think they can bypass the importance of...
The Optimal Nutrition Plan

The Optimal Nutrition Plan

Last week I wrote about the optimal exercise programme and outlined what that would look like. It was fairly unsustainable for the average person and I gave you a couple of more realistic options for how to handle it. This got me thinking about what is the optimal...