THE STRESS BUCKET PROBLEM Why you always feel burnt out and progress stalls Setting the story There’s a pattern I see all the time. A conversation that I have constantly. It’s often people telling me or their social media following that they signed up to ‘x’ event, be that a Hyrox race or a CrossFit/Functional fitness comp, even sometimes 10k/half/full Marathons and they get to the latter stages of their training programme and something goes wrong. Burnout. Injury. Chronic fatigue. Stalling...

The good, the bad and the science based lifter - How the pursuit of “optimal” has had the opposite effect Over the last few years – “Science based training” has become one of the most powerful marketing labels in fitness. Programmes, influencers & coaches routinely justify their methods with reference to studies, charts & academic language. On the surface, this sounds like progress, less bro-science, more evidence & better results. What could be wrong with that? The issue is the trend has...