Hybrid training has become massively popular over the last few years, and I completely understand why. Being able to lift heavy, run well and look good at the same time is something most people would sign up for. The problem is that social media has convinced a lot of people they can maximise all those things at once, when that’s just not how training works. Within your first year or two of training, you can easily push all modalities at once due to newbie gains. But once you actually can...

Recently I’ve been working with my mate Andy who, for the last three years, had been stuck in chronic hip and low back pain. We’re not talking about the odd flare up — I mean the kind of pain where if he trained, he’d end up in bed for a week afterwards. He’d already been down the route of scans, appointments, and was due to have surgery. Before going down that road, we decided to try resolve the issue through training first. Not a magic exercise or a miracle stretch. Just a simple,...

Training is a stressor, one which we can control, however a stressor nonetheless. If you are experiencing a period where stress is high elsewhere in life, sometimes the best thing you can do is step training back a bit, to ensure you protect what you have built - Instead of hammering your head against a brick wall and wondering why progress has stalled. Your body doesn’t separate stress into neat little categories like: Training stress Work stress Poor sleep Relationship stress Dieting...