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June 5, 2026
You Don’t Need a Gym. You Never Did. I’ve been a gym member since I was 16. For nearly two decades, the gym was where fitness happened. Full stop. If I was on holiday and there was no gym, I didn’t train. I didn’t move. I just wrote the week off and told myself I’d…
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June 5, 2026
The Midlife Crisis Got an Upgrade In 2021, at the age of 36, I became a dad. Up until that point, I’d always been strong. I’d trained since I was a teenager, lifted weights, built businesses around fitness. But genuinely fit? Cardiovascular fitness? That was something I used only as a tool for weight management.…
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May 29, 2026
Nobody at the China Sports and Fitness Show Was Actually Fit. I’d already run 7 miles before the China Sports Show in Xiamen opened. By the time I walked through the doors of one of the biggest sports and fitness trade shows in China, over 1,800 manufacturers under one roof, my legs had already done…
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May 29, 2026
You’ll Always Find a Reason Not To. Here’s How I Stopped Listening. In 2012 I wired every penny I had, and more, to China on a product that had no sales history. It was reckless. It was probably a bit stupid. Everyone told me not to. Everyone thought I’d lost the plot and would lose…
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May 14, 2026
Why Everyone Should Be Doing Military Calisthenics I was 14 when my dad decided I was too young to lift weights, but I wanted to train, as he did. So he made me the weight instead. He found an old piece of scaffolding, cut it down to size and wedged it between two door frames…
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May 14, 2026
My Wife Calls Me a Child. I’m Starting to Think That’s a Compliment. She came home recently and found me in the garden. Upside down against the wall. Legs in the air. “So this is what you call work? Being a child in the garden?” She’s not wrong. I’m 40 years old and I’m learning…
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