Body.
Train. Eat. Recover. Plans built around a demanding life, not a fitness influencer's. For you, and for your team. Your body carries everything else, so it gets a plan too.
Living with a long-term illness?
Build Your Strength is how I run my own days with a rare blood cancer: a symptom and energy tracker, plans for good and bad days, and one page to hand your doctor. One folder, £20, kept on your own computer.
See Build Your StrengthWhat it covers.
Training
Strength, fitness and mobility in three or four sessions a week · built around your diary, your travel and the gym you actually have
Eating
A plan you can follow at a desk, in a restaurant and on a flight · protein and plants first, no fads, nothing banned
Sleep and recovery
The cheapest performance upgrade there is · routines, alcohol, screens, and rest days that are planned, not stolen
Energy under pressure
Training and food for the hardest weeks · the minimum you keep when the raise, the launch or the deal takes everything else
Get checked
The warning signs people put down to stress · what to tell your doctor, and when to push. I thought mine was burnout. It was cancer.
Rebuilding
After illness, injury or ten years at a desk · starting from where you really are, with your doctor's OK first
I was fit. I missed it.
I was an active 36-year-old with three children under ten. I did not drink, I trained, I ate well. When I started to feel awful I told myself it was burnout and pushed through. It was the early stages of a rare bone marrow cancer.
The first year brought thirty nights in hospital, twelve scans and, for a while, a wheelchair. I am rebuilding my body now, one session at a time, around treatment and a working life.
So every plan I write starts where you actually are: the diary you have, the energy you have, and a body that has to carry you through the pressure, not just look good in January.
“Your body is the one part of the business you cannot replace.”
- What it is
- Training and eating plans and coaching for adults with demanding lives, and programmes for teams.
- What it is not
- Medical, dietetic or physiotherapy care. Plans are general fitness and nutrition guidance, not treatment.
- Health first
- Everyone fills in a health check before a plan is written. If you have a medical condition, take regular medication, are pregnant or are in treatment, your doctor's OK comes first.
What I've learnt about the body under pressure.
From an active life, a diagnosis I mistook for burnout, and a rebuild one session at a time.
Get checked first.
The warning signs are easy to put down to stress. I trained, ate well, did not drink, and still missed it. If something has felt wrong for weeks, the doctor comes before the plan.
Start where you really are.
Not where you were at thirty, and not where a fitness influencer is. The diary you have, the energy you have, the gym you can actually get to.
Rest is part of the plan.
Sleep is the cheapest performance upgrade there is. Rest days are planned, not stolen. Keep the batteries topped up, or the hardest week takes them for you.
Keep the minimum on the hardest weeks.
When the raise, the launch or the deal takes everything else, a short session and a decent meal still count. The plan bends; it does not break.
Your team carries it too.
Your people are under pressure whether you plan for it or not. A team that sleeps, eats and recovers properly makes better decisions, and notices the warning signs sooner.
One appointment away.
You are only ever one doctor's appointment away from a completely different life. Look after the body that carries everything else.
Find how we can help you.
A few questions. Then the help that fits you.
You are only ever one doctor's appointment away from a completely different life.
Tell me where you are: your body, your week and what you want to change. For a team, tell me how many people and when. If I am not the right person, I will say so.