If you have, you will know it is a truly unsettling experience. I’ve done it a few times in the past, usually on the bike – it’s always on the bike! The thing is, if you go out on long rides, you are going to potentially burn a hell of a lot of calories.

It’s weird isn’t it – how one day you step on the scales and you can be 2 pounds lighter or…. Well, a few pounds heavier. We all know that we can retain water, partly due to the food we eat and in some cases hormonal fluctuations.

How many times have you heard that? It’s one of the best excuses known to man, especially when people are trying to get out of doing any meaningful training. “I don’t know how you fit it all in” If only I had a penny for every time I’d heard that………. Time is also a great […]

A valuable nutrition lesson is about to be learnt but first: My house is currently up for sale. We need a little more space as the kids grow – usual story.

This is usually the approach adopted of the highly motivated dieter. It is my suspicion that form the 15,000 triathletes reading this, a good proportion of you will have adopted this strategy in the new year. Let me tell you about Alex:

We can all be pretty hard on ourselves at times. This can be very destructive, whilst at the same time being one of the attributes needed to keep on training and keep on pushing.