It’s that time of year again. Holiday time. Where I leave behind the daily angst of trying to get #superfitkid off the couch & YouTube in a beachside suburb in Sydney and, instead, try doing the exact same thing but transplanted to Queensland. With much the same results. We’ve made our vaguely annual schlep up to the aptly named Sunshine Coast, and the once-quaint beachside town of Noosa. Or Noosa Heads. Or Noosaville. Whatever. In the same way that some restaurants are run by people who don’t actually like food and F45 workouts are seemingly created by people who hate movement & exerc ..read more

I stumbled across this, previously unpublished, post a few days ago and upon re-reading realised that much of what it contains still holds true when it comes to weight-loss. For me, at least. This shouldn’t be too surprising. Whilst it’s always fun and interesting  to keep on top of the latest findings, so much in health & fitness seems to be born out of fads and get-rich-quick schemes. As a general rule, I’d posit that 70-80% of what you do in any workout should be (or be based on) “the classics” and then 20% could be some new-fangled stuff, if that blows your hair back. Anyhow, back ..read more

Everybody – it seems – is in search of the latest quick fix when it comes to their fitness. The elusive Silver Bullet that will give massive results in exchange for the minimum viable effort. That’s what we’re told. And it could well be true. I don’t really know, and I’m not that sure I actually care. But, as any time-poor parent will tell you, we are always slyly looking out for something that will deliver an asymmetrical ‘bang-for-your-buck’ return on your fitness endeavors. Think: the “sprint & lift heavy” approach recommended by Martin Rooney, founder of Training For Warriors and a man ..read more

Here are a few quick & easy workouts you can do on the beach in next-to-no-time and then jump straight into the ocean for a refreshing cool-down. No worries if you don’t have beach access. You can do these at home, in the back yard, or even in a hotel room if you’re on the road for work. The “easy” aspect of them, though, is a fairly loose and subjective term. Here it means simple to perform without much (or any equipment). But let’s not confuse simple with easy. Warm-up well, ideally for 10 minutes, going through the gears until you’re hot and breathing fairly hard. After all, and to quot ..read more

The internet, as we know, is full of charlatans, snake-oil salesmen and catfishermen.  So where does a time-poor Dad go in search of smart, sensible training advice? Instagram is amongst the best & worst of this new digital age. It’s an absolute rabbit-hole of information, mis-information and pictures of scantily-clad chartreuses. Or maybe that’s just my feed… Well, lurking, like a diamonds in the rough, in this den of digital iniquity are a few value-providers, knocking out free info for the likes of you and I. And luckily for you, I’ve spent the hours digging around, watching the me ..read more

Morning routines used to be a “thing,” popularised by Tim Ferriss’ endless probing and quest for granular detail when interviewing top-performers on his ridiculously successful podcast. It was here we learned that retired military Generals didn’t bother with breakfast or that tech billionaires tend to meditate for 30 minutes upon waking. And that kind of stuff. We hoovered that sh*t up until every personal trainer & his dog had their lemon-water, upside down praying, journaling, workout, bed-making, high protein / high fat breakfast all wrapped up by 6:45am, leaving them the rest of the da ..read more

There’s no denying 2020 was a Mongolian clusterf*ck (yep, that’s a technical term) of a year for most of us, and I say this as someone who lost not one, but two Dads in 2019. Top that, 2020, I said at the start of 2020, not imagining for a moment that it would not only see me, but raise me as well. Why, you son of a gun. And now, as the uncertainty (or shock, at least) of 2020 fades, the ‘party like it’s 1999’ nihilism rescinds ever so slightly, and we move into a new normal (f*ck, I hate that term), I find myself more than ever looking for ways to maintain a sense of perspective and calm, to ..read more

The football season (and by ‘football’, I mean proper football / Association Football / the English kind) normally runs through the Australian winter, April to September. This year, 2020, the world got turned upside down in March and group sports were cruelly snatched away from us and we were all sent scurrying to our backyards or living rooms to exercise alone. Or not at all. Thankfully, the scare and the lockdown was relatively short-lived (by global standards, anyway) and we were back up and running in July with a season that would run through to October. I was going to attempt to play for ..read more

It’s that time of year. Where I rake over the coals of my annual reading, all the time trying to convince myself that I’m an intellectually curious type of fellow, while really I just want to be able to impress dates by demonstrating that I like to break a mental sweat, and that “I read it. In a book.” There’s been a heavy load this year, particularly on Audible which I listen to whilst walking #notsofitmutt, who, with all the lockdown and home-schooling this year, has had a bumper year for walks, whilst not really demonstrating much in the way of weight-loss. Puzzling. Last year’s list is he ..read more

It’s that time of year. Where I rake over the coals of my annual reading, all the time trying to convince myself that I’m an intellectually curious type of fellow, while really I just want to be able to impress dates by demonstrating that I like to break a mental sweat, and that “I read it. In a book.”   There’s been a heavy load this year, particularly on Audible which I listen to whilst walking #notsofitmutt, who, with all the lockdown and home-schooling this year, has had a bumper year for walks, whilst not really demonstrating much in the way of weight-loss. Puzzling. Last year’s lis ..read more