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Most interval training people know looks something like this: Short bursts of near-max effort. Barely enough recovery to catch your breath. Then straight back into the next round. The problem is… after a few rounds it stops becoming about power or quality. It becomes about hanging on. Surviving. Seeing how much discomfort you can tolerate before the timer finally ends. And look… those workouts absolutely work. You’ll sweat. You’ll feel fitter. You’ll definitely feel like you’

Watching The Motivation Factor this week felt like looking at a version of physical education that we’ve quietly lost. The documentary follows the PE programme at La Sierra High School back in the 60s, where ordinary school kids were climbing ropes, moving across parallel bars, climbing peg boards, sprinting obstacle courses and knocking out pull-ups at a level that would humble most modern gym-goers. La Sierra High School But what struck me most wasn’t just the physical capa

You’ll hear it all the time: “Lift weights to burn more calories” “ More muscle = faster fat loss” There’s some truth to it. But it can also be a bit misleading. Muscle doesn’t burn that many calories Let’s put numbers on it. Say you spend the next 8–12 months training hard and add 10 lb of muscle — which is a solid result by the way. That might increase your daily burn by: 50–100 calories per day. That’s it. Not exactly earth-shattering. So if the goal is faster fat loss… 👉

Failure gets treated like a dirty word. Something to avoid. Something to fear. Something that means you’re not cut out for it. I think that’s backwards. Failure is often a sign you’re doing something right. After all, we can all walk now. But none of us got there cleanly. If babies approached failure the way many adults do, they’d never make it past the first wobble. They fall again and again before they ever stand confidently. Not because they’re broken. Because that’s how l