Rupert Drew

I’ve spent the last month asking people in the gym what actually gets in the way of their training.

I heard all sorts of answers like time, motivation, technique, busy equipment.

But one thing kept coming up:

Most people know what to do when everything goes to plan. The problem is knowing what to do when it doesn’t.

So I’ve been building a workshop idea around three things:

Make your sets count
Make your workout fit
Make your exercises adaptable

Nothing confirmed yet as I’m still testing the idea and refining it

Fun fact: carrot batons and hummus are my favourite way to get a veggie snack in.

Apparently also a great way to get beeped off the road.

If you’re like me, you want to feel like you do 10 minutes into a good workout most of the time and you don’t have time to train muscle building, strength, mobility and gymnastics separately on different days…

Then do it all in one session


Gymnastics-style training isn’t just for gymnasts.

You might fail.

That’s the part you need to get used to if you want to get good at the thing.

So yeh, you might fail.

But if you don’t try, you’ll never find out

I mean planning is overrated. You could just put your foot down on the gas and eat a little less

One of the most valuable lessons I learned from Coach Gregg was to stop relying on good intentions and get specific about what I’m actually going to do.

It sounds stupidly simple, but it’s genuinely changed how productive I’ve become.

“I’ll try harder.”

“I’ll get it done this week.”

“I’ll make more time.”

All sound good. None of them tell you what to actually do.

What am I doing?

When am I doing it?

Where am I doing it?

Simple, but bloody useful.

I’m not sure if I was squinting because of the wind in my face or because the sun was in my eyes.

Either way, gym boredom is a real thing.

There are more reasons for it than I can cover in one post, but in this case, changing how the week was structured was one simple solution that I think a lot of people would benefit from trying.