26/08/2026
Calorie counting works until it doesn’t.
And when it stops working most people’s answer is to count more precisely.
The actual answer is usually to count less and trust more.
The body has been regulating itself without a spreadsheet for a very long time.
Funny old thing - It is quite good at it.
25/08/2026
Ollie Boxall didn’t come in broken. He came in capable but untethered.
Twelve weeks later the fitness was there, but so was everything else - the cooking, the presence, the confidence that doesn’t need to announce itself.
That’s what a community and the right tools (paired with a bloke who’s willing to work for what he wants) actually build.
Not just a fitter man. A more complete one.
Been an absolute pleasure the last 3 months - and a testament to what can be achieved.
The man’s hungry though and he wants more!
Let’s go.
22/08/2026
It’s just a joke….
Or is it?!
20/08/2026
Spent ten years in an environment where shared hardship was just what Tuesday looked like. Didn’t think twice about it.
Left in 2018 and it took years to understand what that environment had actually been doing - not just to fitness, but to the way men show up for each other when the conditions are honest.
Now I build it deliberately. The Wild Ultras, the community, the beach this morning - all of it is the same thing in different packaging.
Good people. Hard things. Same hill.
The bootcamp at the weekend reminded me why this matters more than any programme I could write.
18/08/2026
Four men. Four different weeks. Four wins that had nothing to do with how they looked in the mirror.
This is what building actual capability looks like from the inside.
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