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BALANCE IS GREAT. JUST DON’T PRETEND IT COMES WITHOUT TRADE OFFS.

After a huge week for the business and a 60-70 hour work week, I switched off with a few beers whilst watching the boxing, followed by a takeaway and dessert.

No guilt. No regret. I enjoyed it.

But I paid for it during today’s 16km long run, which had race pace work built into it.

I had stitches pretty much the entire way. During the 30 minute effort at 4:15/km, I wanted to stop almost every minute, but I stayed in it and got the job done anyway, even though I couldn’t hold race pace.

I’m a huge advocate for balance. If your goal is to look good, feel fit, stay healthy and enjoy your life, it’s exactly what I’d recommend. You don’t need to optimise every decision or live like a professional athlete.

But when you start chasing specific times and performance milestones, those choices come with a much bigger trade off.

You can still have both, but the closer you get to your potential, the smaller your margin for error becomes.

That doesn’t mean we should glorify poor preparation. Most progress comes from preparing properly, nailing your pre run nutrition, pacing well and executing the plan.

But when a session does turn ugly, there can still be value in staying in it.

Race day will hurt too. When I’m grinding through those final few kilometres, this is one of the sessions I’ll be able to draw on.

Balance enjoyed. Trade off accepted. 16km banked.

Now for a big week ahead with the team with our community challenge kicking off tomorrow 🤝

Lifestyle change | Gavin’s 20kg fat loss journey

Gav was never the guy who didn’t train.

Running with a weighted vest, pushing sleds and sometimes training twice a day. Being an ex athlete, he always had that beast in him.

But his nutrition was all over the place and recovery was an afterthought.

He would barely eat, smash himself in training and then wonder why he was exhausted and eating everything in sight afterwards.

Months of doing that with little to show for it would turn into months of doing nothing at all.

Then the guilt would kick in, he’d go again and the cycle would repeat.

For a while, he thought it was bad genetics.

But he wasn’t lacking effort. He was lacking structure.

Once we got his nutrition in place, fuelled his training properly and prioritised recovery, the weight dropped off him.

20kg down.

Not because he worked harder, but because he finally stopped working against himself.

Best thing about this is we are not finished here, a lot of work to still go in to really build a physique that this man deserves.

If that cycle sounds familiar and you’re ready to do things properly, drop me a message and let’s get a plan in place 💪