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Your Peak Potential You don’t have to keep managing pain to stay active. So you can stop settling and say yes to more of what you love. We don’t “fix” you.

I look beyond where it hurts to find what you've been missing and help you build Pain Preventing Movement for life, training and sport. We help active humans 40+ move freely, manage stress, and stay wild - for life, sport, and adventure. 🏃‍♀️⛰️

Our root-cause movement + recovery coaching blends nervous-system science, breath, and smarter training to fix what’s really driving your pain or fatigue, not just the symptoms. We teach you how your body works, how stress and tension shape movement, and how to rebuild calm, strength, and balance from the ground up. Your Peak Potential is led by me, Julie, a movement and recovery coach and Phil, a running and foot-function specialist. Together we help you reconnect to your body so you can keep doing the things you love, without fear of breaking down.

BRING ME A PROBLEM! Free 30 min pain & Injury callsIs there something you'd love to be doing, but pain or injury keeps g...
23/10/2026

BRING ME A PROBLEM! Free 30 min pain & Injury calls

Is there something you'd love to be doing, but pain or injury keeps getting in the way?

Maybe your back keeps flaring up. You've stopped running. Or there's an exercise you avoid because something never feels quite right.

Let's talk about it.

I've been offering free 30-minute Pain & Injury Calls. A chance to get a fresh pair of eyes on your problem and a different perspective, looking at your body as a whole.

The idea actually came from a conversation I had with a hydration company. It was so helpful that I thought, what a great way to give people an opportunity to talk through something they're struggling with, without having to commit to anything.

So here's your invitation.

Tell me what's happening, what you've tried so far and what you'd love to be able to do.

I'll listen, ask questions and help you explore what might have been missed and what you could try next.

You won't leave with a diagnosis or a complete solution in 30 minutes. But you might leave looking at your problem differently.

Bring me a problem. Let's see what we can discover.

No obligation to work with me afterwards.

Book your free Pain & Injury Call: https://yourpeakpotential.co.uk/ways-to-work-with-me/free-pain-injury-call/






Is your overhead press strengthening your shoulders, or overloading your back?I was working with a client today who's al...
20/10/2026

Is your overhead press strengthening your shoulders, or overloading your back?

I was working with a client today who's already had back surgery. And she's determined not to go through that again.

Watching her overhead press, I noticed something: Her chest lifted, her back arched and her shoulders pulled backwards.

She could lift the weight. But her back was doing work her shoulders weren't yet able to do.

And that's the very area she's trying to protect.

So did we practise keeping her back straight and correcting her technique?

No. We started with her feet.

We explored how she could find more support from the ground, which helped her trunk support the movement and gave her shoulders more freedom to move.

Then we worked on smaller shoulder and shoulder blade movements using lateral raises.

We're building and practising these skills so that, over time, they become automatic. Something her body can use without her having to consciously think about every movement.

Eventually, we'll bring them back into her overhead press. But first, we need to build them.

And that's the difference between correcting an exercise and changing how your body moves.

I'm not simply asking someone to hold a better position.

I'm helping them develop new movement skills so they don't have to keep relying on the same workarounds.

The goal is for her to keep building strength, doing the exercises she enjoys, without unnecessarily loading the back she's worked so hard to recover.

You're strong. You train. You've worked on your technique. But your back keeps coming back.Strength isn't the only thing...
07/10/2026

You're strong. You train. You've worked on your technique. But your back keeps coming back.

Strength isn't the only thing that matters.
How your body creates movement affects where the work and the strain ends up.
And that can change.

If you're fed up with managing your back instead of forgetting about it, let's work out what's keeping the problem going.

Free 30-minute Pain & Injury Call - link in bio

Sometimes you have to test your own bu****it 😂I've noticed I'm definitely in the minority when it comes to walking/runni...
05/10/2026

Sometimes you have to test your own bu****it 😂

I've noticed I'm definitely in the minority when it comes to walking/running poles.
I've never really felt like I needed them.

Although, thinking back to when I was training for 100k and regularly ended long runs crying… that version of me might have bloody loved them if she'd known. 😂

My thing has always been to make my body as economical as I can moving through the mountains, rather than automatically adding poles.

Phil said to me, “You'll use them when you decide you want to do 9 Apex ascents.”
My immediate response?
“Yeah, but if I ever did 9, I'd want to do it without poles.”
Ah. There she is. My stubborn head. 😂

And seeing as even Goggins eventually relented to using poles, I thought, in the spirit of Mental Fitness, maybe test your stubborn bias and see what the reality actually is.

So I took them out yesterday.
Verdict?
Still don't know.
I didn't feel they added much.

But I wasn't tired and I wasn't on a mountain, probably when I'd actually benefit from them. So that's the next test.

My priority is still making my running, walking and climbing as economical as I can through better quality movement.

But Mental Fitness isn't about getting rid of your opinions or preferences.
It's noticing when they might be making the decision for you and being willing to test them.

P.S. Obviously I didn't take a single photo or video while actually testing the poles because apparently I'm still not very good at this content thing. 😂

Ever notice your mind talks absolute bo****ks sometimes?A normal walk on the moors. I spotted a figure in the distance a...
01/10/2026

Ever notice your mind talks absolute bo****ks sometimes?
A normal walk on the moors. I spotted a figure in the distance and my brain went...

He's just changed direction and he's heading towards me.
He looks like that possessed bloke with the Spear of Destiny from Constantine.

I felt a tiny flash of errrr... RUN before getting a grip and laughing at myself.
But it got me thinking.

It's really easy to recognise a ridiculous thought as just that. A thought.
It's much harder when the thought sounds believable.

I can't do this.
I need to push through.
I'm too tired to train.
I should be doing more.
If I don't do this now it'll be a disaster.
It's normal to have tight hips / sore knees / back ache.

Those thoughts can feel much more like facts.
But they're still thoughts.
Sometimes they're useful. Sometimes they're absolutely right and worth listening to.

And sometimes they're just your brain talking bo****ks.
For me, that's part of Mental Fitness.

Not trying to stop thoughts or automatically doing the opposite of what they say.
Just getting better at noticing them and creating enough space to ask:

Is this actually true?
And do I want to act on it?

Because a thought can turn up in your head without being given the keys to the car.
Particularly if it thinks a bloke on the moors has got the Spear of Destiny. 😂

28/09/2026

I’m much more interested in what you want to be able to do than what you can’t right now.

Your body can learn to do things differently.

Let’s change what’s stopping you

26/09/2026

Planning our adventures for 2027 and this might tip the scales once again, a twist on an Ultra race, a challenge of the mind and body with the atmosphere and friendships made for life. What will the next lucid dream bring….

Back in June, my left knee suddenly started hurting when I ran.The interesting bit was what my body had been doing BEFOR...
23/09/2026

Back in June, my left knee suddenly started hurting when I ran.
The interesting bit was what my body had been doing BEFORE my knee hurt.

I'd had a pretty challenging start to the year. What you might not know is that when life is demanding for long enough, your body can start to change how it moves.

You carry more tension, brace more which leads to moving less freely. Over time, that That can mean some muscles and joints end up working harder than they normally would.

So you can be strong, active and doing all the right things, but your knee still complains when you run further, head downhill or increase your mileage.

For me, while the knee pain felt new, I'd already been working on rebuilding how I moved. The knee was another clue.

The usual advice for a painful knee often involves strengthening.
Quads. Glutes. Hips.

And strength matters.

But I already strength train. I knew I wasn't dealing with an obvious lack of strength.
So I wanted to understand:

“What's changed in the way I'm moving that's making my knee deal with more than its share of the work?”

I looked at what happened when I put weight through my left leg. What my foot, hip, pelvis and ribs were doing and where I was compensating.

Bit by bit, I worked on changing what I found. Because getting stronger wasn't going to change the way I was moving.

In July, one loop of Helvellyn was challenging.
By the end of August, I could do one loop with my knee feeling good.

Then came Apex.

Four summits. Around 31 miles and more than 4,000m of climbing.
And my knee was pain free.

That's what I mean by creating the conditions to prevent pain.

I've noticed something interesting about myself since Apex.When I talk about doing four summits, I feel the need to expl...
22/09/2026

I've noticed something interesting about myself since Apex.
When I talk about doing four summits, I feel the need to explain the very real reasons why I didn't do more.

But I've realised there was something lurking in my need to justify myself. A little voice saying....

Don't judge me by four. I could do more than that.

Or, gulp... Look, I'm worthy too.

For much of my life I've looked at other people and thought they were stronger, harder, more capable than me. That I was weak, not able to do what others do.

And of course lots of people ARE stronger or more capable at different things. Especially at Apex, where there were lots of amazing athletes.

But I'm learning that I don't need to be them.
I just need to be ME.

Physical challenges have helped me change some beliefs about myself.
(Alongside a crazy amount of therapy and personal work 😂)

I've done things I genuinely thought were for other people.
I've discovered I can be frightened and still do something.
I can be physically uncomfortable and keep going.
I can fail and be okay.

I can do hard things.
I'm much stronger than I once believed.

And learning that has helped me take risks and do hard stuff elsewhere life too.
But Apex has showed me there's another bit I'm still learning.

I don't need to do hard things to be enough.
I don't need to explain why I did four summits and not more.
I don't need everyone to know that I could have done more.
Someone else being stronger or doing more doesn't make what I did worth less.

And none of it determines my worth.

I'll keep doing challenges because I love adventure. I want to keep growing, experiencing new things and reminding myself that I can do hard things, I can fail and I can make decisions about when enough is enough.

But I don't want to need hard things to prove anything about who I am.

Four summits were enough.
I want to feel enough before I climb one.

And honestly, sharing this feels harder than climbing the bloody mountain.
Perhaps letting myself be seen is another kind of challenge.

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