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09/10/2026

I’m in Peru 🇵🇪 right now, my partner is Peruvian, and I can personally confirm that pan con chicharrón is ridiculously good! 😮‍💨

This one comes from who recreated it back in the UK using ingredients he could actually get hold of — including a few sensible substitutions for the traditional Peruvian ingredients.

Is pork belly fried in its own fat the most stereotypically “fitness” recipe I’ve ever shared? Probably not.

But that’s kind of the point.

Good nutrition should leave room for food you genuinely enjoy, for culture, for travel, and for meals that are simply worth eating.

And this is absolutely one of them.

PAN CON CHICHARRÓN — makes around 3 sandwiches

For the chicharrón
• 750g skin-on pork belly
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp black peppercorns
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp salt

For the salsa criolla
• 1 large / 2 small red onions
• 1 large chilli pepper — ideally yellow; Jack used red
• Small handful fresh coriander/cilantro, around 5–10g
• 1 lime
• A few cracks of black pepper
• Salt to taste

For the ají verde
• 2 jalapeños
• Large handful fresh coriander/cilantro, around 15–20g
• 4–5 mint leaves
• 1 lime
• 1 tbsp mayo
• 1 tbsp neutral oil
• 1 garlic clove
• Salt to taste

Plus
• 1 large sweet potato
• 1 crusty white roll per sandwich

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Instructions in comments 👇🏼

04/10/2026

This one really got under my skin 🤬

Not every accusation deserves a polite debate.

Sometimes you just have to call bu****it when you see it.

Now let’s finish the job on the pitch 🇮🇪

24/09/2026

Lads, it’s not that deep 😬

Fitness really doesn’t need to be that complicated.

Be strong enough to do the things you enjoy.

Fit enough that your body isn’t holding you back.

Capable enough to stay independent for as long as possible.

That’s the point 💯

Training should give you more options in life, not fewer 🫡

22/09/2026

Another one worth saving 🥘

This is exactly what I mean when I talk about making nutrition easier rather than constantly trying to make it more “optimal”.

Salmon, pasta, feta, tomatoes, chickpeas and hot honey 😮‍💨

Plenty of useful fuel for training, 30g protein per serving, and essentially built around throwing most of it into one dish and letting the oven do the work.

Hot Honey Baked Feta & Salmon Pasta
4 servings | 560 kcal | 30g protein per serving

You’ll need:
• Salmon
• Feta
• Cherry tomatoes
• Chickpeas
• Pasta
• Honey / hot honey
• Chilli flakes or chilli
• Olive oil
• Fresh basil
• Seasoning

Method:
Add the feta, salmon, tomatoes and chickpeas to a baking dish, season and drizzle with olive oil and hot honey.

Bake until the salmon is cooked, the tomatoes have softened and the feta is creamy.

Cook your pasta while that’s in the oven.

Break up the salmon and feta, mix everything together into the sauce, then fold through the pasta and finish with fresh basil.

Full credit to for this one.

Simple enough to make when you really can’t be bothered cooking, which is exactly when having recipes like this saved actually matters 🫡

Worth Saving ✅

16/09/2026

A bit late to the 💩 party, but this one seems to be dividing the community…

Although clearly Joanna holds a level of responsibility, elite athletes are conditioned to keep going, and self awareness doesn’t always kick in when it should.

Sometimes the people around them have to make the decision they won’t make themselves.

On a shared indoor course, HYROX had to step in.

They didn’t. As a result they failed everyone involved.

What do you think? Who do you hold most responsible? 🤔👇🏼

08/09/2026

The clearest measure of a training year is what an athlete can produce when the result actually matters.

Marco and Ximena qualified for the .dozen World Championships, and then went nearly five minutes faster in the final, finishing in 54:42.

That is an enormous improvement at this level and a fair reflection of how much they have developed this year, both individually and as a pair 🇲🇽🔥

Oli also returned to competition after almost a year away, completing DEKA MILE in just over 30 minutes and giving us some encouraging data ahead of DEKA FIT this coming weekend 📈

Another strong weekend for the team, and plenty still to come 🫡

29/08/2026

Does your program look “perfect” on paper, but you still feel like you’re falling behind? 🤔

Here’s why ☝🏼

I’m not particularly interested in how impressive your programme looks when I write it.

I’m interested in whether it still works when you actually have to live with it.

🫡

21/08/2026

Another one worth saving. 🍚

Another one worth saving. 🍚

This is exactly the sort of meal I mean when I say eating for your goals doesn’t have to mean eating boring food.

Underneath the sticky sauce and everything that makes it look this good, you’ve essentially got chicken, rice and some veg! A solid serving of protein, plenty of carbs to support training, and something you’d actually look forward to eating.

Because enjoyment matters too. The meals you can happily come back to week after week are usually far more useful than the theoretically “perfect” ones you don’t want to eat.

Sticky Honey Garlic Chicken Bowls — serves 4

Chicken

* 600g chicken breast or thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces
* 2 tbsp cornflour
* 1 tsp smoked paprika
* ½ tsp garlic powder
* Salt & black pepper
* 1 tbsp oil for frying

Sticky Honey Garlic Sauce

* 4 garlic cloves, finely grated
* 80g runny honey
* 60ml light soy sauce
* 1 tbsp rice vinegar
* 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
* 1 tsp sesame oil
* 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
* 1 tsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp water

Quick Pickled Cucumber

* ½ cucumber, thinly sliced
* 2 tbsp rice vinegar
* 1 tsp sugar
* Pinch of salt

To serve

* 300g rice
* 3 spring onions, finely sliced
* Sesame seeds
* Fresh coriander (optional)
* Lime wedges

Full credit to for this one! 🫡

Definitely worth saving ✅

Instructions continue in comments 👇🏼

14/08/2026

It’s worth occasionally asking whether the things we’re working so hard towards are things we actually chose.

Have somewhere you want to go.

Move towards it.

Just don’t miss your life on the way there.

And make sure the goals you’re chasing are actually YOURS.

🫡

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