31/12/2025
This year’s been a mix of grief, stress, health crap, business pressure and still trying to be a good dad and coach.
I’ve been knocked about mentally more than once, but I’ve also learned a lot about boundaries, priorities and what matters.
No “new year, new me”.
Just taking everything I’ve learned this year, tightening my standards and walking into the next one a bit more honest, a bit more grounded, and still fighting 🥊
09/12/2025
One thing I’ve been obsessed with lately is making fight prep more repeatable.
In most combat gyms, every athlete’s camp is completely different:
Different cardio approach
Different nutrition quality
Completely different strategy for cutting weight
That sounds “individualised”, but often it’s just chaos.
I started building a system that:
Keeps technical training as the priority
Adds structured conditioning and mobility around it
Uses a simple, predictable approach to nutrition and cutting
I’ve now turned that into a 6 Week Fight Camp guide that fighters and coaches can use as a blueprint.
It’s not a magic formula – but it removes a lot of the guesswork and emotional decision-making that ruins camps.
If you’re in the combat sports space and want to look at the framework, here it is:
Fitness Institute
I’m Matt, a coach based in Teesside and the guy behind Fitness Institute Teesside.I care about performance, health and longevity just as much as making weight or looking sharp on fight night.The guides and programmes here are designed to be:Clear and...
