Tristan Bennett Fitness Coach

Calorie tracking is a tool, and a useful tool when utilised appropriately. But much like a hammer, it’s great for bashing in a nail when a nail needs bashing in but it can also cause a bunch of damage when it’s the wrong tool for the job.

More often than not when I start working with someone on their nutrition they have tried, unsuccessfully, to make changes using calorie tracking as an approach in the past.

Instead by focusing first on these questions we find more often than not calorie counting isn’t needed to achieve the results they were hoping for.

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Feeling rested and grateful after a week of sea and sun in Cornwall, while looking forward to getting back to my usual routine and structure.

Rest and recovery are the underlying currency you pay for all your stressors with.

It’s a vital balance to manage.

It can’t always be seaside holidays but it is always something you have to keep a budget for.

Easy options under 20 minutes for added recovery are:

- Easy walks
- Sunlight
- Naps
- Non Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR)
- Meditation
- Reading for pleasure

If you’re spending hard in training make sure you’re topping up as often as you sustainably can.

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If you knew that in a year’s time you would achieve your goals, regardless of whether or not you worked towards them, how would you spend the year?

Your best investment would be to build the behaviours and habits required to maintain the outcomes of your goals.

This is why lottery winners go broke.

Developing a fortune through sound investment practices also builds the habits required to maintain that fortune.

Being gifted a lump of cash without having developed sound financial practices, or even with poor financial practices, is likely to end up with that fortune squandered.

Jumping from quick fix to fad is the fitness equivalent to scratch cards.

Sustainable practices executed with consistency and patience is like traditional value investing.

Your fitness your call.

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Of course there are always exceptions, but as a general rule the less warmup required to perform a movement, the more you own that movement.

The more you have to work to perform a movement the less efficient and more potential for “wear & tear” that movement has for you.

Work to build robust and resilient patterns first, then add challenge and complexity appropriately.

Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build the potential required to unleash major change.

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Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build the potential required to unleash major change.

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For me this has to be:

The face you make when someone asks what the WOD is after you’ve already explained it three times…

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SUCCESS

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

It doesn’t require you to take extraordinary action.

It requires you to take ordinary action with extraordinary consistency.

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CONSISTENCY

Consistency is measured in months and years not days and weeks.

In the 100s to 1000s of workouts.

In the 1000s of small decisions.

In the 1000s to 10s of 1000s of hours.

In the accumulation of the 1%’s.

Once this is understood and embraced, the route to success becomes much clearer.

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Unfortunately intensity is an easy sell, and consistency requires patience and discipline, neither of which market well.

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Struggle with sleep?

We all know sleep is important, but how effectively are you making it a priority?

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Are you making any of these mistakes?

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Motivation is nice to have, but it’s not necessary. It makes things easier but it doesn’t make them happen.

Building habits into behaviours into a lifestyle drives the consistency required to see long term success.

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[SWIPE👉] Are you making these performance nutrition mistakes?

A really common mistake I see in people training for performance is not aligning their nutrition for performance as well.

A lack of alignment here is a leaving a huge amount of potential for progress on the table.

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💥Are you ready for The Open?💥

[Read to the end if you want to succeed in the open but you’re not sure where to start!👇]

With just under 90 days to the open the time to start preparing is fast approaching.

Understanding how to prepare for the open is crucial for your odds of success.

Too often the strategy is to just throw a bunch of WODs into your training and hope that somewhere in the chaos you’re getting closer to where you need to be.

This can work, but it requires you to be resilient enough to thrive in the chaos, and lucky enough to have the stuff being thrown stick.

A more effective framework takes the guesswork out of it.

If you can determine:
❓Your end point
❓Your start point

You have a much clearer picture of:
❗️Your immediate priorities

For example, if you are hoping to make the quarterfinals this year we can determine what capacity is required in each of the skills to show up in the open, by analysis of all past years, as well as the average placing of the 90th percentile.

Take the Ring Muscle-Up, in 2020 the final workout had 40 reps, giving us an idea of the functional volume required of this movement.

It might have been the case that at the 90th percentile, men were completing 24 and women 18, giving us an idea of a minimum standard.

If your current capacity is 5 reps in 10 minutes, we can dampen your expectations of success in the open this year should RMU show up, as the required volume isn’t there yet, and clearly it’s an immediate priority.

This process can be applied to each of the skills faced at the open level, from handstand walking to burpees and dumbbell sn**ches.

Using this, alongside a robust set of tests to determine where you are in each skill, provides insight into where your priorities lie, as well as what the framework for development looks like.

If you can understand the principles of skill progression, and assessment, you can develop a much more targeted approach to your open prep.

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[SWIPE👉] 5 Tips To Make The Most Of Your Rest Day

Rest days are more than just a day off and can have a considerable impact on how effectively you’re moving towards your goals.

While relaxation and recovery are high priority, optimising in this way compounds significantly over time, ensuring the efforts you’re making through the week are having the most impact.

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[SWIPE👉] How to? 4 steps to consistent success

This is near enough the exact framework I use when coaching clients and developing strategies towards their goals.

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If there is one thing that can help anyone realise their goals, fitness potential or otherwise, it’s that the relentless pursuit of consistent action will determine their likelihood of success.

The perfect strategy is impotent if it sits unemployed, and waiting for the right day to start is a clear way of saying that this is not a priority for you today.

Take action => reflect => refine => take action.

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Too many well intentioned fitness and body composition goals are missed or fall short through poor or misaligned priorities.

Often it’s the case of over fixation on short term strategies driving rapid results that are either unsustainable in implementation or maintenance at the other end.

While not enough focus and attention is given to understanding what drives the maintainable long term result.

Swipe through for the things I commonly see over prioritised and under prioritised.

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I recently had a conversation with a client who has been seeing great progress in training.

They’ve been setting a stream of personal bests across a wide range of measures we track, and of course with it has come a series of celebrations each time.

Of course, I love to see client success, and training outcomes are obvious measures of that.

I urged caution.

You see, you can’t always control your outcomes. In fact, you almost never can. You can influence them, for sure. But actual control over them is a step further than anyone can really manage.

Why this matters is that when your emotions are tied up in your outcomes, in this case personal bests in the gym, you end up at their whim.

For every great elation that comes with a PB, there’s equal measure despair when things don’t turn out as hoped.

Jumping for joy at a new PB can quickly become catastrophising following a ni**le or injury rearing its ugly head.

So instead I asked them to look at what they can control.

✅Training consistency
✅Nutrition consistency
✅Sleep hygiene
✅Basic lifestyle guidelines (like chewing your food, getting enough sunlight, daily blood flow)

When you look back at the end of a year of training and you see you had 97% adherence rate to your program, that’s the celebration.

Or when you look at a month of nutrition and you can say hand on heart you committed to consistency in whatever way relevant to you, that’s the celebration.

Enjoy the outcomes as and when they come, for sure, but be careful tying too much of your meaning to them.

Control your controllables, and let the rest fall where it may.

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If you require motivation to act you will always be at the whim of your emotional and mental state.

Understand that you cannot control your motivation, there are things you can do to support it, like building great momentum, checking in with yourself regularly about your whys, your intentions and your priorities, and avoiding people or situations you know will drain it.

But you cannot rely on it.

It is when you commit to act in spite of a lack of motivation that you can see true and meaningful change.

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It’s very easy to get caught up in outcomes, especially in terms of assigning value and progress.

It’s important to recognise that outcomes are a product of well implemented intentions.

Sure, it’s possible to eat a crappy diet, sleep 5 hours, and hit a PB in the gym the next day, I know, I’ve done it.

But when this is how you measure success or value you’ll end up running into a wall as you reinforce unsustainable behaviours in training, nutrition and lifestyle.

Outcomes are LAG measures, they reflect on the weeks or months of implementation leading up to them.

Prioritising LEAD measures specific to you, such as consistency, or improving your relationship with food, training, or even looking at your relationship with yourself, won’t lead to an immediate measurable outcome. But when prioritised patiently for an extended duration will drive the appropriate outcomes while building great intentions and practices.

Two exercises for you:

1. Write down your outcome goals, from there work backwards, ask yourself what do you need to consistently do every day to achieve these.

2. Ask yourself what sort of person you want to be. What does that person do on a daily basis?

From there you’re off to a pretty good start in figuring out what your less obvious wins might be.

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