Health & Performance Coach. | Founder Thrive HM & Edwards Performance. | 20+ EU and World Championship Medals In 5 sports. Elevating Health & Performance.
Nottingham | UK
Joined June 2013
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6 things you know will improve your health but aren’t doing. It’s worth exploring why!?
More sleep
More leisure
More water
Less alcohol
Less caffeine
Less sugar
Make one change per week, make it stick. You’ll feel so much better.
Caffeine is my nemesis. What’s yours?
“You know you’ve got a true compromise when both sides are completely unhappy”.
Heard this yesterday and have to say, it sounds about right 🤔
Performance is:
Capacity - Contamination.
As a general rule increasing capacity takes time. Reducing contamination is faster, although less frequently employed.
You are not so fragile that you need to optimise every aspect of your life to perform.
If you’re any good, you can perform in sub optimal situations.
I often see the relentless pursuit of “optimisation” turn toxic.
2 more in the thread to explain specifically how;
Firstly, the focus on optimisation leads to more time being spent optimising than necessary. It becomes a distraction in itself and takes away from actual practice. Becoming more efficient at ineffective things, focussing on minutia, creates a fog over what’s actually important
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Here is @PratikxPatel personally shaming me 😂
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“Sorry I can’t make training today, I’m judging the national cheese awards”.
Never heard that one before. Guess that’s normal for an industry leader in food. 🤷🏻♂️
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Pete Edwards retweeted
TikTok is a weapon. People are starting to catch on. It’s designed to rip society apart. It destroys the mind and drives a wedge between people.
Watch this before you let your kids (or yourself) onto the platform…
youtu.be/t7STD2ESmWg
The number one risk factor for injury is fatigue.
You are only as good as your ability to recover.
By all means train your socks off. But the more work you put in, the more you must invest in recovery.
When you neglect the latter, you demolish your own capacity.
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Technical coaches:
Do you think berating an athlete leads to their best performance?
Do you think threats leads to best performance?
Do you think using conditioning as a punishment lead to best performance?
It amazes me that I still see these three frequently.
Gluten free crap: still crap.
Keto crap: still crap.
Vegan crap: still crap.
Paleo crap: still crap.
And on, and on.
Any diet dogma can still allow an awful diet. Please follow common sense and eat real food, regardless of which camp you’re in.
(Maybe ditch the camp altogether)
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It baffles me that people are willing to eat a highly processed protein bar full of artificial ingredients because it fits their diet dogma (vegan, keto, GF etc), but forgo perfectly good whole foods that don’t.
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If you train hard, (meaning actually hard, like a serious athlete) more than once a day, liquid carbs are a very useful tool to help you get in enough glucose to refuel in time for the next bout.
If you train 3x / week like a normal person, liquid carbs are wholly unnecessary.
20,000
The number of plastic bottles produces EACH SECOND in the world.
Please stop using single use bottles, that is all.
The top 3 prescriptions from GP’s should be:
Strength training
Sleeping 7h a night
Eating 8 portions of plants a day
Short list of what that would help: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental health, and many more
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