You go to bed at a decent time, you exercise, you take magnesium... You tick all the boxes, yet a few times a week, you wake up too early and your brain immediately starts racing. You go over what you have to do that day, start questioning everything, replay old conversations, panic about *gestures broadly at everything* I've definitely never been there, can't relate at all I might know what's happening here, though. After 6 to 7 hours of sleep, the biological pressure that keeps you asleep...

Do you consider yourself stressed? Most people I work with say no, or "not really". Yet their bodies tell a slightly different story 😬 We have a very specific image of stress: the heart racing, the palms sweating, the knot in our stomach. But that's acute stress, the kind we recognise easily. Chronic stress is far more subtle. It builds so gradually that you stop noticing it. You get used to it (like the story of the frog being slowly boiled alive) and it becomes your new normal. Your body,...

I want to talk about fatigue today. It's something we all experience, yet we don't fully understand it. Even from a scientific standpoint, there's still a lot of ongoing research and competing theories. Here's one that recently blew my mind. The widespread belief is that we become physically tired when we reach our muscular limits. The muscles run out of oxygen, or start to suffer damage from the build-up of waste products like lactic acid (if you have ever held a Warrior 2 for over one...