We have more than 30 years of coaching experience between us but we still made mistakes that stopped us getting lean and staying there.

The problem wasn’t that we didn’t understand calories, protein or training.

It was the smaller, less obvious habits that kept undoing our progress: destroying a week’s work over the weekend, trying to out-train poor nutrition, overlooking hidden calories, overcomplicating our meals and neglecting recovery.

In this episode, Simon and James reveal the five mistakes that held them back, what they learned through their own transformations and the practical systems they now use with their clients.

We also explain what it means to become “lifestyle lean”: building a strong, athletic and defined body you can maintain while still enjoying meals out, holidays and a normal social life.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why being perfect Monday to Friday won’t save an uncontrolled weekend
• How to enjoy meals out without sabotaging your entire week
• Why more cardio isn’t always the answer to fat loss
• The hidden calories quietly erasing your deficit
• How simple, repeatable meals make consistency easier
• Why poor sleep leads to worse decisions around food and training
• How to recover from a bad day without punishing yourself
• Why your environment could be making staying lean unnecessarily difficult

The goal isn’t to become as shredded as physically possible.

It’s to become lean, strong, fit and confident and create a lifestyle that allows you to stay that way.

If you’re successful in your career but frustrated that your body doesn’t reflect the standards you hold everywhere else in life, apply for coaching below.

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Most people think they have a nutrition problem.

They do not. They have an awareness problem.

Chris has a Masters in Sports Nutrition and spent nearly a decade as the nutritionist for Wasps Rugby and Hull KR. He has worked with elite athletes across rugby, endurance sports, combat sports and power sports at the highest level.

And in this episode he sat down with me and shared everything.

We cover:

• Why most people think they are eating well but are nowhere near as accurate as they think.
• The one habit that fixes 90 percent of nutrition problems no matter who you are or what level you are at.
• Why tracking your food is not a burden but the most powerful education you will ever give yourself.
• How elite athletes approach nutrition differently and what you can steal from their approach right now.
• The truth about carbohydrates, fuelling performance and why most people are not eating enough of the right things at the right time.
• Why habits beat discipline every single time and how the best athletes in the world remove emotion from the process entirely.
• What Chris would tell anyone who wants to get leaner, stronger and perform better starting today.

If you have ever felt like you are doing everything right with your nutrition and still not getting the results you want, this episode will change how you think about food forever.

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He was on the living room floor playing with his six-year-old son.

When he tried to get up, he could not do it easily.

A former rugby player. A national-level rugby coach. A man who had always been active his whole life. And in that moment he thought this is not right.

Guy Gibson is 42 years old. He works two weeks on and two weeks off on oil rigs in Aberdeen. He had tried to sort things himself for years. He kept going round in circles.

Then he lost 15 kilos, ran his first half marathon, and booked a cycling race in Mallorca.

In this episode Guy sits down with me for a completely unscripted, raw and honest client hot seat covering everything. The moment on the floor. The back pain.

The snapping at the people he loved most. The night shifts. The rugby career that defined him and then ended. And the journey that changed everything.

We talk about:

• Why stepping away from playing rugby left a gap he never expected.
• How his weight and mood were quietly affecting everyone around him.
• What he tried before and why it kept failing.
• What finally made him reach out and what shocked him about the process.
• How he lost 12 kilos working night shifts and two week oil rig rotations.
• What the half marathon finish line felt like and what Mallorca means to him now.
  

If you have ever been the fit one, the sporty one, the active one and then looked up one day and thought how did I get here, this episode is going to hit differently.

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