Fergus Crawley

So that won't have much of an impact.

But any quality output or high demand session, that's where if you're wanting to do hard effort,

squats and then hard effort turbo trainer intervals, then generally we actually program them in the same day to consolidate stresses into the same day.

So you've got one spike of high intensity work within the context of a week in your lower body, which means that you're not then trying to recover from day one.

but then layering in endurance training day two to then think that you're recovered for more heavy lower body stuff day three.

Because if you took traditional programming methodology where you go easy, hard, easy, hard, that doesn't work when you've got another discipline in there.

If somebody gets to the point where they need to do two training sessions a day, ideally lift first, endurance training second, but you're not going to undermine your performance too much in the long run if you do whatever's most practical for you is generally the advice.

I think the key there though is as somebody gets to a point where they're trying to,

really push the two opposing disciplines hard, almost to like an elite within this context level, that's where you can actually start leveraging that fatigue and do your heavy lifting and your hard effort running in the same day so that you can become more competent.

There's no one size fits all for people, which I think is the key, but the overarching principle is whatever is most practical for you

is the best way to work towards those goals.

Don't do too much training in the first place is generally my recommendation.

I think, and I'll quantify that rather than just sounding flippant, I think a lot of people have shiny object syndrome at the moment with their training where they want to accelerate their road to their first half marathon or the first 70.3 or whatever it might be.

And the reason these events are intimidating and attractive is because of the delayed gratification mechanism.

And doing more will not get you there faster necessarily, unless you're a genetic phenom that can just take volume after volume.

So respecting the distance and respecting the work required to get there and knowing that you cannot recovery, compression boot, or massage gun your way out of doing too much training in the first place

I think is the key.

Focus on sleep, focus on nutrition, and try and make sure that your training in and of itself is not the thing that's forcing you to require additional recovery.

So in eight days' time, I'm about to attempt 10 Ironman distance triathlons in 10 days in 10 cities to highlight...

a specific date, which is May the 9th, 2026, which is exactly 10 years on from when I attempted suicide in May 2016.