I have returned from the shops. I have bought some trainers. In the picture above, I’ve added a graph, so you can see how fast they go. I am sure that just owning these shoes will improve my willpower to succeed (or at least, attend classes) 10 fold. (more…)

While I’ve been thinking about trying to be a bit healthier for months (yeah, alright, years) I’ve always had a number of well-rehearsed arguments in my back pocket as to why I shouldn’t. Unfortunately, these have been systematically removed by my boss David as I attempt to wheedle out of doing British Military Fitness. (more…)

Hello. My name’s Jon Hamblin, and I am a fat geek. There, I’ve said it. I’m not proud of my almost fanatical devotion to takeaway pizzas and bad science-fiction (you’ve seen Buckaroo Banzai, right?), but all I can say in my defense is that the change for slothful to lardy crept up on me. One minute, I was a young man in his twenties, chowing down on junk food without a care in the world, the next, a youngish man in his thirties struggling to walk up flights of stairs. (more…)