Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership In the UK at the height of the petrol crisis of 2021, a cyclist smirks as a motorist panic buys petrol. Later on that day,… The post The Panic Room appeared first on SimonHarlingBlog.

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The directives provided below are based on my understanding of the book Kettlebell Simple and Sinister by Pavel.  Click here for my book notes. Provided… The post Simple and Sinister...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Be, Do, Say is a personal leadership model which links your standards to what you do and ultimately what you talk about.  Who I am.… The post How do you spend your time? appeared firs...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Two of my coaching friends are starting again. They have recently moved to new places to live. And after listening to them I got the… The post Rip it up and start again appeared first...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership A friend of mine is getting into coaching. He wanted to know who I work with.  “I work with people who want to be coached.”… The post Sheep dog or cat herder? appeared first on SimonH...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The Labour party, in the UK, came up with a label that stuck. Mondeo man. Mondeo man came from aspiring working-class families. And the promise… The post Mondeo Man appeared first on...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The quantity, diversity, and quality of the food we consume, together with our individual responses to our nutritional intake, makes the field of nutritional science… The post Where I...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Control: Professional athletes who are breathless strive for breath control.  Chaos: Athletes who don’t get paid use breathlessness as a sign of success. We are… The post Do you bring...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The argument for reading hundreds of books is that knowledge accumulates, building up like compound interest.  As a kid, I remember writing revision notes in… The post Why I write boo...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Goodhart’s Law has been generalised to state.  When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Although the background to Goodhart’s… The post Choose your measure, ch...