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...

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Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership For the rapidly growing number of entrepreneurial sports coaches.  Good coaches own their training philosophy, values, and principles not their methods. A good coach leaves… The post...

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