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The Anti-Fitness Project has changed a lot since I began it.

So have I.

The writing collected here documents some of that change.

There are pieces written when I was much more certain about what the problem was. There are ideas I still find useful, ideas I now think were incomplete, and probably a few things that will make current-me want to climb through the screen and add seventeen footnotes.

I could delete the awkward bits and present a cleaner intellectual history.

I don’t want to.

Part of what interests me now is how beliefs change: what makes an explanation feel convincing, what becomes visible when another perspective enters the picture, and how easily a new framework can become just as unquestioned as the one it replaced.

So I am leaving the older work here as part of the record.

It is not a manifesto you are expected to agree with, and it is not a perfectly coherent body of thought.

It is the story so far.

Read it as exploration rather than doctrine.

I certainly do.

Move More. Rest More. You’re the Problem

It has been a while because my life went a bit fucked for a bit. And I want to tell ...

1. The Project

IF YOU'RE NEW TO THIS BLOG, START WITH THIS ONE. Before The Anti-Fitness Project began, I was a pretty normal ...

2. Fitness

This blog will help you create a better relationship with movement and your body by sharing a journey.   Most of ...

3. Robot Equations

Back in 2013, when I owned a gym, half of my job was giving nutrition advice; Practically everyone got the ...

4. Eating For Health

I'm still writing this blog as if it were 2013.  And at that time, "health" held a different definition for ...

5. Change Your Behaviour

Ask any Fitness Industry or Weight Loss professional what the key to behaviour change is, and they’re likely to give ...

6. My Environment

Last time, I spoke about living life in a more process-orientated, rather than goal-orientated way.  And how when trying to ...

7. Control Your Mind

It’s 2018… Let’s start with a quick recap as to where the story’s at so far…  …I was a personal ...

8. Mindful Eating

It was a Saturday afternoon in late 2018, and I was bored.  The gym I owned with my brother had ...

9. Mindful Eating: Part 2

In essence, mindful or intuitive eating is about honouring our body by trusting the signals it gives us about when, ...

10. Food Politics

2020 was a year of me trying to make Intuitive Eating fit into my life.  I bloody loved the idea ...

11. Food Manufacturing

If you’ve decided you’d like to move away from the heap of toxic bullshit known as diet culture, that probably ...

12. Culture

I started to write a blog today about how healthism.  But then I realised that to dive straight into that ...

13. You’re Not Normal

One of my first memories is at three or four years old at the local GP surgery and hearing the ...

14. Health and body fat

When I owned a gym, it was my aim to help my clients become fitter and healthier.  Once the gym ...

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