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18/08/2026

Genuinely had this conversation again today and I don’t mind having it on repeat because most people are going about this completely backwards.

Build the muscle first. Get in the gym, train hard, close to failure, in the bits you actually want to develop. Do that consistently for long enough that there’s something actually there underneath.

Then…worry about the calorie deficit.
stripping back fat when there’s nothing built underneath it is just… smaller. Melted candle should not be the goal.

You’re not changing your shape from scratch by the way, nobody is.

You’re enhancing what’s already there. But trust me, what’s already there has a lot more potential than you’re giving it credit for.

Bx

16/07/2026

Nobody trains this direction. Miss it, and ‘nearly’ becomes ‘actually.’

Last week I stepped off the path to let a buggy past and my foot found a divot I hadn’t clocked.

Half a second of mild panic, one weird little lurch sideways, and then — nothing. Upright. Carried on like it hadn’t happened. No big deal though.

Except it kind of was, because a year ago that’s a moment I’d have gone down thinking I was a clumsy oaf.

Every core exercise you’ve ever been handed — planks, crunches, dead bugs — trains you to hold still, straight on.

Most of them don’t train what happens when your body has to catch itself sideways, under load, without warning. That’s a different skill entirely.

The overhead curtsy lunge asks your core to do three things at once — resist rotating, resist bending sideways, and resist your low back arching — while you’re stepping across at an angle.

That’s not an ab exercise. That’s the actual job your core has in real life.

Overhead curtsy lunge.
3 sets of 8 each side.
Light weight. Full control.

You don’t need a six pack. You need a core that doesnt panic.

Be honest - when was the last time your core workout wasn’t front on?
Bx.

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