WORKOUT WISDOM

STAY ON TOP OF YOUR GAME WITH EXPEDITIONREADY TRAINING ADVICE

TRAIN WITH INTENSITY

A globe-trotting father-ofthree like Backshall can’t afford to be scrolling through Twitter during five-minute rest periods. Intensity is the name of the game. “It can be really hard to find the time,” he says. “But if you train smart, you can get something significant out of a 15-minute session. If that’s all you’ve got, you just need to make sure you do everything to failure and really max out.”

MAKE MORNINGS COUNT

If you often start your workouts fatigued and in no mood to push yourself, heed the advice of Backshall’s wife, double-Olympic rowing gold medalist Helen Glover: “If Hels is training, as soon as she gets up in the morning she spikes her testosterone by doing something intense – something that makes you grit your teeth – for five or ten minutes,” says Backshall. “After that, the rest of the day is a breeze. My go-to is hitting the bag. I’ll wake up, go nuts on the punchbag for a few minutes, then my adrenaline and testosterone are up and I’m ready to go for the rest of the day.”