Live Hard\u00a0is about working, playing, training, thinking, eating and drinking –\u00a0harder<\/em>. It’s about maximising the limited time you get on this ball of rock hurtling through space before you don’t get to do anything any more. A lot of it is about training and eating, but that’s because they’re more fundamental to having a decent life than you might realise.<\/p>\n

It’s mostly put together by me,\u00a0Joel Snape<\/a>. What right do I have to tell you how to live your life? None, really: but here are a few of the things I’ve done that I think make me vaguely qualified to talk about these things. Feel free to disagree.<\/p>\n

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• I’ve trained with Shaolin monks in China’s Wushu Guan, Thai boxers in Phuket, breakdancers in Tokyo and BJJ black belts in Rio De Janeiro. I’ve also been drinking with three out of four of those groups. Guess the odd one out.<\/li>\n
• I’ve competed in three strongman competitions, a Swedish kayak ultramarathon, a fair bit of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and four amateur-rules MMA fights\u00a0<\/em>(three draws and one loss, which is admittedly not amazing). I’ve also finished a marathon, but apparently everyone’s done a marathon these days.<\/li>\n
• I’ve written five books. The Dylan Douglas series was published by Scholastic and described by the Telegraph as ‘having the flavour of a junior Martin Amis’ – yes, thanks – but I’m a lot\u00a0more proud of Zombie Titanic<\/a>, described by SFX magazine as ‘a joy to read.’ More importantly, my wife said it was ‘really funny, well done sweetie.’<\/li>\n
• I’m the associate editor for Men’s Fitness magazine. It’s perhaps the greatest job in existence, since I get to travel, train, and talk to everyone from Olympic gold-medallists to film stars and some of the world’s foremost experts on everything from training to performance psychology.<\/li>\n
• I’ve done a whole variety of other stuff, including but not limited to: bouldering, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, swing-dancing, \u00a0gymnastics and Capoeira. I got really good at some of them, though you’ll have to take my word for that.<\/li>\n
• I have the largest set of friends my primate brain<\/a> will allow, and I don’t think that being in shape and occasionally getting drunk are in any way mutually exclusive pursuits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-no-title.php","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5Dvad-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livehard.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}