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Coach HP3 consists of 3 core elements- Physiotherapy, Retül bike fitting, and coaching.

Tim Pigott is a highly specialized physiotherapist within the field of sports medicine with over 10 years experience of dealing with elite athletes. Tim works for three clinics, Preston Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic (Ribby Hall and Prestons College) and Worsley Physio Clinic in Manchester. www.athletematters.co.uk
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11/09/2026

How has your week been?

Your watch and app knows your HRV, your sleep, and your training load. It has never once asked how your week has been. Swipe for 5 moments where the data goes quiet, and what a coach says in that situation.

The recovery score with no context. Placebos can influence performance, positively and negatively. A number delivered as a warning can cause you to perform worse if there is no context to it.

A missed session and red box on TrainingPeaks can cause you to overreact, but with a coach who can adapt the plan will keep you honest.

Reading an MRI scan alone, not appreciating the nuances can increase your risk of catastrophisation.

A generic plan that doesn’t understand your day job load, or that you have a newborn baby.

This isn’t to say ‘apps are bad’. We use them with all the athletes we coach. This is to highlight the gaps they cannot close, and when a human (or team of humans) can help you interpret the noise.

Send this to your training partner who trusts the app more than their legs.

22/07/2026

The moment your training ‘system’ becomes a cage, it stops working.

Clare is deliberate about the me word: she calls her approach a framework, not a formula. A formula is fixed and brittle. A framework is agile, it grows with your thinking, your experience, and what you learn from the people around you.

For endurance, this is the difference between rigidly obeying a plan and actually practicing one. The athletes who stay the course, are the ones who treat their training as a living framework the adapt, not a formula they either complete or fail.

Check out the full webinar on our circle platform (link 👆) Save this as a reminder if your plan feels more like a rule book than a tool. Framework or formula - which is yours right now?

21/07/2026

The advice that works for your training partner, or comes from an app, might be quietly wrong for you.

Here’s something a good psychologist will admit that a lot of coaching won’t: most of what we say is a generalisation. Research deals in averages. You are not an average, you are wired exactly one way, and it’s yours.

Amy makes this the ground rule in her teaching and practice; everyone is different. A mental strategy that transforms one athlete leaves another cold. You can view the whole webinar on our circle platform (link 👆). But when you are reading a new idea, treat it as an experiment, not an instruction. The skill is noticing what actually shifts in YOUR state, and keeping that.

Save this and share it with the training partner who keeps telling you what “works”. If you are looking for personalised coaching, unique to you, contact us for a no obligation chat and see how our team can help you.

16/07/2026

Resilience isn’t always about pushing through.

A great webinar we had recently on the HP3 circle community with where we applied the lessons of endurance sport to all aspects of life.

This is an important lesson, particularly for those approaching races and thinking they need to push on through. ‘Resilience’ is getting a lot of attention in the world of sport (and business), but it’s not about the ability to suffer in a pain cave, it’s really about creating the environment to thrive.

Full video is available on our YouTube channel or within the community app.

14/07/2026

The summit is optional. Getting home isn’t.

Most UK mountain rescue call outs don’t involve beginners on extreme objectives. They involve experienced hill goers on ordinary days out. In Scotland alone, the biggest reasons for a call out were undramatic slips, trips, and navigational errors (Scottish Mountain Rescue 2022, Knott 2011).

Our latest HP3 webinar with coach Chris Mountain Mastery is all about running in the mountains with better judgement. Swipe through for the essentials.

Want structured, evidence informed coaching for your next big trail or ultra event? That’s what we do at HP3. And if you want to keep learning, ask us questions and train alongside other mountain runners, come and join in the conversation in our HP3 circle community - link in bio.

19/05/2026

What a weekend for at in challenging conditions we had some amazing performances 🙌

On the 25k course we had , Paul Dew and Melisa Lenero

On the 56k we had , Josh Twigg, Brando Posocco, (15th), Michele Wang, and

On the 100k we had (10th), Flo King (8th) and . Sadly Alecsa Stewart retired injured at the final checkpoint.

Finally in the 100mile we had Howard Dracup knock 2hrs off last year’s time and finished 17th.

Huge thanks to all the coaching team .mahon1 and for their support in the build up and throughout the weekend - especially for crewing Lewis and all round super cheer leader / organiser.

Whatever your endurance goals, our team of experts can help you reach your peak.

29/04/2026

Stop focussing on posture.
The near universal cue “keep a neutral spine or you’ll hurt your back” has been challenged by this 2026 narrative review.

What the evidence actually says:
Trained lifters routinely show measurable lumbar flexion under load, with no clear prospective signal of higher injury risk.
Abrupt jumps in training load predict low back injury more consistently than a few degrees of flexion on a single rep.
Movement variability and dynamic trunk control look more protective than rigid kinematic targets and long static planks.

Does posture matter then? Yes, but only as one variable in a multifactorial system. But coach load progression first. Reserve hard postural cues for novices, return-to-lift rehab, and maximal attempts.

If you coach lifters or rehab low back pain, save this for the next time you see a rounded rep, and share with a strength coach who still cues “neutral spine” on every set.

Cherni et al. (2026)

- Tim

12/02/2026

How do you include S&C in your endurance training?

You hear it over and over, that endurance athletes should, nay MUST, include strength work in their training plans. But why? And how?

Join us on Thursday 19th Feb 18:00hrs GMT for a free webinar with Head S&C coach where we’ll discuss why you need to include strength training, and how to fit it in around your busy schedule.

See link in bio for details

12/01/2026

Josh strikes again- 1st place and new course record at the Endurance life coastal marathon. Great prep as well peak for ARC in a couple of weeks. 👏

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31/12/2025

Endurance sport is not a solo project, even if you train alone, or only have a single coach.

Success rarely hinges on one trade. Training is physiology, yes, but it is also physiotherapy, strength & conditioning, sleep, recovery, stress management, nutrition & fuelling, confidence, decision-making, life logistics, and the slow craft of consistency. In that context, being “a master of one” can become a liability if it blinds you to what is actually limiting you.

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.”

I take that as a reminder to build range without losing depth: to be competent across the full landscape, while recognising the moments where you need genuine expertise.

That is the philosophy behind how we work at HP3, and why I value community so highly. Not noise, not comparison, not more opinions. A good community offers perspective, accountability, shared learning, and the quiet normalisation that hard weeks are part of the process. It reduces the time you spend stuck in your own head, and increases the time you spend doing the next sensible thing.

Practically, that looks like a lead endurance coach who holds the whole picture, supported by specialists when a true “master of one” is needed. Not because complexity is fashionable, or because everyone needs a large team, but because most goals fail for predictable reasons that sit outside any single lens. The real multiplier is a support network that keeps you moving forward when motivation wobbles and certainty disappears.

As 2026 approaches, it is worth asking a simple question: if you hit a sticking point, who is in your corner, and what are they actually capable of changing?

The goal is not more advice. The goal is the right support, at the right time, from people who can see clearly.

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