◎Health, Fitness & Human Performance

Teaches five barbell lifts in mechanical detail and a linear progression that works precisely because it is boring.

Argues for aggressive prevention against the four chronic diseases that kill most people, with exercise as the strongest lever.

A sleep physician on why most insomnia is maintained by the effort to fix it, and what the clinical evidence actually supports.

The eight-week programme that moved meditation into clinical settings, and the most tested secular protocol in the field.

Prescribes training intensity from measured current fitness rather than from goal time, which is why the paces are actually achievable.

Sticks to what the trials support on timing, protein and hydration, which makes it unusually short on claims.

A systematic approach to position and mobility work — widely used, and read alongside the criticism that its mechanisms outrun the evidence.

Orders training variables by importance — specificity, overload, fatigue management — so effort goes where it matters.

The conditions that make practice feel productive are usually the ones that produce the least retention — a finding coaches still resist.