Sam Rider | Freelance Journalist

About me: I’m a specialist content consultant, journalist, editor and reporter. Based in London, I help fitness brands tell compelling stories. Projects include work for FIIT, BLOK, Bodyism, Balance Festival, David Lloyd. samrider.co.uk

@wallabies Walters on the Pollock hype train: ‘I've been reading that #HenryPollock can squat 250, bench 180 and run over 10 metres per second, so we might not start any session until he's completed the decathlon.’ #allaboard #Lions2025

Walters on his time coaching the #Brumbies and the #Wallabies’ key attributes: ‘They are all athletes. Maybe it's because they grow up playing volleyball and Aussie rules. I couldn't get over their ability to move. Their coordination and athletic ability I thought was special.'

Few more gems from my chat with B&I Lions’ Head of Athletic Performance Aled Walters - via @MensHealthUK #thread Read now: menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a65…

@StefJarm Too kind Stef. Also, woof!! Look at that transformation 💪

@SamRiderUK And a darn fine writer and cover model as well!

About me: I’m a specialist content consultant, journalist, editor and reporter. Based in London, I help fitness brands tell compelling stories. Projects include work for FIIT, BLOK, Bodyism, Balance Festival, David Lloyd. samrider.co.uk

Walters has a framework he used with the 2019 RWC winning Springboks he calls ‘alcohol periodisation’. Wonder which level they reached last night 🍻

The #Lions might have fallen just short to the Pumas last night, but head of athletic performance Aled Walters knows his brief is to get the squad peaking come 19th July against the #Wallabies. Here’s how via @MensHealthUK menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a65…

The vastly experienced S&C coach will be drawing on proven tricks of his trade to recondition battered bodies and forge team unity. ‘Doing hard things’ and #alcoholperiodisation are integral ingredients. Learn more via the link above #lions2025

@ervin_sz_n @C_Angermayer @enhanced_games @MensHealthUK Hi there, where are you based? It's on shelves in the UK and will run online on MH UK after a few weeks. Prob around the mid to end of July. Hope that helps.

@C_Angermayer @enhanced_games @SamRiderUK @MensHealthUK Can I find it online? I'd like to read the article but I don't know where to buy the magazine

Finally made the cover of Men's Health! Hopefully next time, after (even) more personal training & enhancement, I may actually get to be the cover model. For now, it is "just" a cover story about our @enhanced_games 😉💪 Thanks to @SamRiderUK + @MensHealthUK for a thorough read.

Honoured to be invited to join a panel for #menshealthweek by @getnuman. Talking #ozempic #fertility #TRT - Thu 13th June⁠ - 18:30 - 20:30⁠ - Numan HQ, 33 Farringdon Road, London⁠ EC1M 3JF⁠ eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-the-…

Really hope it’s not goodbye, but if it is, what a player, what a man. Thank you #rashford @MarcusRashford 🙏

That's an incredible team goal from Manchester United. And a young kid, a red, from Gtr Manchester, scores. And it started with a lad, a red, from Manchester.

MUFC section

Gutted. Hurts more than four years ago. Possibly cos that match was over after five minutes. This time it was won until five minutes to go. Scrum pen after scrum pen. Awful way to lose a semi-final #ENGvsRSA

England were 13-1 to win the World Cup in August And now they’re the only unbeaten team left in the competition. 🎣😅👀🤯 #RWC2023

@LukeyNewlers Commiserations Lukey. Feel they somehow underestimated the ABs. But hard to summon up another titanic effort like that needed for the RSA match. Beaten by the draw.

Another stat for you: Only one northern hemisphere side has ever won the Rugby World Cup. England in 2003. ENG won 1/4 FRA won 0/3 NZL won 3/4 RSA won 3/3 AUS won 2/4 Ominous omens #RWC2023

Stats don’t lie. #IRENZL