About Plur Fitness

About this blog

This is a blog and nothing more complicated than that. Nothing is deleted once it is up, so the archive is the full record, written to the standard of the line under the logo, Move well, recover well.

Plur Fitness exists for one reason. Most pages about fitness and training are written to sell something, and very few are written by people who will still be here to answer for what they published.

Why this name

People ask about the name. There is rarely a good story behind a domain, and there is not one here either. Plur Fitness was available, it was short enough to say out loud, and it has been the name long enough now that changing it would be more confusing than keeping it.

The people

You can see who wrote what, and you can see everything else they wrote. That is deliberate, because it makes a bad article expensive for the person who wrote it.

Leo Strand, Founder and fitness writer. Leo spent his twenties as a distance runner and his thirties rebuilding after a knee injury. He started this site because most fitness writing assumes you are already fit and already motivated, and he found that assumption annoying enough to do something about it.

Dana Kurtz, Nutrition and recovery writer. Dana spent years treating food as a performance variable before realising that most people need basic eating right before they need optimisation. She writes for people who want to eat well for training without turning every meal into a calculation.

Mia Wolff, Mindset and beginner writer. Mia started training at thirty-two after a decade of stopping and starting. She writes for people who feel like they are already behind, because she has been that person and found that most advice was not written for them.

What is filed here

• Workout Plans. Weekly and daily training programmes explained in full, with the progressions, the rest periods and the things that go wrong in the first two weeks.
• Nutrition. What to eat before, during and after training. Covers real food first and explains where supplements fit in, which is usually later than most people think.
• Recovery and Rest. Sleep, active recovery, and the signs that you are doing too much too soon. The part of training that most beginner plans forget to mention.
• Starting Out. Guides for people who have never trained before or who are starting again after a long break. Written for the beginning, not for someone who already knows the vocabulary.
• Mindset. Consistency, motivation, and the habits that make a training practice last longer than six weeks. Honest about how long things actually take.
• Gear and Equipment. What is worth buying, what is not, and the order to buy in. Covers home gym setup, shoes, bags and the basics that make training easier without spending more than necessary.
• Games. Video games and gaming, from what we play to how games connect to the rest of life.

Each piece sits under exactly one heading. Readers arriving from search mostly land in workout plans, nutrition and recovery and rest, so those sections get looked after first.

How an article gets made

Nothing here is written from a search results page. If we have not handled it ourselves or spoken to somebody who has, we leave the topic alone until we have.

We buy what we write about. It is slower, it is more expensive, and it is the only arrangement that lets us say a thing was not worth it.

How claims get checked and how money is disclosed is written down separately, on the editorial policy page.

The limits of this site

What we do not do is predict outcomes. Nothing about fitness and training works that way, and pages that pretend otherwise are selling something.

Telling us we are wrong

Point at the sentence. Write to info@plurfitness.com or use the contact page. Factual errors are fixed quickly, and when a correction changes the conclusion of a piece we say so at the foot of the page rather than editing quietly.