Adrian Lightowler

Fitness & Performance Coach & Director.

[Jim Hamilton @jimhamilton4]

The best pass the world has ever seen.

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

The largest passenger plane in the world, flying halfway across the world, with the Premier of one of the biggest polluting country’s in the world, meeting the biggest clown in the world that’s forcing Irish farmers to cull 200,000 cows because their farts are destroying the world!

Whoever is writing the script of this insanity we are currently living through is a fricking genius!!!

[Simon Raiwalui @SimonRaiwalui]

Those poor backs with Skelton coming around the corner like that! 🚂

[Dave Carolan @davecarolan]

Seriously impressive. Of course, doesn’t mean he’s 💯% bulletproof but it’s a significant advantage

Of course developing strength like this takes commitment to the programme of work. Not paying it lip service or seeing it as ‘busy’

And it’s not developed by minimal dose either

[Adrian Lightowler @ATrain464]

@SimonRaiwalui @fijirugby @WorldRugby 😂

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In toxic cultures, rest is taking your foot off the gas. You're forced to push yourself to exhaustion—burnout is a price to pay for excellence.

In healthy cultures, rest is a supply of fuel. You're expected to take regular reprieves—breaks are vital to gain and sustain energy.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Strong relationships don’t need agreement. They need alignment.

Agreement is having identical opinions. Alignment is having shared values.

Agreement is taking the same path. Alignment is heading in the same direction.

Closeness is a matter of commitment, not consensus.

[Hendrik Cronjé @hendrikcronje71]

Unbelievable. 🇿🇦🏉💚👏

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃

From start to finish, @Courtney_Lawes' England career was something special 🌹👏

[Jim Hamilton @jimhamilton4]

“You’re still the best dad”

And when it’s all said and done, that’s all that matters.

One of the greats bows out tonight on his sword. A rugby legend.

https://t.co/80eU38KFOq

[Matt Gates @MattGates_XPE]

4:30 pace for 26 miles. That’s the most impressive human feat in history. Seems impossible. Amazing.

[Timmy Crowe @timmy400h]

Love this. Young Scottish fan leads Irish Fans in the best anthem in the world #FlowerofScotland #RWC

[Adrian Lightowler @ATrain464]

@PratikxPatel 😂

[Paul Pichugin @paulmp]

This gorge is deep in the Australian Outback (not the Pilbara) and has zero established tracks out to it, you need special permission to be out there and I've been asked not to share its location. It doesn't have a name in English.

I recently posted this piece titled "Secret Gorge" to my facebook page and it went ballistic, over 420K in organic reach and 56K post engagements from my page that only had 11K followers at the time... it is now approaching 14K followers.

I guess Facebook Pages aren't dead yet!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1971, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University.

One day, he overheard a graphic design student say that she couldn’t afford to take a painting class.

Knight paid her $35 to design a logo for his start-up shoe company.

When he saw the design, he said,

“I don't know if I like it, but maybe it will grow on me.”

Knight didn’t have time to fuss over the logo. "We had a deadline," he explains. He had signed a contract with a factory to produce 3,000 pairs of Nike's first shoe. "Production was starting on the shoe that Friday."

Before then, they needed a logo.

“You don’t like it?” Knight’s chief operating officer asked of the student’s design.

“I don’t love it,” Knight said, “but we’re out of time. It’ll have to do.”

Takeaway 1:

It's said that if not for constraints and deadlines, nothing would get made.

George Lucas, for instance, worked on drafts of the first Star Wars for years. "I never arrived at a degree of satisfaction where I thought the screenplay was perfect," he said.

But then he struck a deal with a movie executive from United Artists—"At that point, it became an obligation," Lucas said.

"If I hadn't been forced to shoot the film, I would doubtless still be rewriting it now."

Takeaway 2:

At Nike's IPO in 1980, Phil Knight gave the student who designed the Swoosh 500 shares.

She never sold.

Since the IPO, there have been 7 stock splits. So those 500 shares have become 64,000 shares. At the time of this writing, Nike is at $110/share.

$110/share x 64,000 shares = $7,040,000.

It makes me think of something Robert Greene once told me:

“Above all else, focus on acquiring knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are like gold—a currency you will transform into something more valuable than you can imagine."

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[Adrian Lightowler @ATrain464]

@thepaulwilliams @StephenFerris6 for me!

[Wayne Barnes @WayneBarnesRef]

I am devastated watching this. Anthony is not only a referee, he's a father and a husband. Governing bodies & authorities must do more. But individuals in positions of power who people look up to & kids emulate need to realise their actions encourage this unacceptable behaviour.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies:

“Who cares about perfection?
Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters.

The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths.

The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy.

So, everything that is beautiful isn't perfect, it's special.

Therefore, every woman can be special to someone.

Stop being "perfect", but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others”

What a legend 🫶🏻💪

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Rob and I kinda blacked out during this moment, but somehow we’ll never forget it.

🎥: Paul Rudd

cc: @wrexham_afc - @RMcElhenney

[Cody Royle @codyroyle]

It’s not structure OR creativity.

It’s structure FOR creativity.

They are not enemies.

On the contrary, they are partners.