It is midday in Salford in Manchester and Gethin Jones is already moving through the first minutes of his training session. The day started long before sunrise with Morning Live, yet inside Collective, the same gym used by HYROX athlete James Kelly when he last visited the city, Jones shows no signs of slowing down. He greets his coach Sam Dimmick, eases onto a bike for a steady warm up and begins preparing for a session built around strength, consistency and a pace that works for the life he leads now.

Jones says he used to train almost every day. For years he relied on squeezing in exercise wherever possible. A back injury forced him to rethink that approach.

“I used to train pretty much every day and realised that was not the smartest thing to do. I am doing probably three days now, l

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