Making those New Year deals with yourself when it comes to fitness starts off with such great intention but it can easily fall to the side, but when it comes to something that not only changes your health, your mindset and have not only an impact on you but your family, well it becomes a lot easier to follow through.

Committing to 5K a day for a year did just that for my guest in this episode, Ian Ward, hear how he has transformed the person he was at the end of last year and how it has changed the biggest relationships in his life.

How running Dublin Marathon was so special for him and how he will do it again next year just so his dad can have his camera ready.

Becoming friends and even naming his anxiety to normalise it, and how the mantras and messages he learnt through martial arts has stayed with him for life.