To the Max

Five-time Olympic medallist Max Whitlock MBE first caught the eye of the watching world at London 2012, with a bronze-medal winning display as a fresh-faced 19-year-old. Four year later in Rio, he went two steps further by grabbing gold in the Floor and Pommel Horse events, and more recently – having secured a third World Championship Gold in 2019 – he’s been keeping his army of social media followers fit and entertained during coronavirus lockdown with a series of home training videos and a recently released book, The Whitlock Workout. MF caught up with the 27-year-old – still fresh-faced, but with plenty to show for the eight years since his Olympics debut – to talk adapted training, toddler-assisted exercises and lessons learned from doing too much too young.

“FROM THE AGE