8 reasons why I recommend IM8

Sprint hurdling is measured in hundredths of a second. I can't control the wind reading, the lane draw, or the athlete next to me. What I can control is how I arrive: rested, fuelled, sharp. That part is on me.

So I started treating my daily nutrition as seriously as I treat my hours on the track, because both are inputs I actually own. IM8 became one of them — one daily drink that covers what my body needs, so I'm never the reason a final slips away by a hundredth.

Sprinting is explosive by nature, and explosive athletes have to be smart about longevity. I want more championship cycles in this body — and a healthy, active life after them. IM8 is part of that plan.

I compete at the Olympic level, which means I'm subject to anti-doping testing like every other athlete at this level. One contaminated supplement could end the career I've spent my whole life building. I'm not allowed to guess what goes into my body — and I wouldn't want to. IM8 is NSF Certified for Sport and WADA-compliant. Every batch is screened against the strictest standards there are. For me, that's not a marketing line; it's the one reason I'd ever put my name on something I actually swallow.

I used to travel with a pharmacy. Different pills for energy, for gut health, for immunity, for recovery — half of which I'd forget to take anyway. It was a mess. IM8 is one sachet. 90+ ingredients, nine organ systems, one glass of water in the morning. It took the most important habit in my day and made it the easiest one.

The races that get away are decided before the gun — in the rounds, the warm-ups and the long championship days where energy quietly drains. What I want on the track — and on a long working day away from it — is energy that's steady rather than spiky, so it's still there in the moment it matters most. That's what IM8 supports: clean, sustained energy that holds through the hardest stretch instead of crashing right when it counts.

A season on the circuit means racing across Europe and beyond, with championships in one hemisphere and home in the other. So much of this job is staying in motion and still being ready when the starter calls 'set'. IM8 is one of the few things that never changes. A sachet goes in my bag and the routine comes with me — Zurich, Brussels, Tokyo, it doesn't matter. It's the constant that keeps my body feeling like mine, whatever time zone I wake up in.

Championship weeks are brutal on the body — heats, semis and finals inside 48 hours, each one at maximum intensity. Then you do it all again in the next round. The ones who last aren't just the fastest in the heats; they're the ones who recover well enough to do it again. IM8 is part of how I recover and how I sleep. Better sleep and a faster bounce-back is where the next result is quietly won — and recovery is the half of this sport that nobody at the top is allowed to skip.

I'm careful about where I attach my name. I recommend IM8 because I believe in where it's going: co-founded with David Beckham, built with a world-class scientific team, and held to a standard I'd actually stake my reputation on. You don't put your name behind something you don't use. I use it every single day.