8 reasons why I recommend IM8

Fencing is a sport measured in milliseconds. A touch lands or it doesn't by the width of a blade. I can't control the referee's call, the draw, or my opponent's tactics. 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 strip, 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 bout slips away at 14-14.

Fencers can compete at the top for a long time — if the body holds. Explosive lunges, thousands of them a year, take a toll you have to actively manage. IM8 is part of how I plan for the next Games, and the ones after that.

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 bouts that get away are the ones lost at 14-14, when the legs are gone and the hand hesitates. What I want on the strip — 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 World Cup season is a world tour: a different country almost every month, jet lag as a training partner, a new venue every event. So much of this job is staying in motion and still being ready the moment the referee says 'allez'. IM8 is one of the few things that never changes. A sachet goes in my bag and the routine comes with me — Paris, Tokyo, Milan, it doesn't matter. It's the constant that keeps my body feeling like mine, whatever time zone I wake up in.

A competition day is brutal on the body — a full day of explosive bouts, from morning pools to an evening final. Then you do it all again at the next World Cup. The ones who last aren't just the fastest hands in the hall; 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.