Colin Jackson: The team is really important to me in training. I couldn't bench press to the weight I use if there wasn't a team around - practically and mentally it's important. On my own, I slightly under-perform. With others, it takes you that little bit further.

Mark Foster: Pushing each other is very important. It brings out the competitiveness in you because you want to win.

Ian Mackie: With press-ups and circuits you get encouragement from others and want to keep going.

CJ: It's crucial to know you've got others - from the right back-up with training to support with kit etc. You have to be totally confident in your support. They are there to help you. You get rid of the negative feeling around you and work together.

IM: It's good too to have others in your team to motivate you and encourage you when you are tired. If someone is there at the track training, shouting you on, you can always run the last 20m a bit faster.

CJ: But sometimes you can't work any harder and you don't want to hear anything because it's down to you.

IM: In training I can hear, but in competition I do my own thing and I don't want people telling me 'Try this. Try that.' If you have pushed yourself to the limit, you're at your maximum and you have nothing left, the last thing you need to hear is that it's not good enough!

CJ: Then it's down to you. If you give the very best you can, you can be satisfied. Don't beat yourself up when you have done enough. Set yourself realistic goals. If you have done 6 hours of studying over the day and you know you have done your maximum, don't then try to cram in an extra half an hour 'in case'. You could lose it by forcing yourself and letting others force you. You know if you have given it your all. Then cut off.

Be absolutely happy with what you've done and then you can genuinely rest instead of panicking about what could have been. You do come to the point where you can't take any more in. Then it's a wasted effort.

MF: Sometimes it's not that I can't do any more but it's that I'm bored and don't feel like it! You have to be really honest with yourself. You're cheating yourself and need to get on with it!