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It’s not enough to say “i go to the gym sometimes”!

How many times have you heard that! “I go to the gym sometimes, i go swimming sometimes, i go on my bike sometimes with the kids, i go walking with my friends sometimes”!!

Why does that word “sometimes” come up so often, in fact most of the time with most people!

So are all of those comments enough to get you in shape? Or into the shape you REALLY want to be in?

If you have been reading this for some time, you know instead of mentioning the word sometimes, i tend to use the word “consistency”. Sometimes in my book means potching, half-hearted, haphazhard, without much commitment. You know by those descriptions that if you do anything “sometimes”, you’re not going to become much good at it.

So isn’t it time you blew out that approach and stop pretending that your committed to your health and fitness. Can we stop it right there, finish it and cut the lousy attitude. That attitude may work in coffee mornings or the walk once a month brigades, but it definitely doesn’t work on here, where we tend to be far more honest and revealing on what REALLY gets you into shape!

Annette who joined last night wants to get into shape and i want to sincerely help her achieve that.

She needs to look at the exercise/workouts section and look at the ideas i have for inside workouts.

She needs to go into the eating/diet section to get plenty of eating ideas that can get her into seriously good shape.

Then, there’s a million and one blogs on here on the mind and motivation. You will know by now that if you’re not mentally with it, you’re going to struggle getting your workouts in, making sure you eating regularly and the right selection of food, getting enough sleep for example, all the essential elements if this time once and for all, you’re really going to get into shape!

Then its all back to consistency, you have to be doing all of these basics pretty much most of the time. The days of “sometimes” really have to go, and your workouts, eating well, sleeping well etc have to become your lifestyle from now on.

Annette, please send me your current schedule, in fact please post it on here, then we can talk it through and take it step by step until you’re back up and running again with some momentum in your health and fitness again.

Good luck and look forward to hearing from you!

Keri

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Monday’s the driver

I go on about it now and again, but isn’t it so that monday is your number one driver for a new week?

Here we are again, we are right here again, right at the heart of your decisions on whether you’re going to have a good week or not. That is correct, your “decision” on whether to have a good week or not!

It’s not somehow “beyond your ability” to have a great week is it? Of course not!

I may sound repetitive here but monday is so important to your week and good week”s make a good month, which means SUBSTANTIAL progress. This is what we’re after at the end of the day, so your momentum starts right here for the next 5days right up until friday night.

If you stop your excuses right now, you could be well on your way this week to making a substantial dent in your body fat, to a more impressive hard body, to lots and lots more energy, if you want to be one of those people who seems to attack life head on and get results, then you have to get out there today/tonight and get a great workout under your belt.

Then you have a shower, you have a meal of good protein such as chicken, turkey, lean beef, any kind of fish, with some good carbs such as wholewheat pasta, brown rice, sweet/jacket/new potatoes, with a wide variety of vegetables. Then you have a well-earned sleep and wake up on tuesday feeling well-rested, full of energy and full of wonderment on what your new day has to offer.

REALLY THIS CAN HAPPEN!!

If you manage to have a week full of these habits, you are on course, you are on the road to amazing health and fitness. Does this sound far-fetched, hope it doesnt because you are very capable of doing it.

 As jean says, its about moderation so have a bit of what you fancy at  the weekend, as long as it doesnt turn out to be one huge blowout!!

Anyway, back to right now and the job at hand, its monday and lets make it happen, a big future awaits for you if you do!!

Twitt
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August to autumn

One of my favourite seasons, the stretch from august into october, you will have colder periods of the day from now on believe it or not, going right into the complete season change of late/september october.

This is the time of year you realise you should have done all of those late night workouts in the summer, when you really did have all that extra light to train. Now you will be forced to put your workouts in with slightly darker mornings coming into play, and definitely shorter nights.

This is exactly when you need to make the most of your routine’s, your structure’s and really make sure you have a plan that’s sort of bulletproof from now.

Instead of viewing your workouts as something you have to fit in somewhere, or you will do your best, make it an ABSOLUTE MUST!!

Making the commitment is the biggest thing you can do right now, lets make it happen and im not putting up with any excuses you may normally make at this time of year!

So your workouts now have to be the most important appointments you set up from now on.

You never miss a dental appointment do you? Do you not turn up for a solicitor? How about meeting your friends down the pub, do you miss that? I thought not.

So when you’re planning everything out this week in terms of things you MUST do, i want workouts in there too, because if you reall want to be in great shape, your commitment needs to be the FIRST thing to change.

Are you ready or not!!

Twitt
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Personal standards

A key way of determining your progress is asking yourself a realistic question.

“Am i performing better than this time last year?”.

If you can honestly say yes, then of course you’re on a great programme and doing a lot of things right.

If you say no, you’re not doing any better, you need to re-examine what you’re doing and scrap the programme you’re on, and come up with a plan that’s actually going to advance you, and not push you through the motions all the time.

That’s why im writing this, of course i have a plan that can not only raise your personal standards, but get you to the level when you’re at your all-time best performance.

Personal standards apply to everything. You buy new clothes so it makes you look a bit smarter, you wash every day with soap because you don’t want to smell, you brush your teeth because you don’t want them to fall out, you have to earn money because you don’t want the bank to repossess your house, you have to pay your bills because you want some light and warmth and the list goes on. Personal standards are key to each and every one.

Personal standards certainly apply to your exercise and eating standards.

If you shop for very sugary and fatty food, it may take you a few weeks but you’re definitely going to be putting on lots of unwanted body fat.

If you shop for fresher, more nutritious food, you’re going to look and feel fantastic, simple as that and you’re going to have a healthy glow about you.

If you don’t exercise or just go through the motions, your body is not going to be firm, you will be frequently out of breath over the slightest thing, and you simply won’t feel good.

If you exercise with passion and strive to do better and better over a longer period of time, you’re going to be feeling so energetic, and feel full of ambition for the future, nothing should be able to stop you if you approach everything with the drive and enthusiasm you approach your workout plan.

You can see your personal standards are key, lets set them high!!!!!!!!!

Twitt
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Self-belief-key basic

Another key basic that is often overlooked is the power of self-belief.

I have encountered a huge amount of people with great ability, only to self-sabotage their progress simply because they don’t believe they can be so athletic, so disciplined with food and simply can’t appreciate the massive progress they have made. I have truly seen some incredible transformations.

You will always see people out there dressed in the latest workout gear, the latest ipod etc and always talking a good game, but have many of them got the heart to train with the necessary effort to get into great shape?

I find the people with the most talent are the ones sometimes wearing scruffy or low-profile workout gear, the ones who don’t like an audience when training, the ones who simply “get on with it”, rather than throwing tantrums when asked to get through huge workouts. Most real people who train hard want no fuss, and just want to get it done, simple as that!

Self-belief always increases when you make progress and lose inches off your waist, you lose body fat and your training performances reach very impressive levels. I have seen these individuals achieve staggering progress.

The dip usually comes when perhaps they have has a couple of weeks of more average performances, and they get influenced by people not seeking the same results as they are.

 Its easy then to set your sights lower in life, and the prospect of carrying an extra 10 pounds seems easier than the discipline you used to have of hitting the hills for example, and doing things the average person hasn’t got the commitment to do. Drinking all weekend soon becomes acceptable, rather than your once a week only habit when you were in great condition.

Self-belief can then take a big downturn, and the prospect of getting back to the OLD HIGH STANDARD YOU USED TO HAVE becomes seemingly impossible. This can crush your self-belief so its important to keep a training diary of your workouts, and what you’re usually expected to do. This usually stops any apparent downturn in its tracks, and shocks you into putting new efforts to step it up one more level.

It all starts and ends whether you believe you can do it or not. I have never met anyone who can’t do it, so the likelihood that you can achieve great things is likely to be 100%. Key basic of this week as I said.

 Please don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!!!!!!!!!

Twitt