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Sometimes your best efforts don’t seem to be as good as normal, they leave you disappointed about your day sometimes as you know you could have done better. We all have them and there are a variety of reasons for them.

Sometimes your back may be a little sore, your knee may be twingeing, you may be feeling under the weather, you may be suffering from a lack of sleep, you may be under the weather, you may just be  having just one of those days! Whatever your issues, you have to accept that today may have received your best effort, and thats ok.

Any time you do your best at anything, you may not always win but you can look at yourself in the mirror and be honest with yourself. You can tell yourself that every time you go out there and do your workout that simply being out there is the biggest thing sometimes.

You won’t always feel like marathon efforts, or herculean and monumental feats, that simply is not possible.

You can try your best and if you do, you’re going to end up in SIGNIFICANTLY better shape than you were at the start 0f 2009. It may be even better than this, you may actually get in the best shape of your life, this can really happen!

“Making it happen” is the biggest thing sometimes, we have discussed it at length in previous posts, that IF YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING, you CAN make it happen, all you have to do is want it bad enough!!

Im a victim of one of those days sometimes myself, and i am pretty honest about it on here. I will tell you when im feeling fantastic and luckily that is most of the time, but sometimes i will feel a little off colour, but as long as i do my best on that day, even is its not to my normal standard, then thats still okay for me and over the years i have learned to accept that, which keeps me positive even in the most trying of cirumstances.

See you tomorrow!

Keri

Sounds like Jean is getting serious with her programme and well done on to her on showing all of the determination we knew she had in her.

It takes certain moments sometimes to make you do things and this may be no exception.

We all have the reasons to do what we have to do and jean is fired up to achieve something really big here too, and its an exciting time of life for her!

There are countless people excited tomorrow too. Theres the childline triathlon we organise each year going off tomorrow at 8.30am. They will be achieving their own personal high’s tomorrow, and achieving things they probably never thought they could do.

Theres nothing like the expression on their faces when they cross the finish line, and get somewhere where they thought was beyond them, and it will be great for me to witness it too! I am THAT excited about it, even if it means me getting up very early tomorrow again!

You have the London Marathon again tomorrow too, and i know only too well the nerves and excitement they are going through right now. There’s nothing like the encouragement you get off the crowd all the way along, and its hard to imagine 500, 000 people cheering you along for 26.2 miles!!

All these amazing feeling take some serious training, doing the right thing more often than not, some sacrifice and heck of a lot of dedication.

Whatever your choice of goal’s in life, its time to get serious and really fired up about your training and nutrition, because you’re all clearly capable of going a very long way indeed, so let’s do it!!

See you tomorrow and enjoy your saturday night!

Without drive, you’re not really going to get where you need to go. You will have no impetus, no inspiration, not much energy, not much determination, and you will find things a really struggle when times get tough.

The things that usually drives us is our thing inside of us that really motivates us. It can be either inspiration or desperation!!

How many of us have done things because we are really inspired by something to get off our behind’s and actually do something with our lives. We have usually seen something motivating or someone has shown that it can actually be done, and we have often said “if they can do it, then i can do it”!!

Another situation is getting desperate. I know a lady who would struggle with her weight, and not really do anything about it. Then one day, she was told by the doctor that she needed an operation, but she couldn’t have it until she lost 3 stone! This is a common story for some i know.

She approached me to put her straight and to cut a very long story short, she lost 5 stone which was incredible. She has since had the operation and now continues to lead a very active and happy life, and can now enjoy the pleasures of her grandchildren a whole lot more!

So by inspiration or desperation, you know you have the capabilities to get there. People with the biggest handicaps of done it before and you can do it too, as long as you take action of course.

Finding out what really drives you is ultra-important, its the thing that gets you up in the morning, its the thing that gets you out there in the cold and wet to do your workout, when the easiest option would have been to cancel it!

It may the new dress, it may be the need to have an operation like the lady mentioned, it may be the desire to get yourself in great shape, after abusing yourself for years with alcohol and sugary/fatty food and no exercise, it may be to simply feel better after feeling low in energy and low in confidence all these years, it may be to get in shape for holidays, it may be to improve your love life, it may be for a wedding, it may be to keep up with your children or grandchildren, it may be too help your asthma-YOU GET THE PICTURE!

Here’s a test for you, write down all the things you really want in life, short term and long term, give it a go and really go for it, and you may be surprised how many things you write. Then, i will bet right now that all of those things will be severely ENHANCED with exercise and eating healthily.

Give it a go and have a great weekend!

Everyone gets tired from time to time, even me. 12 weeks of a new born eventually take their toll with lack of sleep and general tiredness.

Also,  i made the mistake of training 7 days in a row and just carrying on the next week as well, with no break. I know this never works for me long term and eventually i get tired, and lack energy. I didn’t follow my own advice and am paying the price!

Can’t wait for a day off tomorrow, and some well-deserved rest, perhaps you never get complete rest with two little ones, but i will try my best!!

Saturday is always good for having a lay in, although that only means 6-630am to me, but its still better than most. An early morning walk is great for me too with the dogs, and generally a day relaxing gets me ultra-enthusiastic again, and ready for a great early morning sunday run, which i thrive on!

Rest is always the understated third component of the thre essentials.

Everyone knows about how important training is, as well as eating is of course, but rest and recuperation is just as important so we all need to use the recovery phase properly. I am charging myself up now, and the next 36 hours recovery phase will mean i have overwhelming energy again.

Have a great evening and im going to raring to go tomorrow after a good nights sleep (5 hours would be great!)