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Count on yourself!!

In recessionary times, there are lots of things that you’re not going to be sure of. Have you got enough money, will your job last, will you have enough money for christmas, will you get that loan or mortgage, will i sell my house for what i really want, are our energy bills going to go up again, what about council tax etc etc!!

These are all worries we all face day to day, and especially coming up to the festive  season. All or many of these things are sometimes out of our control, but there is one very important thing that we CAN control, and that’s what we do with our bodies which has a direct relationship with our mind.

Scientific studies show that happiness is directly related to the control we feel we have over our lives. The bottom line is that most people i’ve ever seen get on some kind of sound fitness plan, backed up by a sound eating plan, have directly improved their quality of life. When you are fitter you ARE directly taking control of your life, you are overcoming challenges and increasing your self-esteem, you are setting yourself up to be in far better shape to handle life’s never ending challenges.

If stress comes (and it always does), you handle it better when your heart is in good shape, you can deal with it and seek instant solutions when possible. When you are feeling strong, you not only will help yourself, but feel inclined to help others and take some leadership.

If you’re on a good fitness plan right now, you should be very capable of dealing with problems and giving yourself the best chance to succeed. If you think before you make any decision, base your choice on what will give you the best chance of success.

So with all the uncertainty out there, you can surely count on yourself to do the right thing and give yourself and family a great chance of being successful. If you workout most days, eat well, and are positive in attitude, i know you will be highly attractive to an employer. If you smoke, drink, don’t exercise and takes lots of sick leave, then the chances are not so good? Common sense there i think.

Whatever programme you’re on, good luck on it, and any questions you have, send them in! If you don’t want to do that, there’s quite a lot of information on here already for you to browse to help you. This blog has barely been up a couple of weeks but by year end, there should be over 100 articles/resources at your disposal!

Stay healthy,

Keri

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What time is “church”?

Some of you may be religious on here, some may hate religion and blame every war on it in the world today! Whatever your persuasion, here’s a good way to get your own brand of exercise religion into your life.

We have been over excuses before and how they disrupt your efforts to get into shape, or even start at all!!! Here’s a nice new tactic to make sure your plans are not thrown off course, and actually you start making some appointments with yourself!

A client of mine is quite religious and would never miss a workout with me, but would often miss my prescribed workouts. This was hurting his progress and although we would have fantastic workouts together, his fitness was not gettting to the level he wanted. I asked him one day what was the most important appointment he kept in his life, he said that’s easy “it was church”!

I then asked him if he treated his own workouts like his church appointments, what would happen? He replied that he would be in amazing shape! He then looked at me with those light bulb moments and discovered that he had been neglecting to spend time for himself, and soon promised to set up these “church” meetings in the week as well, and experienced more progress in the next 8 weeks, than he had in the previous 5 months!

Making time for yourself in often difficult, but what happens if you schedule it into your diary, like a dental appointment or a solicitor’s appointment? You wouldn’t miss those so pencil it in your diary now, there’s really no excuse for missing workouts, it may be getting up 30 minutes ealier, getting to bed earlier, missing a bit more television, or simply organising your time better!

Making time so you can have a healthier, higher quality of life can only take 30 minutes or less, make that promise to yourself that you are finally going to “do it” this time and nothing’s going to come in between your workout, no matter what!

Make sure you visit your own “church” this week, a few times!!

Keri

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list of weekend workouts been sent in!

Site members

Dave from Mumbles is cycling saturday morning on the mumbles prom

Catherine in mumbles says she is doing a run from Bracelet bay to langland and back

Author Nevil Williams will be mxing in walks around Llanelli with his weekend radio presenting slots.

Thomas will be trying out my coastal path workouts he says, hopefully not all of them in one go!

Good luck to Dan Williams of Progress surf in his weekend teachings, very recommended to get you up on those waves in Llangennith!!

Good luck to the girls in Arthur Llewellyn Jenkins on their home workouts, and those involved in 10k efforts, girls you CAN do it!!

Pembrey Country Park seems an ever popular workout destination, gareth says he will be pounding the trails of the beautifual forestry down there sunday morning with his dog!

To all of you out there, good luck and you know it’s going to make you feel great afterwards!!

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Interview coming up

An interview will be coming up shortly with site member Sergeant Justin Evans, who is now a very keen cyclist using the coastal path and beyond. Learn how he overcame the highs and lows of back surgery, the inevitable highs and lows of subsequent weight gain and weight loss, and how now being very fit and healthy helps him in his job, and undoubtedly now is the best thing he ever did!

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