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Known as Ted’s gym since 1951

Gym values
Lead from the front

Provide a positive and motivating training environment

Always over-deliver

Say absolutely no to drugs

Loyalty and honesty

Stay innovative and cutting-edge

Be more than just a trainer to our members

Give 100% to become a better athlete

Here’s a question I have been asked from one of you, who has to do a presentation on what the benefits of exercise and healthy eating are, so here is the answer and I am guessing it will be relevant to most of you too!

a. Exercise makes you feel better, by releasing chemicals in your body called endorphins, give you a feel of wellbeing.

b. Exercise strengthens your heart, your body’s most importance muscle, without it being in good health, you wouldn’t be able to do much in life, and a strong heart gives you a much better chance of living a longer and higher quality of life.

c. Exercise helps you reduce body fat and eventually reach a healthy range. This is vital again for health and let your body perform at a good level in everything you do.

d. Exercise helps you fight off serious disease. Diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, arthritis, osteoporosis to name just a few are statistically more like if you don’t exercise and eat healthily.

e. Exercise gives you a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. Since exercise involves a series of challenges that progressively get harder, the sense of achievement always comes to you, and this gives you much more confidence to achieve other meaningful things in life.

f. Well thought out exercise and stretching will cure a bad back or at least keep pain away. Since 87% of working age individuals get a serious back problems at some time in their lives, chances are you reading this will be able to relate to this particular issue in your life.

g. Most people experience better and more fulfilling relationships from living a healthy lifestyle, with regular exercise and more natural food right at the heart of the effort. If someone doesn’t exercise or eat well, and perhaps drinks more alcohol than recommended, then that person is likely to be out of shape, very irritable, liable to have mood swings daily, and not be that much fun to be around-a disaster for good relationships over the longer term.

h. Exercise gives you a great opportunity to play sports at a better level, and enjoy it more. If you are overweight and really unfit, any sport is likely to be unpleasant and not much fin, probably explaining why sports participation of all ages is declining. Getting fit and healthy will give you great opportunites.

i. Exercise, eating healthy and drinking more water will give you much more concentration for you studies in school and college. Numerous studies have shown that exam and test results can be improved by up to 40% when a much healthier lifestyle is practiced over a typical 12 month period.

j. Those who exercise regularly have been shown to progress more at work. Recent studies show those who exercise regular tend to get more promotion opportunities, are seen as much more dynamic, have more energy and seem to contribute much more to the business they are in.

k. Those who exercise and eat well tend to be more optimistic about their present and future lives. If you having good health results in terms of blood pressure, body fat, heart rate etc, then you tend to look forward to a much higher quality of life than those who constantly struggle with their blood pressure, heart, diabetes etc.

l. Those who exercise tend to be much more active into their later years. Evidence shows that those competing in 10k’s into their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s has almost doubled in the last 10 years. Those in those years who regularly exercised 3 times a week has quadrupled!

To cope with requests off a lot of females to join in a quiet and non-male environment, I have just started girls only Monday to Friday 11am to 12. We have already had many girls join, and many now have the confidence to train any time of day they wish as often their friends or family training later in the day.

This is NOT A CLASS, it is much more personal training and is all about the individual.

Our female presence in the gym is now over 50% of total membership which is great to see!

The big story today is about just 4 kids in 10 aged 7 years getting enough exercise.

This is a terrible statistic and one which will have dire consequences for those upcoming generation expecting the already overloaded NHS to cope with the upcoming problems with obesity, blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis etc etc.

The government response is to cut more money from the sports and leisure budget, charge kids a lot more to use playing fields, and the news is that the leisure centres in wales are unsustainable losing on average £500, 000 each year!

I will give you an example of government priorities on health.

The council said months ago that there was money to improve your premises.

We put in for it as a gym that had a huge junior membership.

We found out this week that they gave a lot of the money to a local pub, encouraging people to drink more alcohol and eat more fatty food. Now that sounds like a GREAT investment!!! Pubs are closing in alarming numbers so a great future investment there too!!

We were told that they would give the money to people who are taking the town forward.

Great idea again! Let’s make people even more overweight and let’s strain the NHS even more!!!

Apparently, our gym which helps an enormous amount of kids and people of all ages out, was NOT the way forward!!!!!

Nice to see your hard-earned tax is going to support an ever-increasing obesity problem, and they wonder why our population is getting more and more unhealthy!!!

Great sessions don’t happen by accident.

What I would give a seasoned athlete would be very inappropriate for even a very fit person in general terms. The seasoned athlete reached that wonderful level through hard work, a very good diet, lots of regular sleep , and a fierce will to succeed at a very high level. There would have been no letting up of that effort.

The very fit person in normal gym standards would have also put a very good effort in most of the time, would be capable of impressive feats and would have a good diet.

The difference between them and a seasoned athlete who competes regularly would be the intensity of how hard they approach things.

The seasoned athlete would hardly have a break from their diet, weigh their foods constantly, hardly ever drink alcohol and be religious about their sleeping patterns.

The very fit person compared to normal gym standards would eat well most of the time but have occasional treats, like a drink at the weekend sometimes overdoing it, and sleep well in the week but often go without it the weekend due to over-indulging.

These patterns by both individuals dictate what type of session I would give them, how often and how much intensity would be involved in each session.

The very fit gym person could maybe hang with the seasoned athlete for a one off session, but the difference would be that the true athlete would put up with those sessions EVERY session, have great recovery powers through their lifestyle habits and experience, and this is the KEY DIFFERENCE.