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Spirit and strength of it never really comes into people’s minds when it comes to exercise.

When you think of sport, you tend to always think of spirit because its emotion that often decides critical moments in any game.

Take the England versus Wales game last week, when Wales has seemingly won the game in the 75^th minute with that Scott Williams try, England came back strong and almost scored a possible try to draw the game (if the resulting tough conversion had gone over).

The reason why they didn’t was because individual welsh players showed incredible spirit, even when a score seemed a certainty.

Leigh Halfpenny, the welsh full back was on the other side of the field as England spun the ball out wide, and official records he took just 6 seconds to get to the other side of the field to initially “stun” david strettle with a match winning tackle, which jonathan davies followed up with rolling him over the wrong side, to keep the ball off the floor.

This showed incredible spirit to get from one side of the other in such an incredibly short time, and won the Triple Crown for Wales.

Its moments like these that professional athletes train for.

Its occasions like these that makes their workouts seem like ultra-intense efforts, and the pain of these workouts worthwhile in the end.

It’s the spirit that drives the champion athlete so succeed even when the chips are down, or it’s a dark weight cold night, and theres 30 sprints up a ridiculously steep hill to do.

Conversely, I have seen rugby players at regional standard which is lower obviously than the international standard, not put the same effort in, and this would explain why one player is reaching the heights with Wales, and the other struggling to maintain a regional contract.

One takes the hard road, the other takes the easy route. The difference is the rewards.

Applying a different sort of spirit and purpose to your own workouts will automatically bring much better results, because you will be giving it more, achieving more workout to workout, and take yourself to a whole new level of conditioning.

Mindset is vital and is often the difference between winning and losing, being in mediocre physical condition or in superior condition.

Your choice!

Keeping cholesterol under control will enhance your health, and boost your training efforts no end!

There seems to be a lot of confusion on how cholesterol helps your health, and its role in the body.

Cholesterol is harmful at elevated levels, but does actually provide a lot of good for your body.

Your body manufacters cholesterol in the liver, and from the foods we eat, is used as a component for all our body’s cells, helping to build them.

As long as you eat healthy foods in moderation, and not go too far off your diet, you are likely not to have much of a problem. Some people however do produce more “bad” cholesterol than others naturally, and these people have to be particularly careful, and even end up on medication.

Cholesterol is even needed for proper brain function, and carries antioxidant vitamins to your body’s tissues.

Eating plenty of soluble fibre will help a lot, oatmeal, apples,  peas and barley are proven cholesterol reducing foods.

Chicken and white meats in general are fine, as well as fish in your diet on a regular basis will help.

Whole milk, butter and cheese are foods you should be avoiding, and can make the situation a whole lot worse, if consumed in big quantities on a regular basis.

Prepared foods that contain trans fats or hudrogenated fats are particularly harmful to you, and by now you will have realised how much i despise these foods and their horrible effects over time.

If you are carrying a lot of weight and especially too much weight, then losing weight should be a priority of yours. Studies have shown thhat even a 10 pound weight loss can make a big difference to your cholesterol levels.

Living a healthy lifestyle has never been so important for a multitude of reasons!! Having healthy cholesterol levels are just one vital reason!

The face of training has been changing for the last few years in my view, and shows still no chance of slowing down either!

People have never wanted to be stuck on machines for hours, i certainly never wanted to, and most people i know never wanted to either.

The dinosaurs of the gym world have folded in the united states over the last few years, and that list is continuing to intensify in the UK, with Fitness First the latest gym chain seeking  to avoid bankruptcy and owe their creditord 18 million pounds in interest payments alone PER YEAR!!!

There has to be more to training than being like cattle queueing up for mindless machines that don’t really stretch the imagination, or get your body moving in the natural ranges of motion they were NOT designed to in the first place.

Why work on a machine when you can get fantastic results from medicine balls, free weights, bodyweight exercises and other movements that will burn a terrific amount of body fat every single time you do them!

Hopefully, you are hitting a high tempo in your workouts too?!!!

Without doubt, getting used to the tempo of not taking much rest in between exercises is the single most important thing you can get used to. Please do not become one of  these who spends more time talking than actually exercising, because YOU WILL NOT GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT.

The reason why the chains are struggling is because they forgot about results when it came to formulating their business plan. Frankly, if often makes me sick when someone could be going to one of these gyms for literally years, and you could never tell whether they have been exercising or not!

I’m all about results and im passionate about people giving every effort in order to get them. I am about hard work and instilling the confidence for individuals to really go out there and achieve big things with their health and fitness.

Make your choice but promise yourself that you will go flat out to reach your potential!!!