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Thursday, 15th March

If we are talking so much about analysing the food and drink what you put into your mouth, we must realise by now how important the “little things” really are.

If you can chip away at every meal by simply making small changes, to achieve a MASSIVE result, then this has got to be a change worth making surely?!! Its not really about the massive overhaul that most people imagine either.

If we talk about having a plainer breakfast such as weetabix which means no additives, then that does not mean a “version” of weetabix such as the ones which honey coat or sugar coat the wheat. This I can assure you will turn this normally good cereal into a cereal that contains heavily refined sugar, or the porridge oats with apple pie filling-IT DOES NOT WORK OUT WELL FOR YOU FULL STOP!!

This may taste nicer but its only going to do you harm in terms of weight gain and elevated blood sugar levels. Also, it will keep your “sweet tooth” well and truly alive, making you rely on refined sugars the rest of the day.

Its like taking sweetener with everything, what you are doing is keeping your taste for sweet tooth strong making you prejudiced on the kinds of foods you are “willing” to eat!

If you are only willing to eat heavily sugared foods, then you have little or no hope in achieving your true aims and goals. This kind of eating and behaviour will undoubtedly lead to potential diabetes issues in the near future unless you modify your eating without delay.

When you look at the carbohydrate section on the nutritional analysis on practically every food you eat, if the “of which sugars” is almost or all of the total carbohydrate, then its never going to be any good for you, unless its things like fruit juice which I advised to dilute anyway.

The “of which sugars” part should be comparatively low meaning theres a slow blood sugar release, and doesn’t play havoc with your blood sugar levels. You want stability all day long in this area, meaning you have longer term energy and little or no risk of developing diabetes over time.

Make it your goal to truly analyse what you eat, you may think you are eating healthy but in fact, you could be consuming a lot of unhealthy sugar which will disguise all your good work in the exercise department!

Twitt
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Monday, 12th March

Urgency has to be a big part of your programme or you will never get the fast results you demand!!!

I have got used to that world of urgency myself and i live it every day.

I am currently selling my house and at the final stage, so the slowness, don’t phone you back for days and dont care attitude that is shown by solicitors is always an alien situation to me, and to my mind totally unacceptable! This is exactly the wrong way to survive in business and i’m proud to say that my attitude is the exact opposite to theirs!

So if an individual comes to me and wants fast results and they want them yesterday, then i know i had better be on the top of my game and ready to work hard  right now, or the job is not going to get done.

You should have exactly the same attitude to your workouts, your food and sleep.

Your workouts should never be missed unless you are ill full stop. They should be done with intensity and urgency, you’re the one who wanted the results after all, so there’s no time to mess around and compromise in any way! Use your aggression on your workouts, and you will experience a fantastic inner calmness later!

Your food should be urgently taken care of too! There’s no excuse to have that white bread in the house, its going to be toxic for your body and a nightmare that will pile the weight on.

What about those refined sugars, are there biscuits, crisps and pastries in the house, instead of fruit, nuts, and other nutritious snacks?!!!

Is there plenty of alcohol in the house? If there is, then that usually means you’re going to drink it!!!

Are you sleeping properly or are you  in bed at 1am every night? Your answer to this question will dicate how good shape you eventuallly get in!!!

Don’t accept mediocrity because you really do not have to. You’re here to get results and to get what you want quickly.

Take action early and often and you will get what you want!!!

Twitt
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Friday, March 9th

All that information i gave you this week will be worth absolutely nothing without you committing to actually doing something about it.

We can all talk very good games from time to time, but in the end its all about the results and what you eventually get through all of this.

For example, do you hit the pub after a long hard week tonight, followed by a takeaway?

Do you get up tomorrow morning looking forward to a huge fry-up, or do you have a light breakfast followed by a mountain stroll for example, or a walk or run by the sea, or a cycle on the coastal path, 0r anything that involves you burning some calories, getting some oxygen into your body, blowing away some cobwebs, re-energising yourself, it’s all going to be good for you.

If you live most of your life indoors, and you fail to get excited about the lighter mornings and lighter nights, then thats up to you of course, but there IS another side to life and it offers a lot of positives for you, perhaps you have never tried it but the proof is always in the pudding as they say!

Its easy to sell a product that keeps you healthy, gives you a better quality of life, gives you a more positive outlook on life and keeps you focused on growing and achieving things, rather than slipping back into a shell and being too scared to attempt anything anymore.

So we are here on friday and when you look back at your week, have you excelled physically? Have you nourished your body well? Have you slept well? Are you still positive today even after the ups and downs that can affect us all? Are you looking forward to a big weekend of getting out there and enjoying the fresh air?

It’s your usual lifestyle that will  dictate what physical and mental condition you are in, rather than some piece of luck or some strange kind of pill.

Your choice so use it wisely.

Twitt
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Tuesday, 6th March

How’s your food intake going? Good or bad? Stuck in a rut? Okay, here’s some ideas and can work espeically well for families for breakfast and mid-morning, we all need a great start before lunch!

  • Breakfast

–     We all  have problems eating breakfast, especially eating good stuff. Here’s some ideas. 

  • You can throw some sultanas, berries or some banana over your cereal, how about mixing 2 or 3 fruit juices up together as a drink or making your own smoothie by throwing in some fruit with some milk in a blender, you can make your own muesli more fun by putting in some apricots, dates, figs, chopped orange and apples.
  • How about chopping up a ripe banana on some toast instead of a big spoon of butter or marge?
  • Eggs are great for protein and can taste great on toast. These ideas work well especially when you’re trying  to get more fruit in your diet without really noticing.

–     mid-morning

–     Remember this is a way of life and not a diet! No starving yourself please?

  •  Smaller apples with more flavour work well as well as tangerines which can be easier to peel than oranges.
  • Kiwis taste great as well as cherries, blueberries and strawberries.
  • Nuts like brazils, cashews and almonds are beautiful as a handful and give you a lot of good fats for a change!

 Hope this all sounds a lot better than either being too restrictive, or on the other side being too indulgent which means foods usually dripping in saturated fat, which you know is going to be bad news for our hearts and arteries, which inevitably leads to heart attacks, strokes etc if done over a longer period of time.

Some people always go on about how much it costs for fresh food, but try comparing that with alcohol in pubs, cigarettes and sweets and its a pittance!!!

If you manage to get some of these great foods into your body daily, you will soon feel amazing and look around a thousand times better in all ways!

More tomorrow!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 5th March 2012

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 75th 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!

Twitt