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Monday 15th August

If you have been reading this for a while, then i congratulate you for your perserverance and commitment, which shows you have qualities that should enable you to be and get into shape.

There are three types of people when it comes to getting into shape.

The people who are keen to start with, yet find some reason or excuse to quit early in their quest to get into shape.There is an endless list of excuses they pick from and none of those reasons to stop training are usually strong, and will often apply to other areas of their life.

For example, some people take up tennis and start hitting the ball better and better within the first couple of weeks, and they get enthused.

Then, all of a sudden the progress can dry up and they quit at the first sign they have to work a  bit harder and show more commitment to practice.

These people are known as the “could have, would have, should have” type who usually talk a good game too, but offer little action!

Then you have the second type who get really enthusiastic straight away, go at things like a bull at a gate, then often try and train every day, sometimes twice a day because they are so keen!!! They are  often so keen they will buy books on diet straight away, buy exercise equipment and have all the latest training gear.

Then around a month later, because they have gone at it so hard, they more often than not lose enthusiasm completely or get injured and throw the towel in!!!

This type of indidual then usually moves on to something else, immerses himself in that activity or hobby, with usually the same frustrating results.

The third type is the most successful because they work at the fundamentals every day, constantly looking at how to become better.

These people usually approach things in a more moderate manner, and know they are in it for the long term. A healthy lifestyle is exactly that, a “lifestyle”. These people look to become masters at what they are doing, getting fitter despite getting older by working smarter. Eating better and healthier despite having a busy family life but shopping smarter.

They develop more energy by paying more attention to sleep and rest and recovery.

This type of people are smart and will be honest about their improvements and how they can pick themselves up again if they fall down from time to time.

The question is what type of you? The bottom line is that if you are consistent at eveything in your healthy lifestyle, then group number three could easily be you and means you are likely to be in shape for life!!!!

Twitt
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Friday 12th August

This week has brought a feeling i havent had for a while, because i have been off work 90% of the week, the feeling of inactivity is a big negative when it comes to how energetic we feel and even look.

I have feel even stiffer this week than as if i have exercised all night and all day, simply by doing nothing!!!

Of course i have a new baby and i have been running around a hospital and the house like mad at times, this is not the same as exercise!!

I know a lot of people make lots of excuses when it comes to training, such as “i work in the garden so i don’t need to exercise”, “i play golf so thats all the exercise i need”, or “i do all the housework and the daily mail says thats enough of a workout for me” or one of my favourites “i work on a building site so i work harder than anyone, and i definitely don’t need to exercise”!!!!

All rubbish excuses of course, and anything in the daily mail must of course be taken with a pinch of salt. If you listen to that newspaper, and pretending to be some kind of middle class snob, you probably think that all foreigners are evil and they are out to take our women and jobs!!! And thats even before you get to the exercise section!!! And this from the paper who supported the nazi party before world war 2, i bet they are really proud about that!

So the bottom line is whatever you do outside official exercise, you STILL need to exercise just LIKE ME this in a proper way, exactly what i havent been doing this week BUT will be putting right the weekend!!!!

While gardening is great exercise and rushing around is better than sitting on your backside all day, we all still need an exercise programme so lets ditch the excuses and the reasons why you’re not in good as shape as you could be and attack some real exercise this weekend, just like i will be!!!

Twitt
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Monday 8th August

The world may still be a bit uncertain this monday, but perhaps is people are naturally worried about the fundamentals of the global economy, and whether we are going into another recession or not?

Hopefully we are not of course, but thats what it comes down to at the end of the day-fundamentals and are they working for us.

Its become a lot easier over the years to spot when people are going wrong as well as right of course.

Its easy to spot whether the fundamentals are going well or even going in at all!!!

Someone who trains hard but pays no attention to diet will never reach more than 40-50% of their potential!!!

Someone who shows no commitment to their training and eats what they like shouldn’t expect to improve their physical wellbeing, its not really going to happen and this hope for the best attitude won’t work in a million years.

Nobody is perfect of course but those who train well and eat well are great to work with because there is always lots of enthusiasm in the workouts and life in general. There is usually lots of energy in their lives and with that comes drive and excitement in my experience.

The people who train well and eat well on a consistent basis are the ones who show the best illustration of individuals implementing the ALL IMPORTANT fundamentals!!!

This is what you need to work towards, and it should all start today-thats m0nday and its all a question of whether you are prepared to get stuck in or not?!!

Now is not a time to talk about it, you know what the fundamentals are and you know they will bring certainty to your life, all you have to do is give them a chance to work, and show some guts and grit when everything doesnt always go your way!!!!

Twitt
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Friday 5th August

Your way of thinking dictates how you look, how you perform, how you feel, just about everything you do will be affected.

For example, if you were trading on the stock market the last few days, you would probably be seriously worried by now, in fact you would have been severely tempted to sell all your stocks because your personal wealth was quickly being destroyed.

The last stock market crash happened in 2008 of course, and the feelings are familiar now, so what do you do, sell or hold? Its all to do with emotions and your longer term view, market psychology makes millionaires every day, it also destroys them!!

So with your health and fitness, isn’t it true that the shape you’re in is decided by emotions?

You eat chocolate if you’re emotionally upset by some event in your day, you have a drink if someone upsets you, you have a drink to celebrate something, you pig out sometimes because you are happy, you go out for lunch and write off the entire day because it just “felt good”!!! All emotions that will help you get into shape or destroy your ability to be in shape.

Your emotions can be influenced by bad influences in your life. Perhaps your best friend is an all weekend drinker, so thats what YOU do?

Your emotions can be greatly supported by very good influences, perhaps your friends are all into keeping fit and healthy, and you’re able to train with them and shop with them for good healthy natural food? This support system can be very valuable for you and give you sustainable results in the way you look and feel!!!

Your emotions need to be steady above everything else, and stop the roller coaster weeks when you have two good days, then write off the rest of the week, then you have a good week, then someone upsets you and you have a terrible week again, thats no way to have sustainable results.

Emotions and controlling them can be one your most valuable assets!!!

Twitt