Category: motivation

Be the maverick, the risk taker, the person who has a go every day, the person who never quits, the person who always shows up, the person who encourages others and the one who’s always looking to improve themselves.

The moment you stop having a go, like many find in retirement, when they leave school, when they lose their job, when they give up sport, when they lose their purpose something shuts down in their brain, causing often depression, and other lack of puroose .induced anxiety.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS DANGEROUS PLACE OF GIVING UP ON YOURSELF.Today celebrate what you can. Success does not come your way, YOU GO TO IT-make it happen!!

If we have just one person pursuing something incredible every day at the gym, with their bodies AND focusing on boosting their minds out of negativity at the same time, they will RAISE the standards of everyone around them simply by showing how you do it and what is possible.These standards of excellence are hard to ignore, especially when it comes to individuals who have often reached the depths of despair, but clawed their way back and became a champion.

Lucky for us, we have so many of you doing incredible things every day and we are truly blessed when it comes to inspiration every day.

The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.

Making workouts is easy when you are in the swing of things, you get used to feeling fantastic, you know how much exercise and eating right enhances your life, your mood is continually on the up and ambition is an everyday event for you every day. 

 BUT when you start to miss the workout, it’s easy to tell yourself it doesn’t matter, AND the more you stay away from the gym or workouts general, the MORE your STANDARDS fall and doing nothing eventually becomes “acceptable” somehow even though you secretly know its dragging you headfirst into the deepest of ruts..

We all live by the standards we set ourselves, if you make it unacceptable to feel low in energy, unacceptable to live with more pain than we need to, unacceptable to invite ill health into our bodies through our lifestyles, then you will get your behind in gear, start eating well again, and put movement and good food above sitting in that chair all day and eventually living a life of regrets and what could have been.

Your “best days” are NOT behind you, don’t believe that lie.

We are all immensely capable of doing incredible things, I urge you to do move more today and get yourself back on the right track of feeling good again.

Mojo’s are often lost after bank holiday, and when you look for them they aren’t often found outside the Port on a tuesday night either, however hard some people may try.

Mojo’s are never found in a takeaway, “a bottle of red”, and never found posting motivational quotes without any intention to take action. 

They are never found either saying “one life I have, I may as well eat all the rubbish in the world because that will make me more “exciting” in some bizarre way”.

At the gym today though all morning and all evening, we were very successful in digging deep and finding new mojo’s by the bucketful. We had a flood of them tonight, the heatwave has started and as well as mojo’s, suntans were achieved by every fire breathing dragon that visited our church tonight.

Despite an initial slow 10 minutes, lots of oxygen came into your blood, your joints started to be lubricated and strong signs of life were spotted all over the place.

In a day of missing mojo’s after a long bank holiday, there’s only one way to find it and that’s by getting your behind in gear and taking action, the rest is big talk that gets you nowhere.

THANKS for a great day and we go big again tomorrow!!

The hedgehog principle is an ancient greek story that has never been more true than it is today and we base our philosophy on it.

Most people would when asked would they like to be a fox or a hedgehog? Most people would naturally go for the fox.

The fox chases the hedgehog, tries to trick him, uses lots of different strategies that are ultimately futile.

The hedgehog when hunted has one big tried and tested vision, one singular vision to curl up and protect themselves with their spikes and ALWAYS works.

The idea is that hedgehogs are far more effective because they concentrate on their big vision and are really good at it, never getting distracted from it,  whilst the fox tries many, many things but never masters one thing and success always eludes it.

At the gym, we have this simple overall principle that we get you better every session, and it’s the sum of those overall gains which can be so transformational for you. Very powerful strategy that often becomes unstoppable. We have many ways of course embracing the latest science to do it, but that overall vision remains the same.

We know that there are some people who will switch to this, switch to that when they don’t get success in 2 minutes or switch to what they think is “fashionable” at that time. These are known as “potchers” and you can guess where this strategy gets them, even though they would never admit it.

Whilst they do that, you can come and leaps and bounds and gain an enormous advantage on everyone by concentrating on getting better bit by bit, and over time proving that super consistency and best strategies (the hedgehog) destroy the “potcher” who tries a bit of everything (the fox) but never gets any success only ever building frustration. 

We are very clear what we will deliver starting again tomorrow morning and we know it’s going to work big time for you.