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Tuesday, January 11th 2022

The body you want, the health you want, the mindset you want is built over the winter.

The time when excuses are easy to make, but what separates great results from mediocrity is the continuous action you are prepared to take.It’s not always super easy to turn up to your sessions when its dark, cold or wet, “other things” can turn up but you have to do those other things in a priority order.

If your health is not really important, then take ownership of that and don’t expect good results, expect mediocrity but be honest on why you aren’t getting what you want.Make a list now though what you need for good things to happen in areas of your health, and without good health, then I would say 100% of those things will not be possible-fact.

The look in the mirror conversation you need to have with yourself can be deeply rewarding and either let you hit rock bottom or motivate you to get your behind off the settee more and DO SOMETHING about it, also rock bottom is good because you can’t get any worse, and the only way is up, and with the right motivation, the right action and continuous showing up, your bounce up from the bottom could end being exciting and life-changing.

Twitt
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Monday, 10th January-day 7

I’m a big believer in using adversity to work in your favour. When things aren’t going your way in some areas of your life, use that negative energy to blast through great workouts, and even reach personal bests.

The rage you will feel when things don’t work out can be the catalyst for change too. If you have put so much weight on, its affecting your joints, it’s affecting your heart, it’s affecting your mood etc etc, then reaching rock bottom with these things can mean you get so fed up, you have no option but to change your eating, no option but to put great workouts in time after time, use this as a huge positive and turning point in your life.We all want to be feeling good every day, feeling at peace with our negative and positive emotions, we want to feel good full stop, and once we realise that endless takeaways, drinking alcohol a few times a week, staying on the settee and not training is NO KIND OF LIFE, then things automatically will look better for us.

Being in a rage, being moody, CAN work for you and turn everything around in your life, use that energy wisely and watch the great places that takes you.

Twitt
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Day 2-12 week challenge

Many people put others in pedestals for no reasons. It’s easier to let others go for it and admire them if they get success, let others do the work and then imagine we couldn’t have done the same if only we had stuck at it, let others get involved in things early on when we had the same chance, and it’s way easier to sit back and think to ourselves “it will be me next time”, because everything is “too much hassle”.

Until we realise that we have a very similar ability, we have the same amount of chances, the same amount of time and opportunities, we will never put ourselves forward for the success and fulfilment we deserve.

There is nothing in day 2 of this challenge we cannot do. We can show up and give it our best, even if we doubt ourselves if it is good enough-IT ALWAYS IS GOOD ENOUGH!!

We can either buy instant gratification sugary fast food from the shop or takeaway, then regret it afterwards because we are not making the most of our training efforts and going down the same old path to quitting, or we can stick to our plan of wanting to get strong, drop body fat, gain way more energy and shop for the food we REALLY need for our bodies-IT’S A STRAIGHT CHOICE!!We can either surround ourselves with those who we know will put us down, never believe in us, or even ridicule our ambitions OR we can make sure our positive influences are there for us every day and will buck us up especially in our moments of doubt, making sure we stick these 12 weeks out NO MATTER WHAT-This again is a CLEAR CHOICE NO EXCUSES!!

When you break this down day by day, you must realise that you can easily do this, but stop working against yourself and put conditions in place that make your world a NO FAIL environment.

Twitt
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Thursday 16th December 2021

An important question was asked to me tonight. “How do I know every member’s name”?

The reason is simply I take a keen interest in everyone we train as we always spend a lot of time with them, and you have to know everyone’s name and their story to shape their training too.

Everyone’s recovery/success story has to start somewhere after all and how well we serve them from that point ultimately dictates to a large degree how well they will do. They need to realise there are no short cuts along the way too.

You have to know or sense when someone’s having a bad day when you take the pressure off or a good day when you can push them more and make the most of their enthusiasm and energy.

You have to know their previous and current injury status, and it’s important to have a mental record too of everyone and where they are right now in that moment.

You have to do your best for everyone all of the time, when they have experienced the ravages of isolation like the last 18 months and the mental health destruction of that, to the highs of new personal achievement when they are at the top of their game.

Life is a rollercoaster for everyone and when you get individuals fit and healthy, their extreme highs and lows automatically get levelled out so everyday life ends up far more on an even keel and more enjoyable full stop.

My days are always different, I get many different stories happening ever hour of the day, many come in struggling, nobody’s perfect, and everyone has a different motivation for getting fit and healthy finally, but every single one of those individuals has to know we are all in their corner no matter what.

Taking a big interest in everyone you train and getting to know their deep reasons why they are in the gym in the first place automatically signifies to the person you are training that you are prepared to do above and beyond what is required to get them where they really want to be, and then some more often way beyond they thought even possible.

Then they have to realise it’s a two way street and the effort and respect you are prepared to put into them, and unless they put the effort in too and show respect needed to give their all, then incredible results can never happen. 

Teaching them a hard work ethic ought to be one of the greatest gifts you can give anyone you train.

It’s heartbreaking to hear people say many big gyms are often “impersonal”, when the truth is if you are dedicated to giving results to those who you train, you must know their story, their motivation and find ways to lift them up on their bad days too.

If you are a coach or teacher, it’s all got to be about the person you are coaching and their journey along the way, never forget the huge positive impact you can make and the responsibility that comes with it.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 15th December 2021

I relay this story now and again, and its about the time I stopped exercising for 2 weeks over christmas around 30 something years ago.

I didn’t lift weights, I didn’t run and here’s what happened.I had really bad asthma as a child frequently being in hospital I must add. Towards the end of the two weeks, I tried a run uphill, like I normally did, I struggled so much i couldn’t breathe, and brought all of those problems back full force.To be honest it scared me and i vowed to never feel like that ever again.

For those of you who have exercised for many years, you will know what I mean.

Stop exercising and you feel like trash full stop.I don’t call that a relief at all, I call it a hardship and breathing properly is very important to me!

So exercising and getting a sweat up is a necessity for me.So your call on exercising over christmas or not, but I do it simply to feel good, not have any breathing difficulties and to keep my immune system in good shape. it’s needed now more than ever

Twitt