Category: motivation

You have my permission to kick yourself up the behind, but you don’t have your OWN permission to waste the rest of the time you have on the planet.Kay Owen like many of you, arrived at the gym with excruciating pain in her knees (just one of her many ailments), when you see videos of her in the rain and cold throwing logs around, you SHOULD feel guilty if you cant get your being off the settee every day, and blame a whole host of excuses that are not really going to wash WITH ANYONE.I get many mental health messages off you during the day saying how our live workouts were keeping it in check in the gloomiest of conditions, and changing your perspective and self-belief again, turning a very nasty situation right around-I AM PROUD OF YOU!!!I AM PROUD OF THOSE OF YOU WHO SAID “I CANT GET MOTIVATED ONLINE”, and now are doing AMAZING THINGS WITH US ONLINE!!!!-WE SALUTE YOU-it really means a lot for you enjoying what we do, and for being such wonderful supporters, and of course seeing the benefits too.It’s your duty to be fit and active and get pain our of your body through exercise, the world is waiting for you to do amazing things and I’m backing you every step of the way!!!!Keep your messages and feedback coming because I love it all!!!All I know is that ALL of you can do incredible things with your body once you get going and your mental side will be elevated in a way perhaps you have even forgot.It’s easy to forget how good you can feel through exercise, I want you all to be brave and find that incredible feeling of wellbeing once again.Get excited, get passionate, get enthusiastic and most important of all, LET’S DO IT!!!

Appreciate your days because you will never get one more like today.

One day to show what you can do, to move more, to feel better. If you really appreciate today, then it will look much better when you have a ton of energy which means the wind will be at your back, instead  of fighting against it.

Having energy means you develop momentum. When you accomplish one thing, you will be encouraged to go onto the next thing. 

When you see yourself achieving things, you develop a sense of accomplishment and most important self-belief which puts your life in a whole new perspective of possibility and a view that many more things are now possible you initially thought out of reach.

Don’t say to yourself that I will wait until for a few months until everything is cleared, seize the moment right now because if you put all the effort in now, when everything is clear, your life will be so much further down the track by then, and you will be ready for all the exciting opportunities to come again.

Life is happening now, don’t sit on the sidelines watching when it’s calling for you to get stuck in and get in the game again.

Thank you for being such a very demanding audience!! I know lots of you are very fit, lots of you are trying to reach very high standards from not doing thing for a long time, whatever stage you are on your journey, I know you want the best classes online, and this is great from my perspective.Before any class, I have a fear and worry will it be enough? After the class, I wonder did it hit the spot, did we overdo it in parts, could we have done more of this and less of that?This is when paranoia is fantastic and pushes me on to become better, to research more, to act on feedback and achieve the happy medium for everyone.The higher your standard the better and I want you all to keep on pushing yourselves and pushing me too, the more you want and demand, the better for me because I know the least can happen is you achieving better and better results, the best that can happen is that you reach all time high in your physical conditioning, and achieve an ultra-strong mindset that is capable of scaling ANY mountain!!!Every day is an event, every day is an opportunity to give everything in terms of effort, and if we manage to do this, we are only getting better together.

I hear often from people who lived through fear in the last lockdown, yet brought themselves to back to their former selves through moving more and challenging themselves through their daily exercise schedule. Their renewed purpose saved them physically but just as important mentally.

The saddest thing I hear most days is those who still live in fear and won’t leave the house for fresh air even though the government recommends it, and the pain that has over time taken over their body without them noticing initially, simply by not exercising, not standing up even hardly at all due to constant TV watching, and their minds becoming transformed into fear by the constant watching of daily news, and the often cesspit of negativity and scare mongering of social media.

I can see the clear difference between someone who exercises and one that doesn’t. I am not judging their bodies even, I can see the exerciser is usually of a more positive demeanour, a healthier glow about them, and a real sense of “let’s get on with it then” type of attitude, because the always have more energy.

Someone who exercises daily is in a flow, and is used to recognising what makes them feel better. You rarely meet someone on a long walk, cycle or run and they snarl at you. They usually have a higher level of energy that is apparent when you look at them as you pass, and it’s almost always positive.

If you used to exercise and forgotten how good it can feel, then the danger is you will have accepted the other things that come with your new lifestyle of moving less.

Pain is more likely in you body if you don’t move as much. You get stiffer, joints start to ache, and you may start to talk about how good “you used to feel” in the “old days”. 

Living your life in he past tense is never good, saying your best days are behind is an admission you don’t want to put any effort in anymore, your hope and ambitions are extinguished and pessimism is your new daily reality.

There is a lady called Kay Owen, 81 years, who since last march, due to her medical conditions been shielding, yet she is often down any part of our beautiful coastline lifting logs or improvising something she would have done in the gym. She often does our live online workouts on the beach with her dumbbells and at 81, she has so many exciting ambitions and goals left to achieve.

She remembers when she joined our gym 8 years ago, and needed 4 pumps just to breathe, made the choice to exercise when told to have a mobility scooter instead. She usually pushes my car on her birthday, and never wants to go back to the health she found herself before she arrived at the gym.

I urge you to consider your exercise as essential in this lockdown, to see great value in quite spots with fresh air, to move your body more, to eat well and consider healthier fresh food essential, to surround yourself with positive voices and anyone on social media that continually spins your head with worry and anxiety, please block them and get them out of your life.

You can come out of lockdown even stronger and fitter than ever before, both physically and mentally. You have it easily within you to make it happen, and the hardest part is always the first step of putting some trainers on and getting going. In the first place.