Category: motivation

When most of you started back, it was the second part of the year. The prospect of winning your year by out-performing in the second half may have seemed impossible. BUT, we have a had a huge 3 months of transformational effort that you justly should be proud of.

Now September 1st is here, and some more questions are being asked of you. Its darker and colder in the mornings, darker in the evenings and your true character needs to be found out.

I have enormous faith in all of you, but sometimes bigger challenges bring the very best out of some of you. When life calls you to step up, many of you are willing to answer the call and rise up in times of difficulty.

I know I’m viewing the September to Christmas time with enormous excitement, because I know the gargantuan effort you will go through will set you up for incredible success and fulfilment, because you will now that overcoming all the challenges to come will make you who you are come Christmas time.

Do you want to be the person who got stuck in, threw themselves into something enormously challenging and was rewarded with incredible self-belief and relentless results, or the one who ducked the challenge, sat on the settee wondering what “could have been”.

I’m excited and I would love you to come along for the ride. You will never get this time back again, so make sure you dive in with both feet and see where your incredible ability takes you.

The extreme strength of the wind today could not beat any of your spirits. Can I offer a massive thank you for the great turnout today not only in the wind, but the rain on and off this morning too, as well as all the children who turned up in good numbers too and give it absolutely everything.

For those of you great people who showed up, you are going through a wonderful thought process, its like when an idea goes off in your mind “is it worth me showing up and putting up with some bad weather because I KNOW I will feel so much better for it”, and loads of you are now are knowing this is now a big FACT IN YOUR LIFE.

We have 35 classes going off a week for a reason, because you not only enjoy them but you find them a great vehicle for you to enjoy all time great physical condition and find yourself in great mental health too, and how vital is that right now after the 5 month lockdown?

When you are out in all weathers, you find a togetherness with those around you in that you are all in it together, and you will all encourage and fight your way through it.

The resilience you are developing now will stand you in good stead for anything you choose now in life. Midweek is nearly here, let’s build on these ultra-strong foundations and aim much higher again in everything we do in life.

The science exists to get you out of pain, rather than take a worrying amount of tablets to shield what you deep down know what needs to be fixed.

Our foam rollers are already making a huge difference in todays sessions, I’ve heard plenty of funny and painful cries tonight but we identified the pain for you, and explained the process of how we can and WILL get it out.

Most if not all of you have got a little or significant pain in your hips and knees, and if you have pain in these than you’re guaranteed to have pain in your back too, after all 90% of people do in a serious way during their working career (NHS figures not mine), back pain is top of the list.

I urge you to show up and go through this process with us. Why live a life of pain when you can slowly but surely get out of it. I have seen too many heartbreaking stories of too many people living in pain and let it rule and ruin their lives.

When pain rules your life, your mental health takes a huge battering too, and living with low self-esteem and confidence becomes a daily way of life.

The two guaranteed ways to get MORE pain in your lives is not to exercise or MISS lots of sessions. If you are missing sessions regularly then you are not training properly, so don’t kid yourself that you are.

I have extraordinarily high hopes of all of you to do incredibly good things and I will back you all the way to prove me right. 

We have had plenty of against the odds stories at the gym and we THRIVE on proving that you can indeed be out of pain AND perform at a higher level than you ever thought, and get your mental health back to a place where you feel excited about getting up in the morning again, and YES DEFINITELY without any pain.

Pain is there to be crushed, show up and learn about the science on how we do it. Whoever wants to show up every day, throw yourself into it and change your life.

I see members who haven’t been since lockdown doing incredible things, and making hugely significant jumps in their fitness, today was yet another magical day.

I see some of you who can’t do a sit up, and can now do 35 in a matter of a few weeks.

I see some of you who could do 20, now doing 70-100 at a time ,literally no exaggeration.

I see some of you who were full of worry and anxiety first session, now smashing prowlers and dragging the heavy sled up the hill, and REQUESTING to do it, you are surprising me every day and I LOVE it.

I believe we are in our greatest period, a golden area of results and wellbeing.

Loads of you are still doing our online workouts, and trying nicola’s yoga and finding you can actually do it at your own pace, there is no pressure on you, and mentally you are benefitting immensely from the huge variety of workouts.

The focus from you has never been higher, you come to work, you knew what lockdown was like, and you never want to feel like that ever again.

Never again will you be too scared to exercise, too scared to keep having a go every day and never again will you be bullied by anyone who questions why you exercise so much in the first place.

Lots of you are bang in the game, you refuse to it on the sidelines in life and I am mighty proud of all of you. Monday is almost done, and I can’t already wait to see what greatness tomorrow brings!!

One of the greatest compliments as a gym we have had continuously is we have no cliques, and I thank you all for your observations on our culture.

Cliques are usually closed minded people who feel happy and safe in their own group but their conversation can have negative undertones, and usually ends up with those people falling out with each other anyway, and the reality is that NOBODY wants to join a clique anyway because they feel uncomfortable.

We could never have grown so incredibly if we had cliques and I’ve never had a problem smashing them wide open for the betterment of the gym and our culture.

I love stories off each and every one of you EVERY DAY on how your job/career is going, or your family life is going. We can often have classes of over 20 in the mornings, and every one of you does a different job, has a different personality, and have different dreams and ambitions, but you ALL respect each other, speak to each other, get to know each other and help and encourage each other.

To me THAT is a big part of the magic of what we do TOGETHER as a gym. I don’t give a damn what you do for a living, the way you act every day in our company is far more important. Life is too important to be narrow minded and we are in the business of making incredible dreams come true.

I’ll be honest if anyone puts me in a WhatsApp group I leave immediately-just my personal opinion. Not only is it just another distraction for me as I have a ton fo messages anyway, being in a text group situation is often open to mis-understanding and mis-interpretation, and people often get the wrong end of the stick, building petty jealousies and deteriorating relationships. That’s why it never works out for many people, and the true GREAT AND IMPORTANT reason on why it was set up is often lost a long time ago.

When you come to our gym, you don’t have to do a certain job, have a certain amount of money, or know certain people, you just have to come in with respect, have a great attitude and BE YOURSELF, no falseness or if you come in with a lack of respect, you would be out on your head.

I am all for personal growth, the gym’s community growth and reach and developing all of you to the best of our ability, because we ALL have a part in shaping each other’s future. 

We literally have members from EVERYWHERE and we want them always to see we are a broad church full of great ad wide ranging personalities, very shy people, extroverts and everyone in between

A big thank you to all of you who are making great things happen for us.