Friday, 8th May-Spark your mind and body into action
Thursday, 7th May
it’s a shorter week, and I wish you a sincerely great bank holiday on a Friday for a change. VE Day is a very important part of our history, and a significant part in our and world history and something we should always cherish.
From your messages, photos and videos, lots of you are doing very well. Some of you came into lockdown feeling unwell for weeks, but after a slow start, many of you are thriving in difficult circumstances, and actually getting to very impressive levels of personal fitness. Please keep that momentum up and please keep sending me all of your great and inspiring messages.
There’s two ways to go in lockdown, either you give in and hope for the best and every day will look like the last, but suffer endless feelings of hopelessness, anxiety and even depression, or you control as much as you can and get a daly routine that matters.
Doing a workout most days is hard to start with, it doesn’t seem to be doing much until the stiffness starts going and you recover quicker, your body starts to feel firmer, fitter and stronger and you get to start to like the better results you start to get
I am very lucky to go to the gym 5 days a week at times its tough, things ache and hurt, but I grind it out doing different things that I am really loving it now, the grind became extremely enjoyable and my 9am sessions are now a highly rewarding and creative part of my day.
For instance, I do 200m concept 2 bike races with my oldest boy and my cycling Is really strong. BUT, he beat me for the first time today but I hung on for a 2-1 win throwing all my strength and endurance into it, he’s pushing me to be better and he’s developing all the time himself.
Sometimes, trying new things, like our videos, new runs, new bike rides can change things up physically and mentally. Just because we are in a lockdown situation, it doesn’t mean we need to imprison our imagination too!!!
Refuse to go backwards in these times, and appreciate your DAILY chances to create a better and more purposeful future for you and your family.
We need to do all we can to keep our minds in state of growth, and elevate our feelings of happiness and joy, and move out of this in a position of real hope, strength and know we are able to get stuck into the challenges to come with our resourcefulness deeper than ever before, and be ready to battle whatever comes our way.
Thursday, May 7th
Lockdowns bring indifference to life to many, feelings of giving up, a feeling that life can never be the same again, and promote long term feelings of negativity, and often make you regret the things you never took a chance on whilst you had the chance when things were normal.
When we feel indifferent and there’s not much hope, we can stop trying and quickly. Once we stop trying, our life can deteriorate very quickly, life never stays the same.
Normal life can normally be full of hope and freedom, often have excitement and we can do pretty much whatever we want within reason.
So in the midst of lockdown, if we feel indifferent, the temptation to give up and do less is at its very strongest. When we do less, our mood deflates further and things can look even more bleak and desperate.
Without much encouragement, we can go down quickly. At times when it’s darkest, not many will jump up and give you hope, give you confidence that you can drag yourself out of your deep rut.
You will find plenty of people right now who want to agree that the darkest predictions can come true. But you have to snap yourself out of it and see it is darkest before dawn, hope is on the way if you give yourself a chance first feel better through exercising and eating right.
Pessimists never changed the world and if we relied on them, nothing would ever get better or change would never happen.
The vaccine that eventually comes will spring from someone who is optimistically working so hard right now, and working on seemingly impossible odds and unreasonable deadlines.
Great moments in history always arrive though when often normal people put unreasonable and incredible demands on themselves to come up with something that can change the world.
You too can get out of a rut by re-discovering your hopes and aspirations, Forget your “other side” that you have listened to and given up on yourself due other peoples opinions.
We all have two sides, we have to battle and listen to the side that feeds our self-esteem, self-confidence and our self-belief that we can get back to living the life we really want again, without stress, anxiety and hopelessness that we left get the better of us.
Use getting on your trainers on and use them as the spark to not only change your body, but to spark your brain into a different way of thinking, and suddenly bring possibility into your life instead of a feeling that you cant get out of this vicious circle of hopelessness, fear and paralysis.
Start taking action by getting your trainers on, and repeat daily, you will re-discover your energy, re-discover your fire and appetite for life, and come out of this lockdown with a fresh sense of purpose that great things are indeed possible once again.
Tuesday, May 5th
How’s your positive approach going?
Are you building your confidence, self-esteem and sense of purpose, and growing in all sorts of way every day?
Are you concentrating on the things you CAN control, and focusing on doing them well, and getting better at everything you do from consistent and regular practice?
Or are you swimming in negativity, concentrating on the things that you can’t control and arguing about things that you can’t really win and people are split 50/50 on anyway?
You can’t change every single person all the time but you can definitely change what YOU do, and if you give every effort to doing it, the results will shock you..
What you invest your time in will have a direct affect on your life turns out.
Put continuous good efforts in and good outcomes will surely come.
It’s the consistency of these efforts that mater, and not giving up along the way if they don’t pan out exactly the way you wanted them.
It’s down to showing up every day, practicing every day at getting better that will over time have dramatic changes on the areas in your life you care most about.
You have the tools and resources WITHIN you already, you have the ability and the only thing that can go wrong is you not taking part, not taking action and not having a go every day.
Action and continuous action over the long term is your magic password to doing incredible things from a standing start over time, your secret weapon to overcoming negativity, stress and disillusionment in the life, and the difference between making your days COUNT or wasting them away.
Your choice, and your attitude dictates everything.
Tuesday, 5th May
Make your deep association with exercise count as your way out of feelings of stress, anxiety and fear. Now it’s more important that ever. No amount of TV or social media will give you that, it will only heighten those feelings.
You can’t imagine the release the feeling of getting going would give you unless you have a go and keep having a go. Those feelings of paralysis are like a prison, and will keep you in that prison until you are able to get going and break out of it.
It’s like a chicken and egg situation. YOU have to make the first step, YOU have to follow through and take the action, you can discuss it all you want and it’s great to talk but ACTION must be the overall outcome.
It’s not easy, it’s not a piece of cake but you must schedule in your workouts as you DAILY way of escaping feelings of being overwhelmed, a feeling of hopelessness and a feeling you can’t do anything about it.
We are giving you ultimate support, all you have to do is see your workout as your way out of feeling stressed, and your way IN to feeling much better physically AND emotionally.