Category: motivation

Have you worked on your recipe today to feel better?

Or have you worked on the things that are guaranteed to build your stress and anxiety up?

Embrace the opportunity you have to concentrate on the few things that make you happier and give you piece, that destroy negative emotions, and help enormously with having more restful days, but first you need to take action every day by winning each and every day.

Everyday you have a recipe for how you make food in your head most often. We all have favourite things we know how to make, and some of us (not me) get enormous praise for our great and favourite dishes.

Your recipe for motivation is in your head too, and if you trace it back, you know how to achieve it every time.

Your best moments are often not by accident and getting motivation through exercise usually needs a few key factors to happen.

All of us on here are being sensible about staying in and going out once a day to exercise.

 

We have a huge amount of NHS staff with us training at the gym seeing what’s really happening on the front line, and they are diplomatically being quiet whilst showing great humility and bravery in extremely distressing times.

Thank you for the efforts lots of our members are showing with your exercising, it has been very humbling for me to see so many videos, photos and messages about how well all of you are doing through our online training.

This is another big way we can all help the NHS in the future once this horrid disease goes into retreat. If we all keep ourselves as fit and strong as possible, or even just start walking daily, then the strain on the NHS is bound to be relieved substantially over time, and we would all be doing out bit.

We are all proud of our greatest health service in the world, and some personal responsibility would go a long way. We have a fantastic coastline, as well as many fantastic scenic and inspiring mountains, everyone says our beautiful our area is and everyone says they love where we live.

Exercise and eating right has been proven to get us out of pain, to relieve pressure on our joints, to transform our mental health, to make us feel better and be in much better shape to fight off serious disease. Any NHS doctor or nurse will tell you that.

Imagine the impact of that on our NHS alone, prevention is always better than cure. I see so many people come in the gym with prior medical conditions and after some consistent efforts of changing their lifestyles, they become fitter, stronger, healthier and have a much more positive outlook on life, these are facts that not only happen with us, but across the country when people decide to start changing their lifestyles for the better bit by bit.

We have record amounts of members in their 80’s so there’s no excuses anymore, and a supportive environment doing the right things will take you a long way if you stick at it.

Making a small amount of time available just 3 days a week doing purposeful exercise will make our immune systems so much stronger. If everyone had this attitude and more importantly took action a few times every week, the NHS would have time each and every time to treat the really unlucky ones, who through misfortune have to enter a hospital on rare occasions in their lives.

We all have shown pride by clapping on our doorsteps for our most important service we have in the NHS, once the dust clears we can all help to repay them by doing our bit and keeping as healthy as we can.

Here’s a story on my day off, that I had no intention of posting, because it’s my “day off”!

I have been running up that hill by the lookout all week, and it’s a promise I’ve kept myself every day for the last 3 weeks, mostly been very tough and I had no intention of going today.

My oldest boy wanted to do it as he was due a go at it and test himself again, and I went up with him. My legs suddenly felt alright half way up, I even managed a quicker 30 yards half way up, and got up the top without too much of a problem.

We felt so good at the top that we went down again and decided to run up again. My boy is around 90 seconds quicker than me, maybe 2 minutes easy, I have 150 yards head start and he still smashes me for the record, but i’m competing against only MYSELF, which is the healthiest competition and ONLY competition you need.

The moral of this story that raising our standards, and keeping them HIGH makes a remarkable difference often when you LEAST expect, all my running up that hill hasn’t been in vain, and has helped me build strong foundations for my legs and lungs.

I stress to you today to see your standards high, keep showing up for your workouts, keep eating well, and that effort over time literally changes the directions and outcome for your life.

We know high standards demand strong ACTION, no point having standards with your exercise if you aren’t willing to put in the workouts.

See the reality of the situation you are in, and you will take it up a level once you keep showing up for your workouts, once you show remarkable consistency and you will never be more proud of the levels of being fit and strong you are capable of attaining.

Thanks for a wonderful week, lots of you have been on top form, striving for more, getting personal bests and feeling good even at a time when a lot of people have felt in paralysis.

It’s the succession of workouts that builds your momentum, the showing up, the effort to get going even when you don’t feel like doing it.

The feeling you get when you end the workout is the one you must remember at all times. It makes you feel great at a time when you could easy skip the workout and live in a state of low energy and fear.