Category: motivation

You may have come a long way already, feeling much better and proud of what you have achieved so far, but there’s a lot more and you need to keep attacking new opportunities.

This new programme is one big opportunity that so many of you are embracing. A very tough programme only one week in is being completed quicker, with less rest in between and with better performances every time you try it.

This is the standard, but don’t rest on your laurels. AIM to keep getting better, don’t settle for just “okay”, keep getting MORE out of yourself and keep believing in yourself, because if you keep showing up, then your body will continuously and naturally adapt to the ever increasing demands.

We back you to keep doing great things and get endless benefits from doing so.

Bank holiday Mondays are usually the day we feel sluggish, tired and often wiped out, and feeling great and hitting tuesday with a lot of bigger and enthusiasm will feel like way off what we are actually feeling like.

A few of us in the family did a workout this afternoon, I started off sluggish too, but I soon got going and hit a personal best on the bench press (not my all time best but my best in a good while).

The workout made us all feel better, laugh more and set us up nicely for whatever the week has to come.

You NEED to get that connection, that exercise makes us FEEL BETTER, puts us in a better MOOD every single time, and gives us a much better structure to our week.

When we do our workouts, it keeps pain OUT of our body, and we must always focus on getting stronger, because once we think our best days are behind us it shuts off something in our brains, and we start to go downhill and sometimes pretty fast!!!

You feeling good tomorrow is a matter of just getting going, the first 5 mins maybe uncomfortable, but after that I GUARANTEE you will feel 100 times better than when yo came in through the door!!

A lack of energy, an inability to focus, feeling burned out, a lack of motivation a lack of sense of purpose will not be sorted out by some miracle piece of motivation coming out of the sky or some miracle “advice” by someone who wants to take money out of you regularly.

It comes down to your habits to get you out of your rut or slump.

Ask yourself what habits will give you more energy? Is it exercising regularly or sitting down all day “contemplating” a quick “fad” that will somehow do it?

What food habits will make you feel better and function better in life? More natural foods in your diet that is more balanced and drinking more water, or fried foods, more fizzy drinks or more simple sugars and more takeaways?

Does your lack of focus, energy and ambition levels come from a lack of sleep? Do you make sure you exercise more regularly because all the sleep science show us that exercise a key ingredient for good sleep or do you listen to someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about, just concerned with taking more money off you for questionable advice with no foundation in science?

All the things you want to improve on your life impact your life in a massive way. GOOD habits done every day give your life some order, give you a good sense of well-being and help you feel good without even thinking about it too much.

Bad habits make your energy levels all over the place, not exercising will bring more pain into your body and leave you with no energy and make you more irritable every day.

Show me someone with bad habits every day and we can usually see that person’s health and wellbeing over the long term.

This time of the week I am usually pretty tired, especially it being new programme week, BUT given the level of your performances, I have received a LOT of energy of all the members in the building, and in our outside area too, it has already been a memorable week!!!

Standards are huge, and they have developed month on month, new programme after new programme, we have a fantastic group at the gym right now and a lot of very high level performers!!

The best thing is that you-the high performers-were the beginners once too, the ones often had a bad back/knee/shoulder etc when you started, that’s how far you have all come.

Keep putting the effort in and physically go to new heights, as well as only increasing yourself belief and self confidence along the way.

Today’s day two of the programme makes us realise one thing, we must continually adapt to the ever increasing and variety of our workouts, physically and mentally.

When we attempt a movement we aren’t familiar with, part of our brain can shut off and makes us not want to even attempt it, but part of us knows we should have a go.

It’s the “we need to have a go anyway even if we fail” part we need to never give up on, because chances are we will be able to complete it, even if we aren’t very good at it to start.

This is what the whole month is about, we get time to get used to it, and with that time we get plenty of chances to get good at it, and by the end of the month with enough practice, we are likely to become very good at it and we wonder why we worried about it in the first place.

It’s human nature to avoid hard things, but if we do it can become a habit and we are likely to give up on everything hard in our lives.

If we embrace the struggle of doing hard things, then our resilience is built and knuckling down soon becomes “the way we do things” and nothing will beat us.