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Thursday, 12th June

Once you decide that you will never be ruled by the weighing scales ever again, you are going to take several positive steps forward.

I have and still do track the progress of an amazing amount of people over the years, and I see time and again individuals dropping dress sizes, have to buy clothes they never thought they would fit in, and transforming themselves-WITHOUT TOO MUCH DIFFERENCE ON THE SCALES!!

Most people are confused by this.

This is because in the past you may have lost weight too quickly on a faddy diet usually without exercise, and your lean muscle tissue on your body will have gone down to below average. Then the weight piles back on (and much more) and you end up worse off than when you first started, both with your body and self-esteem.

Our programme encourages you to build lean muscle to become healthier, and if you are a female become smaller in all the important areas.

Numerous studies have shown time after time that those who use resistance training (weight training, bodyweight exercises etc) and eat healthily in sensible portions, ALWAYS lose the most body fat and KEEP IT OFF!

Not only that but you will end up so much fitter too. Your heart and lungs will be much, much stronger and you will feel amazingly well full stop, adding hugely to your quality of life.

Realise right now that the numbers on the weighing scales don’t matter!!!

What matters is your body fat, the inches you lose off your waist, how your clothes fit, how healthy you are and how you are able to perform during exercise.

Time to throw out your scales and approach your health in a much more scientific and meaningful way.

All weighing scales do is play mind games with you. Time to end them!

Twitt
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Saturday, 31st May

The real challenge is to take a good hard and honest look at yourself and summon up the courage to make permanent, positive changes in the way you think and behave when it comes to your body.

Those faddy diets and exercise programmes that seem to come along endlessly will never be the answer. You secretly know that but the “quick fix” will always be a temptation, and there’s an endless stream of people looking to rip you off and promise miracles.

You may try to talk yourself into it by telling yourself “stories” about the way it could be different this time.

“I’m only doing it to give myself a kickstart, then I will go back to eating normally”.

“This new shake diet hasn’t got any preservatives though, honestly it’s all natural-it must be true the person selling it to me told me”!

“I just want to do “cardio” until lose the weight and THEN I will do weights”.

These statements I hear all the time, and they all get a similar response from me.

Long term, you are going to be eating regular food every day, not shakes and bars so you had better get used to make the right choices now, and making those choices permanent. Fresh, natural food ought to be your lifetime choices, and these
ought to be your “kickstart” and permanent choice.

The “cardio first then weights later” debate should have ended when we discovered the earth is flat. Weight training and training against resistance of ANY kind will burn fat quicker than just mindlessly walking on a treadmill, a cross trainer (we threw out cross trainers years ago) or a bike.

Anyone who ever tells you that treadmills and bikes ONLY is the best way to lose fat please ask them if their livelihood depends on getting that question right? Once you discover that they don’t study health and fitness for a living and earn their living doing something completely different, then that is the moment you should totally disregard their advice.

Bikes and treadmills still have their place in your sessions, but there’s heck of a lot of other options that need to be in your schedule too, many of them much more productive to help you reach your goals faster.

The variety we have now is huge, and it’s all designed to get your metabolism firing on all cylinders, and deliver results in a massive way. Changing your body quickly has never been so achievable, and making those changes permanent is entirely possible.

Twitt
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Thursday, 29th May

Confidence can be a two-way thing and can either work for you or against you.

You develop positivity and confidence usually by overcoming challenges, and discovering you can actually achieve more in your training and with your body than you ever thought.

You develop momentum by putting a string of workouts together, lose body fat, look better, feel so much better and soon enough it becomes an important part of your daily life.

You start lifting more, you become more agile, you become quicker and in general you start to move very well, sometimes better than ever before. Your confidence can quickly develop to an all-time high.

On the other side of the coin, events can conspire to make you lose your confidence.

An injury of some kind in daily life can happen out of the blue.

Work commitment can hinder your ability to make your sessions.

You may develop a short illness.

You may have negative people around you who don’t support your training and nutritional efforts.

All of these things can stop you hitting the gym as often as you would like. This leads to your gym sessions becoming harder because you become a little out of practice and you try to do the same things as when you were hitting regular good quality sessions. This is when motivation can suffer.

This is why a proper routine and programme becomes vital. You need to train regular and this is the only way to see consistently good results. Coming back strong after you recover from any setback can be tough, but regular sessions even when you don’t feel like some of them will make a dramatic difference to you mentally.

The other benefits are that the fitter you are and if you take your nutrition seriously, the stronger your immune system becomes and the more likely you are to have a strong sense of wellbeing.

This leads to a great sense of confidence because your body will be in a regular routine of looking after itself.

Living a daily healthy lifestyle makes everything work better for you, and gives your self-belief a massive boost at usually the times you need it most.

Twitt
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Monday, 26th May

The case for movement as medicine gets stronger especially over a bank holiday weekend.

Every time I start back after a bank holiday Monday, the Tuesday is filled with familiar comments.

“Why am I so tired today”

“I am so tired today from having four days off!”

“I feel terrible from lazing around all weekend”.

“I wished I trained the weekend and I feel so stiff and horrible”

“That’s the last time I’m having a few days off”.

So these are comments usually by individuals who train regularly, who take care of themselves, make a conscious effort to eat well, and their health is very high on their list of priorities in life.

What about all the people who never do any meaningful exercise?

If you exercise now, can you remember how you USED to feel? How much better do you feel now? I think it’s the one question where you are going to get a 100% positive reply. Nobody I have ever met has failed to feel a million times better once they start exercise properly.

If you didn’t feel better, then you had better examine what exercise programme you were on, you were REALLY NOT doing it right or simply overdoing it which is a big mistake.

The greatest moments are when people in their 50, 60’s and 70’s start exercising for the first time in 40 years, and realise that they can actually move better again, they can get a lot stronger and most importantly they can feel a MASSIVE amount better again.

On the other end of the scale, all those kids who feel that they don’t get what they want through their school programme, realising that they can become good athletes after all, all they need is encouragement and a very positive environment, along with a programme that’s going to get them moving in a different and natural way, just like they are supposed to move as kids so they can develop quickly.

Movement is always very powerful medicine, and we need much more of it to help everyone.

Twitt
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Thursday, 22nd May

Judging your progress just on the weighing scale can be very destructive in terms of how it destroys self-confidence.

Everyone knows now we regularly have individuals who lose 2, 3, 4 even 5 inches off the waist in a month.

Most people would be and should be thrilled with that progress, because you usually look and feel heck of a lot better too.

The ones that aren’t have been conditioned to think of the scale as the ONLY measure of success. This is simply untrue but the media has told us that weight off the scale is the one thing we should worry about!

The medical profession will tell you that 1-2 pounds a week is the recommended weight loss, and this is the sustainable way to do it and keep it off.

When you hear of people losing 5 or more pounds in a week, this is usually due to drastic cuts in calorie intakes (usually faddy diets/shake and bar diets), and this may carry on for a couple of weeks until it eventually reaches a screeching halt.

When the individual gets frustrated and starts eating properly again, the weight piles back on quicker than ever before and usually leads to that person ending up at their all-time heaviest weight, and this can lead to low self-esteem and confidence.

What would you rather look and feel like? Clothes feeling really loose, changing sizes at regular intervals (perhaps down to sizes you haven’t been since you were in your early twenties), everyone complimenting you on how great you look, you start feeling full of energy and your workouts step up to your best ever levels,

OR

Just losing weight on the scales, feeling hungry all the time and even when you lose weight, you still have saggy skin left?

Then inevitably put the weight back on and 5% more-numerous In depth research of the diet industry says this is true.

Forget about the scales, your clothes and how you feel will always be a better guide. Your waist and hip measurements will be vital.

We test body fat professionally too, so this test will always confirm your progress.

Be realistic, and always look to lose weight and body fat sensibly.

Twitt