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Tuesday, 5th November

The best part about training is the overwhelming feeling of wellbeing afterwards!

The scientific community accepts and fully supports now the notion that you cannot be healthy and maintain healthy levels of body fat without doing both-training AND eating well.

This is how slimming clubs fall down every time. They don’t give you that great feeling of wellbeing afterwards. When losing weight Is your sole aim, you tend to forget all the enjoyable things you should be experiencing along the way.

Exercise will give you real long lasting healthy results, scientific research tells us that slimming clubs lead to you putting all the weight back on, PLUS another 5%!!! To me and most other people who rely on science, exercise is an absolute must!!

When you exercise and eat healthily in sensible portions, you will lose body fat no doubt but there are so many other benefits. Blood pressure normalization, healthy skin tone, strong lungs and heart, feeling good 24 hours a day, fitting into your favourite clothes for the first time in years, people giving you compliments on the way you look, etc etc are all good examples of what a proper exercise programme will give you.

So if on a cloudy, wet and miserable November day you are at all feeling sorry for yourself, then a good solid effort in your workout will sort a lot of those feelings out, and immediately give you the feeling that you are about to have a better day!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 29th October

With all the volatility in weather terms, avoiding storms, huge amounts of rain falling, temperatures rising and then falling quickly, this is an ideal time to become acclimatized to the upcoming very cold winter temperatures to come.

Instead of waiting until January to experience the unpleasant shock of your lungs not going to be able to inhale the very cold air, now is the perfect time to experience a more gradual change in the weather.

So instead of disappearing from the colder and wetter weather by taking up permanent residence on the settee, its surely time to get out in the fresh air even more and expose your lungs to all the changes to come.

Another good reason to do this would be to keep yourself in the shape that you worked so hard to get in during the summer. Don’t go through the agony of putting all of that hard work in, and then pile the weight and body fat all back on again.

We have 8 weeks left to Christmas and this is a perfect time frame to allow yourself to put a very good training period in.

The weeks before Christmas are often more important than the ones afterwards, because going into Christmas IN shape will feel fantastic, and allow you to avoid the torture of battling the bulge after overdoing in the Christmas holidays!

So it all starts here, keep doing your running, your cycling, your sprints etc, its all going to be much more valuable than you think

Twitt
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Friday, 25th October

Friday is a day which perfectly illustrates what we talked about energy levels being affected by lack of carbohydrates-the body’s preferred energy source.

How many of you have skipped your Friday session because you have “no energy left in the tank”. Perhaps you say to yourself that it doesn’t really matter anyway, because you have worked hard enough in the week anyway! I see this a lot.

If you manage to get a Friday session in, you will go into the weekend feeling good and much better about yourself. You will feel as if you have had a very good week, and you won’t be leaving your training Thursday until Monday, which is a who four days of training. This approach definitely won’t get you into the shape you really want to be in.

On top of all of this, when you get to the following Monday workout, you will feel that much more sluggish, and be less enthusiastic about starting your week with a bang!

Missing Friday also encourages you to start early on your weekend treats too. If you aren’t training, then you may just buy some junk food early, keen to “relieve stress” of your week with some sugary treats or alcohol bottles.

Friday for me is a “just do it” kind of day!!! Don’t think about, just do it and reap the benefits afterwards and put yourself in a great frame of mind coming into the weekend!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 22nd October

So we are up and running and hitting Tuesday with a spring in our steps? If you had a great workout yesterday, and eaten well yesterday and today, then surely we are all up for getting through good workouts again today and the rest of the week?

When it comes to frequency of workouts, I would advise the following.

Whilst any exercise is considered good and nobody could ever deny that, you should always commit to some sort of plan.

My advice would be to train a minimum of 3 times a week.

This allows you to get a lot out of exercise, it allows you to do different things, create more variety in your training and gets your body better used to the rigours of exercising regularly.

Training four times a week or even five times can really increase all the benefits greatly, if you have the time to do so.

If you train four times a week, I would split It up typically by doing a Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday off, then training Thursday and Friday again. I would also do some mild exercise on the weekend, so you don’t feel too sluggish for Monday’s workout!

I would never train more than three day in a row, as the body needs rest, and you will come back fresher for the break.

I have some people who train 6 times a week, every week. However, these are the individuals usually who have been training for a lot of years, have different goals and require the training frequency in order for them to reach a high level.

I would never train 7 days a week, you definitely need at least ONE day a week off, in order for your body to recuperate and get its energy levels back up t get ready to go again.

We can talk a lot about training frequency, but the main thing is to actually show up in the first place, so get going today!

Twitt
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Monday, 21st October

The purpose of being here is to educate people on how they can improve their results physically, and with their health in general. The reality is that most people never get to seem It right, and I try to take the guesswork out of this tough process (at times).

You know by now that is Monday, and how much I emphasise the vital importance of training sometime today, to kick your week off in the right way, to give your week fresh energy and to get your mind focused on having a strong, active week.

The first Monday workout will work wonders for your enthusiasm to eat well too. There’s NO WAY you will want to waste your hard earned efforts on eating junk food afterwards. You should know by now the importance of eating well, and how well your training efforts go with nourishing yourself properly on training days.

This is why we have come up with so many recipes, so many of you receive emails on their food habits, and the new ideas for meals and snacks, all of this effort is very worthwhile because its great to see you all improve-and very quickly for many of you!

The feedback I am having right now is that most of you are very positive about the 22 page email, even if takes some days to read! At least a lot of those ideas are permanently in front of you now on you computer, and you can look them up at any time.

The succession of food ideas will keep on coming, and even if just use half of them and are beneficial, then the progress you will be making will be worth it, because you will have changed your eating habits, you will be much more focused on eating much more natural food, but the great thing about it all is that all the recipes taste great and are GOOD FOR YOU!!!!

So we are off to a good start and make sure Monday is a massive start to the week!

Twitt