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Thursday, 26th September

You need to get around the “no time to train” problem that many suffer from.

One of the easiest ways is to SCHEDULE it in! Would you miss a doctor’s appointment? How about your dental appointment? How about the meeting with the solicitor? Are they more important than you fixing your body?

So the times you make for your workouts should never change too much, or you will keep putting them off!

This is why I strongly suggest many individuals train first thing in the morning, before they go to work or the kids get up!

This takes care of your exercising before anything else comes up! It will be tough at first, but everyone I know who has done it for a while wouldn’t train any other time!

Make exercise your priority, and study you weekly diary to get at least three sessions in!!! Your body needs regular workouts, it needs regular attention and you want to feel good?

Exercising late at night never usually works, this is because you will usually be too tired, something else will usually come up, and training before bed will get you going at the wrong time, causing you not to sleep straight away because your body will not be shutting down and calm like it usually is before bed!

I haven’t met one person yet who really hasn’t had time to train, there is always a way if you want it bad enough!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 24th September

The subject of missed workouts is very important to me.

First of all, if you are ill you should NEVER ever train full stop. You need to rest and recover and not do anything until you’re better.

The rest of the time, missed workouts really concern me because it sets off a chain of events that lead to individuals losing progress quickly, both physically and mentally.

You have probably heard me mention that even a pro athlete who has a week off from training, can take 1-2 weeks to get where they were. So 4 weeks off, can take up to 8 weeks to get back to normal and back to the previous standard.

So if you miss the odd workout, then that’s no problem, if you miss a week, then that becomes more of a problem, miss 4 weeks and you slip back by up to a couple of months.

Missing 4 weeks also sends you backtracking mentally. When you have 4 weeks off, you are not really motivated to get back into your training, and are likely to have an even longer lay off!

Through experience, I have learned to watch people closely, and arrest the slide to mediocrity.

Let me say this, I have many people who work 10-12 hours a day, I have a lot of women who have 2-3 kids, some 4, one even 5, and not one of them has said “I have tons and tons of time to train all day, let’s do it”!!!

What they do say is that they have very limited time to train, and can I solve their time management/workout problems!!

Suggestions on how to do this tomorrow.

Twitt
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Monday, 23rd September

Summer has almost gone, temperatures are going up again for their last indian summer hurrah, and the feedback I am getting is that most people I train are re-positioning themselves to have one big run at getting into their best shape for Christmas.

13 weeks tomorrow it may be, but Christmas will come soon enough, and its ample time to hit your very best physical condition.

We talked about the best way to do it last week in training terms, so if you’re not used to that way of training, then you had better change right now to accelerate your results dramatically.

This can take a month or so to get used to, so that will take you into the end of October already.

How’s your eating doing? Are you eating small meals and snacks every 3-4 hours, and eating good quality nutritious foods at least 80% of the time? If you are not, then
you need to use the next month to get used to eating good quality foods.

If you’re jumping from one diet to another, one fad to the next, then it is likely to crash and burn time after time. There has never been a better time to get it right finally.

The next month could really be the perfect opportunity for you to create the foundation you need to be in shape for the rest of your life, and all of the benefits that come with that!

Whatever training fad, whatever dietary fad, whatever pathway marketing men get you to go down, you will eventually have to come back to eating sensibly and using the latest training science to put yourself on a sustainable path for the rest of your life that’s GOING TO WORK FULL STOP!

Make the change today and get some good momentum on your side before Christmas!

Twitt
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Friday, 13th September

If you’re putting the big workouts in this week, and are looking for superior results, then you need to keep up the relentless intensity of the workouts. Working in a low rest, big energy exercise cost kind of way, will reduce your body fat and seriously increase your strength, making you enjoy the best of both worlds.

The lack of rest in between sets is the real killer, and this is the biggest challenge to keep up. It requires a lot of focus and determination in getting the job done well and seeing it through.

The culmination of this effort is always significant, and getting used to a typical 45 seconds in between sets is ideal. Having 5 minutes rest in between weight training set is totally unacceptable if you want to be well conditioned!

Going through the motions with plenty of rest in between sets is what most people do, but you’re not most people and you demand that much more out of yourself surely by now

Fighting through these type of workouts is always tough, this is why good food will always power you through, help you recover quickly and allow you to grow into your next phase of development.

Training hard, eating right with an abundance of nutrients, and regular proper sleep are all of vital importance if you want to keep on moving forward and keep getting better and better, and age doesn’t really matter in that equation for getting better and better as we spoke about yesterday!

Making the effort to do a workout on your own when its easier to miss it and do something else, is a critical decision that many people get wrong, and the most important workout for you can be the extra workout on the weekend that you may be putting off for whatever reason. The returns on the weekend workout can be considerable though, so use even a 20 minute window for getting even more out of yourself.

6 extra workouts in a 6 week period can change a lot again for you in health so start putting an extra one at the weekend and you will only benefit in a big way.

Give it 6 weeks and your body will look and feel a lot different. Most people eat and drink more calories at the weekend, so it makes perfect sense to be far more active.

Twitt
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Thursday, 12th September

The forgotten athlete we often miss out on in general life is the senior athlete.

Today, I am talking very much about the senior athlete over 70, and I do train quite a few, and most of them are remarkable for their age. The term “remarkable” for their age is often said in a patronizing way, but I can prove people wrong by comparing the stats with some of the over 70’s to my 40 somethings and 50 somethings.

I have people for instance who can bench press what many struggle to do in their 40’s-this is a fact.

I have senior athletes who can cycle for an hour no problem.

I have senior athletes who are far more flexible than some 20 somethings I know.

The bone density tests that a lot of senior athletes have done, come back remarkably well without fail. A solid well structured resistance/weights programme for the over 70’s is not only recommended, its essential!

All the senior athletes I train retain a high level of physical confidence, which is vital going into the autumn of one’s life.

Quality of life is everything and the worst thing I have ever seen is someone in their 30’s, 40’s or 50’s give up on themselves and say “they can’t be physically active anymore like they used to”!!

The senior athletes are a great example on how to do it, they compare very well in terms of strength and endurance levels compared to most people, and the last thing they want is ANY KIND of patronizing comments. Being 70 plus is not the life-ender it used to be, we have a new breed now fighting for new levels of strength, fitness and overall outstanding health!!

Twitt