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Friday, 26th April

Finally friday is here, and friday is always the day when many people start thinking about the weekend, and a great workout, sorry make that ANY kind of workout goes firmly on the back burner.

This is down to the state of mind rather than what your body is actually capable of.

If you are one of those who traditionally misses a friday workout, then you could be missing out on serious gains over the long term.

I find that friday is great for a one off type of workout for a variety of reasons.

First of all, if i typically schedule some people on a monday and thursday all over whole body weights programme, then tuesday and friday would work well as a core orientated session, with some outside speed an agility work thrown in too. Anyone who has done this type of session with me will know we have an extreme amount of variety involved in these type of sessions, they tend to be fun but still hard work and results giving.

So let’s say today is friday which it is, and you have one of these different fun sessions scheduled, then this should give you every reason to show up for your friday session every single time.

I think that’s a big reason for many people in gyms not showing up for their friday session and starting the weekend early, they are not being given entertaining sessions so they get bored, and have absolutely no incentive to complete their week of training. Indifference to training is criminal but usually the fault lies with the person giving out the fitness programme in the first place, and NOT with the customer who is paying their hard earned money to get into great shape AND has a right to be entertained in a fun way in terms of exercise presentation.

Have a great weekend!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 24th April

Visualising your progress and the way you want to perform and look has long been a habit of the most successful individuals.

For example, you hear of many sportspeople who will visualise or imagine how their game the next day is going to go.

They visualise themselves scoring goals, scoring tries, winning races etc.

Studies have shown that these techniques can be very successful, and helps you focus far greater on the performance to come.

You can do the same with your workouts. Try relaxing and going through your mind how your workouts going to go. From the exact moves you’re going to perform through to how much weight you’re going to lift, how you’re going to feel when you complete what you want, and how much effort it’s going to require.

If you are going to get into amazing shape, imagine what it takes to get there. If you really think of what it’s going to be like, then you would imagine how important it is to live a healthier lifestyle, eat better foods, drink more water, not drink so much alcohol and generally be far more choosy in your nutritional habits. You know that it takes a bigger effort to drop body fat and look very healthy, rather than feel and look overweight.

Visualising is one thing, but doing is another so let’s get down to it today and make it happen!

A succession of things needs to happen to look and feel your best, and you can start them now instead of imagining it. There’s a very good chance that you will soon look like exactly who you want to be if you live as healthy a lifestyle as possible, it can and WILL happen if you make the change right now, and be consistent with this change until you reach your big goal!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 23rd April

Energy cost, effort, meanings of every exercise you do, why you do certain things and their effects are all vital parts of my work, and form an integral part of my planning for everyone’s training.

When someone starts off for the first time, the energy cost of exercises you give them tends to be low in order to see how they react.

Why we do certain exercises is fully explained, and how their body will react is critical to see how quickly the programme will work for them.

This programme can easily take 4 weeks, and from then we can usually accelerate the programme at a faster pace from there. Without a good grounding in exercise, nobody can really be successful in getting into shape both in the short and long term.

So this is why we set the energy cost of each exercise low to start with, and then gradually building up and replacing the lower cost exercises with higher cost ones over time.

This is why the fittest individuals I train will always be used to high energy costs in every session, what this means is that not only will a lot of calories/energy be burnt in the session, but this will lead to quicker fat-burning, raising the metabolism for longer, and create meaningful changes in a very positive way to one’s resting heart rate.

I have started with many people who have started with a 100 beats per minute heart rate, and now have a 60, 50 or even 40 something resting heart rate. As I have mentioned many times before, having a good strong heart rate is vital to enable you to advance in exercise terms and this can be developed gradually by increments in your exercise programme at regular intervals.

All of these results we talk about, always all start with smart, intelligent exercise programming, making sure you improve quickly but at the same time making sure you lay strong foundations for the future.

Regular reviews of your programme are also vital, and everyone’s programme should be seen as a work in progress, and never something that you go through the motions with leading to poor results.

Seize the moment and look to move your programme along regularly!

Twitt
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Thursday, 18th April

I am hitting this thing late this week after all the technical problems i have had online, but we continue to have a great week.

I have had the great experience of helping get my all-time number of individuals into the desirable range of body fat. These people are not only looking pretty fantastic, but are feeling on top of the world, and this feeling has often of success has spread into every area of their lives!

I have my all time number of individuals who have a heart rate under 60 beats per minute. Most are in the 50’s and some have even hit the low 40’s, which is pretty incredible if you realise that this heart range is often only shared by top professional athletes. Having a strong, healthy heart rate is vital for good health, and this comes from training regular and with intelligence!

More people than ever are coming away from machine type training, they are coming away from these single plane of motion forms of training, right into our much more natural forms of training, which not only leads to much better results, but is a safer and kinder to your joints way of training.

We have a lot more individuals train outside now, the inside the gym stuff is great and innovative, but people are realising we offer so much more again outside.

We have never had so many people fit over so many forms of different training, and this is shown in the great measurements happening every single day!!!

There’s a lot to celebrate right now, so let’s embrace it and reach new levels of performance and results!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 9th April

Decisions you make right now will affect the rest of your day, sometimes the rest of the week, and usually the rest of your month, some people often make crucial decisions that affect the rest of their lives and other people’s too!

If you want to be faster, stronger, have more endurance, have more energy, look at your best for more of the time, get into clothes that you haven’t got into for 20 years, have more vitality and in general have a much better quality of life, then you have to DECIDE right now to do it, and set in motion a chain of events that will allow you to achieve some or all of those things.

You have to decide right now that making your workout happen tonight is a non-option thing! By that, I mean you should leave no other possibility, no other option but to make your workout, and when you get there, you give it your very best putting other things out of your mind for around 30 minutes, surely you can do that!

If you’re shopping today, take the chance that you may put weight on RIGHT OUT of the equation by shopping well for good food! Simple as that! Nobody is forcing you to put that extra pizza in your basket, nobody is forcing you to put a multi-bag of crisps in your basket, what is all of that alcohol doing in your trolley? Can you really imagine it NOT piling on a load of body fat on to your body? Are those ready meals really going solve anything or make things a lot worse?!!!

Good food, full of nutrients when possible will make a huge difference to you full stop, and your trolley should be full of them!
Decisions you make today, tomorrow and the rest of the week will have a POWERFUL effect on how you look and feel, don’t pretend that’s not true so lets firm up that decision making process and get things right today, and leave no other outcome possible apart from a positive one!!

Twitt