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Friday, 30th September

A famous study in Japan showed something amazing about what we expect, rather than what’s the reality.

The test was a piece of poison ivy was rubbed on the arm of the volunteers with blindfolds on. The other arm was rubbed by a harmless plant. The trick was the arm they thought poison ivy was rubbing was in fact that harmless plant, and vice-versa.

The results were staggering. 80% of the test group who thought they were being stroked by poison ivy (when it was the harmless plant) came out in redness, boils and other unpleasantness.

The ones who were REALLY having the poison ivy on their arm mostly suffered no side effects, only 20% did!

This is remarkable but shows what we “expect” can be different to what the reality should be.

With your programme, if you expect not to enjoy exercise, it’s going to be tougher to get through it. If you expect healthy food to be “boring” no matter what, then you are not likely to make much of an effort to experiment with recipes and new ideas.

If you expect not to be able to make time for your exercise sessions, then you won’t full stop! You will never make space in your diary, and you will use that old chestnut “i haven’t got time” despite us all having 168 hours per week.

If you have had previous negative exercise experiences, then you are not likely to be very open to new and more science based training.

Start EXPECTING BETTER things in your life, start right now and expect more every day, your mind will get used to it, and you will move towards good things in your life and develop a new higher level of achievement.

If you expect to exercise almost every day, such as scheduling a walk first thing tomorrow morning, and every saturday morning without fail, then better things happen and you clear your mind early in the day.

Expect to shop better in your daily/weekly shop, only put things in your basket that will benefit your body.

Make your diary include 3 sessions at the gym every week, no matter what, expect to be active more regularly and expect to perform well each time.

If you expect better, then you will achieve better without even thinking about it too much.

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Thursday, 29th September

Some people will tell you exercise is a waste of time, don’t eat healthy, one life you have! Sitting down for most of your day means you become someone who sits on the sidelines in life, and never actually takes part in every day real life when crucial contributions are required to make all areas of your life tick along.

The easiest way to waste your life is to be unfit and eat rubbish all day.

The things you miss out on are being able to do anything you want.

The ability to walk down the beach and soak that view and vibe up, run on the beach with all that fresh air, walk/run in the park and enjoy all that peaceful greenery, walk up a mountain and enjoy all those amazing views.

That is just part of your day.

With all your commitments in life, maybe family, work, children etc, you’re going to need massive energy levels full stop. Are you going to rely on energy drinks that only put pressure on your heart, or will you develop huge deep energy reserves from exercising more and getting better by the day?

Will you take advantage from all the natural energy and nutrients real food provides, which also helps you with your moods during extreme pressure during your day?

Everyone i have seen exercise and eat well automatically becomes more positive, takes all that stress from work straight out on the gym. Exercise is the best de-stresser you will ever get, helps get your mind right and ready to face anything when you get home.

The biggest waste of time is doing nothing with your day and this leads to a life of gossiping and complaining, which ultimately gives you no fulfilment and no sense of achievement and never getting anything meaningful done.

Make your choice on what you want your life to become.

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Wednesday, 28th September

What is your KEY habit that’s letting you down right now that you can and need to change for the better? Just think of one, you know that’s harming your progress, and let’s start today by replacing it with a stronger more positive habit.

As humans, most of us can’t handle massive change at one time, so we need to change one thing at a time and take plenty of time to re-enforce it. Then when we change it, the positive powerful effects spread through the rest of your day and life, and affect all areas in some way.

Key habit example-Showing up.

If you have become the type of exerciser who show up 3 times one week, then once the week after, then 4 times the week after that, then not at all the week after, the this would be a key habit to change and positively affect your life and help you become a LOT more successful.

So just concentrate on this and that’s it. Forget about everything else, just focus everything you have on getting to the gym, schedule in your gym sessions 3 time a week, NOTHING gets in the way. I REPEAT THIS IS IT, and nothing else!

This habit change will transform your life. From the showing up part, you know you will be on our programme immediately. You will get stronger and fitter again, that’s without a doubt. Then from that, you will start to feel more positive again. Then from that you will start WANTING to come to the gym because it makes you feel better and more positive, and not like it and get annoyed if you DON’T make it to the gym.

When you exercise regularly, you will naturally get to the stage of wanting to eat better because you won’t want to blow all that hard work in the gym.

So you can see from this one key habit of SHOWING UP, a lot of positive life-changing things have happened for you and can happen for you, all it took is changing one KEY HABIT, and the rest takes care to itself.

Don’t over-complicate things, don’t weigh up this and that, it all starts with changing one powerful habit and just concentrating on that, the results that follow will be long lasting and create very strong foundations for you in all areas of your life.

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Tuesday, 27th September

Everything is changeable, you can become anything you want, as long as you turn around quickly by taking action, and don’t become someone who is harder to turn around or change than a tanker on a path in the sea that takes an age to alter.

It’s not easy to change, and i find many people only change when desperation comes into their life and they feel so bad, they won’t take it anymore, that feeling of low or non-existent aspiration, that feeling of you’re not going to take it any more is good because it gives you the surge to propel yourself off the bottom and get back somewhere in the real world again.

You can only eat so much junk and rubbish before you feel terrible. Carry on like that and your blood pressure, a heightened resting heart rate starts giving you warnings you need to change, ALONG with endless body fat gain and pain entering your body at a steady rate, the less you do, usually the more the pain increases.

The most heart breaking stories i have heard are the ones when someone didn’t listen and continued on the path of destroying their health. It’s only when they end up in the hospital bed that they end up taking notice and THEN taking decisive and powerful steps to change their lives around.

I find one day in the gym is one of opportunity because a lot of things happen. I hear sad stories sometimes, some massively uplifting stories sometimes but i know that each day is an opportunity for us to become someone who is ABLE TO CHANGE quickly, because we have endless evidence of people who have changed, often against the odds, usually who has been next to us training at one time or another, who has changed their lives for the better MASSIVELY.

I know that one day right now can change things for you, one day can give you the momentum to change your life, one day that can create the beginning of a higher quality of life that LASTS, one day is waiting for you every day to take it.

All of us have an average of 960 months on this planet so please don’t waste them, take your opportunities right now and make today and tomorrow a day of change, one which changes not only your life but all of those who are closest to you that you impact on every day.

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Friday, 23rd September

Food Quiz!

I love these little food quiz bites! They really bring home the amount of fat and sugar in our diets.

Yesterday I gave an example of a lady who loved Chocolate Digestives and who doesn’t like a biscuit now and again? Problem with biscuits though is that they are too moreish and too high in fat and sugar!

Test your fat knowledge with this little quiz —

How many bananas contain the equivalent amount of fat as two Hobnob biscuits?

Answer

26 bananas!!

How shocking is that?

Although bananas are high in natural sugars too so moderation is key here. Two pieces of fruit a day is enough.

Nicola.

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