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Monday, 20th May

Monday is always a big measurement day for me, and i know i have quite a few lined up today.

For those who regularly go through it, you will know what i am talking about. For those of you who never chart your progress, here’s why you should immediately adopt the process.

First of all, how do you know how you are improving?

Second, even if you feel better and things you think are improving, how do you know how much?

Thirdly, even if you know all of these things, how do you know which exercises have contributed the most, and which exercises have contributed the least, and perhaps you have been wasting your time on some movements, and you could have spent your time much better on a far more efficient programme for yourself?

Chances are if you are not looking at these key indicators, then you are training at a facility that doesn’t care about your progress, doesn’t have the resources or expertise to monitor your progress, and just concentrates on how many direct debits they can get. Your progress IS REALLY NOT on their agenda.

What happens if your blood pressure is high?

What happens if you have palpatations from exercise?

What happens if you have a bad knee from certain movements, but don’t know any other way?

What happens if your body fat levels are at dangerous levels? What’s the best way to solve the problem and get some momentum in our health and fitness plan?

As i said, measurements are part of my training day, and i know all my clients highly value this way of doing things, because it answers a LOT of questions immediately.

Twitt
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Friday, 17th May continued

Following on from today’s comment, please don’t think that these ways of training are just for the pro’s or every experienced trainers, they are for everyone!

I have seen a lot of so called “not so talented” athletes and everyday people become extremely good at these ways of training, and often master many of them.

The reason i put them into people’s training again is for results, plus the enjoyment factor, plus the realisaton that anyone can train like a pro athlete as long as they go at their own pace.

Again, i strongly encourage you to think about the way you train, and why most people’s training is stuck in the 70’s and 80’s!!

Twitt
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Friday, 17th May

Apologies about the lack of posts the last couple of days, but again we have had security issues on the site, with people trying to log in illegally, but hopefully we are back to normal now!

That back to normal statement in exercise terms doesn’t and shouldn’t exist really, because your exercise programme should be a constantly moving project, and nothing should remain the same for long.

If you have been reading this for any length of time, then you will know that we are focused on results, and you should also know by now that you have to change the exercises and intensity of what you do often, not only for results but for variety too, which keeps everything fresh and exciting!

If you are sticking to just machines in your training, then the movements you are practicing are limiting you in all sorts of ways. Chances are that your body is moving in one plane of motion all the time, when it could be moving over the full 360 degrees in all sorts of different exercises if you are willing to be shown, and open your mind to a different and more rewarding way of training?!!!

Machines can be fine for certain movements,but i strongly encourage you to mix things up far more, and give yourself a richer experience when you train, and all the time you will be further along the path of not only getting much better results, but ENJOYING your training far more too!!!

It’s time you switched to ropes, medicine balls, wall balls, harnesses, bungees, agility ladders, hurdles, tyres, swiss balls, bosu balls and that’s JUST THE START!!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 14th May

Leaving yourself no other option but to succeed is crucial to your success, and a big secret to achieving for the long term too.

If you give yourself too many options sometimes, then you’re always going to struggle.

For instance, if you are planning to do a workout tonight, and you start going through your mind that “maybe” you should leave it tonight, “after all you have to get the shopping, cut the lawn, clean the kitchen etc”, then the workout can easily be left.

Then you may say lets do it tomorrow? Then what happens is that maybe someone has invited you out, invited you for a drink, for pizza or just to have a chat, then the workout suddenly gets moved to Thursday.

Then one of your children tells you that they have parents evening and you HAVE to go of course! Then it gets to Friday, and then you come out with the oldest excuse in the book, “no point in starting back on a Friday, I’ll start back next week”!!!

This is a great example of you not prioritizing your workouts enough, and you can see it wont take much for “other” things to take priority!!!

The basic message of this is to put your workouts as something you MUST do (recipe for success), rather something you plan to do AS LONG as something else doesn’t come up (recipe for failure).

Ask yourself would you miss an appointment with the doctor, dentist or solicitor? Your workouts need to be considered just as important, as you will be looking after your health and there’s nothing more important.

Prioritise your exercise today and you will automatically get much better results!

Twitt
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Monday, 13th May

It’s monday, and you know how its vital to hit the start of the week running, and please give it your best to really give yourself fresh momentum!!

Or if you are going away, what’s your attitude to doing workouts on holiday? Especially relevant this time of year and can make the difference to your progress and especially your mindset.

You are probably one of two types of people.

You cant wait to get away and not do any training.

Or

You take your trainers with you on every holiday and without fail, you always slip a couple of workouts in.

The mindset to take your trainers away with you is very powerful for your forward momentum, and demonstrates how important being in shape is for you.

On the other hand, if its your only holiday and you have been flat out training all year long, its good to have a break from your training and indeed, you are likely to come back fresher and enthused about the challenges ahead of you for the rest of the year.

So you have to balance which one works for you, and time your breaks to suit your schedule.

If you attitude is the first one, you’re glad to get away from your training because you’re really not into it anyway, then you will be likely to heavily over-indulge every day on holiday. Have you noticed when you come back, you promise to start back training but it somehow gets “put off” for the slightest of excuses!

This is when your mindset gets damaged and even when you do get your first workouts in, your eating is going to be all over the place and you really struggle to get back into proper eating again. In fact, the sugary and fatty foods you consume on holiday never really go away and getting back to eating to complement great health and fitness never really gets going.

The best attitude to have (in my opinion) is to enjoy your holiday, be laid back but try and do some activity, whatever it may be. You will NEVER keep your normal schedule up and who would expect you to do that that anyway?!!!!!

Doing something will work for you big time and give you a slight incentive to eat fresher foods and not the rubbish that’s going to make you feel lousy anyway. Of course you’re going to feel amazing if you eat as you do at home but you’re on holiday, so enjoy yourself.

What im saying is its all about balance, and you don’t need to trash yourself just because you’re on holiday, it should be fun but nothing wrong with putting some good food in there too, along with something active every couple of days.

This keeps you in shape and gives you momentum to start early when you return from holidays.
Don’t let 7-14 days of holidays turn into 6-8 weeks of lousy progress, we’ve all been there so lets make it happen this year!!

Twitt