Posted on

Friday, 4th January

Happy new year and hope you’re ready to make a strong start to the new year!

Sorry about the late posting but i picked up a really nasty virus myself on new year’s day it seems, and its only now i am recovering properly. First time i have had something like this for many years, and i have to say a big good riddance to it!

Anyway, this makes me realise the importance of getting back to proper food, putting enough nutrients into my body again and protecting myself against any future ailments that could be heading our way.

This is the role of food or should be anyway, protecting us against illness and disease, and this is why the nature of our food should be of paramount importance.

Once we get this right, then we should be thinking about energy and how we can get it. Put good food in every day and we should get plenty of energy.

Once we have energy, then this puts us in a good place to actually exercise!

When we get through a workout, then its down to food again to replace lost energy, and build our bodies back up after breaking down all that muscle tissue!

You can see why food has many roles to play in the whole cycle of energy and training, and without it things would be pretty impossible to achieve.

This is the important lesson to learn early on this year. No starving yourself, no diets that will put all the weight back on and more, no shake and bars only diets. How about nourishing yourself properly for a change and reaping the rewards this year in a big way!! Most people i train never go through this faddy time of year anymore, because they were put on a lifelong path a lot of years ago.

It’s all about being on a sustainable path and really putting yourself on a path for a lifetime!!!

I’m fired up again so lets get ready to work hard in 2013!!!

Twitt
Posted on

New Year’s Eve, 2012!

Exactly the time today to make new year’s resolutions!! Not the kind that everyone breaks or that are unrealistic of course, but ones that are absolutely sustainable and will work!!

Committing yourself to eat as much food that is fresh and natural, and plain without artificial sugar added has to be a worthwhile goal. I tuly believe that would be a major worthwhile new year’s resolution for you!!

Comitting yourself to being MORE active would be as much as most of you can realistically do. The time for setting olympic records may be over for most people, but fitting in an extra workout per week is not really that difficult to do surely?

Committing yourself to being better this time next year is something i have always aimed at doing, and it tends to work. This way you tend to do the little things each day, each week, each year to get yourself better, stronger, healthier and fittter, and it can really pay BIG dividends for you trust me!!!

Commit yourself to doing less of things that are bad for you, and you know which things they are by now surely?
Drink a little less alcohol, drop one day of alcohol consumption and no more binge drinking!!! How about eating less junk in the week, and serving a wholesome meal EVERY evening after work and really treating your body as something special and important to you.

These four commitments will be exactly what you should be looking at over the next twelve months, and ensure you WILL be better all over this time NEXT year!!!

Don’t fall for the fads and scam merchants, and please save your money and invest it on things that are really going to help you and your health!!!

Have a great new year’s eve, enjoy yourselves and get ready to hit it big in 2013!!!

Twitt
Posted on

Friday, 28th December

Glad to be right back into it all and get a great couple of workouts in yesterday, and some today too!!!

The great energy that these bring can be fantastic, and being back in routine again will make you realise all of the energy you have been missing, especially when you were not training, and eating badly.

For all of you who are back on track, or at least partially so, will know what i am talking about!

For those of you who are yet to get into it, i strongly encourage you to do so. The new year is going to hit you like a truck otherwise. The last thing you will feel like is making a flying start to the new year when you feel all groggy and sluggish. Feeling this way can give you a major disadvantage in anything you want to do.

Just think of what job you have? You have to give effort to make a living, and if you have no energy, that’s going to be a challenge.

The prospect also of losing the body fat and weight in general can be daunting. That’s why once you decide to muster up all of that effort, it’s important to make the right choices!!

They were talking on the radio this morning about the latest seaweed diet! Apparently Victoria beckham is an endorser, as well as Brittany Spears. Seaweed is a superfood but relying on seafood to drop all your weight and feel better has to be one of the most desperate measures you can undertake?!!!

What’s wrong with eating sensible natural food, in moderation? What’s wrong with drinking enough water at regular intervals throughout the day? What’s wong with getting enough sleep and not drinking too much alcohol? What happened to these reliable common sense methods that really work ALL of the time?!!!

I urge to avoid the faddy diets, the weight loss clubs who only help for a very short period, then they pile all your weight back on (plus 5% more according to reliable research). You should know by now that these products make me feel sick, and they should be exposed for the frauds they are, and the long term misery they create.

Lighter life, herbalife etc? The ultimate waste of money and con artists! Save your money now and use your common sense this year to avoid these disgusting products!!

Twitt
Posted on

Monday, 24th December

Christmas Eve is finally here, and a very busy time is about to kick off for a lot of us!

One unknown fact is that i know quite a lot of people who will/indeed have trained today already with me and on their own at the gym, there will be a few on christmas day and particularly boxing day. These are the people who still don’t want to pile the pounds on, they don’t want to have a shortness of breath from eating all the rubbish/fast food, and they generally don’t want to waste a lot of the hard work they have put in all year long!

A piece of breaking news from the states on the weekend i think a lot of you would be interested in. Herbalife, the company that promises quick weight loss and apparently “everyone was doing it”, has hit massive problems.

Herbalife is listed on the US stock exchange and has been “shorted” by two very big name analysts and investors. “Shorting” is when you predict the stock will go DOWN instead of up and the analysts have a new stock target price of ZERO dollars. They claim the stock is a ponzi scheme that will end up losing investors all of their money. One big pyramid scheme they say.

Not only this, but herbalife has been found selling their products in starving african countries, where you thought a weight loss product would be needed the least!! It seems as if they are having problems ethically and financially. Good on these stock market investors exposing such a company.

I have been banging on for years about how these companies fleece would be weight loss victims out of their hard earned monies. The same goes for weight loss clubs and the whole industry is fake and a sham and i urge you to show common sense in the new year and avoid these charlatans.

You can’t beat good natural food in sensible portions, with a bit of what you fancy in moderation.

Enjoy christmas and see you for more later on in the week!!!

Twitt
Posted on

Friday, 21st December

It looks as if the world didn’t in fact end today, although there are still a few hours to go!

It hasn’t been the end of the world for most people i train this year if they have made a lot of mistakes in their diet and exercising either!

Through explaining to everyone i train that they don’t have to totally blow their diet if they go off the rails now and again, this has resulted in my largest number of people training right up to the last friday before christmas. Not only that but we have record numbers scheduled to train christmas eve, the gym in burry port will see a surprising number on christmas day and especially boxing day!

The message really seemed to have worked better than ever before this year, and i would like to thank everyone for continuing to show so much dedication right up until the end of the year. The encouraging fact is that these are the people who would normally throw the towel in during early december.

So after persuading everyone to train all the way up to christmas or more or less, its heartening now to already have people tell me already how much better they are feeling in themselves, how much money they are saving by not buying all of the junk food that they normally do, how much they are saving by not buying sometimes vast quantities of alcohol etc etc, and how great its going to be NOT to wear the baggy jumpers at this time of year, because most are keen to show their new found bodies!!

I am hearing better sleeping experiences, and a wide variety of people are reporting one of their best measurements THIS WEEK!! We all try not to put on much in december, but to actually lose quite a lot of body fat and shave off 3 inches off your waist is sensational. Again, i have to say that this a big benefit of being measured regularly!

Thanks again for the huge effort, and let’s see what happens next week!!!!!!!

Twitt