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Friday, 16th March 2012

Like analysing your food, analysing the way you exercise is just as important and results giving.

One of the most startling realisations I had was when I discovered that if you were on the same moderate programme for years and years, and you do the same thing day in day out, at the same speed using the same resistance, for the same number of times, then your fitness levels hadn’t really gone anywhere for years.

This statement can be upsetting for a lot of people because the truth can hurt, and an enormous amount of individuals and groups even will do things this way. Change is deeply uncomfortable for most people I have found.

The positives you should take out would be that simply changing things around will almost improve you overnight!! There IS a new world out there waiting for you.

If you simply change your programme regularly, then your body will have to keep adapting to change, and this will usually keep bringing you progress too, which is a benefit many have forgotten about unfortunately!

For example, if you have never done any balance or instability work on an unsteady surface, then you are missing out in a big way.

If you have become totally dependent on machines for your workouts, then I guarantee you that you are missing out on the huge benefits of free weights, and that you are really NOT getting the best out of yourself. Your body needs natural movements as much as possible, for all sorts of reasons and many machines do not come close to providing this!

Training is moving away from machines and has been for some time, there are far more inventive and beneficial ways to train, and you need to explore them and ultimately test your body under brand new conditions.

Freshening everything up is usually a massive positive in every other area of life, time to do the same with your exercise!

Put your trust in RESULTS, instead of machines that are already dinosaurs!

Twitt
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Thursday, 15th March

If we are talking so much about analysing the food and drink what you put into your mouth, we must realise by now how important the “little things” really are.

If you can chip away at every meal by simply making small changes, to achieve a MASSIVE result, then this has got to be a change worth making surely?!! Its not really about the massive overhaul that most people imagine either.

If we talk about having a plainer breakfast such as weetabix which means no additives, then that does not mean a “version” of weetabix such as the ones which honey coat or sugar coat the wheat. This I can assure you will turn this normally good cereal into a cereal that contains heavily refined sugar, or the porridge oats with apple pie filling-IT DOES NOT WORK OUT WELL FOR YOU FULL STOP!!

This may taste nicer but its only going to do you harm in terms of weight gain and elevated blood sugar levels. Also, it will keep your “sweet tooth” well and truly alive, making you rely on refined sugars the rest of the day.

Its like taking sweetener with everything, what you are doing is keeping your taste for sweet tooth strong making you prejudiced on the kinds of foods you are “willing” to eat!

If you are only willing to eat heavily sugared foods, then you have little or no hope in achieving your true aims and goals. This kind of eating and behaviour will undoubtedly lead to potential diabetes issues in the near future unless you modify your eating without delay.

When you look at the carbohydrate section on the nutritional analysis on practically every food you eat, if the “of which sugars” is almost or all of the total carbohydrate, then its never going to be any good for you, unless its things like fruit juice which I advised to dilute anyway.

The “of which sugars” part should be comparatively low meaning theres a slow blood sugar release, and doesn’t play havoc with your blood sugar levels. You want stability all day long in this area, meaning you have longer term energy and little or no risk of developing diabetes over time.

Make it your goal to truly analyse what you eat, you may think you are eating healthy but in fact, you could be consuming a lot of unhealthy sugar which will disguise all your good work in the exercise department!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 14th March

After seeing the need to write things down, lets analyse what you are writing down!

Start off with breakfast, do you realise that most cereals  contain too much refined sugars?

Most of the ones that actually come in cereal boxes are definitely too much on marketing, and contain very poor nutritional value. The worst of both worlds so you need to stop falling for it all!

Stick to porridge, shredded wheat or weetabix, the best examples of plain no added ingredients cereal that guarantee you a fine start to the day!!

Alpen type mueslis are another potential bad start for you. The no added sugar/no added salt variety can work well for you, but the normal regular variety cannot be classed as healthy!

If you fall for the “protein only” diets, and go for the bacon and eggs choice, then you’re not going to last very long being healthy, and you know this short termism is not really going to last for you!!! Plus, as i mentioned yesterday, bacon is on the worst list when it comes to saturated fat and meat that could possibly cause health problems for you in the future. A bad situation all round!

Breakfast should be a key start to the day, and will dicate usually how you eat the rest of the day?!! Start off well and you become more powerful and more focused, miss breakfast and you play catch up for the rest of the day.

Simply eating breakfast will be a very powerful start for you!!! If you do not eat breakfast, you will be keeping your metabolism in the slow lane, be likely to make poor food choices, and generally have a lack of structure in your day.

When i give an eating diary out and then filled in after seven days, seeing the breakfast part “missing” is a tell tale sign for me that the individual is not yet serious about their programme and we need to re-evaluate straight away!!!

Lets get serious and talk about the rest of the day tomorrow!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 13th March

Writing down everything you eat can be very powerful for you in terms of fine tuning the diet you really want, and really NEED to be on.

I do this exercise with all my clients from time to time, no matter how good they look!

This is because none of us are ever perfect, and most of us slip from time to time, sometimes without even noticing.

Take the article in the news today recommending that we do not eat more than one piece of red meat a week, due to the increase in incidence cancer and heart disease in the last ten years, and the research done in thousands of people.

One or two small steaks was more than enough for the entire week they said, and bacon was the worst offender in terms of meat being bad for you.

So if we rewind this article and go back to writing everything down, kind of a diary of what you eat over seven days, and in your head you think you only eat red meat just once or twice a week, is that really true?

How often do you eat beef, bacon, gammon even? What about steak and maybe pork? How often, go on count them and you may be shocked?!

The same applies to every food group. How many times do you eat white pasta, white potatoes and white bread?

How about alcohol? Is it really our recommended once a week?

How about your portion sizes? Do you eat too much constantly at most meals? Do you skip meals?

Studies have shown that individuals who write down exactly what they really eat over a seven day period tend to be very successful in their overall fat loss, and overall conditioning.

Nothing like being accountable, and it all starts right here if you really want to be successful!!

Twitt
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Monday, 12th March

Urgency has to be a big part of your programme or you will never get the fast results you demand!!!

I have got used to that world of urgency myself and i live it every day.

I am currently selling my house and at the final stage, so the slowness, don’t phone you back for days and dont care attitude that is shown by solicitors is always an alien situation to me, and to my mind totally unacceptable! This is exactly the wrong way to survive in business and i’m proud to say that my attitude is the exact opposite to theirs!

So if an individual comes to me and wants fast results and they want them yesterday, then i know i had better be on the top of my game and ready to work hard  right now, or the job is not going to get done.

You should have exactly the same attitude to your workouts, your food and sleep.

Your workouts should never be missed unless you are ill full stop. They should be done with intensity and urgency, you’re the one who wanted the results after all, so there’s no time to mess around and compromise in any way! Use your aggression on your workouts, and you will experience a fantastic inner calmness later!

Your food should be urgently taken care of too! There’s no excuse to have that white bread in the house, its going to be toxic for your body and a nightmare that will pile the weight on.

What about those refined sugars, are there biscuits, crisps and pastries in the house, instead of fruit, nuts, and other nutritious snacks?!!!

Is there plenty of alcohol in the house? If there is, then that usually means you’re going to drink it!!!

Are you sleeping properly or are you  in bed at 1am every night? Your answer to this question will dicate how good shape you eventuallly get in!!!

Don’t accept mediocrity because you really do not have to. You’re here to get results and to get what you want quickly.

Take action early and often and you will get what you want!!!

Twitt