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Thursday, 7th July

The lack of honesty in assessing one’s training is similar to someone valuing their own house.

In 2007, everyone thought they were a millionaire due to their supposed value of their own house. This delusion can last a couple of years until they realise they have to be realistic and come down at least 20% if they really want to sell their house. Some people still won’t admit to themselves that their version of Buckingham palace is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and in this climate, that is likely to be not a lot.

With your training and fitness exploits, there may have been a peak in your life too, when everything was going along swimmingly, life was great and you got used to receiving compliments all the time on your appearance. You probably look fantastic, you feel amazing and people admired your dedication for your health.

Then the “crash” may have come.

Life is not so easy now and its no longer “easy” to get into shape, although it is never actually easy to get into shape!

You may give sporadic efforts, you may give your all for a couple of weeks, but everything seems like swimming in treacle this time around.

The great news is though that there are reasons for it, and like yesterday it comes down to self-assessment and self-honesty.

Those people I train when they are in top shape discover this new honesty in themselves. Once they realise they have to adopt a certain healthy lifestyle to be where they want to be, suddenly get real with themselves and its fantastic to see.

They will tell you how glad and relieved they are to leave the alcohol behind, the fatty foods behind, the faddy exercise methods behind, once they did this they tell me, life becomes joyous once again and being in great shape is worth a million dollars, after all you can never put a price on excellent health.

If you’re at the peak or in a trough, its time to get real and realise what it takes to be at the top of your game, no excuses and no “but’s” because you know secretly the way to the top so lets do it!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday 6th July

Barbecue season and you shouldn’t ignore your healthy options.

The only way you will put on weight after a barbecue is either eating huge quantities of food or eating the traditional high saturated meats such as gammon, bacon and sausages. Eat a good portion of these and the way will come on for sure.

You have plenty of low fat choices in meat terms such leaner cuts of beef for example, white meats across the board are always safe choices and its always a question of using your head every time, rather than just throwing caution to the wind every time you have a barbecue!

Just think of all the effort you have put in lately on your training! Are you really going to blow all of that effort? Are you going to be that thoughtless? If you are, its a free country but don’t be too disappointed with the results, its your choice after all!!!

What happens if you are making the wrong choices AND eating all the wrong barbecue meats, loading your body way up with saturated fat and putting a lot of strain on your arteries?

Blood pressure problems, heart concerns and risk of serious illness will go way up if these habits are employed on a long term basis!!

So if your current situation is that you don’t exercise (but talk about it a lot), and you eat exactly what you want (even if it does clog up your arteries), then we should stop talking about it right now and stop pretending to be in shape, or stop pretending you have a deep desire to be in shape!! Talking about being in shape or the way “you used to look” over a cake and couple of beers ins’t going to fool ANYONE!!!

Harsh words maybe but a hospital visit through ill health in the future will be much tougher for you to handle, both physically and mentally!!!!

Time to front up and get moving, and start being honest with yourself!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday 5th July

What type of exerciser are you?

Are you the type to regularly go the gym, and enjoy going and have some decent results?

If so, what happens when you go on trips or holidays?

Do you exercise then too? Or do you say “im on holiday and there’s no way im exercising and thats it!!!”.

Its recommended that everyone has a break from exercise from time to time, but it all depends on how many trips you take?

If its once a year, then its great to have a break from your exercise programme and eat a bit more loosely, this can be very liberating for you and you will come back much fresher, even if a few pounds heavier! This break will reinvigorate you and your workout programme and you will be pretty fired up for everything when you return!!!

If you take several trips a year though, then things need to change if you never exercise on holiday or your trips away.

Every trip i undertake, i always exercise, not only to stay in shape but to feel better too. Once i have a shower after my workout, i will always feel on top of the world again, and things will “feel right” again.

Here’s another thing to think about when you go on holiday and never train, for every week you do NO exercise, it takes at least 1-2 weeks to get back to normal.

If you take 3 weeks off training for example, it can take 3-6 weeks to get back to your former levels. This figure was arrived at through lengthy scientific research so it tends to be pretty accurate.

Also how many times have you not done a thing on holiday, and then found it desperately hard to get going in training and eating terms once again, i find this VERY COMMON indeed.

Bottom line is to have your holidays, but you need to keep some consistency in your training the rest of the year for all sorts of good reasons!

Twitt
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Monday 4th july-Independence day!

Good vibrations for your health always begin at the start of your week and your future ambitions depend on it.

A few pints on a Saturday and Sunday without any exercise can lead to a bleary eyed start to the week. We all like to talk about Monday being AN ABSOLUTE MUST for your best possible start to the week.

It may hurt a bit more than normal on a Monday, depending on the how excessive the weekend you have had, but that short term pain will be more than worth it, because it sends massive signs to your body that you want it to fix itself after the weekend, and you want your metabolism to be in top shape and firing on all cylinders.

You will never become a fat burning machine unless you practice the principles we talk about on here all the time.

Working out hard takes a lot of concentration too, so you need to get on with it and think about what you’re doing, and trying to improve nearly every week can be tough, but it is achievable of course.

 By all means talk and mess around in your workouts, it’s a free country after all but this is a sure way to very poor results, in fact some gyms encourage that type of behaviour, as all they concentrate on is your direct debit, and then forget about you. These places make me sick of course but at least be honest with yourself and rate yourself on how hard you are actually training, remember just “showing up”, “going through the motions” and just having a “gym membership” is not going to get you very far.

Our body judges us by actual deeds. Your workouts will get you a good return on your investment if you’re prepared to work. Your intake of fresh natural foods will get you’re another good return if you are consistent.

Monday is a time to be honest with your body and get fired up for another big week!

Twitt
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Friday 1st July

Nadal faces an in form Andy Murray today, and the big question is “will he do it this time”?

That question is seemingly asked every single year and this year is no different of course.

Great of the game such as Borg and McEnroe insist Murray can finally do it this time, no question. Nadal has a suspected foot injury and Murray has a niggle with his hip, and his ankle but i don’t think either are making any excuses!

Most say that if Murray wins this one, then he will go on to win a few grand slam titles. The confidence of winning a big one will transform him and his confidence levels.

Thats the big thing of course, confidence and knowing deep down you can do it!

That’s the big thing for you too, and many of you keep telling me the same thing all the time. You managed to do it once, or even twice and you can’t work out why you can’t get into great shape anymore.

The problem comes when you aren’t willing to be honest with yourself anymore.

Are you really eating now the way you were when you were in top shape? Are you really that disciplined anymore and are you willing to make the sacrifices on food and alcohol you once were? Come on be honest with this question!!!!

What about your exercise levels? Do you find it easier now to cancel workouts at a drop of a hat? Have you stopped putting challenges into your workouts? Are you more of a “go through the motions” type of person now? Are you striving to be the best you can be, or are you someone who claims that walking the dog is “more than enough exercise?!!!!!

Serious questions have to be asked if you are not getting closer to your goals anymore, it doesn’t matter if it takes a long time, as long as you are moving in the right direction, then you and i should be happy with that.

Murray in fairness has worked hard to get closer to his goals of winning a grand slam title, and is almost there. The question is can he go one step further and the other big question is are you moving closer to your dream of being in great shape and having outstanding health, which should always go together of course!!!!

Twitt