“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them!!!”
April 22nd-good friday
April 21st 2011
How many of you now can’t eat so much chocolate or drink so much alcohol if you have already done well with your fitness plan and got to where you want to be?
This is what usually happens when you change your diet for the long term, and make exercise a very normal part of your life.
Other comments I get are that the once fantastic tasting sugary foods are now making you sick, because all that sugar is now becoming a sugar overload, and your body responds in a not very good way, in fact all that extra sugar as a one off will most likely make you feel sick and very low in energy usually an hour after consuming it.
If excess refined sugary foods have become a part of daily life for you, then you are at high risk of developing diabetes at some stage, and just ask anyone who now has diabetes what an uncomfortable existence that is!
Foods were meant to be sampled in their natural state, so whenever you can do this will be to your significant advantage.
We are now coming up to easter bank holiday, which means from now until Monday offers a significant window of making a pig of themselves for most people. Some people actually will go out and consume as much sugar and refined as possible, and then bemoan next Tuesday on how lethargic they are feeling, and how they have to get that weight off!!
Then you have two bank holidays next week so what do most people do? They write off the next week again and overdo AGAIN!!!
This is of course a perfect example of a vicious circle, and these can be very hard to recover from. The monumental effort to get going again can seem exactly that….MONUMENTAL!!! These types of efforts can’t happen all the time, so the long and steady route is the way to go….FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! I MEAN!!!
Tried and tested is the way to go and make your life far more stable in health and fitness terms!!!!
April 20th 2011
The outstanding weather we are having should make you get outside this week, there cannot be any reason not to.
An American friend came over the weekend and couldn’t believe how much Llanelli and burry port had changed and the value now of having the millennium coastal on our doorstep.
The transition from a heavy industrial town to an area of outstanding natural beauty has been nothing short of inspirational and is begging you to get out there and use it every day, especially with the Mediterranean like weather out there the last few days!
Its never too late in the year to exercise as we are only barely a third of the year gone, so theres plenty more to achieve this year if you really get your head down.
A big achievement for most of you will be committing to exercising 3 times a week and making healthy eating a regular part of your daily life. This is a major move in enabling you much more likely to live longer, and a much higher quality of life!
Most people I know who are healthier and live the right lifestyle are usually much more optimistic in life, they approach the challenges in life in a much more positive way and are generally far more pleasant to be around as they don’t seem to suffer from the mood swings that most people with a poor diet suffer from.
Show me a person who drinks every day and you have someone who is highly irritable, and someone who usually takes their moods out on those closest to them.
Show me someone who smokes, eats chocolate and crisps most of the time and you mostly see someone who performs with very low energy levels, has skin issues at times, and internally is struggling to keep good health levels up.
I don’t have to tell you ANY of this, you know it yourselves!! You read it in the paper every day with endless studies done by doctors and scientists, the facts are there so you don’t have to take my word for it!!!
We are on a great run weather wise, the big question has to be “are you going to take advantage of it?”!!!!!
19th april 2011
Blueberries, strawberries, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazils, kiwi fruit, carrots, broccoli, apples, oranges are all great examples on how to deal with the colds, flu and sorts of illnesses sweeping the country at the moment.
All of these foods offer remarkable support for your immune system in all sorts of ways.
I would much rather take these foods in every day, than lower my immune system and accept the seemingly inevitable of colds flu etc and in general feeling run down, it doesn’t have to be that way if you eat a lot of fresh natural foods and exercise well throughout the week.
This is always a powerful combination is keeping your general feeling of wellbeing at its highest level.
Contrast that with individuals who consume alcohol most days, eat ready meals or low quality food, and eat little or no fruit and vegetables.
If you have been on both sides of those examples, I don’t need to tell you then how good it feels to be eating well every day and how energy giving it is to have good quality exercise in your life. These are facts, and everyone who lives this kind of healthy lifestyle will testify them to be true!!!
When you are exercising hard, you also need these foods to replace nutrients lost during exercise. Good quality foods are needed even more when engaged in tough physical efforts because you want your body to repair itself in a good way, and not feed it junk because as you break your body down by exercise, you want it built up with high quality nutrients and not low grade chemical junk found in low quality meals such as ready meals and all of their cheap copy cat products on the market!
Its all fine to concentrate on looking lean and worry about the slightest weight gain but surely its far more important to look and feel good ON THE INSIDE?!!!
If you look after your insides and feed it with quality fresh and natural food, your body will look after you a thousand times more!!!
Give it a go!!!
18th April
If you are struggling with your back, your knees etc and you know you are not able to run right now, or for the foreseeable future, then there is an answer that can sort your problems out!!!
Power walking up hills can sometimes be a lot harder than running on the flat, and i have done a ton of it today already!
If you pick the very worst hills by your house, then you have a choice of the best venues for your great walking workouts. Power walking is not just going at some leisurely pace, and you claim to have had a great workout, thats not what it is at all. It is about having great workouts that can be as hard as any run or bike ride, all you need is the right attitude and the right intensity.
So say you have a 30 yard hill by your house, aim first of all to walk it as quickly as possible in one go, if you are out of breath and feel well worked, then this is the hill for you!! Then you should aim to do it multiple times with adequate rest in between each one, aiming for a maximum of around 8.
As the weeks go by and 8 is much more comfortable, start your backward walking, and aim for 8 backward power walks too, this will thoroughly fry your thighs, hamstrings and bum and you will be very well worked!!!
POWER walking is exactly that, walking with “power”, this is achieved by swinging your arms vigorously to achieve sufficent power in your legs, and encourages great momentum in your walking and therefore in overall speed. This gets your heart rate up very well and demands great gulps of air, meaning your lungs will be working very well.
Theres no excuse not to get out there so lets give it a go!!!