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Breakfast really IS for champions!

You have heard off me and about another million people, breakfast is absolutely, definitely, seriously, no doubt, the VERY most important meal of the day!!!!!!!!

Familiar excuses you may be

 “i don’t have time”

“i’m not hungry in the morning”

“i don’t like breakfast foods”

“i’m on a diet”

“if i eat breakfast, i feel hungrier all day”

These are just some of the excuses i hear and just about everyone hears and makes from time to time.

If you start missing breakfast, you are likely to concentrate less effectively in the morning, all morning in fact, you are likely not to be so good at work and if you are in school or college, you will struggle to study as well.

No breakfast also means you will be more irritable and be short-tempered, and generally struggle in terms of energy levels throughout the day, becoming very tired indeed during the afternoon.

For every excuse you may make up for not eating breakfast, there’s about 10 more good excuses TO eat breakfast.

Things off the top of my head include raising your metabolism, which means the very important rate you BURN calories which means how quickly your body fat is going to disappear!!!

Other good things will include having MUCH more energy, very important if you want to be successful in your day.

How about having a good digestive system, it IS good for you going regular to the toilet believe it or not and your body needs to function well INSIDE as well as outside!

People who eat breakfast have always been proven to have healthier levels of weight and body fat than those who don’t. There are numerous studies to back this up. Eating breakfast alone is such a great catalyst for your day!

Breakfast also stops you having from wild binges. If you start off your day with healthy energy levels, you feel full, you are likely to have a healthier attitude to food full stop. Food is there for you to be enjoyed and savoured and is not the enemy.

Make the best start to the day you can by getting your breakfast in within one hour of rising.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 10th November

Fixing any holes in your programme is the biggest thing you can do if you’ve not being getting the progress you would like.

Its similar to the old story about the farmer who had a hole in his fence and sheep kept escaping out of it all the time. He would spend all day chasing sheep down, picking them up again and returning them to the field.

Once he got all the sheep back into the field, he found he had no other time to do his other farming work. He was literally the most inefficient farmer around and worst of all, he was dog tired every day and not achieving anything!

One day he woke up and realised that all of these sheep were pouring through the very same hole in the fence following each other out. It occurred to him that if he actually fixed the hole, then he would have no sheep escaping, and could get on with his normal productive farm work and actually earn some money!

If you’re not achieving what you want out of your programme, its time to fix those holes that are causing continuous problems.

The “holes” in your programme could be any of the following, or even worse all which creates one big hole and this is when your programme collapses and you go backwards very quickly and start piling on weight quickly! You then wonder where the weight is coming from and may start feeling sorry for yourself, lets stop that right in its tracks and figure out why your programme isnt working!

Number 1- you’re not doing at least 3 workouts a week

Number 2-you’re not doing any strength/resistance work to stimulate lean muscle tissue, which automatically makes your metabolism burn faster!

Number 3-You’re not doing any outside workouts, running, cycling, fast walking, are all great workouts guaranteed to make you feel so much better!

Number 4-80% of your food isn’t good nutritious food. The bulk of your food needs to be fresh, natural and good for you, theres time for treats too, but only in moderation and only once or twice a week max!

Number 4-you’re not eating regular and leaving too long in between meals and snacks. You need to eat small amounts every 3-4 hours to keep blood sugar levels steady, stopping wild binges on food.

Number 5-You’re not consistent. If you’re not doing a combination of all of these things, at least 3 good workouts a week, at least 80% of your food of good quality, drinking enough water throughout the day (1.5-2 litres), then you wont be successful!!!

Let’s keep it simple and fix those holes and save yourself a lifetime of heartache and frustration!!!!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 9th November

We go over the ways to get into shape and how to stay there all the time on this blog. We develop plans and discuss when things go wrong as well as things go right. It doesn’t matter how many times we go over the correct way to do things, it still seems as if many of you “get lost” on your quest to get active, stay active and create long lasting good health and fitness.

When we do most things from DIY to fitness, we tend to do things “our own way” or our own version of the right way to do things.

Cyril this week has commented he needs to get back to eating properly, or finally settle into a sustainable healthy eating plan because he knows the great value of this. He says he needs to be drinking more water, something he knows that has clear benefits but is not as consistent as he should be.

He also knows that he should be doing his resistance work at least a couple of times a week, and is eager to get it back in to his schedule. Riding the bike is no problem for him, and long may that continue!!

So you can see it is so easy not to do the simple things that will get you into shape time after time. People get good at things when they practice a lot. Most of you i should imagine are pretty good at brushing your teeth, simply because you’ve done it a lot (although the dentist will sometimes put you right on the correct way). Most of you will know how to wash your clothes and dry them, because again you’ve done it an awful lot and most of you like smelling good and personal hygiene is important to you and your family.

 Most of you will know how to get up on time for work, because it has become routine and you won’t get paid if you don’t  show up for work!! Getting up on time also gives you a purpose for your day and your life in general, human beings respond well to routines and having targets and challenges in their lives.

The secret really is to make your exercise plan firmly a part of your week without fail. Shopping for good food should be the norm and not something you do in january only to get rid of the excess christmas pounds. With a concerted effort, living a healthy lifestyle will become the norm and the way you live your life.

Those of you who don’t do anything right now, i urge you to try it and i guarantee you will feel SO much better for it almost immediately. Getting on a programme that will increase your health can be started anytime, anywhere without any cost. It’s never too late to start and how about today?!!! Don’t wait for the new year as you can and will make substantial progress right up until christmas as long as you put your mind to it and commit to a healthier life.

The time is now, lets make it happen!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 8th November

There’s no better day than a monday to set your stall out for the week and get a great workout in to blow away all the cobwebs away from the weekend!! I have already been outside a few times today and to say i’m fired up with huge energy raring to go may even be an understatement!!

If you can do this and give your all to your workout today, then you will be giving your body everything it needs when it comes to developing incredible energy for the week ahead. If you don’t have energy, you won’t have the drive to do anything of note this week. You will simply put things off and not get the things done you set out to this week.

I always like to get my lungs filled with fresh air on a monday to help me set the tone for the week. If i don’t, i am likely to be playing catch up for the week and thats the last thing i want to be doing with my schedule. Life is all about keeping on top of things, not letting things slide and your workouts should be the catalyst to allow you to perform at the high level needed to accomplish everything you need to this week and every week right up to christmas!!!

Six weeks to christmas now and hope most of you haven’t fallen in the “i’m giving up for christmas already” camp in november/december. This shows you’re not really into working out and health is not so important to you as it it clearly should be. This blog is all about avoiding pitfalls too, the roadblocks that halt our progress and im trying to help you avoid any of those if posssible. If you keep up every day, you develop momentum and before you know it, your workouts become second nature and of a huge quality!

The time is right now today to really make things happen in your life and get into the mindset you need to make the quantum leap that is indeed possible with your health and fitness. The opportunity is there for you so don’t you dare waste it!!!!

Twitt
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November 5th 2010

Guy fawkes night comes with a weather warning this year with many fireworks shows already called off. Everyone imagines these to be some kind of “cosy” night out, everyone hugging each other with sheepskin coats on and eating hot dogs. I can’t quite remember any of that going on myself in my past and perhaps it only exists in those corny american family films, are they corny or sickly? Whichever word is appropriate i think!!!

Anyway, how’s your week gone? Have you showed up this week for your workouts and done well? If you have, you should be proud of yourself that you are battling through the dark, wet nights and are literally changing your body for the better.

The economic climate dictates that there are less christmas parties going on this year, and in past years, some of you would have given december up completely when it comes to your health and fitness. You would have said “that’s enough for this year” and you were going to give it a good go in january!!!

Then you would feel absolutely dreadful in january and decide there and then that you wouldn’t let the same thing happen next year!!

Well here we are again, and the decision is again, are you going to have a good 7 weeks up to christmas or are you going to throw the towel in as soon as you see those sickening marks and spencer adverts for christmas, usually by Take That and Twiggy (i know some of you love take that so sorry but i find them sickening!!).

So by my reckoning and the lack of christmas parties around, you have less distraction this year and you should be really motivated to power into  december like you’ve never done before! Don’t forget one of the posts i made this week, for every week off you have, it takes 1-2 weeks to get back where you were so i can’t emphasise enough it really is to keep to your commitments most of you will have made at the beginning of 2010!!! January seems a long way off doesn’t it?

After all, wasn’t this the year you were REALLY going to keep it up all year long?!!! To those of you who have, you have my greatest respect and well done to you. Feeling good should feel pretty natural to you right now!!

Have a great weekend and get fired up to get outside the weekend, it can liberating to do workouts in the rain and you will feel great after you’ve had your bath or shower. Guy fawkes night and the last interruption before christmas, lets get on a mission and start upping your workouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twitt