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Tuesday, 25th January

Good workouts always come from a good night’s sleep, and you can never underestimate their importance.

If you struggle with sleep, then you are going to have to address that before you start getting the very best out of yourself.

Some people are early birds when it  comes to sleep, others can’t go to be before 11 or even midnight. As long as either get a good night’s sleep, then it doesn’t really matter when they go to bed, although going to bed earlier gives you more options when it comes to getting up earlier.

Missing sleep can always increases hormones in your body to increase body fat. Your body very much goes into defensive mode when it comes to lack of rest because it has to protect it’s immune system and not get broken down too much.

If you think of all these SAS survivial programmes, the one thing they say that breaks you down more than anything is lack of sleep, and the people who torture you will often use the method of keeping you awake to make you give in, and to even make you delirious!

Sleeping in the day for even small 10-15 minute periods can be of enormous help when it comes to making up somewhat for lost hours at night for whatever reason!

“Power naps” as most people know them can bring you added power during your evening workouts too. Athletes at all levels, and all sports use this tactic of bringing added freshness into their days and performances, and schedule them in as part of their day.

When you feel rested and fresh, you are usually capable of a lot more and you are sending messages to your body that you expect big performances out of it.

Don’t forget ever that you only improve when you rest and sleep, and not when you train. You break down your muscles and body during training, but when you recover, you heal, your immune system builds again and its only then that your body hits new heights of development.

The perfect formula of training smart, eating well and good rest can never change if you want optimum levels of health and performance.

Twitt
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Monday, 23rd January

Monday is the start of another week for you, another week of change and you wouldn’t like it any other way!

Change is inevitable and your body is changing right now. Your cells and body as a whole changes slightly every day, for the better or for worse.

Everything changes, the economy, business, technology, just about everything wants to go quickly and there’s nothing we can do about it!

When change happens, you either go along with it and do your best and look for all the benefits, or you can pretend it’s not happening and resist it, and get run over by it! Your choice but one of two things i going to happen!

You should see change as an opportunity for growth and fresh levels of health in your life.

If you eat pie and chips for lunch, doughnuts for snacks and a bottle of win tonight, then change is going to happen for you in terms of increased body fat, in terms of more body weight, in terms of lower energy and definitely make you far more irritable!

We talk about the other sort of change on here all the time, the one where you live healthy and we practice what we preach? You know that one!! You know all the benefits by now so hope i don’t have to remind you.

So if you accept there’s going to be two sorts of changes in your life that you can’t avoid, you will be fine.

The first one is the economy and weather, the economy is in the gutter right now, but will eventually get better, and the weather may be freezing or absolutely lovely, depending on time of year, you know how it is by now.

Regarding your health, that will only go downhill through your habits most of the time, or it will improve again through your habits most of the time!!!

Everything is spinning around all the time moving forward, up to you if you want to get on the bus and keep changing for the better!

Twitt
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Friday, 20th January

It can seem very difficult to be positive when your environment is seemingly negative.

It always takes work to be positive and motivated.

Bad things don’t always go away, but there’s a lot you can do to turn your negatives into the positive!

The people who end up being successful in getting into shape, and more importantly, stay there tend to be positive in their focus no matter what is going on around them.

From talking to them and using it as research, they tend to always mention their past successes, and don’t usually mention or certainly DO NOT dwell on their past failures. Their focus tends to be on the steps they can take to achieve their goals, rather than their distractions and negatives that life can bring more or less every day.

Being proactive in what you need to do is massive if you really want to get leaner, stronger and develop huge amounts of energy. You will find that these actions build on top of each other and you can reach optimum health levels with less work than you initially thought!

To increase your focus, try this game in your mind when you go to bed.

Review your day, recognise your successes, still focus on what’s to come in your future and make real detailed plans for you want to achieve the very next day.

If you don’t have a plan for the next day, it can drift and sometimes you won’t be able to get anything done. If you get used to achieving every day, then it will become normal everyday life for you and you will start becoming very successful without thinking it’s hard work at all!

If you do this at the end of the day, its been proven to stay in your unconcious mind up to 6 times more than in any other part of the day. Its like reading a child a book before bedtime, they not only fall asleep but often the lessons from the story and morals often become part of the child’s consciousness.

Programming yourself for success is all in the mind, and every bit of valuable information is handy to be taken onboard.

Twitt
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Thursday, 19th January

Educating individuals on how to eat well and maximise their potential is always difficult, depending of course on how much they know already, some people know a lot already and some know absolutely nothing.

It’s worth sticking at it though because of the enormous benefits that will come with a proper eating plan. Hopefully you are reading this every day for a no nonsense way to improve your health, so I have to lay it down to you as straight as possible!

I have met so many people who have transformed their lives by switching their fast food diet over to fresh natural foods. If you want better skin instantly, a stronger leaner tighter body, a much stronger immune system and an amazing level of energy, then make the move now!

I cannot overstate the results you are likely to get from throwing away your past life of eating empty calories which can lead to ill health and low energy levels, to one full of rich nutrients that will energise you to a much higher quality of life. This is no gimmick and there are no faddy diet clubs in sight, this is real and WILL work!!!

People always say that its hard to eat healthy all the time, but that statement is totally false. This pack of lies is usually told by people who are not really committed to turning their lives around.

The hardest part is the first week when you make the initial switch, there can be headaches, irritability, light headedness etc all in the first few days, but give yourself a few weeks of eating right and how can you go back to feeling the way you did before?!!!

You will be in the fast lane of development, I have met some people who only ate crisps and chocolate all day for whatever reason, then they changed to white meats and fish, wholegrain and whole wheat pasta, new, sweet and jacket potatoes, brown rice, lots of fruit and vegetables and a steady supply of water, and they made a transition of such magnitude, that people thought it was scarcely possible!!

People all the time will tell you theres a million ways to do things, but if why not keep it to the most sensible, tried and tested and as it happens, the most SCIENTIFIC way of getting it right with your body.

January 19th and still not too late to get into great shape by spring, only you can decide to do it!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 18th January

With the weather a bit up and down, or mostly down this time of year, you have may have been faced with inside options most of the time this winter!!!

This is not always a bad thing and it will help hammer home the importance of strength training, using resistance works full stop for a million and one reasons.

I was dealing with an individual today who has had a snowboarding accident and badly damaged his shoulder.

You may think that strength training is out of the question in this case, but its never been more important for him.

We can still work the legs very hard, and this often helps bring a weak area up for most people because you can give it much more of a concentrated effort.

The shoulder has calmed down a lot now, so i have introduced some fantastic shoulder exercises. This gentleman can normally use 30 pound dumbbells for his shoulder work, i have stripped it down now right to 5 pound dumbbells! This allows me to concentrate on building up the strength of the tendons and ligaments around the shoulder, and very gradually build his strength up again.

You can never be over cautious in this type of situation, but its imperitive to get back the strength and integrity of that shoulder joint!

Contrast this with an elderly lady i train who is looking at the same five pound dumbbells, but using them in a lot of different exercises to develop her strength, and she is well into here 70’s. She is getting tremendous benefits in every area of her life now from being fitter, stronger and healthier!!!

I am not going to put an exclamation mark after that because i find these days my clients in the 70’s are usually stronger than most 40 year old’s i know, and thats no exaggeration!!!

I try to treat each and every person on their individual abilities, and not discriminate against anyone on their age in particular!!!

Whatever their age, strength training will remain paramount in my plans for them!!!

Twitt