We talk all the time about making huge performance gains, and how you can enable yourself to reach impressive levels of fitness, but sometimes its all too easy to forget where we first started.
It is usually a nervous time when you first start exercising, and we all remember that particular period of our lives.
You may or not be surprised that there is an increasing number of individuals who start training who have blood pressure problems, heart disease, diabetes and bone/joint problems, i personally have seen this trend go up sharply over the last 17 years.
This shows that the starting point for everyone can be remarkably different.
So if you are just nervous about beginning to exercise, imagine how hard it is to start the health and fitness journey with a known disease?!!! Some people never overcome this mental hurdle of actually making a start, and this is a shame. I call it a shame because i have so many people who have started with various ailments, and have gone on to achieve some pretty special things.
If you think its impossible for someone in her fifties to do triathlons after high blood pressure worries when she first started, then think again!
If you think its impossible for someone classed as physically disabled to learn how to run for the first time, then guess again.
If you think its not just possible for someone with deep breathing problems to run a full marathon in 8 months, then you’re going to be wrong because with the right training, the right eating and right guidance, it can be done!!
So you can see that the so called “starting point” is very much different for everybody, and wherever you are right now, there is absolutely nothing that should put you off!!!
