Monday, 22nd February

Every hour of the day we are making decisions on our future without even noticing it.This is a no judgement piece so don’t take it personally whatever group you fit into!Many of you have had incredible Mondays, and got through one of our most different and challenging workouts, had a great sweat and feel incredible, the feedback has been massive into my inbox.

You will realise that there’s no point in training that well if you’re not going to EAT well afterwards, so a good nutritious meal tonight maybe high on your agenda.Some of you no doubt missed the workout today, things got away from you and you may have put things off until tomorrow, and you may as well eat rubbish tonight because there’s “no point if you don’t train”, that maybe your thought process right now.Some of you may even like large parts of lockdown, you don’t have to leave the house and got used to it, and it suits you just fine and you have no intention of changing in the near future-again no judgement we respect all of you!All three situations are easy to get into, and all have different outcomes.

I do know though that if you are missing workouts, and that becomes a habit, and you have become someone “who used to exercise”, but will get back into it “someday”, then from experience of training many people over a lot of years, I know “someday” can easily end up leading to a place called “nowhere”, just next to a town called “NEVER”.Our workouts are the catalyst, the SPARK to a brighter future and directly influence our decisions, which ultimately dictate our DESTINY.Life is a series of choices, and accepting the outcomes that come with it. It’s never too late to choose your future.

Sunday, 21st February

I really and strongly believe if you feel you have lost your youthful exuberance for life, then you have given in and let life pass you by, but it’s nowhere too later to turn the ride.All that hope you had as a kid, needn’t have gone away and you shouldn’t be hoping for retirement as some kind of “escape” from life.

For the record, so many have turned “retirement” into a brand new START and are thriving in it BECAUSE you are so active.Kay Owen for example at 81, said the other day she had almost lost her “militant” ways, and was glad she re-discovered them by always trying to do what she though was right for the community by showing what she could still do in exercise and positivity terms and how things should change!!

Anytime, making that EVERY time, someone tells me not to go for it, or try a new project with a high possibility of failing (in their eyes not mine), I re-gather the information and go EVEN HARDER at it, and I encourage you to do the same.

Anytime anyone tells you to “calm down” and accept a life of mediocrity and “fitting in” for the sake of not making a fuss, even if your intentions are honourable and helping others, I urge you to keep going and never stop.

THEY are the ones you must realise who have FORGOTTEN how to live and go for it themselves, they have become a “prisoner” to their lack of ambition, “fitting in with the crowd” just to please others, and ultimately losing their independence and sense of worth and belief in themselves.

Get the fire back in your belly, get out for a walk, get an exercise plan going that will constantly improve you, get some good food down you, so you can get ready and get the energy to cause a “ruckus” in life again.I urge you today to re-discover your passions, your enthusiasm and yes think like a kid again with big ambitions, and back to a time when you thought NOTHING was impossible, you will feel a lot more liberated and feel heck of a lot better for it and finally most importantly feel like YOURSELF again!!!