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10th february 2011

Good to see some comments about asthma here today!! As i mentioned before, i used to be a heavier user of pumps in my childhood and exercise did the trick for me, it gave me confidence, it give me some clear breathing, i stopped wheezing, i started getting better at sports, i started getting more confidence, i felt better full stop and that was the bottom line!!! And i developed more confidence!!!

You noticed i used that word CONFIDENCE, CONFIDENCE, CONFIDENCE THREE TIMES!!!! and it was deliberately for sure.

Most of you only need that-confidence, there i said it once again didn’t i?

The world is full of people who don’t have the confidence to carry out a fitness programme and succeed in it for this every season.

You are not too fat, too negative, too weak, not talented enough, too emotionally weak-that really is NOT you and you can turn it around right now. Please believe it, its all you have to do, no but’s, you have to believe in yourself!!!

As i keep telling you, harry redknapp who is the manager of tottenham hotspur football club or Spurs as many know them, said the true secret of management is CONFIDENCE, theres that word again!!! All he does, he says is install belief and confidence in his players. He says that a football player can have all the ability in the world, but if they don’t have belief, they will founder and not achieve anything!!!

When you go on a journey to your favourite shop, you have total belief that you will get there in one piece, you may have traffic jams on the way, you may get diverted, but in the end you get there.

With your fitness programme, you really need to believe you can get there, in the end, by a diversion or even in a straight line!!! The “in a straight line” doesn’t happen often i can tell you. There are always challenges along the way, but if you are consistent and you always take action no matter what, it WILL happen for you and you HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT.

If you believe or don’t believe you can really get amazing health and fitness, then you’re right. What you believe in and have confidence in is what will decide your outcome.

One of the goals must be no more asthma pumps long term, start today by taking action and having confidenc!!!!

Twitt
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February 9th 2011

Talking about improving your training efforts, here are some easy ways to achieve exactly that.

A very good start would be to keep a training record of what you do. For example, if you go for a run on monday for 20 minutes on a hilly course, write it down and try and state how you feel too, was it easy, hard, did you have to walk most of it, did you do more than planned for example?

Then the next week you can go into the same run fully aware of what it would take to improve on that. If the previous week you managed 20 consecutive minutes but had to then stop, the a run of even 21 minutes would be seen as an improvement, so set that as your goal if time exercising is your goal. A better goal would be run a little bit further, so even if that takes the same 20 minutes, its a very real improvement. Going more distance in the same amount of time is a major achievement and is much more meaningful in my book.

If your training diary says that that you only trained twice last week but planned 3 times, then work out why you didnt do it. Did you expect to do it in the evening around 5pm, but something kept coming up? The best solution for me would be to switch the workouts to first thing in the morning, you’re less likely to have so many things going on before work or even before breakfast.

Working out in the morning takes the excuses out of your life, and can set you up to have a great day. It works for many people i know and now that they have got into early morning training, they would never go back to evening training. Plus you tend to burn body fat quicker before breakfast so it can work on many levels.

The key to improving your training is your training diary, write your progress down and you will feel much more motivated to improve, putting good pressure on yourself is a great way to keep you moving forward, instead of being stuck in a rut!!!

Twitt
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February 8th

Now your basic level of conditioning is in, its time you thought about raising your performance!

Before getting into different ways of doing so on a traning basis, i would look at your diet before you do anything at all. If you keep eating rubbish foods full of fat, sugar and salt, you will be HIGHLY unlikely TO GET INTO GOOD SHAPE FULL STOP!!! This is the first thing you need to do before you move forward, or everything becomes a real struggle for you and things will not be easy for you, no matter how hard you work on your training. Its time to be honest, realistic and blunt if it means you getting to your goals quicker, if at all!!!

The old saying that you can eat anything you want as long as you train hard is totally false, and perhaps one of the most misleading claims you have heard for years but was foolishly wrong! You lose nutrients out of your body when you train hard, so it becomes vitally important to replace them as soon as possible.

Good food is good for your body in so many ways, in fact don’t see it as good, see it as vital in your goal to become the best you can be.

It makes sense to say that if you are 15 stone to start, and begin training hard, life will become a lot easier when you are down to 14 stone. Simply being lighter allows you to move more free, you will have less strain on your joints, you will have more energy and you will be far more positive because you have already lost a stone. You will develop the required momentum to easily come down from there.

The key to this remains your eating, without repeating myself too much, this has to be in place before you waste too much effort. Approach your eating and training with equal effort, and this way you get double results!!!

More on training improvements tomorrow!!

Twitt
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7th February

If you’re still struggling to be in shape, then don’t worry, you can still get into great shape.

For example, if you have exercised before and have got into decent shape, you should be able to get into shape again far quicker than you did the first time around. It’s called a little thing called “muscle memory”!

So all the pain and patience you took to get into looking good in the first place honestly WILL count this time around. There have been numerous scientific studies that show that its a lot easier to get into shape second time around, or even third or fourth time around in some cases!!! Some of you may even be in the teens when it comes to attempting to being in shape but don’t worry, thats cool with me, after all im here to help.

The only thing that may actually be stopping you the most is your mind. Putting yourself through all of this another time is extremely tough for a lot of people, even if the path you are about to go on is already greased and ready for you!!!

This is when your positivity for the task at hand is really tested out. There must be ten negative people out there for every one positive person out there. If you listen to the crowd, even attempting to get into shape may seem “well above your station”!! Don’t listen to these perennially negative sorts, either ignore them or tell them to shove it, plain and simple!!!

People in the main may not want you to get into shape again because they don’t have the guts and determination to do it themselves. Sure, anyone can go to a few weight watchers meetings and high five each other and feel great, thats par for the course at this time of year. Statistically, all that high fiving is about to collapse again this time of year, so its about time you developed some tougher resolve and a more meaningful plan, or you’re going to keep paying those lovely weight watchers people a lot of money over the next 40 years!!!

Lets go over it again and look in the diet/food section, hows your shopping list looking?

Hows your workouts looking in the training section, theres plenty on there!!! Are you training with drive and enthusiasm or are you going through the motions, how hard you train will dictate your actual results.

Are you sleeping enough, nothing worse for training and results than poor sleep.

Are you still drinking alcohol more than once a week, good results may be a thing of the past for you. Cut it down to once max if you want meaningful results you can be proud of!!!

Twitt
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Feb 4th 2011

A massive day for anyone who likes sport today, wales versus england at the millennium stadium and it doesnt get better than this surely!!

The game has been spiced up by various comments on different players and as i write this, i hear than ben foden, who is england full back today, claims that it is time england put its “little brother” wales in their place!!! This will surely get most welsh people’s blood boiling as we read this!!! God knows what effect it will have on the players, but my wild guess is that it will add even more fury to tonights game, which is great in my book and will only add to the entertainment and the whole occasion in general!!!

Anytime you get riled by something, its good to use it as a tool and not let it control you and you become your worst enemy.

For example, if tonight when a lot of people in pubs are drinking quite a bit, then its not beyond the realms of possibility that a fight could break out in some places. This is sad of course and the next day, both parties would probably regret it.

A lot of people actually get motivated to do positive things when they are riled and angered in some way. Wales in rugby tonight will probably be best to use those verbal taunts as a positive and play their very best rugby, instead of using it by being ill-disciplined. This is probably what england expect of course and i really think tonight that discipline will win the game tonight, who can keep their head’s when everyone else is losing theirs!!

Making the most of negativity towards you can be a great tool for you. If someone makes fun of your weight, then prove them wrong and use that anger to get into great shape, it will literally make those same people making the comments speechless and you will probably or make that definitely earn enormous respect for your transformation.

There is a positive out of every negative situation, all you have to do is read it properly and use the angle you want to properl you to new heights!!!

Twitt