Monday, 3rd February
Don’t ever give in, offer resistance to those feelings you can’t get going.
Your body often doesn’t want to get going at the start of the week, it can often be coughing and spluttering, until you get it going and get it firing on all cylinders, but it will always take you walking through the door to get yourself going.
You will have support, plenty of it at the gym as you know.
But realise you will have plenty of support NOT to workout from
outside the gym. Many people will tell you that you don’t need to train, you don’t need to eat well and it’s okay if you moan about life every day, because the world is indeed against you.
Life is a series of choices and you have two forks in the road you can easily go down. Trust yourself, get your kit on, and even moving a little bit will make you feel better. That feel good feeling will be enough to make you come down the very next day, and fresh momentum will be yours.
The other choice will lead to you becoming stiff and out of breath again. Your clothes will feel tighter and aches and pains will come back thick and fast.
We all need a leg up, we all need support from time to time, but we must never lose sight of the truth.
The whole truth, nothing but the truth is that we always need to move more, we need to protect our immune system, we need to sort our heads out through exercise, and we need to get back into that magical groove of exercise right at the start of each and every week.
Monday is here, we have had a wonderful start, let’s get ready to do great things but it all starts with you moving first.
Thursday, 30th January
Have you won your day today?
Did you workout today?
Did you do something that you have never done before today? Did you get out some junk from your diet, and chose healthier food?
Did you put in a better performance in your. workouts today? Did the weights get a little lighter than usual?
Is your motivation better? Do you associate exercise now with feeling good? Did you walk on your lunch break?
Or was it a struggle to get out of bed today? You couldn’t face the challenge today (don’t worry tomorrow is another day and you can do it-we support you).
Did you walk or drive to the gym but couldn’t face walking in (don’t feel bad many go through this from time to time).Walking through the door is often the hardest bit!
Did someone put you off training and you listened to them? (time to get rid of your negative influences in your life).
Have you enough support in your life or do you need extra support? Maybe changing your environment into a more positive one can work dramatically.
Lots of things going on every day for ALL of you.
Life is a series of decisions and actions that ALL have consequences.
I REALLY want to help and support you, and tell me your story.
Tomorrow is Friday, it’s maybe the end of the week but it could be the START of a new exciting future for you IF you take action.
Thursday, 29th January
One of the most valuable skills you can learn is to manage your time. A spare 15 minutes can help you calm down, deep breathing works and so does closing your eyes for 15 minutes, getting calm for 15 mins in a day of chaos is ultra-valuable and will re-vitalise you.
A spare 30 minutes can be a great workout. I’m always glad and honoured to see you, and if you tell me you need to go for it, we can get stuck in and get your best half hour of the week in.
The term “spare” doesn’t always happen though. This is why you have to MAKE the time. Just like you do for brushing your teeth, shaving, having your hair done, scrolling social media, fetching the shopping, IF you really want it you will make the time full stop.
We all have times of being enthusiastic and some times of struggling for motivation.
The difference between great results and you losing interest and quitting is you keeping your commitment to show up no matter what, seeing it through no matter what and letting our environment drag you through the rougher patches of your life.
Protect your time, ditch the stuff that you don’t need to do and chipping away at something very productive for your life can have unbelievably GREAT consequences.
Wednesday, 29th January
Latest figures show that most of us will watch up to 5 hours of TV EVERY day on average. We will also look at our smartphones up to 5 hours a day.
Those minutes and hours all have a cost that lead to many lost opportunities in our lives, often giving up on the the things that REALLY matter to us.
We make time to brush our teeth, wash ourselves, to eat food, as these things are VITAL to us.
We say we have no time in our lives anymore as life is faster than ever, but many people say they have zero time for exercise and could not possibly fit it in as it is somehow “non-essential”, even if our lives will be much better and of higher quality because of it?
All our actions have consequences.
With the time we spend on phone, social media can be the main culprit. We all rely on significance and most of us like someone “liking” our post or picture.
Tech firms know that it gives us a boost, gives us significance in our lives to know we are appreciated and they actively track our interests and preferences, to make us feel better and ultimately sell us more “stuff”.
The tech firms rely on us being hooked to their devices.
The consequences of spending more time watching screens are often huge lost opportunities. A combined up to 10 hours screen time time daily can often make us feel we have no time for exercise.
That very decision not to get your trainers on can have a far-reaching impact.
It will lead to premature ageing and everything that comes with it, often ill health, feeling lethargic and end up with us feeling no ambition in our lives to actually get up and get “stuff done” anymore.
Surfing the internet can be fun, but it won’t come close the to the inner pride we develop when we re-discover what our bodies were created for-TO MOVE MORE.
Exercise is the catalyst to everything good in our lives.
More energy to look after our kids and grandkids, more energy to chase projects and aspirations we have put off for too long, more energy for higher performance all day long, as and when we need it.
Exercise and eating right makes us feel good full stop and that means being happy with who we are right now, and where we are going and what is possible in the future
Everything you do today can put you on a better path to huge energy and great possibility OR eventually a path of zero energy and much lower expectations at everything you view in life.
You are in charge, you are responsible and you are entirely capable of doing incredible things. Make it happen.