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Monday ,June 10th

Yesterday I did something stupid. I played football for the “dad’s” team in my son’s penalty shootout day. I was called on with no time for a warm up, and to be honest I felt good.

Most were walking around but a couple like Lee Stone were running everywhere. I bumped into literally an old adversary on the field who recalled I used to smash him when I played rugby, now he was intent on having his “own back”! He was only half joking I think judging by the way he played.

In the second half, a ball was passed through to me, and my competitive spirit got the better of me and I sprinted flat out to get it. I promptly pulled my hamstring. I knew instantly that serious pain was coming (a hamstring pull is like being shot in the leg), I have had way worse pulls but this still didn’t feel good and I wasn’t 21 anymore.

As soon as I got home, having barely being able to walk, I knew I had to get ice on it for 30 minutes every couple of hours. I iced it 4 times from 230pm Sunday, and then today a couple of times today. I also knew that an early night would only help speed my recovery.

Thoughts went through my mind that I would struggle to teach today. The reality was though that with each icing, the pain eased just a tiny amount, but there was progress.

This morning felt better again, and it eased throughout the day, the more I moved within reason.

This is a great example of dealing with injuries properly and quickly. My business depends me being fit and ready to perform at a high level each and every day, so strategies I have learned over the years I am eager to pass on to you. The fitter and healthier you are, the better our gym becomes.

Those of you live in pain have proved that exercise solves a lot of issues, and moving more can ONLY IMPROVE and LESSEN THE PAIN IN YOUR BODY.

I knew the very worst thing I can do today was not doing a thing. Gradual movement became my friend AND EVERYTHING SLOWLY began to ease.

I guarantee if you don’t move much, if you don’t exercise at all then your pain will only get WORSE. Not only your body but your mind too creating a massive deep rut that can be awful to get out of, until you get in a vicious circle of talking yourself into believing that you must REST all the time which only makes your pain worse.

I haven’t met one person yet who’s life wasn’t deeply enhanced by exercise, both in their body AND mind. You won’t get anywhere unless you continuously take action, continuously seek to get better and keep active, no matter how little you can do that day when you are in pain.

Movement is medicine, never forget it.

Twitt
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Thursday, 6th June

“Thanks for today, was close to not coming but so glad I did. Really needed it today.”

This is a message I get almost every day, and they are DEEPLY appreciated. I know we created a state of mind change, as well as a physical change, and here’s one more big thing to think about.

Over one month, how much do those moments add up, when you made your sessions instead of getting a takeaway instead?

Over one month how much do the right food choices make? Flooding your body with the right nutrients is incredible for your body, can you imagine how you would truly benefit from that if done regularly?

Over one month, imagine if you didn’t have someone really negative in your ear all the time, telling you not to even try to better yourself. IMAGINE someone positive pushing to try more, to be more and to embrace your true talents?

I was talking about the power of consistency and habits to someone I have trained for 22 years this morning, as he poured a smoothie for him and his wife this morning, imagine the power of that shake I told him for all these years, all those early morning workouts and the great effects that he had felt in his body and never being in pain.

The value of that can never be measured, as quality of life is of paramount importance. Be sure your habits will create an incredible present and future for you, your choices will dictate everything and the sooner you take full responsibility for that, then everything you want becomes very much possible.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 5th June

I see all of you as individuals but I also see us all as a team. Our team fills me with immense pride, and continuously has my brain working overdrive.

We have members who show up all the time and do great things. They love their training, their progress and how it has changed their life.

We have members who come and go, thinking you can train for a bit, change a bit and it will last forever. They realise eventually that this approach NEVER works and exercising is for life, and not for a month or two. They soon realise that short term thinking is an awful strategy, and eventually knuckle down and work hard.

We have members who are deeply supportive, doing an amazing amount of work for all of us by lifting us up, giving invaluable advice even when we don’t want to hear it, and in general making and helping us live much better lives.

Now and again, we have the odd negative member who no matter how much you help, they won’t apply themselves and think they know better. They approach life with the view that nothing is their fault, and everyone else is at fault, and its “someone else’s” fault they aren’t in shape (nothing to do with the 3-4 takeaways or bottles of wine per week though). We let these people follow their own path, because they need to find out out for themselves how destructive their choices are in all areas of their lives.

Our team gives me pride, I’m always on at everyone to do better because we have endless examples of members who are doing super great things. We are always building a great team, and I want our coaches to continue to develop and become better because NONE of us are perfect.

Our programmes are always evolving, and for me we are a BRAND NEW gym every 3 weeks because we put it on the line that often, confident that great programmes bring great results.

You know our values, you know what our standards are, and we really want you to continue to be part of our warm hearted, super supportive team that’s constantly evolving into something better.

Twitt
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Wednesday, June 4th

Being an underdog is something we can relate to very much. 

We know the power of an underdog, when nobody thinks you can do meaningful things, when everyone writes you off, when someone doesn’t believe in you that much, then it’s time for your REAL underdog power to be unleashed. When it gets lets loose, your recovery from deep adversity can be staggering.

Before people start with us, sometimes they think how would an “outsider” fit in with us. 

Yes, most of us know each other well after being in the gym for a while and most of us are always in red t-shirts, but we know what it’s like to be an outsider, someone left out of the “clique” or someone who has lost out to favouritism at certain times in our lives. 

In my experience, an “outsider” always does well with us because when you give anyone EQUAL opportunity, they usually do great things without fail. The so called outsider is no more, that individual become part of us, and benefits immensely from our culture of positivity, learns never to give up, and becomes a true fighter themselves like so many of the members we have on a mission to do great things.

We have lots of independent thinkers and creative spirits with us, lots of incredibly diverse personalities who make our culture much richer. 

The more opinions and creative minds, the more people who say out loud what they think if they are passionate in what they believe in, creates a culture of honesty, tolerance and broadens all of our minds to believe in a better future for everyone.

These people I talk about, the underdogs, outsiders, creative spirits and independent thinkers are engrained in our culture at the gym. We know everyone is different, and with time through hard work and patience, these individuals will turn into the unique, inspiring success stories and true believers in what we do.

I passionately believe that if you coach anyone constantly every session, and they show up at least three times a week for 3 months, they will feel so incredibly better, and will start to realise suddenly all the incredible things that they an accomplish. 

If they keep showing consistently for a year, their progress can be staggering both in the bodies and mind. In a year you can embed in someone’s mind habits they can create a radically different, and much more exciting future than perhaps they were prepared to “settle for before they started to exercise.

We encourage you to be different, not giving up on the dreams you had as a kid, is to be very much welcomed, and achieving great things some people thought you couldn’t should be greatly celebrated.

This is what we can all do with enough support.

Twitt