It’s very easy to walk away from this programme, and even easier to never start it. It takes guts and determination to get through it and finish it, and you will do well if you finish it and achieve big things! I’m getting some pretty inspiring stories through too, such as daughters and sons nagging their parents to keep on going, even when the parent doesn’t want to sometimes!
When questioned, the main reason the parent wasn’t going to exercise that night was due that old chestnut “I didn’t have time”! That’s my favourite one, or at least my favourite in a most pathetic kind of way.
If you look at the training/workouts section of this blog, some of those workouts are 15-20 minutes long. I work on this theory and it’s heavily based on actual progress, and actual results. Anyone who has ever been through it will know exactly what I’m talking about.
If you start off being able to do 4 press ups, then 6 weeks later you may be able to do 30, would you say you progressed? Of course you have, if you did 20 squat thrusts to start with, and 6 weeks later you are up to 100, did you progress? It doesn’t take a genius to work that one out, so good you’re getting it!
Three circuits of 5-6 exercises takes a maximum of 20 minutes including water breaks! So what exactly are you spending your time on? What do you exactly base “I haven’t got time on”?!!
Most people work so 8 hours there if you’re full time, let’s give you 8 hours a sleep night, family responsibilities I will give you 3-4 hours after work? Is that fair? So we have 19-20 hours, so is the 4-5 extra hours (at least) in place for neighbours, emmerdale, coronation street, and eastenders, sorry I forgot holby city? And what about silent witness, or jordan’s latest exploits too? Sorry, I forgot that life was supposed to be about all of these?!
So even allowing for all of that, you probably have a couple of spare hours, yet you need just 15-20 minutes to turn your life around, and you can’t manage that? Compare that to driving to some gyms, 20-30 mins there and back, then a workout and that’s nearly 90 minutes to 2 hours out of your night, same with the swimming pool?
So the question is again, is 15-20 minutes too much inconvenience in your schedule to get you into shape, sorry I forgot about the pub on the way home, the petrol station to get wine, the spar to get chocolates, and tesco to get your ready meals? There are more important things every day than your health, I apologise!!!
If you’re reading this for the first time, then you may think who this crazy person is, but I make no apology for stating the obvious!!! Many people justify all of these actions, most people have become very skilful at making excuses why they aren’t in the physical condition they want to be!
What would happen if you actually committed to the 20 minutes most days, and within 3 months, people started saying “wow, you’re looking great, what have you been doing?!!!”, would you like that? Would you like people saying that those clothes are hanging on you? You should buy a size that fits you?!! Would you like that or not? Would you like to be on the beach or certainly wearing less clothes, and people commentating on how amazing you look now and you look 10 years younger? THIS IS POSSIBLE AS LONG AS YOU QUIT MAKING YOUR EXCUSES NOT TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t fool yourself anymore, this IS possible, I’m repeating myself and I want to know when you are going to give yourself the body and health you really deserve?!!!!! I’m excited anyway because I’m living this every day and I’m helping others to achieve their dreams! Nothing better when you see someone you are training and their clothes no longer fit, and they realise they are getting into their best ever shape, that’s a great feeling for all of us, so let’s pick up the pace and really hammer the remaining 40 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please take 20 mins out of your day to improve yourself, tomorrow will then look a little better!
once you admit the excuses you are making or made in the past, you then take 10 steps forwards.
I’ve been guilty of making those excuses especially when my daughters off school,but i found out i may have boboed up in the week, but still found time to catch at some where in the week.Even if it meant the weekend which i like to have at least 1 day off then 🙂
Breakfast Ready Brek with bananas &strawberries OJ diluted
snack nothing no time
lunch tuna &lettuce and a pear
snack Nat yog with some nuts and rasins with a glass of water
dinner fish, wedges (my own) and french beans,peas carrots and coli florets.
v good cyril,snacks can be eaten on the go though? dont miss meals and keep up the excellent understanding of what you are trying to achieve!
success is showing up 80% of the time-woody allen, and you do show up most of the time cyril so well done!
Up at 6.30, running by 7.30, 30mins run, 20min walk. Picked Jasmine up at 8.45, breakfast 10am same old
Took Jasmine to Adventure Playground in Country Park, one and a half hours of climbing ropes and every other apparatus in the park, then we went to the beach. So that WAS my afternoon workout.
3pm Dinner 2slices of granery bread, tuna salad, ice cream cornet with Jasmine
7.30 E/meal too knackered to cook, so had porridge and fruit again, with some protien.
Away 2mo, there is a hill where the caravan is, on the way to Fishguard, not quite as steep as the Graig hill but not far behind it, goin to try that for my hill work on Thursday, cant believe I am quite excited bout that, will let you know how I get on. Can only take my running shoes, no bike rack still. Easiest thing in the world, making excuses, hardest thing, JUST DOING IT. Harder still JUST DOING IT and getting no results. Normally when I eat and train like this, “when my head is right” I can lose weight easily. Know I threw my toys out of the pram, still what choice do I have but to carry on.
okay you are throwing your toys out of the pram, its good for you sometimes and we all do it, you have to be yourself at all times jean, and im glad to hear you telling it like it is. Last week you were excited, then the scales tell you you are not making progress, but im sure even the scales will be kind to you very soon! People who live their lives by the scales usually are up and down on their emotions, but good to hear you getting EXCITED about that big hill to come, more like the old you jean!!!
If you consistent, you are improving full stop, how long the traditional indicators take to tell you that is never always on time, so stick with it and i want another EXCITED post from you very soon when you tell me you were glad you stuck with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!