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Faster, stronger, better!

Faster, stronger, better are words to describe ultimate progress in your programme, your development and all possible in 2010.

All of this will/would have been possible if you just did one VERY IMPORTANT/VITAL thing so far in 2010. If you have been truly consistent with your training and eating through every month of 2010, you WILL be celebrating great health by now and feeling as strong as a bull, and a great eagerness to get better and better.

This is not fantasy land and if you look back at your progress over the last few months, you will understand where you went wrong and where you went wrong.

Chances are that you’re truly honest with yourself, you will sit down and have a plan of attack. You will look back at the very good months, and be dismayed at the mediocre months, wondering “if only”.

Its not time to look back though and feel sorry for yourself, as this becomes a very dangerous habit. Being down and looking at the most negative possible outcome often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its time to break this once and for all, and look at the brighter side of things and life in general.

Chances are that if you think things are not going to work out, then they won’t. If you’re bright and optimistic, you have every chance of getting into seriously good shape.

Back to the opening sentence, yes you will have become faster if you’re lighter, you have less body fat and your fitness is good, which is should be by now.

You should be stronger by now, a lot stronger as I always encourage you to do strength  work a minimum of twice a week.

For all this effort this year in 2010, the 12 week challenge, everything really, you should be considerably BETTER than the start of 2010.

If you’re not, re-examine why everything fell off the rails and realise you can DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! Sorry for shouting but I’m serious, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW AND STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF!!

Its only august, you have 4 months left to become faster, stronger and better, time to get a move on!!!

Twitt
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Annette goes on a journey

Annette James of Picton Sports has just got back into her training, after a break of around ten years or so!

 It’s always important to see how different people react to exercise, and in this case, after a very long lay off, with the responsibilities of two children, and a busy business to look after.

Annette got her first session under her belt last night, so i thought you’d like to hear in her own words, how she found it.

“Hi Keri

My first proper workout for at least 10 years with you yesterday and it was hell!!!.  Mixture of feelings before, during and after.  A bit anxious before we met up because I haven’t done anything for a good while apart from walk the dog which I thought would have kept me pretty fit.

  Boy was I wrong!!!!.  During the workout I felt awful.  Thought I was going to be sick and was completely defeatist the whole time.  I couldn’t wait for the workout to end and all the way through I was thinking there was no way I was putting myself through this again!

  Afterwards though on my drive home I felt pretty good and went straight to do my food shop before I changed my mind (bought loads of healthy things for me and my family). I felt a  bit disappointed with myself for having such a negative mental attitude throughout the workout.  I think if I had been more positive I could have done alot better (being weighed and measured for the first time in years didn’t help)

 Woke up this morning not aching much but feeling very tired.  There is no way I am giving up and having to go through that first workout all over again in a few months time. I am taking my eating and exercising one day at a time.  The only way is up!

Annette

This is a highly encouraging start and the most important thing now is to keep going after a tough start.

Annette realises that food is key too and she hs already set out to get a good shopping list in.

She has every chance of getting back to where she was 10 years ago, and a whole lot more in my view.

All she needs is to be consistent, start believing in herself again and focus on making slow but gradual improvements.

This is her big chance to do it again, feel better, look her best and achieve big things once again.

Annette will post regularly, so it will be fun to keep up with her progress!

Twitt
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Your type of start to the week

So how do you face this monday? Is it in good shape or bad shape? Lots of energy or no energy? Full of enthusiasm or down and out? Intent on having a big week or don’t care either way? Proud of your achievements or given up on yourself?

Whatever your situation, you can change it for the better right now.

How many of you have had a heavy drinking session on friday, saturday or sunday or all three? If you have, perhaps you are in not the greatest moods to have a big week for your exercise. Scaling back your weekend drinking will help a lot, and im someone who likes a few drinks from time to time at the weekend, so i know how it feels to struggle through the day after, it hurts!!!

We always like to talk about how important monday is, how pivotal it is to us to getting momentum for a big week, so its vital we set the conditions in place to get you all off to a flier!

If eating healthily on the weekend goes against the grain a bit for you, lets try and fix that on monday. The most simple thing you can do right now is drink just water the rest of the day. This will clean your system out and the toxins built up on the weekend will leave and create a great base for the rest of the week.

Now that your system is primed for improvement, its time to flood your system with nutrients, im talking fruit and vegetables, im talking good carbs and protein, all designed to give your body the best possible chance of having a highly energetic week, not only that but giving your body the best chance of repairing its broken down muscle tissue, from all those workouts.

This is a highly underrated process and if you want this whole thing to work very well without any unnecessay pain, you have to get  with the programme and lets do it rght now!!

Give yourself that chance today, come on lets do it right now and get active, give your body all the nutrients it deserves and lets have a bet right now.

I bet you right now that if you are willing to give this programme everything right now, and im talking today MONDAY, you will feel significantly better in yourself by the end of the week, leading to even more expectations next week. Its that easy and its that rewarding!!

Let’s make it happen!!!

Twitt
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Big end to the week-let’s make it happen!!!

For some of you, the end of the week is the chance to get one more workout in before the weekend. You may then take the weekend off, or just do a low key workout and be glad to enjoy the time off.

For others though, and there are plenty of you, the weekend really is the time when you get your BEST workouts in.

I know some of you go on very long and demanding walks, enjoying the countryside and scenery which can be breathtaking.

Some of you enjoy long bike rides, and the weekend represents the only time when you have such an opportunity.

Whatever your way of staying in shape, i applaud your efforts and your courage to do so. We go on all the time about people who talk a good game, or are simply reluctant to take the plunge to get fit and healthy, so make sure you know you are one of the few who take their health and fitness seriously. You should know that if you are regular reader of this site.

This is also a time of year when events are popular too. From certain bike rides like the gower bike ride which has been and gone, the mumbles childline triathlon which we organise every year at the end of april, to the swansea 10k run at the end of september, these are all events anyone can take part in, and all of which are more enjoyable if you’ve put in a bit of preparation for. We have plenty of ideas on here for those sort of events, and how to measure your progress and combine your training.

I realised the other day also that we’ve already posted hundreds of times on here, so that means we are developing a library of information on here for you to use to reach new heights, to figure out what’s going wrong and what’s going right with your programme. If you’re struggling for motivation, then there’s absolutely tons of ways on here to get fired up about your training, your eating and ways on how to get your desire to improve to amazingly highly levels.

There’s also the 12 week challenge we had earlier this year. If you click on this on the right hand side of page, you can go back from day 84 all the way back to day 1, which charts a lot of history on how your mental state can be challenged over 12 weeks, and strategies that need to be used to counter the obstacles and challenges that always come along when you’re talking about a period as long as 12 weeks.

Some people stuck it out, some didn’t and hopefully we all did actually learn a bit about ourselves throughout that time.

The good news is that we will repeat that process in january 2011, and you’re all welcome to get in your best shape all over again!

Have a great weekend!

Twitt
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It’s not enough to say “i go to the gym sometimes”!

How many times have you heard that! “I go to the gym sometimes, i go swimming sometimes, i go on my bike sometimes with the kids, i go walking with my friends sometimes”!!

Why does that word “sometimes” come up so often, in fact most of the time with most people!

So are all of those comments enough to get you in shape? Or into the shape you REALLY want to be in?

If you have been reading this for some time, you know instead of mentioning the word sometimes, i tend to use the word “consistency”. Sometimes in my book means potching, half-hearted, haphazhard, without much commitment. You know by those descriptions that if you do anything “sometimes”, you’re not going to become much good at it.

So isn’t it time you blew out that approach and stop pretending that your committed to your health and fitness. Can we stop it right there, finish it and cut the lousy attitude. That attitude may work in coffee mornings or the walk once a month brigades, but it definitely doesn’t work on here, where we tend to be far more honest and revealing on what REALLY gets you into shape!

Annette who joined last night wants to get into shape and i want to sincerely help her achieve that.

She needs to look at the exercise/workouts section and look at the ideas i have for inside workouts.

She needs to go into the eating/diet section to get plenty of eating ideas that can get her into seriously good shape.

Then, there’s a million and one blogs on here on the mind and motivation. You will know by now that if you’re not mentally with it, you’re going to struggle getting your workouts in, making sure you eating regularly and the right selection of food, getting enough sleep for example, all the essential elements if this time once and for all, you’re really going to get into shape!

Then its all back to consistency, you have to be doing all of these basics pretty much most of the time. The days of “sometimes” really have to go, and your workouts, eating well, sleeping well etc have to become your lifestyle from now on.

Annette, please send me your current schedule, in fact please post it on here, then we can talk it through and take it step by step until you’re back up and running again with some momentum in your health and fitness again.

Good luck and look forward to hearing from you!

Keri

Twitt