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Valentines day-resolutions collapse day!

Hopefully, you are having a great valentines day, and you have managed to keep at least one person happy today, some people buy into it more than others, so if you do then thats great for you!!!

Im trying to stay very positive indeed today even though my headline is all about new year resolutions and how they are about to collapse today!! Or so the latest research tell us. This is partly because once you embark on these resolutions, you need an actual good solid plan to take you where you want to be.

Its amazing after the weekend how content most people are to pay a gym membership and simply not improve during 6 months or even year. “If it makes the wife happy even though she doesnt improve” is NOT a valid reason to just “last out” a gym membership bought for christmas. The question of results from a gym membership seems to be beyond a lot of people.

The attitude seems to be that if you go training, you somehow will reclaim your youth and somehow look pretty amazing again. Not many people seem to know how that magical transformation actually happens. Is it smoke and mirrors? Is it magic portions or magic broth? Do you have to wear certain colours or certain clothes that make you look smaller and leaner than you actually are? Surely we have come out of the 18th century?!!!!

So if you’re one of those again this year that new years resolutions havent happened for, dont despair, there is another way and all it takes a different attitude that doesn’t put up with any of that rubbish anymore, please don’t fall for it!!!

It would make heck of a difference if this week you worked out with weights this week monday, wednesday and friday. It would make a huge difference if you got out in the fresh air running/walking or cycling this week. You will feel a hundred times better….minimum!!!!!

Go and do a proper shop tonight, and don’t put all that fatty and sugary food in your trolley, SIMPLY DON’T DO IT if you want to turn the corner right now and smash those new year failures once and for all, if you’re in the mood for not taking it anymore, right here is the right place to be so what are you waiting for?

The time is now february 14th for change, and a chance to start loving your body and feeling great. Its only by doing this you can help others so lets stop being selfish and lets go for it!!

Twitt
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Feb 11th

Friday is usually seen by many of you as the last workout of the week, and often the best for some of you!

Just before the weekend is a time to measure up your gains, and if you’ve stayed off alcohol all week, a good session should wait.

Let’s get over this “eating well is boring”!!! That’s absolute rubbish and you know it!

Eating healthily is really not about eating the same old stuff all the time, its really not.

If you’re struggling to make healthy eating “exciting” or other such adjectives, then theres plenty of ideas in cookbooks around the world on how to cook healthy AND interesting!! In fact, you don’t really have to buy any books if you don’t want to, although they will be handy to get out whenever you want. There are literally thousands if not millions of recipes on the internet, and most of them are free!! So there is really no excuse to eat badly, or to eat processed food out of a freezer out of your local supermarket, or to eat takeaways every night, or to eat on your way home in the local petrol station which often doubles now as a min-supermarket too!!

I’m all for having occasional treats, it keeps you sane after all, but the frequency and the quantity are key elements in the equation and you have to keep getting it right. One bar of chocolate doesn’t have to turn into two or three, your version of chocolate could well turn to green and blacks, which is famous dark chocolate made from the finest Trinitario cocoa beans for an intense taste, or so the packet says anyway!!!

 This is a more guilt free way of eating chocolate, not to everyone’s taste of course but less fat and sugar, far less sugar than most chocolate in fact, which is great news in not expanding your stomach and hips of course!!!! The most guilt-free options are often valid substitutes for the more well-known brands, which are of no nutritional value at all, and definitely no help to your ttraining, the worst of both worlds then!!!

Have a great end to the week and a great weekend of training, saturday and sunday is when most people have got more time so one less excuse to worry about!!!

Twitt
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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