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Tuesday, 30th August

Many of us enjoy improvements in our health and fitness and every area of our lives, or at least the thought of it. Many of us though fear becoming “too successful” and get scared once good things start to happen.

Some of us will “self sabotage” our progress if we start doing too well. If this sounds like madness to you, it’s actually true that i have seen many times over the years.

Many of us, if we start exercising, eating well and start being more positive improve strongly physically and start to improve in all areas of our lives. We have undeniably proof that if you stay consistent with exercise and healthy eating, then great things are possible.

Then the “i don’t deserve it” feelings start to enter our minds. We have done well we tell ourselves, but the true big successes that we CAN achieve we are not worthy of. It also becomes easier to give in to those people who doubt us and write us off.

You can get these feelings when going for promotion for example, you can do the supervisor job well, you may have actually done it several times, but “you” do not deserve it somehow.

You may buy a new car, and feel really uncomfortable when doing it, especially if its a big step up, telling yourself that it’s nice but you somehow are not “worthy” of it.

These feelings are common in changing your health for the better, some of you may have incredible photos and transformations, but you may feel that enough is enough, and you don’t deserve anymore, and to feel and look that amazing somehow, just because it’s too uncomfortable and you may give in who tried to put you off along.

Self-sabotage means you may turn back to over-eating, not exercising, feeling negative again just because the success you have had makes you feel so far out of your comfort zone.

Beware self-sabotage, embrace the success you are having and have had, and realise you totally deserve the great things that have come into your life, and you’re every bit as good as everyone else who has worked as hard as you have, and now it’s time for you to enjoy the rewards.

Everyone experiences doubt and indecision, it’s how you handle those crucial moments that dictate your ultimate destiny. We are actually more powerful than we ever thought and sometimes that’s what scares us most. We are often more scared of the light than the darkness as the old saying goes.

Twitt
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Sunday, 21st August

One of the most common questions i get from those of you who have just started is “this exercise is great but what do i do to get rid of my stomach?”.

Your programme is composed to have total balance to hit everything on your body, or it’s not a good programme. Ill-thought out programmes won’t work well for you, and will often cause imbalances and even injury. That is the first thing we concentrate on, making your programme sound and fundamentally improve you in every area.

The days of doing endless sit ups for your stomach ended in the last century, and you will see now that we have countless alternatives, working your core as a whole (your back, hamstrings, bum, thighs, groins, hips, stomach muscles etc), and once you go through our programmes, you will soon realise we attack that area very strongly indeed AND every other area.

So the bottom line is you need to STICK with the programme, get through ALL of it, buckle down to the hard work required, and show up a minimum of 3 times a week. THERE’S NO OTHER WAY TO GET THE AMAZING RESULTS WE REGULARLY DEMONSTRATE. It doesn’t happen by accident, by “hoping for the best” or by luck.

One more thing so your stomach looks even better-YOU WILL NEVER OUT-TRAIN A BAD DIET-please remember that.

Twitt
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Tuesday, 9th August

There’s a big difference between wishful thinking and being optimistic with your health and fitness.

If you are optimistic, then you are looking for progress but you are willing to put in a big effort to get it. You are actively working on getting what you want and you will look at the positives along the way. You will be hungry to know what works, what’s really going to help you and you will be prepared to put the work in no matter what, knowing good things will come of it eventually.

If you rely on wishful thinking, then you hope things somehow fall into place, although you aren’t prepared to do any work along the way so that can happen. You will happily pretend that you train although you may never show up, never eat healthy and you “hope” that it all will work out in the end. This approach always fails because there is no substance and no real plan.

Someone who works hard develops opportunities because they put in strong foundations through constant efforts. They put in the work even though it doesn’t offer guaranteed results to begin with, they know that by working hard good things will eventually happen. They have a sense of purpose and they believe their good workouts will eventually have a positive impact on their lives.

When you are optimistic, you are looking to make a positive contribution and this will always give you the momentum to keep on going.

Your body will always remember what you gave to it, in terms of good workouts and in healthy eating. Look after it by putting good stuff in, and it will look after you.

Be optimistic and give yourself the self-belief you really need, and be prepared to put the work in that comes with it and great things are bound to happen.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 3rd August

Nobody can stop you from choosing to be exceptional at anything you decide to do. The hardest part is starting, then if you show enough enthusiasm and start getting results, then usually others will want you to help them in their pursuits too, this is how important going after things with everything you have actually is.

If you still are undecided about getting active or doing just about anything, fast forward your life to a year from now, and you will probably wish you started today after all. Nobody has a day or week to waste, leave alone a year.

Once you get fit and healthy, you will become more positive because you will start to believe in your ability more, one step leads to another positive step.

You will have more appetite for life, more enthusiasm, more passion, you will make more commitment to other things you’ve wanted to do, you will try more things even if you fail, because you know that if you keep on going you will get there in the end because you have had challenges through exercise, and although you may have struggled initially, you taught yourself to keep on going and get through it no matter what.

You will grow as a person because you are going through more experiences and challenges all the time, and you will develop an appetite for change-one thing we are guaranteed to experience in life is change so we need to embrace it, and never hide from it.

The biggest impact we can make though is make a difference to others. If we are running a business, we want to impact others like nobody else has before. Impacting someone else’s health in a positive way is a great and rewarding responsibility to have.

When you get healthy, you are not only helping yourself, you develop the energy to help others in their lives too, your positive attitude will encourage others to change too for the better no matter how low they feel.

It all starts with the choice you make right now.

Twitt
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Monday, 1st August

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”-Winston Churchill.

How you think and approach your fitness journey mentally will dictate how well you do.

I have seen many individuals come into the gym with pre-set ideas and sometimes want to train how they want to. “I don’t want to do weights. it makes me bulky and big”-When i tell them that this is false and you must do weight training to change your body’s shape, increase your metabolism, increase your bone density and burn fat quicker, they need to listen, be open-minded and realise what they need to do.

If they decide it’s not for them and don’t want to listen to us, then i explain we only run our own programmes because we strongly believe this will be their best opportunity to reach their goals quicker and safer. If they still resist, we explain our gym is not the best place for them, and i can see that they are not really ready to change, and will continually keep making excuses until get mentally ready to change and be open to positive advice that will actually work.

We don’t allow anyone to mindlessly go on the treadmill because thats what they used to do in other gyms, and not try and help them to see there is far more to exercising than doing a “bit of this and a bit of that” with no plan.

Despite our many success stories with individuals after back surgery, we still get people telling us they think they can’t exercise even if they just have a bad back. So they go back to choosing a lifestyle that involves not moving a lot, which puts on weight and makes their back situation worse.

Limiting your beliefs will stop you reaching your full potential, and you need to actively change that if you are to be successful with your health and fitness.

Having so many role models, positive and encouraging people at our gym counts for a lot. Having someone working out next to you willing to help you, give you a pick me up just when you need it, telling you to stick with it is worth a lot to us.

We strongly encourage people to see the opportunity in everything they do, especially when the going gets tough, those toughest exercises are usually the ones that will help you the most.

Your body changes for good the moment you become more positive, be open to new ideas and the moment you discover a positive environment will give you the powerful, non-stop momentum that you’ve never had before.

Every day is a fresh opportunity for you to change for the better.

Twitt