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Sunday, 3rd January

We have a “20 mile march” attitude to our gym, our training programme, our eating programme and our philosophy in general.

The 20 mile march is simple, it is to get from point A to B in the quickest, safest and most sustainable way possible, addressing challenges along the way, dealing with them and marching on with a well-thought out strategy of being in it for the long term, and always doing the RIGHT thing for our members no matter what.

You get many trying to sprint before they can walk, often blowing up before they get a even a mile down the road. These include those who offer you faddy diets, such as cleanses/detoxes/eliminate food groups/shake and bars types of diets. Whilst you will lose weight, you will always pile it back on and more, leaving frustrated and angry that you fell for products that only “cowboys” sell, that take you to the cleaners and your wallet.

If you really want to go the whole 20 miles, then you need to start off steadily and at a sustainable pace. Making wholesale changes to your diet immediately is too much and you will be likely back to square one relatively soon. Make one change in your diet, sick to it, once that becomes normal for you, then make another change, then try to master that and so on.

Mastering the basics and making them an engrained part of your lifestyle are vital to your success, and you lasting the journey.

Mastering the fundamentals mean you appreciate what works for you, and you will be less tempted to veer off course for all the “cowboys” waiting to steal your money offering their “magic beans” just like Jack and the Beanstock.

So this week, start off as you mean to go on. Making solid food choices, showing up for your workouts, realising the value of sleep, and staying positive knowing that as long as you keep marching forward, you are going to be a REAL success story that will likely be in great health and in shape for a lifetime.

Twitt
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Monday, 26th October

So many of you are now approaching week 4 in your programme. You have learned how to go flat out on your programme, and what’s ahead in the next four weeks will require a brand new demand on your energy systems.

You have different energy systems and we will be using all of them as we go through all sorts of different programmes.

It’s vital this week then that you give it everything, you give it your very best and find out how far you can really go in these 4 weeks.

Your food is ultra-important right now, the energy demands are vast so you need to be ready and up for it at all times. The old saying is that you can “never out-train a bad diet” being very true.

If you’re not properly hydrated (drinking enough water), then your workouts will always be a big struggle, and you are not going to recover as quick too.

If you are sleeping poorly or not getting to bed as early as you should after a tough workout, then your body will not recover as quick, and there’s no way you will be energised for your next day’s workout either.

Your workouts are vital, but the support you give them through proper nutrition and sleep are absolutely paramount so let’s prepare even more and take your performances and results to a whole new level!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, September 1st

September marks the start of autumn and your chance to make a charge at your highest levels of the year. Most of you have an incredible base and foundation anyway, so let’s aim high and smash out of the way what has gone before.

Many of you will have been hamstrung over the summer months due to babysitting commitments, the kids were off and that’s always tough to fit training in. Now though you may have a little more time so let’s pick up the pace and really make it count.

Now it’s all about slamming the sessions in, there’s no substitute for regular training. From hitting regular sessions, your body gets used to performing at a higher level again. When you are at this higher level, you feel a lot more capable of reaching out and hitting your best levels.

When you at your best levels, nothing feels better! Your clothes feel incredible on you, your energy levels are off the chart and your optimism and enthusiasm to do better in everything in life are huge!!!

September 1st sees the return of momentum in your training, your appetite to eat healthy and consistently, your desire to start looking your best again and seeing how far you can take your body if you give it the chance!!

There are no excuses not to dig deeper, to reach higher and do it on a regular basis. This is your time so let’s make it a massive month!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 4th August

Losing or gaining motivation.

Every single person i have ever trained has struggled with their motivation from time to time. We are human after all, and not robots.

Do me one favour, remember how you looked and felt when you first started, and compare it to now-is there a difference? Please answer honestly!! I think the answer usually will blow your mind.

The best words i have just heard again from a book i am listening to are the best SEVEN words i have ever heard. DON’T GIVE UP. DON’T EVER GIVE UP. It’s easy to give up, but much harder to get up when you are knocked down. The most successful stories have always been those who have been knocked down, then got back up again several times and finally succeeded and achieved their dreams.

When you feel and look good, you are usually positive mentally and aim big. If you don’t exercise, then you won’t have anywhere near as much energy, you wont be as ambitious and you will not so have as high goals.

Sometimes things will happen in your day that will crush your enthusiasm, sometimes your wellbeing will be taken to a whole new level and you will feel out of this world good!!

Here’s what i am in the business of doing-giving you short and particularly long term plans that work. We never give you faddy, short term ways of doing things, that usually end up failure. I have been in this game a long time, and i plan on being it the rest of my life, so i don’t want to short change anyone. We passionately believe we are doing things the right way, and the results back it up.

We want you to be injury free, at healthier levels of body fat, feeling tighter than ever with a great lung capacity. We are currently creating a huge group of new runners who thought they could NEVER run-now that is becoming possible.

Every day all of you inspire by doing the things i thought you couldn’t do this soon. I was so thrilled last night when we have a big group of runners hit one of the biggest ever dunes in terms of steepness and difficultly, and EVERY single on of you did it!!!

What is more, two of you are over 50 years of age, with SERIOUS KNEE ISSUES or used to be, and climbed it with the rest of the group, AND RAN BACK, that i was very inspired by!!!

It’s easy to talk yourself down, to say you’re struggling mentally-WE ALL DO from time to time. I like to talk ourselves up though, the opportunities we have, the opportunities to come in the future too, and all the inspiring messages i get off plenty of people i don’t even know, saying how radically inspired they have become by watching videos of all of you, and all of the transformation pictures!!!

You are either going forwards or backwards, there’s nothing in between. Aim high, believe in yourself, aim for self-improvement daily, there’s no other way!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 27th July

I am always excited by monday’s from a training perspective!!

You have heard me say a thousand times how it sets you up for the week, and it’s never been more true than right now!!

If you have been out already this morning, then you will know exactly how we are feeling right now. Unbelievable wind and freshness for a july morning meant us getting woken up in a big way, and firing us up for a massive performance throughout.

So it’s monday PM and i am feeling very revved up, very fired up about the possibilities to come this week, and the prospects of great results happening all the way throughout the week!!

It’s at this time of day i am making sure i am getting my own nutrition right, ready for another big night in the gym, along with it’s own unique demands.

There’s all the workouts to get through in the gym, pushing individuals through to new highs hopefully, and things they previously thought they couldn’t do, AND then we have a massive outside session at 615pm!!!

Tonight is going to be huge and i am looking forward to taking you all onto another level. another place where you haven’t been before in terms of physical performance, and one where we again start the WEEK OFF IN THE RIGHT WAY!!!

This environment, this attitude, this mindset means that WE ALL benefit through massive results, through massive positivity improvement and we know that all of these results are SUSTAINABLE, which is totally what we are after.

Keep eating right, stay healthy and let’s look for so much more yet again!!!!

Twitt