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Tuesday, 31st May

Thinking strong is a massive strategy you need to work on right now. At least as important as training and eating right. Your strength of mind will ultimately dictate how far you go, how quick you get there and the long term success of your efforts. We have never put so much stress on this as a gym, and will continue to do so, it’s that vital!!

I am acutely aware of those who struggle to stay strong mentally, struggle with their progress full stop. This is why we strongly urge you to not bother with negativity each day whenever possible. We always talk about the forces who try to drag you down, throw you off course and stop you achieving something big.

Have you become more positive yet? We strongly encourage you to help yourself and see the world a different and more positive way. Not only does it make you feel better, everyone around you will become more positive too.

When someone looks to join the gym, it helps a lot if they are positive and open minded. Our environment is precious to us, and we know how powerful that a crowd of positive encouraging people can be to the overall success of all our members, that’s beyond any doubt!

We want our most positive members to become leaders, and to keep driving our positive culture. Nothing is ever going to be perfect, and some will complain. If you are going to complain though, please offer a solution because we are always about getting things down, and always looking to get everything resolved in super quick time and move on to greater heights.

My biggest effort every day is not only designing programmes, it’s getting people up for their workouts, and strongly encouraging them to fulfil their potential as often as possible.

I always strongly urge everyone to focus on the “process”, not always your end destination. If you haven’t got your process right, then you will never have success longer term. Your habits and daily rituals determine your success, and how long you are successful for. You can never get “burnt out”, all that happens is that you may forget why you’re in this in the first place, WHY you started and your deep down drive and desire to get better has to be burning like a furnace at all times.

Most people at some time write themselves off, they doubt themselves and hold back often when the most effort is required. The true secret is to continue at full speed throughout these difficult periods, because they will make all the difference.

Thinking right is massive for you right now, acting with positivity will overcome any challenges, and this will enable all of you to start and finish strong in every workout, every measurement and every area of life you want to be strong at, and gain great fulfilment from.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 25th May

Here’s a massive transition in terms of terminology you need to make, and the sooner you make it the better.

Doing “cardio” is often seen as the “let’s finish off by burning the fat off” part.

Unfortunately, this is not true. The true fat burning is done in your strength training in workout 1, and all your movement exercises in workout 2, and whilst the air assault bike, rower, ski machine, etc are very valuable and DO burn fat, they alone are not responsible for your massive results. One pound of fat burns 2 calories a day, one pound of lean muscle tissue burns 35 calories day-that’s a powerful fact right there about developing lean muscle, talk about raising your metabolism!!!

ALL of your exercises matter. If you didn’t do strength work, then you wouldn’t re-shape your body, not be able to burn as much calories at rest or fight against osteoporosis. Our weights workouts get you out of breath too, that’s why we only rest 30 seconds in between sets, it challenges you in ALL ways.

If you didn’t do your running on the ladders up the hill, or with bulgarian bags up the hill, or hit the prowlers hard, hit the steps etc, you wouldn’t get so out of breath and you heart and lungs wouldn’t be in such great shape.

If you didn’t do all our movement work in workout 2, you again wouldn’t burn so much fat, you wouldn’t be so flexible and ready for anything in sports etc. You get fundamentally strong doing this workout in all ways, and it can be deeply exhausting to do.

We are proud of all our balance work, they add an amazing amount to your all round ability, make you so much stronger on your feet, hit your core so much harder, create a much stronger back, hips and hamstrings and take a lot of stress off your back full stop. You will never develop such a strong core without balance work.

Our programmes are designed to be all rounders, working every single area and keeping your progress going strong everywhere, instead of being just good at weights or cardio, you NEED EVERYTHING so let’s embrace it.

See our programmes as huge fat burning furnaces, building massive strength levels, amazing heart and lungs capacity and being much stronger on your feet AND OFF your feet. See your programme as getting you ready for ANYTHING, creating huge energy levels and giving you all your inner self-confidence back that you may have thought long gone.

Let’s do it!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 18th May

Once you are comfortable in your own skin, you can set your OWN records, your own shape, your own progress, your own level of happiness and on YOUR own terms.

It’s pointless comparing yourself to others, because we are ALL different.

We have a massive variety of individuals each with their own gifts, their own challenges and their own different situation.

Someone who has just had a baby (we have many), will have far different goals than someone who plays professional sport. Comparison is pointless.

Someone who has high blood pressure will have different goals to someone who wants to raise their self-esteem and self-confidence.

Someone who is struggling with their mind to function day to day will have different goals to someone who is 70 years of age and suffering from osteoporosis.

Someone who is 14 stone who wants to look exactly someone 8 stone is unrealistic and the heavier individual is not celebrating how good she can look if she maxed out her OWN potential. Comparison will eat you up if you let it especially when it’s pointless and always self-defeating.

We have members looking amazing at 8 stone AND a few stone heavier full stop.

Mark lewis will bust me up pulling that tyre up the hill in terms of time, but instead of crucifying myself inside about it, i celebrate the fact that i can do it myself, and doing it, EVEN if it takes me much longer, it is a victory for ME.

The message is to be happy what you are doing, appreciate the progress you have and ARE making, how far you have come in ALL ways since you started and celebrate all the big things you can still do and ASPIRE to do and are totally within your reach.

All of this makes you far happier in your own skin, puts a sense of perspective on everything we do and totally celebrates you as an individual, what makes you unique and how you stand out as someone who may have overcome the odds and the chances are that many ADMIRE you either publicly or from afar.

Twitt
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Thursday, 28th April

Instilling confidence and self-esteem is one of the most important things we do.

We have countless individuals who come in with zero confidence levels, very low self-esteem, some or a lot of anxiety about joining or walking through the door, and a sense of this may be their last hope of getting into shape.

Confidence comes from overcoming challenges and realising the progress you are making each time. Going through the motions in your training is something we highly discourage, the need to feel your body changing is very important but we also teach the importance of realising it will take time, and foundations need to be put in place first.

Chances are that when you start exercise maybe for the first time in a long time, you may have a troublesome knee, a bad back, you may have blood pressure issues, you may be recovering from serious health issues of any kind, whatever the problems are it’s important that they are recognised and a plan is set in place for you to improve, and as safely and quickly as possible.

So we assume that there is no such thing as “average”, every single person has their own story, things that have gone wrong in the past that stopped them having a successful health and fitness journey, and plenty of positive things that they want to rediscover again and create a better future.

Getting to know someone’s story is vital. Some people need a quiet word and a pat on the back, some people like to shouted at occasionally and be constantly driven on, but every single person needs to be ENCOURAGED no matter what. Constant encouragement makes the difference between a little bit of progress, and constant everyday progress that you can sustain.

Zero confidence levels are transformed through someone achieving their goals and having their progress constantly monitored and assessed. If they are shown to have improved a lot, confidence will soar.

Low self-esteem will be transformed through the self-belief developed through overcoming challenges. The realisation that you can “finally do it” will be so empowering for you, this will automatically lead to you seeking out new challenges and you having the new-found confidence to take on just about anything.

We realise that a lot of members will come in with anxiety issues, many gyms are perceived to be intimidating. It’s vital that all our members know every one else and everyone is treated 100% the same with no favouritsm. Realising that everyone is exactly the same as you (when they start) with their own fears, insecurities and worries is important because you then know everyone is on the same level playing field.

Teaching fitness the right way is highly important to us every day, but making sure self-confidence and self-esteem are improved remarkably is perhaps the best legacy we can achieve..

Twitt
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Wednesday, 6th April

Doing your best every day makes you alive. A new personal best sends electric shocks through your body and you feel more alive than ever before. Realising that age, background, how much money you have, who you know has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with you reaching your personal best is empowering, gets you fired up like never before, gets you inspired to whole new levels and gives you that massive shove, boost, dig on to the next level you are wholly capable of going to again.

This all starts by bringing your best “game” to town today, lifting more than you ever have, running harder than you have ever done, biked it harder than ever.

Those aspirations as a kid you once had? DO you still have them? Are you still dreaming big or have you “settled” for mediocrity and somehow “settled” for second best and a life just “drifting through”?

WHAT choices are you going to make today? Is your lunch choice going to come out of a convenience store or petrol station full of fat and sugar? Or are you going to prepare a nutritious meal you can take with you?

Are you going to train big today? Or are you going to write ANOTHER workout off and tell yourself it’s somehow ok?!!!

All of you have the choices in front of you today we all have. I find the most committed are the ones who achieve unbelievable things full stop. Getting fully committed doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a series of every day small steps that allow you to commit more and more to the healthy lifestyle you need.

Which side of the fence are you on today?!!

Twitt