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Thursday, 14th February

Vaentines day and a big day for some, but the person you should be looking after the most (in a HEALTH RELATED way) is yourself!

If you look after your health, you instantly become more attractive to others and here’s why.

If you exercise regularly, then you ought to now have much more energy than when you didn’t train. This helps you to do MORE things in the day, accomplish more AND HELP OTHERS who are the most important people in your life.

If you eat well, you will be helping that energy booting process along tenfold!! If your diet if full of natural foods, then you will be more alert, ready to take any challenge on during the day, and helping yourself recover from exerting yourself all day, again making you more energetic and more ready to help others. You will be less likely to fall ill, and when you are healthy you will be considered the one that peopl can depend on, because of your seemingly endless energy.

If you drink more water, you know you will perform better and be on the top of your game. People will also find you a lot more attractive because your skin is likely to be a lot better, you will have a certain healthy glow about you, and in general if you are well hydrated, then you are very likely not to suffer from mood swings, which is VERY ATTRACTIVE!!!

If you follow these simple things every day, then you are already likely to be fit and therefore far more attractive than if you were some kind of “couch potato” who eats junk all day, and drinks too much alcohol, this is pretty much a CERTAINTY!!!

Spending all the money on flowers and chocolates wont get you that far today, compared to all that effort you have put into looking after yourself which is the best way to attract others on all sorts of levels!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 29th January

According to the media today, the average length of a diet and exercise programme after christmas is now down to just one month!!!

This is sad statistic and everyone should be alarmed about it.

Reasons for quitting an exercise programme include losing interest in what they were doing, too cold to train, too wet to train and a general feeling it was a waste of time.

To me, i can actually sympathise with people who feel like this, because the exercise part is presented by most establishments IS BORING!!!

To me, if you are a big gym and presenting a programme, how do you expect your members to enjoy something that the other 3000 members are doing (apparently it takes 3000 members for these gyms to break even after taking into account rent, equipment etc!). General, boring, re-hashing of the same rubbish DOES NOT WORK and is not EXCITING for pretty much anyone with a brain!!! This is why most if not all of the big gyms (you can read the business pages in any newspaper every day to see how badly they are doing), DO NOT retain most of their members.

This is why you see their adverts outside or inside supermarkets all the time, 18 year olds selling you direct debits outside shops with no interest if you improve or not, all they want is your money.

So this is why according to the media today, peope lose interest and are about to quit or will quit by thursday at the latest.

The same goes for diet clubs, channel 4 did a big expose on weight watchers last night, and there is great alarm at the amount people spend on the diets over the years! Glad to see the authorities are finally catching up with these people who have cheated people out of their hard earned money over the years!!

My mission is to help people out, put them on the right path and retain individuals for years, and not just month on a contract you cannot get out of!!! You retain people by getting constant results, and this is what we should all strive for by making innovative and inventive programmes for everybody!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 23rd January

As we were talking about training in a different way yesterday, this principle can be used in any form of training.

When i run with someone for example, i often mix running styles up just to get a better result for the person i am training.

Let’s say we are doing 30 yard sprints on a hill, then i wouldn’t just do forward running/sprinting. I would always put backward running in with this effort, and sometimes some sideways running. This creates a great workout giving total development and boosts progress substantially!!!

One thing on sideways running thats a common mistake, do not over extend your stride when running sideways. This can create hip trouble and over-extension problems if you do a lot of it. Keep your strides shorter and i find this always helps in our aim to keep our training totally injury-free.

You can do a lot of variation with leg training.

I totally believe in your normal leg presses, but after that, how does this sound to you?

Try walking lunges, and please remember in this exercise that your knee should never come more forward than your ankle, if it does this means you may be creating some long term problems for your knee. Exercise form is paramount and makes your workout experience far more rewarding.

Do the walking lunges, then straight after you do squats with a sandbag (i like to use this a lot) and make sure you keep the sandbag in an oblong position (this makes it harder), then also do side to side runs on the bosu balls with the sandbag in your arms. This is a great exercise for your core and your legs are also working intensely!

Your workouts are only limited by your imagination, but the way you put your exercises together will be very important, and definitely lessen your chance of injury.

More tomorrow.

Twitt
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11th January, 2013

We are already hitting friday, and hopefully you are actively participating in a programme, and that you are following at least some of the tips i have shared with you this week.

So we have gone over the fact that you need to shop well for your weekly food, we have talked about why you need to have the right running shoes, how you need to fundamentally understand the whole process about getting fit and healthy, and yesterday about the importance of actually performing well, and trying to improve your programme regularly.

Okay, so you are here thinking what comes next?

After telling you yesterday that you need to keep it simple, then you not be surprised if i tell you that you need to keep doing the basics well, and again, and again!!

The actual basics are the hardest thing to do regularly! Anyone will tell you the same!

How many people do you know that actually train 3-4 times a week, they eat well almost every day without fail, they get to bed early every night in the week, and usually only have one late night, they only drink alcohol in moderation once a week, they have a bit of what they fancy in eating terms just once a week, and when you see their shopping basket in a supermarket, it is likely to contain mostly natural produce that you know are going to keep you in great shape!!!

How many people do you know like that?!!!!

Not many i’ll bet and this is why-it is difficult to be that consistent and this is why not many people will look and feel that good.

The good news is that if you stick with it, and i’m talking week after week, YOU WILL get used to it, you will think this is normal life and you WILL become one of those individuals who is ALWAYS in shape full stop, no arguement!!!

Twitt
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Thursday, 10th January

So moving along, assuming you have got your diet right, you are building up your exercise schedule at a nice steady rate, then its definitely time to start thinking about exercise targets.

Improving your exercise performance is the easiest way to improve everything about your health.

For example, if you are able to do 3 press ups when you first start off, then it shouldn’t be too hard to imagine you doing 20 press ups within 6-8 weeks. When you are able to do 20 press ups, then it should stand to reason that you are able to perform better and therefore be in a lot better physical condition!

If you are able to work for 10 mins on a stationery bike at a very low intensity to start with, then within that same 6-8 week period, you should be able to work for at least 20 mins on a much higher intensity.

These assumptions assume that you are still eating well, that you are not over-indulging in alcohol, and that you are sleeping well!!

These are simple assumptions, but as you may know, they are not always so easy to keep up, leave along do well, so you can be sure that im always going to preach the importance of doing the basics well.

The most successful individuals i train are always the ones who keep it simple, they eat simple but well, they exercise in a straightforward manner but always at a higher intensity, and they are pretty religious about getting a wonderful sleep, especially in the week!!!

So rather than trying to get you on some kind of complicated plan that you are unlikely to keep up, i like to introduce people to plans that they CAN KEEP UP!!!

The keep it simple principle has never been so important and results-orientated, so we’re going to concentrate hugely on this during the year!!!

Twitt