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Thursday, 19th May

Having good health, looking and feeling your best, being stronger mentally are things we all strive for.

The costs are greater for getting into shape long term but ones worth paying for. I’m not talking about money, i’m talking about effort, commitment and dedication.

Our workouts require more energy, focus and sweat than most. The process is filled with more hard work and sometimes failure. You always learn from failure and you become all the better for it. You may take longer to do it but you will stay in shape longer too because it will be much more sustainable.

Training well, eating right and resting enough is all part of the process you need to go through .When you fall in love with the process, you will love what the process creates. It’s not easy becoming fit and healthy or everyone would be doing it.

Everyone wants to get into the great shape some of our members have achieved, but not many of the general public are willing to sacrifice the effort needed to get there and become great themselves.

Everyone is looking for their 5 minutes of fame these days, but not many are willing to give years to their health and body.

Most people think that some of our greatest transformations were “overnight” successes. There’s no such thing as an overnight success, the way to success is working over many months, many years, showing up every day, you do the work and you are dedicated to your craft every day, you put your heart and soul into your work as you strive for excellence.

You will never ever create perfection, but you know you will want to come as close to it as possible. You fail, you improve, you grow, you face countless challenges, and tons of rejection that makes you doubt yourself and sometimes want to quit, but you don’t, you keep working hard, you stay positive and persevere through it all with resilience, determination and a lot of hope and faith, then you MAKE IT.

Everyone wants to know how and the world says “where have you been”, and you say “i’ve been here all along working hard, keeping my head down and hopefully getting better day by day”!

To everyone else, you are an overnight success, but to yourself the journey continues and you want to make your next month and year your best work, no matter what you’ve accomplished in the past.

Committing yourself to long term success is a state of mind, but to get there you have to make the start and battle through the ups and downs until you reach the standard you always knew you were capable of getting to.

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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.

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Monday, 9th May

Here’s the chances you have of great success over the next 3 weeks in the new programme starting officially today!! We have just had a huge morning and i want to spell it out to you what you need to do.

You need to hit every workout with real intensity, with focus and a true desire to do better each time. Hard work leads to results, no excuses, you need to put it in often so expect hard work to be the cornerstone of your overall results.

You need to show up a minimum of three times a week without fail. Showing up is half the battle, because you know once you get to the gym, you will be guaranteed to have a big session.

Eat right. If you are putting all of this work in, then you want to maximise your results. Don’t waste any of the effort you put in by eating rubbish. Concentrate on shopping for good food and make sure you eat good quality, made by yourself meals regularly. No ready meals, cook from scratch whenever possible.

Drink plenty of water. If you’re not taking enough water in, then your performances will dip quickly, you will get dehydrated and you will develop headaches which will destroy your progress. Water is vital for all sorts of reasons!

Sleep well. If you don’t get enough rest, you will show up half-hearted, irritable and half the energy you need. Get to bed early and your body will recover well, and come back with a big bounce ready for your next workout!

Get your mind right. Associate with positive people whenever possible, write down your goals and review them regularly to see how close you are getting. If you get all the previous things right, then your mind will be clearer, more focused and more positive so you hit this programme like a train!!

This sounds like a basic list but will give you everything you need to outperform over the next 3 weeks and conquer this latest very demanding programme!

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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..

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Wednesday, 13th April

Here’s a little experiment for you.

Try doing something that involves movement right now. Go for a walk, come down the gym, go for a run, bike ride or anything that makes you move and getting breathing quite heavy and out of puff.

Then think of at least one thing that you have been putting off. Maybe its a decision on something, a phone call you have been putting off, perhaps its something you need to sort out at work but have thought “maybe next week”, perhaps its making a decision that you’re not going to put up with something anymore and you’re not going to hang around with that person who is negative with you all the time, whatever it may be just think of that on your walk/run/bike ride etc.

Then decide WHATEVER happens, when you return you’re going to take action on that very subject that you have been agonising over, or its been bothering you so for long it’s not even funny anymore. Within 5 minutes of getting in the house, you are going to DO IT NO MATTER WHAT.

Once you do it, you will be so relieved and proud that you had the courage not only to do it, but get negativity out of your life. This will set you free for all the GOOD things in life that NEED your attention.

Have you noticed i mentioned MOVEMENT at the start? This is the key, moving more will automatically get you in the frame of mind to make big changes and immediate changes that will immediately change your life for the better.

Then, once you get in the habit of making big decisions one day, then you will start knowing the formula to create further big changes, perhaps a few big changes all on the same day if you practice it enough. It’s all about creating your right state of mind, it’s all practice and definitely not a case of being born with it or some kind of magic powers that only some have. You have it totally within your power right now! All it takes is a bit of bringing it out of you.

Exercise not only leads to you looking and feeling better, but leads to a much more positive mindset that propels you into making important decisions that will literally change your life.

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