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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
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Monday, 4th April

Lots of people start things, and getting fit and healthy is a big thing that most people want to start at one time or another. It’s exciting to start new and exciting things whatever they are.

Starting is the easy part, finishing is the hard part!

It is the finishing that separates those with passion from those without it.

Most meaningful things in life require some suffering and sacrifice along the way, otherwise everyone would find big achievements really easy.

The problem starts if you get used to starting something all the time, then never finishing it and never seeing things through. This leads to feeling unfulfilled and eventually you don’t really believe you can accomplish anything because you can never see things through all the way, it becomes a very bad habit and trait until you actually conquer it.

When you fulfil the tasks put in front of you, you will take several steps forward each time to realising your dreams. When you see things through, the personal self-satisfaction will be huge and long-lasting. This can become a great habit too, and see you go on to completing many others things in life.

If you have passion for something, then you will see it through. When you don’t have passion, you will likely say you will “try” often building in an excuse even as you say it. If you start but don’t finish you can always say “at least i tried”.

The big difference is when you say you WILL DO. This is likely to lead to you finishing NO MATTER WHAT.

There is nothing more fulfilling than taking a dream, a goal or an aspiration-no matter how difficult-and completing it. We have many individuals doing this exact thing right now, and i see the personal pride it is giving them every day.

Whatever you goals and aspirations, the time IS NOW to see it through and feel the inner pride from doing it ALL THE WAY this time!!

Twitt
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Friday, 1st April 2016

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. I am proud to see so many of you inspiring others at the gym, we have so many now that it makes my job a lot simpler.

Becoming a leader is not becoming the person who shouts the loudest, shows off the most or throws his/her weight around. It is the person who leads by example, picks individuals off the floor who are emotionally spent, its the person who has very often been down the bottom themselves, often many times, and is well aware of how hard the journey out that deep hole is.

They will also realise what it feels like to come out of that hole, how it feels to make themselves a success again in their chosen field in life, and anyone who has been through that challenging journey will usually want to give back and help as many others as they can who need to help to believe in themselves again.

It’s vital to get everyone to finally believe that it really is up to THEMSELVES what they accomplish, it really is. You should never a accept an outcome that SOMEONE ELSE prescribes for you.

You should never listen to any critics, don’t pay attention to any apparent reason on why you can’t achieve your goals, concentrate on your strengths and not your weaknesses, it really is YOUR call.

Many people will tell you that achieving big things is impossible, all YOU need to remember is that the so called “impossible” just takes a little longer.

What i find is that many people have preconceived ideas of how you should do it when you want to get fit and healthy. The idea that you just walk/run on treadmill, maybe hit a couple of machines, and even worse never shown how to do it properly, is a thing of the past, it should never exist now. There are so many more options that are far more attractive, more fun and most importantly backed up by science.

When someone shows you things things you thought impossible, your view of exercise soon brightens up and you soon realise that your possibilities are endless, and all of sudden you are shown horizons you didn’t know existed.

The word inspire means to “breathe life into”. When we breathe life into another, we inspire their hopes, goals and dreams. That’s what we should all be doing whenever we get the chance!

Twitt
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Thursday, 31st March

Losing confidence in yourself and then in your training is very easily done.

I have trained many, many individuals in business over the years, many seem super-confident, the reality is that they have just as much self-doubt as all of us, and often question whether they are good enough to deserve any success, sometimes “self-sabotage” when things are going almost “too good” and in general, have the same worries, confidence issues, self-esteem issues, self-worth issues as all of us.

Here’s what i notice all the time. If you don’t exercise almost on a daily basis, you WILL NOT feel as good, you wont have the energy to perform as well as you would like, you won’t have the sense of well-being that we really need, and when you don’t feel good, a downward spiral starts to happen. That ride down is no fun for anyone!

Privately, and you all know that i never reveal any of your business, most of you have revealed moments of doubt and pain, wondering whether you can still achieve big anymore, can you really put the effort in required to be fit and healthy anymore, are you too told, too big, too timid-ALL of those things!

Some of our most successful transformations have been the most bumpiest. They have involved tears and sometimes shouting matches, sometimes quiet whispers and gentle words in order to get them back on track. I go through this regularly and this is why i know exactly why carrying on and climbing back up that mountain is super important for every area of your life!!!

Here’s what i know, and i have been doing this a LONG time so i’m qualified to have a very strong opinion. Your mindset and a STRONG mindset starts with exercise and eating right, it REALLY does, it never goes away from this!!!

Get these parts right, the 10,000 piece jigsaw of happiness and health will get solved MUCH quicker and with FAR less emotional drama that always happens when you change your shape relatively quicker, you start thinking differently and the demands of that can be emotionally very demanding, as well as physically of course.

I’m here to talk it through, to lift you up if you are down, and for you to finally be proud of yourself with the incredible achievements that are just about to happen for you!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 16th March

Reviving your movement ability again is the very first thing we teach. How many 30, 40, 50 somethings do you know that “give up” on their movements that they used to take for granted when they were playing sport or back at school. You used to bounce around no problem then because you had a lot of natural balance and you were used to moving around full stop.

Somehow accepting the fact you will be stiff as a board for life once you leave this environment is dangerous. Once you accept that your movement is not so good anymore, and start thinking through rose-tinted glasses how “things used to be”, then everything will turn on a downward spiral.

Our training involves a lot of getting into multiple different positions designed to test you to the extreme. Simply getting into those positions is tough, performing exercises whilst in those positions is even tougher, but this strategy will always bring you superior results.

Then our strategy is always to take you out of that comfort zone as soon as you get used to it. This allows you to reach your potential far quicker because you are always in a state of challenging yourself, reaching for more, and endlessly seeking more results and rewards out of your programme.

Mentally this does wonders for you. There only becomes opportunities and possibilities in your training programme for the NOW and the future. There’s no fond stories on how things used to be and how you cant do them now. Now the talk is how good you are now, how great you can become and you will automatically find yourself volunteering to take on new and fresh challenges.

You either are getting better or falling behind, you can’t stay still that’s for sure. All of you who hit the gym with us 3 times a week will be in a constant state of improvement, positivity and development. This is great for the mind too, keeps you striving for more and let’s you know that you are alive and about to get in the best shape of your life!!!

Twitt