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Tuesday, 8th April

When roger bannister first broke the four minute mile, it was an achievement of stunning proportions, and literally stunned the world.

Most people don’t know that a lot of other world class runners emulated that feat during THAT year, and the explanation most commonly thought of was that once they knew it was possible then the fear factor of running quicker than four minutes quickly went, and other athletes believed in themselves that much more, KNOWING it was very possible now.

With our training , anyone seeing a tractor tyre being flipped for the first time is pretty intimidating, whilst looking “cool” at the same time!

When you first see it, you never think you can do it, but as you get stronger, and get taught the right technique, then it becomes entirely possible!

When you see people time and time in front of you doing it, and they encourage you to challenge yourself to do it, the possibility becomes very real.

Flipping such a large tyre is definitely not a beginner’s exercise, you need to develop real strength first, and all over strength at that. This is why a complete programme is absolutely vital, and your core is very strong before even attempting it.

Getting stronger is a process that ANYONE can do. You need to plan your programme properly, strengthen your weaker areas and putting it all together so you become much stronger in all areas, ready to take on ANY challenges.

You need to exercise with purpose, have a plan and continuously bring up your weaker areas. This way of training will always make you very successful in anything you do!

Twitt
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Sunday, 6th April

Shaking things up with your training means that you shake things up with your internal body too. Your body can react very positively to change in all sorts of ways, shaping your body’s destiny and take you to new levels of wellbeing and athleticism.

Results happen quicker when you challenge yourself in different ways, try things that you really thought you wouldn’t be good at, re-discover the movements that you may not have tried since you were in school, actually increase your speed as you get older, learn to move much more efficiently and without so much effort-yet still move quicker, learn that weight training is definitely not the enemy and won’t make you big if you are a female-just make you leaner, harder, re-shape your body and lose any annoying areas of body fat that keep on concerning you.

If you have limited yourself to certain forms of training, and don’t think you can change, then you are really underestimating yourself and not realizing anywhere near your short or long term potential.

I have seen people who have never been runners, become runners and move with real speed and agility.

There are girls who have become some our best athletes, and regularly beats the guys-WITHOUT getting too much out of breath anymore.

Our variety of training has never been greater, and my best bit of advice is to try them all and see where you come out the other side, you will definitely be extremely pleased with the overwhelmingly superior results!

Twitt
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Monday, 31st March

Training with purpose is the most important state of mind you need to get into when you enter the gym.

If you are half-hearted, not know what you are doing, feel lost when you are in the exercise environment, then its worth you spending time with me and let me develop your programme from start to finish again.

Most if not all people, I go through it time and time again with them.

We all get stuck, we all feel as if we could go to another level but really don’t know how at times how to pull it off.

We all remember great workouts we have had recently, but we may have lost our mojo on how to get those great feelings back of exercising so well. We all have “purple patches” of exercise, its important not to let them slide into a distant memory.

Regular good periods of exercise and food will guarantee you success every time, and self-monitoring, as well as me doing it will only help you continue to succeed ALL of the time.

This is why exercise diaries can be so valuable and record how well we have progressed, and quite often exactly why we have done so well. A small little notebook is often kept by the most productive of athletes, because they want to keep their roadmap of success fresh in their minds!

You may train harder when you workout with your favourite training partner, you probably work quite a bit harder when you train with me, so its always productive when you create the right training environment.

Not knowing what you are doing, going through the motions, just watching the clock when you exercise is not acceptable to me and it should definitely not be acceptable for you! Keep changing your programme and continually consult me about it, because that’s what I do full stop!

Twitt
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Monday, 24th March

A very real danger out there that gets swept under the carpet is the number of people calorie “restricting” and put themselves into starvation mode all in the name of looking “thinner”! These diets never ever work long term and cause misery all in the name of a “quick fix”.

The side effects both physically and emotionally are staggering.

From powder and shakes diets, with one meal a day thrown in, to so called fat burners and diets in the 1200 to 1400 calories a day (starvation mode and deeply damaging), they are trying to put your health at severe risk all in the name of ripping you off for a lot of money. Diets under 1200 calories a day are very dangerous, very damaging and your health is at risk full stop.

Most people who try to lose weight cut their calories far too quick and by too much and the side effects can sound like a horror story.

Many people who go through this according to the NHS, and other leading health organisations want you to know the real story on what happens and the very real side effects.

Just some:

Loss of strength and muscle mass/tone

Depression

Weakening bone density

Diminished energy and sex drive

Hormonal disruption, and lower testosterone in both men and women.

Most people who go through it look horrible afterwards, looking scrawny, have zero energy with no muscle tone. The weight
inevitably comes back on once you go through it every single time.

Most responsible health professionals will get you to lose weight slowly and steadily, 1-2 pounds a week is what most doctors recommend.

Please don’t become another victim of these scam artists who don’t care about the consequences for you and many others.

Twitt
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Sunday, 23rd March

A lot of the workouts I design are so productive because everyone CAN DO THEM.

I never ask anyone to do an exercise or a programme I do not think they can do.

Everyone knows now that in our gym, the females and the males train through the same movements and they train hard, there is absolutely NO “you are a woman so you had better use the treadmill and bike only, and the rower now and again, and maybe a couple of light weights if you are lucky!”.

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE INSULT and shows a complete lack of knowledge by whoever is telling you that! Tucked away in the corner is not an option for anyone who trains with us.

In every area of life now, women are doing things few thought they could handle a generation ago due to blinkered insulting thinking by the establishment. Everyone knows we train hard with weighs and against resistance and we are proud to do the best for our members.

When you go to work, your job description now applies to everyone, a generation ago that used to apply to only men.

As a woman in today’s society, you have much more responsibilities now than a generation ago. Juggling life, work and family now is harder than a generation ago when you wouldn’t have had so many pressures going back then during every single day.

So WHY should you be in an exercise programme that assumes you are not so mentally strong and less capable than the average man in the gym environment?!!! We are not back in the 1950’s!!!

Most of our girls are better than the men, anyone can see that?!!!

Whatever limitations you think you had, they are about to go out the window. Women are not “supposed to do ONLY this and that”, that statement is rubbish and has no scientific or practical foundation.

We treat everyone equally no matter what and put no limits on the results you can get, so start looking to get a lot more out of your programme from the exercises that REALLY work and start working to your potential!

Twitt