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Wednesday, 9th April

Development in your programme can always happen quicker than you think as long as you are willing to buckle down and work at your fundamentals every day and not compromise.

If you don’t eat breakfast as within one hour of getting up, you are struggling from the very start of the day. This is an absolute must for all sorts of reasons.

If you try to run before you can walk in exercise terms, you are likely to get injured or lose interest in your exercise programme very early, or both things will happen.

If you have a back problem, and most of you do or will do in your lifetime, then you need to address that immediately before proceeding. Then you only advance with caution under supervision at all times but it can be sorted out gradually and for good.

If you are eating well 80% of the time, then that’s great.

If you are not eating well, then your workouts are always going to be a struggle, you won’t perform well, and you won’t recover from them anywhere near as well as you could do.

If you want to get into good shape, you have to accept that you need to make a lifestyle change full stop. It doesn’t have to be some kind of unachievable tough regime either, you have to fit it into your weekly schedule and anyone can do it.

All it needs is planning and tweaking your workouts to suit life’s everyday inevitable challenges.

Not one person I train has “all day to exercise”, we all live super fast lives now, so scheduling it in as part of your week is vital.

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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Friday, 4th April

Once you start improving on a regular basis, it can be difficult to stop as long as you keep to a few simple rules. This momentum should never be understated. Being in a good place most of the time keeps your mindset strong and your body feeling fit and strong, and as if nothing is impossible.

Same when you start putting on weight and inches around your hips and waist. This can be a major effort to stop it happening, to reverse the process. Suddenly you will have to change what you are doing, really change your lifestyle again in order to stop the rot setting in.

So its easier to stay in shape than get out of shape.

Being in shape is associated with feelings of happiness, satisfaction, wellbeing, plenty of energy and an ability to do practically anything physically, and your mental strength is likely to be greatly increased.

Being out of shape is associated with being much more irritable, wonder all the time how you could feel and look so much better, you may tend to put off any physical challenges, a shortness of breath even on the most ordinary of tasks, and your mental strength is always under pressure.

So as it seems as if it may be a struggle to get in shape, once you get there you will automatically feel much better across the board, and perform better in every area of your life.

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