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Day 56 End of week 8!

End of week 8 would you believe! 8 weeks at the start probably didn’t sound that long, but now you know it can be quite a long time to get your eating right, your training going well, and the most important part probably, get your mind right in order to give the effort required.

Had my first sunday morning run for a while today, as the demands of two small children over the last few weeks have taken over. Back to normal now that the first 6 weeks of a new baby are over, and this was the best sunday morning in some time, and the temperature was good enough to run in a t-shirt and shorts, the first time since last summer! The run felt great, and once you get a run in for the first time in a while, you realise how much you missed it!

The temperatures in january and february just gone will have actually done us good, however icy and snowy they may have been! If we can find a way to get our workouts in during the coldest time of the year, and the coldest temperatures in the last 30 odd years, then the current weather will only allow more activities, and it should be a breeze from now on to get more workouts in exactly when you want to.

This challenge started during the most demanding time of year, and working in the toughest times gives us more skills and discipline that we ever thought. Most businesses i know have had the toughest times since the Great Depression, but most of them are coming out of this recession leaner and meaner, and better equipped to handle a change world and economic environment.

The same should happen with you, we have a lot of ups and downs from most of you in the past 8 weeks, and from that you will have developed your very own strategies on how to overcome the challenges that life always throws at you. Once you develop these skills, you won’t miss so many workouts, you won’t use the same old excuses to eat sugary/fatty food, and you won’t write whole week’s off anymore, you will tend to recognise bad habits beginning sooner than you did before, and you rectify your habits before they become destructive.

Sunday is always a great time to get out and about, and a means of making sure you start off your new week with a bang. We talked about hangovers yesterday, and now’s a great time to get rid of it, eat some decent food, drink plenty of water today and get back to feeling your old self. I never see sunday as a “let’s break some records day”, i see it more as a relaxing, and gather your thoughts kind of day, and a morning run is a key element in that process for me.

I’m looking forward to the start of week 9 tomorrow, and a big last month from all of you!

Twitt
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Day 2

The talking is over and we’re off and away! We are in it now and all those promises you made to yourself need to be carried out. I never said it’s going to be a bed of roses all the way, indeed you are going to make some tough decisions along the way, perhaps some you have always found hard in the past. You will face two choices on certain days, do i do my workout or should i skip it? One missed workout won’t matter will it? You can see how your mind will offer you different choices that each will lead to different outcomes?

It’s in the moments of indecision that your eventual destiny is shaped. You know if you do your workouts, eat well at least 80% of the time, you’re going to look and feel better. Swing it around and if you have haphazard weeks, training only here and there, eating off and on, you will have mediocre results at best!

The second day for you now should be met with enthusiasm, and you should be filled with a deep desire to not only do well, but finally get this thing right once and for all. You don’t need to be settling for second best anymore, or use excuses such as “fitness isn’t for me”! That’s rubbish and you know it, you are capable of what your mind tells you. If you think big and focus on your overall goals the whole way, you’re going to be achieving some pretty things, as long as you have taken action to get there.

Taking action as you know by now, is really name of the game. You can talk a good game every day if you want, but putting things off to another day will not get you anywhere. You know the old saying “the road named someday needs to a town called nowhere”! If you get inot the habit of really doing these workouts i talk about every day, if you get some fresh air at least a couple of days per week, if you eat a lot of healthy produce, and try to eat fresh whenever possible, i’m telling you now without any shadow of a doubt, you’re going to be in great shape full stop, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, if they do, then they don’t want you to succeeed. There are plenty of people who all want the same thing on here, to be healthy, successful and happy, and really achieve something special in the next 12 weeks.

Don’t let anyone put you off this road, you’re going to learn that being consistent is the true secret of being fit and healthy, and mentally strong. This is your time, let’s do it!!

Keri

Twitt