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Monday, 4th March

Commitment to making a difference to yourself starts by making your first workout, and promising to make every single one thereafter (providing you’re not ill of course).

You can often tell the individuals who won’t be successful in reaching their goals, due to level of excuses they make not to make their sessions, and the lengths they go to avoid working hard and eating well.

Lets make no mistake about it, I really believe that everyone is full of good intentions at the start, but you soon find out who’s who as their programme moves along.

I like to think 99.9% of people I train are committed, and when periods of doubt enter their heads (which is perfectly natural), then I am able to work something out so they stay on course and they re-focus and are able to keep progressing at the pace they want.

Those people are unable to reach any level of commitment and use excuses more than once such as “my alarm didn’t go
off”, “ I was up all night”, “I had to work on”, “I have a slight sniffle” etc etc and always blame other people are gently let go and are told that they are not ready for big success in their programme, and to come back in the future when they have sorted out their true commitment levels.

If im giving 100% to someone and they don’t give it back, then we are both wasting our time.

Perhaps that person would be better off going through the process of fad dieting, so called wonder results and lose some weight, and then put all the weight back on (plus 5% more according to scientific studies), then they may appreciate that doing in the RIGHT WAY does take some commitment if you want to get REAL RESULTS.

I spoke to a woman on Saturday who said her slimming class had already gone empty after the initial rush in January had long since gone. The leader of the class said though don’t worry, some would be back in may to lose weight for summer, then gone by june, and back by late November to lose weight by Christmas, and this was the SAME EVERY YEAR!!! An example of a bad and unsustainable business lacking in integrity if ever I saw one!

No wonder these slimming classes never work long term and only create misery for people as 97% of their members out all the weight back on and more.

The folly of this is good for some to go through as I said to appreciate the right way to do things, and this is why I will forever offer long lasting, real results that last a lifetime. The good news is also I will continue to show these diet club charlatans up for what they are.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 27th February

I train a lot of people who sit around for 8 hours a day. I don’t mean they do not work hard, what I do mean is that this sitting around lifestyle in the work environment can have a harmful long term effect on one’s health.

Apart from our exercise sessions together, here’s some tips I have offered them to increase their healthy experience at work.

a. Instead of sitting on a normal office chair, some of my clients will sit on an exercise ball at their desk for 30 mins at a time. This will engage their core far more, strengthening key areas and can be great to break the monotony of life in an office.

b. To start their day, I tell them to make sure they have a bottle of water right by them. Living on coffee, tea and diet coke is no way to spend those 8 hours by the desk. Not drinking enough water will decrease performance in the office and your workouts, it will ruin your concentration and in general your body wont work so well. This is a fundamental area you may need to improve.

c. Try and get a small fridge in work. This helps you keep your foods fresh, and gives you more variety in your food choices at work. Eating foods that are fresh is far more appealing and keeps you firmly on track in your healthy eating. Water also tastes better and fresher cooler, especially on the summer days to come. A small fridge is an excellent investments between a few of your work colleagues.

d. Keep your training shoes under the desk. Everyone needs a break, and going for a 10-15 minute brisk walk will do you far more good than a diet drink or coffee! It will refresh you, make you feel better and you will come back to your desk with renewed energy and concentration.

Working in an office is no excuse to put weight on, most jobs are sedentary these days, so this makes your workouts even more important!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 26th February

Listening to your own internal voice is critical to moving forward in terms of you health and fitnes.

I see two sides of people which leads to two types of results.

The internal little voice we all have a times allows us to duck out of things easily, making us believe that we really cannot do things. The same voice allows us keep progress as a distant dream, instead of what could easily be reality.

Then, there is the other voice that is much more assertive and honest in a way.

This assertive voice makes us ATTEMPT and ACTUALLY DO things. When we get to this stage, we usually find that we CAN do the things that seem a distant dream, and we usually end up proud of our achievements.

The timid first voice will make us end up cancelling workout appointments, giving up on our eating commitments, and generally make us go back to wondering what might have been.

The second more positive voice will give us the butterflies in our stomachs, that feeling of we don’t really know if our attempts will work out, but we are willing to stick to it no matter what and we will still be proud of our efforts.

It makes perfect sense then our second most assertive voice is something we should be listening to, especially if we want to reach our goals. Anything worth achieving is only possible by that positive inner voice urging you to go for it in the first place, and sustaining you especially in your moments of doubt!

So the two choices you have every day, AND WE ALL HAVE THEM, are critical in determining your future.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that listening to your positve, more assertive voice will pay big dividends.

Twitt
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Monday, 25th February

We always like to talk about hitting it hard on monday, and setting the right tone for the rest of the week, but you should also have made it easier on yourself by not going crazy on junk food and alcohol for the entire weekend!

One night when you have a drink within reason is no problem, and one day when you have bit of what you fancy in terms of your favourite foods is no problem either. The problems start though is when you make it an ALL weekender, meaning that you “go for it” on friday, saturday and sunday.

When you do this, no matter how hard you hit it on monday, you’re going to be playing catch up for the rest of the week!!

So there is a couple of rules you have to follow if you want to make the weekend work FOR you, instead of working against you.

Make the alcohol one day a week only, make the foods you consider a treat one day a week only, or if its two make them relatively small portions, or certainly much smaller than you would normally do.

When you do have that day when you relax on food and alcohol, the very next morning you exercise first thing NO MATTER WHAT before breakfast!! This tends to burn fat straight away and THIS HABIT will get you back on track saving the effort you put in all week before the weekend.

The weekend is definitely there to have fun, but if you binge ALL weekend, then no monday superhuman effort is going to make up for it.

So let’s say your big day/big night out is saturday, then that could be your rest day too. So the sunday morning becomes your big early morning workout, a true “recovery” workout if there ever was one!

Then by the time monday comes along, you will have already got the rubbish out of your system, and monday’s workout will have a much greater value for you, and TRULY set you on the right path for the rest of the week!!

Twitt
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Friday, 22nd February

One of the most popular questions I get asked is “which exercise is best, or my friend just goes to spinning classes and she has lost a stone, or my friends just runs and he feels and looks amazing now, or my friends just do yoga and they swear by it”! You get the picture but here’s the answer!

They are all partly right but entirely miss the point when it comes to constructing a valid programme that will serve you well for the short and long term, and keep you getting sustainable results.

Spinning is great for example, but to say it should be 100% of your programme is misguided, delusional and you will be missing out on much better results if you put more variety in your programme.

Spinning should be 10% of your programme.

The running should be 10% of your programme (assuming you have good knees and a sound back or you could run into problems).

Yoga is great, but again should be incorporated into your programme, rather than become ALL of your programme.

Weight training and body weight training should be a fundamental part of your programme, but doesn’t need to be the overwhelming part. You should work your entire body every workout, therefore needing just 2-3 workouts a week maximum.

You also do not need the 4-5 sets per exercise, and you don’t need the 3-4 exercises per body part like some do.

Choosing one exercise per body fat for 2-3 sets of 8 reps will work very well for you, IF done with real intensity and progress keeps happening for you, which it WILL if you are doing it properly!!

Bosu ball, balance work, fitball work should also be a big part of your workout plan, and done a minimum of 2-3 times a week, but doesn’t by any means need to be the whole of your workout.

Same with boxing, a big part of everyone’s training I teach, but done at the end of most workouts but very valuable all the same.

We work hard with ropes in the gym that will bring amazing results, and so do sandbags and tyres, as well as sledgehammers.

My job is making people’s workouts brutally efficient, saving lots of time meaning you can concentrate on the exercises that REALLY count, and you can get much variety than you every imagined!!

So a little bit of a long answer, but that’s the truth when it comes to which exercises you should/could be doing for amazing results!!

Twitt