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New Year’s Eve 2010

The number one resolution made around the world every year at this exact time, well 12 o’clock tonight anyway, is the one to adopt a healthier lifestyle and lose weight.

Despite these good intentions, it turns out 60 something per cent of our population is classed as overweight. 30 something per cent of them are classed as obese and in extremely poor condition.

Most people who make these resolutions only use words. They often forget that results that mean something require action on a regular basis, for the rest of your life in all cases and this seems like the speed bump in most people’s lives.

It’s really no good temporarily putting quick fixes in your life with faddy diets come January. Sustained commitment and sustained action are the keys to you being super successful or going around in circles again. Most people I know who have finally “got it” don’t really have to make “resolutions” again, because their habits are so engrained in their life now.

When exercising is important to you, you realise it’s the thing that usually makes you tick. When eating properly is part of your life, you notice quickly when you fall off the rails a bit, because your energy levels disappear and you become this hugely irritable person that’s not that nice to be around anymore!

Einstein said that its madness to do the same old thing every time and expect a different result.

This is what new year’s resolutions are all about, doing the same thing every year and expecting a different result, it doesn’t happen!! Weight loss clubs are expecting you to join them YET again and pay for the privilege of losing the weight and putting it ALL back on again AND MORE. Is this an annual experience for you or have you really had enough this time?!!!!

Perhaps the most important thing you can do this year is not only make your resolution, but promise to take sustained action at the same time, this way you are far more likely to succeed. Commit yourself for the whole of 2011, you will have some ups and downs but if you finish 2011 in better shape than now, then you will have been very successful, how many people can say that after all?

Have a good one!!!

Twitt
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Thursday 30th december 2010

If you had taken my advice yesterday, you would have made some kind of commitment to getting in shape again. If you had taken some action, you may be feeling stiff today due to your lack of activity over Christmas and the approach to the holiday period.

What also causes the stiffness is the often poor choice of food and drink over this time. The old saying goes that if you put rubbish fuel into your body, don’t expect it to drive well. If you keep on putting sub-standard food and drink into your body, it will splutter along and jump like someone driving a car for the first time.

If im honest, I am stiff myself today and really tired after starting back good sessions on Monday. Its important for me to get through this period so im back feeling great by next week. Some people will be off until 4th January but that is far too long for me. I WANT to be back in work this week so I can get back to feeling good full stop, im glad I made the decision to start back this week honestly.

Along with feeling good comes lower body fat, a harder and leaner body, much better energy levels and the inner drive that everyone has returning in a big way.

If I stayed off until 4th January, I would be lethargic, irritable, not wanting to do anything etc. The idea of going out for junk food every day and going shopping most days frankly makes me want to puke!! Most people it seems love to shop but I really think that there better things to do. There are only so many shops you can go through, after all these shopping parks are the same as any town or city, no individual shops around anymore unfortunately!

I would much rather be out in fresh air walking, running whatever, it just feels better and if you have been stuck in the house all over Christmas due to the snow and ice, NOW really is the time to get out there and feel much better about yourself. There is absolutely no excuse not be exercising right now, please don’t fall for the groundhog day faddy excuses for diets in the new year, PLEASE don’t do it, save your money and promise yourself that you won’t be fooled anymore with their false promises and sometimes damaging effect on your long term health! According to latest research, 97% of them DO NOT WORK over the long term!!

Let’s get out there and make a start!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 6th December

We are currently in the coldest weather i can remember, bearing in mind it was the coldest winter for 30 years last year, this statement is a very strong one. The perfect excuse then not to do any exercise you would think? Absolutely wrong!!

Yesterday morning is my usual run with the dogs and early yesterday you would have been barely able to walk on the pavement, running was a total impossibility. I could have done a workout inside but i like some fresh air on a sunday morning, so i made sure i got a workout in through a tried and tested method  which turned out to be a lot of fun.

I hit the steep cemetery hill for sprints and obviously the normal road would have been impossible of course. The GRASS next to the road though, while covered in frost, is actually very receptive to running believe it or not, and reacts favourably to sprints up and down the hill.

This is the ONLY workout i could do yesterday but not the only choice had i thought about it a bit more. If i had waited a couple of hours and driven down the beach, i could have run as far as i liked on the sand, which is never a problem and is perfect in any weather, even though there were icy patches on the beach this morning!!

So two things i was looking at yesterday and they were accomplished very easily. A lot of fresh air which cleared my head, and a very decent sprint workout which i havent done for a long time, and my thighs are still a little stiff this morning which is great!! 

We always go on about the power of the mind here, and here it was again, just sit back sometimes and ask yourself is there a better way, or even is there a way at all?!!! More often than not, you’ll find that there’s ALWAYS  a way so lets continue to battle through this harsh winter and get some great workouts in!!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 30th November 2010

Putting off your health and weight problems is the biggest mistake you can ever make. Throwing in the towel right now for christmas is one of my pet hates, and fortunately i help a lot of people who are really commited to working out right up until christmas, through christmas and straight after christmas. This is a great strategy because you really want to be flying into 2011 in the best possible shape.

So assuming you’re commited to being the best you can be, and maybe you’re having a few problems with getting into the kind of shape you want to be, maybe 10-15 pounds short of your best weight?

The first thing to do is be honest with yourself and tell yourself the truth. What would you give to lose that extra weight and everyone tell you how great you look? Could you put up with eating food a lot plainer without the additives?

Assuming you have the odd treat anyway, these are the things i would get rid of without hesitation! 

These are the things i have got rid of when i’ve raided fridges and cupboards in a lot of houses. Get a black bag and get rid of the following right now, no messing around so lets make it happen please!

Ketchup-when i eat it, it makes me wheeze and brings my asthma back and i hear this a lot from other people, this has no place in your cupboard if you want to be in great shape full stop and no but’s!!!

Salt-the best way to get your blood pressure up! Which is really bad of course and very bad for making your body hold water, another pet hate of many of you, looking and feeling bloated is not the most attractive look in the world!!!

Mayonnaise-full fat or half fat or very low fat, this stuff is rubbish and will do absolutely nothing to help you get into shape, in fact it will make things extremely hard!!! Whatever the marketer’s tell you, its very harmful for the body!

Salad cream-same as mayo, a nightmare for getting into shape, if you want to be at your best, then why are you buying this rubbish!!!!

Flora margarine or any margarine-DESPITE what they say again, its not good for you, in fact butter is much better. Another example i was told of today, if you put butter in the garden all day, the animals will eat it, you put margarine out all day and the animals won’t go near it!! True story so be careful on what you put into your body!! Flora won’t get you healthy, honestly!!

White bread-full of bleaching agents and shocking ingredients, this stuff should be banned from your house full stop, its making your get in shape plans go up in smoke, get it out and get it out now please!

These are examples of things that will destroy all your great training efforts, get them out of your life and start seeing amazing results with your health, your body and the way you’re going to feel!!!

Twitt
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Thursday, 18th November

As the weather gets even gloomier, now is the time to bust out of all that by taking yourself to places you thought were long forgotten!

At 14, you probably thought you would be capable of anything for the rest of your life. Nothing was too much of a problem and you had high aspirations in just about everything!

At 18, this idea was probably reinforced very strongly!! You start to think that you are indestructible at this age, and anything you try seems to come off in your favour, physically at least!

At 30, you started to look back at 18 maybe as your peak, and some minor aches and pains started to come in. You may not be quite so quick as you used to be and everything is starting to become a little bit more of a struggle.

At 40, sport or any activity may have been a distant memory and you may be too embarrassed to ask the best advice on how to get going again. Annoying ailments such as bad backs, bad necks etc start entering your life and you sort of accept that you’re never going to be as active again.

At 50, health is probably very important to you because major aches and pains are there, and the risk of serious ill health rises significantly. 50 years of age in the now the most popular age to exercise and people in this age group are exercising in very large numbers. This is the age when finally, people realise that they CAN do something about the ageing process and what comes with it.

The facts are that the average 50 year old I train now is anything BUT average. There’s a test I like to do sometimes on the general public and it staggers me every time.

For example, if a 18-21 year old woman asks me to measure their body fat, it typically ends up being around 28%, don’t ask me why but that is the average number I usually come up with over a large cross-section in that age group.

So remember that is the 18-21 age group.

The typical female 50 year old I train right now would have a body fat of around 22%. Some a little less, some a little more.

This shows (I have the statistical) evidence to back this up that age REALLY DOES NOT MATTER. As long, as you approach your eating in a consistent and sensible manner, and you train regularly throughout the year, you WILL significantly reduce your body fat and put your health into a superior range.

It’s a shame it takes many people until 50 to realise it, but if you are this age and still treading water when it comes to health, there is a pathway waiting right now for you to achieve some major things in your life.

It all starts right here and sourcing the information required. Its all here so lets get it going!!!

Twitt