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Tuesday, 13th August

You are taught to eat your greens as a young kid and most of you probably hated that advice!

Then you get a little older and you start to appreciate the advice.

Taking advice is never easy, and it is good to second guess advice, because not all of it will be good.

Sorting out the good advice from the bad advice is not always easy, but if you rely on science to do it for you, then you cannot go wrong.

You know that eating plenty of greens in your weekly diet, and remembering to put them in your weekly shopping trolley is important. There are numerous independent studies to back this up, and their value to your body in all sorts of different ways.

Science tells us that weight training is vital for increasing strength, increasing muscle tone, increasing our metabolic rate, and increasing bone density, amongst many other benefits. You need to practice it at least twice a week.

Science also tells us that getting your heart rate going is excellent for us, in terms of benefits to our hearts and lungs, as well as improving our circulation in our bodies.

These are simple examples of getting it right, and using solid evidence to help us decide what we should be doing. Despite this evidence, many people fail to implement this advice every single week which will bring undoubted benefits.

This is why faddy diets fool many people every day promising a quick fix WITHOUT any science behind it.

Doing things the scientific way may be a little harder to do, but at least you know its going to work!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 12th August

After experiencing a camping weekend, it’s then you realize how important fresh air is and how important it is for a number of your body’s functions.

Anyone who has spent the weekend in a tent will first of all realize that it makes you feel more tired than usual. You tend to be more active and you tend to do a lot more walking and running around.

The fresh air will have a great effect on your sleep, and you will feel in general on top of the world after the whole experience.

This is why it’s important to workout outside and inside. If you combine the both, then you will have all the benefits.

With our climate, its natural to assume we will be training a lot inside during much of the year. Therefore, its vital to get out and about in terms of everything, working out or anything you do, just GET OUTSIDE!!

Studies done on individuals who get a lot of outside time tend to be more optimistic in their outlook too, as well as usually being a lot healthier due their activities outside.

It’s august 12th, and although we are still in summer, you know its not going to be that long before the nights draw in and its gets a lot colder and wetter!

Make the most of the excellent conditions right now and you will be automatically feeling better by the end of the day even!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 6th August

Assuming you had a good Monday after following the advice to make sure you were well and truly back on track with your eating, then Tuesday should be looking even better for you.

The positivity after a good Monday can create a huge performance on Tuesday for you. Tuesday on average is the best performance of the week for many people I train. Traditionally Tuesday along with Monday is the busiest night of the week when it comes to gyms.

Tuesday traditionally may be considered “boring” when it comes to having fun and partying, but it is everything BUT in training terms and getting a massive performance out of yourself!

Tuesday is a pivotal day in deciding your physical fate for the week. Assuming you have had a great Monday, and then Tuesday is likely to be even better. Once you get a big Monday and Tuesday in, then the rest of the week can flow very well indeed!

Most people I know who train hard eat well too, or at least are inspired to eat well due to the effort they put into their training. Eating well and healthily goes hand in hand with good quality training and one without the other is not much good.

Put them together and you have double the results!

You must have certain standards or records you have in certain exercises you do, or running or cycling or whatever you do. Tuesday is the perfect day to get a big performance out of yourself. Whenever you set new records or standards for yourself, then your body will always be a big beneficiary and the big physical changes that come with it can happen in a shorter time than you think, AS LONG as you are eating well of course!

Tuesday has never looked so positive so try and make your own big impression on it today!

Twitt
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Monday, 5th August

Monday is the day when most people get really back into their eating, and by that I mean eating good healthy clean food every meal.

At the weekend, your food choices are likely to be haphazard with the word “treat” creeping into your conversation!

So it’s Monday today, the day you are truly 100% committed to eating healthily.

You will notice the difference in performance you have today when you eat well.

At the weekend when your food is not so good, you will usually feel far more lethargic and you will want to nap and sleep more in general. This is due to feeding your body foods and drink that don’t go through your body well, in other words you don’t and cannot digest inferior foods that are very low on nutrients.

Foods low on nutrients are not meant for people who want to exercise well, who want to stay healthy, who want to feel good and feel the benefits of being healthy. Those foods do not fit the bill AT ALL!

This is why today is ultra-important. You want to be on track today and be able to deliver for your body in the way it looks and you want to feel as energetic as possible surely?

This is not a time to gamble with your health, or settle for mediocre results.

This week and today is the start of another big week for you and you MUST eat well every meal today, and most of the week to get the best out of yourself! Drink enough water, get energized and the workouts will take care of themselves as you will be bouncing with lots of energy to get through your week!

Make it happen today!!!

Twitt
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Friday, 2nd August

Catherine’s comment again that “everybody seems to be on protein shakes the days” is a very relevant one, because protein shakes seem to be very much in vogue at the moment and have been for a while.

The problem comes when something seems like the the all encompassing “saviour” and its all in a shake, which makes things a lot easier for many people.

You don’t have to cook anymore at certain times of day, you will feel full for a while longer than your traditional shake, which often contains simple sugars just to make the shake taste better.

Protein shakes actually work too! They will make you feel full, they will discourage snacking needlessly, and they will give some people stability when they are all over the place with their eating habits.

So these can be big positives for a lot of people in the busy lives we all seem to live these days.

The only problem comes when people go back to eating properly, and by that I mean proper food and real meals.

If you rely just on protein shakes, then you are not really learning how to eat properly for a lifetime, there are no learning processes such as which foods work well for you, and which foods are full of hidden sugars and fat but you don’t realize it yet.

I know people who take protein shakes for a few weeks, lose weight and then say they will never come off them, but I can assure you THEY DO! Then if you come off them and as I said eat real food, then the whole trap of losing weight and piling it all back on happens all over again!

Summing it, protein shakes can be a viable tool, but use them as a balance in your day and week, don’t let them become an overwhelming factor.

Protein shakes are a million times better than the charlatans who sell other powdered drinks and bars, such as herbalife, lighter life who create longer term misery, but there is no magic solution out there apart from eating sensibly and using portion control so you don’t overeat.

Everything must balance and you need to adopt a longer term sustainable plan.

Twitt