Posted on

Summer in october

The warmer weather may be the perfect excuse to get back to normal with your outdoor training, and with the average temperature this weekend likely to be 20 degrees, there has never been a better time to get out on the bike and go for a run and go for a walk, not necessarily all three of course but hopefully you will know what I mean!

This is your chance to set a marker in the sand and really go for it again, and tell yourself that this is the time to do it once and for all.

Its also a good time to remind yourself that next spring and next summer will be here soon enough too. Its not going to be good enough then to hang out in baggy jumpers and coats to hide how much weight you may or not put on. You will want to show your improvements off.

The hard work is always done over the winter months and it starts right now if you really want to make a spectacular difference to yourself. The most important workouts are always those you don’t really want to do and the news is that the dark mornings are already here, and cold evenings are waiting around the corner after this hot spell. It is a false dawn before the winter so lets make the most of it and think of the rewards that will be yours next spring.

There will be no baggy jumpers or baggy bottoms next year, you will be able to show off your transformation if you really apply yourself right now, spring will be full of compliments if you just show up for your own workouts and shop well for good food!

My guess is that you will be able to see lots of people on bikes etc this weekend in the warm so lets make the start right now. The same people are not likely to be out in the dead of winter and that’s the challenge, to keep your training up during the harder, darker months, when the real progress is made so lets give it your best, starting this weekend!!!

Twitt
Posted on

Get inspired, its good for you!

Not many could not have been moved by the excellent ryder cup at celtic manor yesterday and its exciting finish. Im not exactly golf’s biggest fan but yesterday certainly excited a lot of people including me. Truly inspiring would be a fair description.

This sort of spectacle will get more people to play golf simply because they were inspired, and in my book thats always a good thing.

Many of you fail to get inspired because the day in day out nature of exercising may not be the most exciting thing in the world. The inspiration comes every time when you receive complements about your appearance, this isnt reserved just for others, it can be for you too if you put the work in, honestly!!!

This type of effort though requires you to be positive in everything you do and put health very high on your list of priorities of life.

Like we always say, its easy to be negative and not doing anything. Thats the easiest thing in the world, to become Jeremy Kyle’s number one fan and not move at all from the settee each day, except maybe into your car, another sitting down experience which wont help you in your quest for fat loss much!!

Changing from your old lifestyle to an active new lifestyle full of vitality isnt as hard as it sounds.

All it takes is daily action and taking every day one at a time.

You have every chance to do it too because its all about you. Unlike a team sport, theres nobody esle to rely on, really theres not. Every single thing you put into your programme, you will get 100% out in terms of results. If you let yourself down by not exercising or eating badly or both, its your fault and you cant blame anyone but yourself.

I think there is the individual in all of us, this is your chance to finally become successful with your health. Some days even a walk in the fresh air will be considered a success, especially if you were only going to lay on the settee and be a slob for the evening!

Doing things outside your comfort zone will be the difference between having a million complements and having medicore results. Its easy to slob in front of the tv every night, deep down though you know thats not right and you’re wasting your life away.

Its tuesday so we have all week to send a new trend in your life!!!

Twitt
Posted on

Confidence boosters

Every time i measure someone and they have showed they have made great progress, the confidence boost that gives cannot be measured easily. That inner pride and feeling that you have achieved something cannot be beaten.

We all need confidence boosters and none of us can operate very well unless we have some confidence in our ability.

Some of us are more confident than others but the great news is that i’ve seen people who would have all the talent in the world, yet would constantly put themselves down for seemingly no reason. The great news is that these people have often turned their confidence and self-esteem levels around dramatically! They have seemingly transformed into different people because they have brought belief into their lives because they have measured themselves at monthly intervals, and this has focused their minds.

If you are training on your own, ask a trusted friend to measure you once a month and make it easy. Get them to measure your waist and hips, and to weigh you on a reliable scale too. From this data, you should easily be able to tell whats working for you and whats not. This will also give you confidence and inspiration to not only keep up your training, but to add more and more ambition to your training and eating.

I promise you that once you prove to yourself that you can achieve big things with training properly and eating well, there will be no holding yourself back in terms of the transformation you’re capable of making to yourself!!

Use that trusted friend to confide in too, your inner worries and doubts whether you can still keep on improving, make sure though that you pick a friend that will boost you continuously. If you pick someone who is constantly on a downer, this will only drag you down too, so associating with like minded positive people can work wonders for you.

The best friends to have are the ones who truly have your wellbeing at heart, and if you can find them, then please hang on to them. They will pick you up when you are down, but be honest with you when perhaps you are not trying hard enough!!

Have a great day and lets keep praise coming into your life!!

Twitt
Posted on

Monday energy rush!!!!!

Weekends away are always great, but they always leave you with crashed energy levels and a lack of desire for intense exercise.

We’ve talked about this before and you’re going to get the same answer out of me again! I only got back 12 noon today, but scheduled in clients from 3pm onwards for two reasons.

First of all, I didn’t want to let anyone down I train, and the second reason was I knew I was going to feel fantastic after I trained full stop. There’s nothing better than going from feeling lethargic to feeling amazing in the space of 30 minutes, I am serious about that and anyone who has done the same today after a heavier weekend than normal will know exactly what I’m talking about!

The scary thing is that most people let the heavy weekends become a lethargic life!! This brings a whole host of problems of course and that’s why the government today announced it was even considering plans to pay people to lose weight!! This how bad it has got and it shows people are not getting the message!!

This is the trick, getting people to believe that exercise and eating properly actually does make you feel better! You may be one who is reading this who doesn’t believe me either, or maybe you have forgotten how good it does feel!! Its time to remind yourself again or you’re going to face a pretty low energy life with lower expectations that you could really have, these are facts and the difference between leading a healthy lifestyle and living a life of not moving around much and too much time in the chip shop/take aways!!

People who put down a healthy lifestyle are the ones who have never tried it, I’m serious! Please do yourself a favour and feel how good I’m feeling right now, even after chasing a couple of kids around the weekend and not much sleep, I know I’m going to sleep well tonight and hopefully be fired up to have a great week of work!!

Its Monday, I am back feeling fantastic and its all down to living the lifestyle that will put so much energy in your life you wont believe it. Are you going to start or are you going to sit on your hands all your life?!!! Come on, lets do it!!

Twitt
Posted on

Making your mark in the sand

Making your mark right now is tough given the economic climate.

When things seem dark and depressing as I write this in the pouring rain, its easy to curl up in the corner and give in to everything and not even try.

This is what a lot of people will do this time of year especially when it comes to their health, even if they are not even active to begin with, so things continue going down the pan for them. This is a slippery slope that is desperately hard to get out.

Try this for an experiment though.

If you are inactive and don’t do anything really to move around much, this could change things around for you in an instant.

Promise yourself that tomorrow you will do some exercise. It may be a walk, a bike ride, or whatever but lets keep it simple as say a walk.

Plan on walking for 30 minutes and take a bottle of water with you.

Then, when you get back in the car or you get into the house, if you don’t feel 100% better in terms of wellbeing and increased energy, I owe you £50! Be honest about this as I don’t feel like selling the house to pay up!!

This is your first step.

Then, have your shower and promise yourself that you’re not going to spoil all of that good work and you’re going to put some good food to maximise that very good feeling you have.

This is your second step.

Then, after all of this, you promise to hit the sack earlier than normal that night and you have a good sleep. Then I promise you that you will wake up so much brighter the next day it won’t be true!

You add all of this up and you have had a great 24 hours and then you need to try it all over again the very next day, because IT IS possible to feel that good again.

Try this for one week and see if your mood changes, you are slightly more optimistic about your chances in life, you are more hopeful and you will be on the road to developing more self-confidence and self-esteem.

These are the early things you need to do ever so slowly to get you on the road to discovering how important your health and fitness is to your future success-IN EVERYTHING!!!

Let me know if I have to pay you £50 or not!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twitt