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More energy to moan than just do it!

Most of us spend more time and energy protesting about doing exercise than actually doing it.

Most of us work up a sweat in finding ways not to eat foods that are going to seriously help our health.

If there was ever one great thing Nike gave to use, it was their marketing team’s slogan “just do it”!!!

For example, i saw two different kids similar in ages this morning. One was a pleasure to work with, looking for hard work and wanted to do his best with his workouts and eating, and may be on the verge of becoming a professional sportman, make that a near certainty.

The other one had maybe as much talent, but was a couple of years younger, but the attitudes couldn’t be more different. Everything was questioned, everything was moaned at, and everything was done with the wrong kind of attitude. This is when attitude is everything when it comes to getting results. This boy will learn the hard way, but in one month’s time, he will know the value of hard work and hopefully develop more respect for others and himself.

This is what we talk about on here. Isn’t the process of thinking up your next excuse an effort in itself, but does it really deep down make you feel any better. Surely the feeling of self-satisfaction you get from sticking to a programme for at least months, giving it everything you’ve got, is going to be so much better than dodging the searching questions you’ve asked yourself about your health.

GETTING REAL and being honest is vital.

If you’re in your 30’s, 40’s or 50’s, are you really saying that you can never be like you were when you were 25?!!! I certainly don’t believe that one bit because i have many examples of people achieving amazing fitness well into their 50’s and 60’s, and people doing well in their 70’s and 80’s too, and guess what? NONE OF THEM MOAN ABOUT LIFE’S LITTLE OBSTACLES!!

Once you decide NOT to moan about all the little things in life, THINGS WILL IMPROVE RAPIDLY for you. If you don’t believe me, PLEASE TRY IT, I MEAN PLEASE TRY it and take a chance in your life again.

Simply being more active is a huge start for you, simply shopping for food that is actually going to do you good is going to be an awesome start for you. BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS GOING TO BE A MASSIVE, HUGE, FANTASTIC TURNING POINT IN YOUR LIFE AND IT CAN START RIGHT NOW!!!

It all starts here and now, no more moaning, let’s do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twitt
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Showing up or kidding yourself?

Now the muggyness has gone a little bit from the weather, hopefully all of you are stepping up your workouts?!!!

I admit I have been a bit sluggish for around a week or so, finding it harder to get the same standard out of myself. Those of you who have got through this week should applaud yourself getting through the hardest of times, and push on to new levels when it gets cooler.

Nice to see gareth davies posting in a previous topic, he is keen to get back into his training after a break, and that’s exactly what he needs, to show up and get back into it as hes a strong lad and can achieve an awful lot is he shows up 95% of the tine.

This is always the theme through the blog, the “showing up” is proving to be the hardest thing for most of you.

Most of you have had breaks, whether intentionally or not but most of you miss your training and when you DO get back into things, you realise how much you missed your workouts, and the great way the training made you feel.

None of us are perfect and doing the workouts are not always the first things on our minds but getting through them 50 out of 52 weeks a year would be a monumental achievement I can tell you.

We all look for short cuts now and again, kidding ourselves that there really is this short, easy and magical way to get into shape, but isn’t it the case that the longer we kid ourselves the easy way exists, the more overweight and unfit we become.

Workouts shouldn’t become like walking in quicksand either, you should always start off slowly working within your limits, and don’t try to be ultra-ambitious too soon. You need a good foundation in your physical condition before you look to break your outer limits.

So what’s your situation this week? Have you had a great week’s training? A fine week’s eating? Or have you given up your training for the world cup or wimbledon, or both even?!!!

Surely I don’t have to tell you that you can easily fit your workouts in around these great sporting events, if you cant spend less time watching TV or spend less time in bed and start getting a grip on what you need to do, because every possibility is out there for you, life is waiting for you to take advantage of the opportunities you have.

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For the rest of you, lets finish off the week strong and look to have a huge weekend!

Twitt
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More focus in your training/cycling

The same old training all the time brings with it more limited results, and a lack of motivation because you will be doing the same old thing all the time.

If you’re out cycling today, then you may be just in the mood to get out there and coast it, no problem at all with that.

If you’re out to do something different and add something quickly to your fitness, i would look to challenge yourself a little more.

Easy ways to do this on a cycle path for instance, would be to pick off targets along the way. Paula Radcliffe for instance would aim to chase down targets or runners in front of her. If you see someone in front of you cycling, then try to chase them down and eventually pass them, then you can coast for a while.

When you get your breath and legs back, you can chase down the next one and so on. 20 minutes of this type of workouts will get you breathing very hard indeed!!

You can mix it up on the hills too, there must be some path or some succession of roads that you never thought you’d be able to cycle up? Well, let’s go and try it!!

I would start like this. Take your time more than normal on the flat, and do your best to get up the very steep hills, work up gradually of course and don’t take on the worst hill to start with!

The key to climbing hills on the bike is to stick to a pace that you can keep with. No point going off like mad and then blowing up 15 yards later, remember you’re not in the Tour De France and its not a race up the mountains.

You will get confidence from making gradual progress and the first time you take on a tough hill, that will be the worst feeling you’ll ever get because IT IS your first time. Every time you take that hill on after that, IT WILL FEEL BETTER AND EASIER. It’s all a question of practice and not quitting after the first time you do it because you didn’t achieve that much.

I’ve trained lots of people take on the most mammoth of hills, and they have lived to tell the tale! They developed great self belief from their accomplishments and they are proud to say that their cycling is now first-class and now literally no hill scares them, in fact some people go searching for them now!!!

Have a great day and an even better bike ride!

Twitt
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Uncertainty

The worst thing we have in our lives is uncertainty.

We are sometimes not certain how much money we will earn, not certain how much our bills will be, how much will our next car cost, will we meet our mortgage payments, how our health will be perhaps being the biggest etc etc.

The stock market for instance has hated all the uncertainty of the liberal/conservative fiasco, nobody likes uncertainty full stop!

Most if not all of you show uncertainty in your health and fitness programme at times, and some of you have posted here not knowing which way to turn at times.

You have been encouraged by others and hopefully by myself on here, because we all have had doubts, we all have uncertainties running through us at times, and its how we react to all of that worry that determines where we end up.

Make the ultimate wrong decision such as going on a mega-binge in times of stress and it can lead to a longer decline if not sorted out straight away. Weight gain ALWAYS leads to feeling worse than you ever should have done in the first place!

If you have a longer term plan and  true understanding of what it takes, then you are likely to react favourably under times of great uncertainty. This comes from experience though and you shouldn’t be hard on yourself if you make mistakes, all of us make mistakes and those who say they don’t are liars!

I would rather make a thousand mistakes but as long as i learned from most of them, i would know i have become a better person because of them, and are likely to make better decisions in future in times of doubt and uncertainty.

We all are learning and those who think they know it all are usually just that, know it all’s, and we all know a few but they are usually regarded as fools or to be pitied.

Whatever doubts you have, you know there is plan and way out of it, lots of resources on here to encourage you on the right path so let’s give it a go and be the success you always knew you could be!!

Twitt
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Decisive moment

What was the decisive moment you decided to get fit?

What was the decisive moment you decided you change you health around and actually do something about it?

That particular moment that decides whether you get on a health and fitness programme can be very poweful.

For instance, ive seen lots of people ignore health warnings about their weight and lack of activity and pay the price down the line. We all know people who smoke too much, eat too much, dont move around much and can end up having a stern lecture often too late in a hospital bed. The person concerned would have much preferred to have taken the preventative approach, of exercise and eating healthier.

Decisive moments also include the time when you lose confidence in your own health and fitness programme, about the lack of results you may be having. I find some people are either very enthusiastic (which is good) about their programmes or are over-pessimistic about their programmes and their chances of success.

You see people posting all the time on here either on top form, or a couple of weeks later, in despair because a couple of things have gone wrong, they have panicked and their progress has well and truly collapsed!

Little do they realise that if they hadn’t blown their programme off the rails, and had kept their heads that they would have in fact stayed on track, and got a bit mentally tougher from staying the course and greatly enhanced their chances for being overall very successful and for the long term too!

We are here on a monday again and whats your plan this week?

I ALWAYS find that if you have a good monday, that means a good workout to start the week off, that you are motivated to get it right for the rest of the week, and you are very likely to eat better too, as you don’t wish to blow all your efforts!

So have you got your week sorted out? For example, personally i have hit some good runs today, and am doing a weights workout later with a client so today is massively productive for me.

Not only that, but my energy levels are up too which is ultra-important to me. My job is highly energy based so if i am not raring to go each day, then i have little motivation to give people!

We have already done the 84 day challenge this year, we have the childline triathlon in mumbles sunday morning which we organise every year, and we have 120 people all raring to go over the three disciplines. So this year already, there have been a lot of goals being met by all sorts of people from all walks of life.

The opportunities are there for you, all you have to do is take them.

Of course it is easy to sit down every night after work and have a beer, and to eat “easy” food that may have been made for you such as a take away. But guess what? “Easy” doesn’t do anything for yours self-esteem, self-confidence, body fat levels, energy or performance and simply feeling good, it DOES NOT GET YOU THERE!

Hopefully, you’re having a great week so lets make sure a big monday happens to put you on a great course for the rest of the week!

Twitt