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Friday, September 16th

People always talk about a “right time” to do things. This unfortunately involves waiting, sometimes so much waiting you never actually do it. Many people say i will wait until i get new training shoes, i will wait until my friend joins the gym with me, i will wait until i “get in the right frame of mind”, I will wait until the winter/spring/summer/autumn for whatever reason etc etc.

If you look at some of the greatest and most long lasting businesses over the last 100 years, MANY of them starting during recessions, when many people advised them to wait “until the dust settles” because it would be madness to do so.

Usually though, many businesses start because they are ready to start and share their product with the world. They are so busy “doing”, that the timing doesn’t really matter.

With your exercise programme or decision to eat healthy, it often starts “next week”, “next month” and usually not at all. The longer you put things off, the harder it becomes to do, this applies to anything.

The power you give yourself by deciding to get active right now will indeed empower you!

The power you will give yourself when going shopping you decide to put only healthy foods into your basket will signal the start of a new and healthy lifestyle for you, and immediately things will change for the better.

Each and every day is a fresh opportunity for you to get better, but first you must stop the endless conversations about how something in the future will happen “one day”. That “one day” doesn’t usually happen.

Once you decide to take action, then you will be proud of yourself. Once you have taken action once, then you are likely to take action on a regular basis. This process of finally get your behind in gear and doing something positive every day will eventually create real transformation in your life, and you will no doubt wonder why you didn’t start earlier.

The choice is yours, stop doing the “what if’s”, “i’m too old, too overweight, too unfit” conversation. Everyone has the same opportunity, take yours right now.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 10th October

To develop your full potential, you need to start thinking bigger and open your mind to endless possibilities if you eliminate some of the obstacles holding you back.

This is when you discover the “magic” of thinking big.

There are two types of people, those who do something about it and try to enhance their health.

Then there are those who don’t actively do anything about their health and have a condition called “excuse-itis” and have the following reasons why they can’t exercise (i am too old, too young, too overweight, too underweight, it’s too hot, it’s too cold, exercise is not for me, i have a bad back, i have a bad knee, i have a bad shoulder, exercise never changes anything etc etc) .

We have endless examples of individuals who defy the odds and beat the medical conditions they have to inspire others. I find many of the most afflicted and would definitely have MANY reasons to complain, ARE the ones who complain the least.

One person who trains with us has heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, a terrible knee and hip, a weak ankle and a stiff shoulder, and every day is often a struggle to get up. Yet once she gets going, she somehow comes to life and adds greatly to the encouraging atmosphere at the gym and has progressed dramatically having a hugely positive impact on all of those afflictions.

Diabetes is a massive problem for the UK and there’s no doubt you know many people with it. There are those who actively do something about it, and those who wait for it to get worse.

Exercise will only help diabetes and getting fitter will automatically lead to you getting healthier and feeling better full stop. Don’t take my word for it, we have two of the most senior diabetes nurses in the county who will tell you the same who train with us most days.

All exercise should be supervised and each condition should be considered before any programme starts, this is why treating everyone as an individual is so vital to us and it should be for you too.

With all the science of training and healthy advice better than any time in history, there has never been a better time to think big and make a massive positive difference to your health!

Twitt
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Thursday, 7th July

When does pizza, takeaways, wine, beer, ready meals become “most” days and workouts go from “most days” to not at all or occasionally?

All of you start with high ambitions, you “really” want to do it this time!

You will likely start off really well, and get some good healthy food in, and your energy levels begin to get better, you started to feel better and your clothes start to feel better.

Most of you keep this momentum up, and start to excel in our programme.

What happens when you start to miss workouts, for whatever reason? It’s at this exact stage when things start to go pear-shaped.

When you miss a workout, you won’t feel that great moment when anything is possible, when you get that immediate lift, when you feel much more positive, when you start to dream bigger, when you wonder where exercise has been all your life!

Miss a few workouts and those wondrous, joyous feelings soon become a distant memory. You start losing the courage and the will to start back.

It is EASIER not to show up, to start NEXT week which is the week that never comes, doing nothing is always much easier than taking action after all.

It’s at this stage that trips to the supermarket, co-op, etc become more regular for the pizza, takeaways, wine, beer and you rationalise it by telling yourself that “everyone else does it” so why don’t i?”.

The difference between being in great shape physically and mentally, and being out of shape, not training and making continuous poor choices destroying your motivation and drive, are often all to do with that decision you made to start skipping the things that made you great in the first place.

Momentum is your friend, keep showing up, keep setting new personal bests and keep that motivating promise you made to yourself when you first started and you were REALLY going to do it this time no matter what!

Twitt
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Monday, 4th July

Sometimes you have to make your own way, your own decisions in key moments and decisions that will go against the grain. You have to see through tried and tested advice and strategies, or your results will not be as good as you would like.

If you rely on the crowd you normally hang out with to make your decisions, and they will definitely offer many opinions often based on their own muddled thinking, then your decision making will be all over the place.

Think of kids in school, you wouldn’t like it if they got influenced by the “wrong” crowd and went against the tried and tested way to do things? Your “crowd” similarly will have a same effect on you if you let them.

Some may tell you that spin classes are better, even though the air assault bike will destroy that bike in 3 minutes or less.

You may get talked into a nice and easy cross trainer for a “fat burning” programme, when 5 minutes on our ski machine will leave you gasping on the floor.

You may get talked into taking shakes instead of real food, knowing deep down that they are only temporary weight loss aids, ALWAYS leading to you putting the weight back on and more and the misery that brings.

This is when you MUST stick to your guns, stick to the way you know works, and be prepared to see it through no matter what.

There will always be a gimmick, some magic supplement that they have discovered after “2000 years”, there will no end of heavy marketing trying to get you to sign up to some model/trainer’s plan, even if they don’t train anyone in real life.

Having clarity and being decisive in life is the only way to get through this and reach the deep down goals you are really excited about.

Hard work, a strong tried and tested strategy, never giving up no matter what are all 100% guaranteed ways to get what you want and a heck of a lot more!

Making strong decisions is not always going to be the easy way, or the popular way with your friends or people who always try to take you off the path, but doing things the RIGHT way will make sure you get the amazing results you really want and that’s what ultimately will make you happy..

Twitt
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Wednesday, 22nd June

The highest achievers i know at the gym, in business, in senior positions in all sorts of situations, KNOW that there is a difference between interest and commitment. A huge one at that! Having an “interest” means you are in and out and not really into getting the amazing results you’d like to think you deserve. Commitment means you will give everything to attaining massive results.

You can’t just show a passing interest to your health and fitness programme, the sooner you make it a part of your life, the sooner you will give it even more, show up more often, you will definitely do even better than you may be doing right now.

When you’re interested in something, you will only do it when “circumstances” allow. You may have a crack at something when “perfect” conditions allow.

Let’s face it, i don’t know anyone who has all day to exercise, anyone who has no responsibilities, anyone who doesn’t have a million things going at once, and in this faster than ever society, time is of the essence to every single person.

When you are committed to something, you will accept absolutely no excuses, ONLY results. Forget perfect days and circumstances because they never exist.

Commitment is one of the big keys to getting the most out of your programme, you will make excuses TO GET TO your sessions, instead of making excuses to get out of them. You will make excuses to eat well and find healthy food most of the time, instead of finding the slightest excuses to eat and drink badly.

Commitment helps get your mind right too. Once you have it in your mind that you make something a huge priority, then you are likely to take positive action daily to go out and get it. Positive action starts from positive thoughts, and thinking in this way every day tends to affect everything else in our life………..in a positive way too!

Commit or interest ,which one is it?!!

Twitt