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Tuesday, 18th October

Warren Gatland admitted today he thought about cheating when it came to saturday’s disappointing loss, by faking an injury to one of the other props so Wales could achieve uncontested scrums. This would give a big advantage to wales, especially when it comes to the fact that they were already playing 14 versus fifteen, and the game would end up more evenly balanced, instead of being under constant pressure in the scrum!

For the sake of the spirit of the game, he didn’t resort to that but that are plenty of teams who would, without naming individual countries, but cheating has been a part of professional sport since the year dot!!

Drugs are the most well known form of cheating, and there are numerous sports such as athletics, cycling, american football, baseball etc that are rife with widespread drug taking unfortunately.

You may know yourself someone who takes drugs in order to get ahead in whatever field they are in. It could be recreationally taken steroids, it could ephedrine type products for sport, whatever it is, it comes down to one thing-CHEATING!!!

Performance enhancing drugs are not only illegal, but like the gatland comments, they are totally against the spirit of the game and sport in general.

Once you have resorted to them, you have given up your right to offer advice to others on performance, because you will not have played on a level playing field. You won’t know the hard work it takes to do it naturally, to suffer more, to recover more, to hit the sack earlier to recover, to have greater attention to detail in your food, to make every training session count etc etc.

To aspire to get to the top of any sport naturally is a very noble thing, and unfortunately becoming more and more difficult.

The good news is that it is possible to do it, as long as you make the use of the latest science and have a monumental work ethic.

 The other route is cheating, plain old fashioned cheating and that doesn’t impress anyone, and when you take the longer term health side effects into consideration, it can’t be worth it surely?!!!

Twitt
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Friday, October 7th

As we go toward a great weekend of rugby, Wales versus Ireland, England versus France, its important to manage your body’s performance throughout this weekend.

A lot of people will use this weekend to complete trash their body, and forget all about eating healthy habits and say that somehow on monday morning or evening, they will fix it and they will be back to normal on tuesday!!!

Life or fitness doesn’t work like that somehow, and you always need some guidelines and tried and tested strategies to get through a weekend like this.

If friday night is your night, and you’re having “a few” no matter what!!! You had better make sure you do a workout tomorrow m0rning. If you do, your booze leaves your body to a large degree and you feel better.

If you don’t, your spare tyre gets bigger and you feel sorry for yourself all of saturday.

Then if you drink again saturday, you will write off another few drinks, and you usually wont have ANY idea how many extra calories you consumed in food thats usually too high in saturated fat, salt and sugars, THATS THE WAY IT IS when you let it all hang out  the weekend.

Then there’s sunday. Sunday lunch can be preceeded by a fried breakfast, a sleep on sunday afternoon (i miss those days!), and then something that could be called “comfort food” at the end of sunday.

To fix this calorie avalanche, stick to the tried and tested.

If you are out tonight, make sure you get out for a run, hard walk, cycle, inside workout WITHOUT FAIL!!!

Have a good breakfast, nothing fried and nothing greasy!

If you are out saturday, do the same workout sunday (usually outside) and really get a sweat on.

You can STILL enjoy your weekend, you just do not need to end up like a stuffed pig on monday morning, and take until thursday next week until you feel back to normal!!!!! SORT IT OUT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY and there wont be tears on monday morning, and you will be in a much better mood for it!!!

Good luck Wales!!

Twitt
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Thursday 6th October

Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, died last night after a courageous battle with cancer, at the relatively young age of 56.

Jobs today has been called an innovator, a genius, a leader in the technology field, someone who created a legacy that will last generations, a true visionary, and just about everything in between.

Never has someone been regarded so high in the technology field, and his legacy will continue in just about everything we use today.

From ipod’s to ipad’s, to apple mac’s to his relationship with Microsoft some years ago when Microsoft actually kept the company going because Microsoft itself didn’t want the company to fold because it would have been broken up itself.

Jobs used to say in many of his speeches, “never let anyone else stop you following your dreams”, “never let negative people put you off you pursuing what you know what to be right”, he often encouraged entrepreneurs of all kinds to have a go at what they thought could work, what they thought the public wanted and what they thought deep down in their hearts to be true.

With your exercise programme and your food intake, you secretly know what is right and true.

You don’t need to read another diet in the paper that you know is faddy, you don’t need to fall for yet another faddy exercise machine, you don’t need to be put off by some of your negative friends who don’t even work out at all  yet are overweight, you don’t need to believe anyone who makes claims you know are too good to be true etc etc.

So whatever the situation you are in, focus on yourself and what you know to be right. There will be times when you feel like giving up on your workouts, on your food, on your alcohol levels, but actually following through every time you doubt yourself instead of giving up will take you a long, long way!!!

Steve Jobs RIP

Twitt
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Tuesday, October 4th

Nothing beats the feeling of being a programme and know you’re on a mission too get into serious shape.

This can take many forms.

You may be a true individual in every sense of the word, and want to do everything yourself, you want privacy but are very determined and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals.

You may be the person who feels too intimidated to go into a gym, you may feel sad about how you have let your body go, and you may not even know where to start?

You may be the person who has been there, seen it, done it and have to start all over again for any kind of reason.

What about the person who always shows up to the gym, always knows everyone, talks an awful lot and always knows all the gossip, except he/she forgets to do one thing-TRAIN or at least train with a purpose that will result in a big results, these individuals are very common and are usually quite content to put up with a lack of results for years and years.

Whichever one you may be, its time to get on the right path and make a plan out right now.

Broadly speaking, you MUST do some resistance/weight training at least twice a week working the whole body, this is an absolute fundamental to put you on the path to success.

You must do some cardio at least twice and up to four times a week, this is a must for your heart and fat loss.

These two types of training work well together, and BOTH are as important as each other in terms of fantastic results. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, the people who insist only to do running, swimming or cycling for fat loss and fitness make me want to puke quite frankly. They have no real knowledge and they don’t do it for a living so their behind is not on the line every single day when it comes to advice!!!

Im here to help and much more to come tomorrow and what it really takes to get out of the quicksand of non-improvement!!!

Twitt
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Monday 3rd October

So hows the warm weather training going?

Something we have never experienced in this country in late september and early october, and there and benefits and disadvantages t0 training in these conditions. Athletes pay good money to train in these conditions in tenerife and lanazorote!!

First of all in this weather, its not too much of a problem warming up and getting ready to train. Your body is already warm and you are much less likely to have aches and strains along the way. This helps a lot.

A lot of people like training in this weather because theres lot of other people training out and about, and some people like to join the crowd. Plus you are far more likely to go out in this weather, it still reminds us of summer and how much we really felt like being in shape at that time!

This weather is a lot more attractive for cycling too, you don’t get so warm as running in the sun and its great weather to scan all the wonderful scenery, nothing better in this weather.

The downside of course is the extreme temperatures. Your body naturally gets hotter quicker, this means your body’s internal temperature rises quicker and therefore discourages you going to your higher intensity levels.

It does take time too get used to these higher temperatures, but luckily we don’t have to as this weather will vanish completely this wednesday, when the rain and cold is very likely to be back.

Compare this week with a week in january though, it will be much wetter and colder, darker and in general pretty bleak. This is when your resolve will be tested to the limit and you will be yearning for days like these!!!

I find everyone more cheerful in this weather too, nothing like a bit of sun to help our spirits!!!

Its all good news as far as im concerned so lets make the most of it and start the week in an energetic way!!!

Twitt