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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
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Time flies

So its 12 short weeks to christmas and have you got into your pre-christmas regime yet?

Seasons and years pass you by in an instant seemingly and this year has been no different. Many things have probably happened to you this year, some good and some not so good probably, but you’re still here and you’re in a great position to make a lot out of yourself by the year end.

Its time to forget the cards you were dealt. We all now have the same tools when it comes to getting in shape.

We all have the same access to the same supermarkets or shops for food. We all have the same access to the outside to train, or use our living room to train, this is entirely possible and this cannot be argued.

We have the same opportunity to get a good night’s sleep and get energised for the next day’s exercise. This is possible isn’t it?

So you don’t have to be rich or be born into the right family to be fit and healthy, that has to be correst doesn’t it?

So what more excuses have you got not to be in shape and getting excited about feeling good about yourself again?

The facts are that time really does fly and christmas and the end of the year WILL really come along, that is a fact. What you do from now until then will dictate the way you look, the way you feel, your self-confidence and self-esteem, in a nutshell all good things will happen from this day on as long as you commit yourself to 12 weeks of really good eating, really good training and a healthy lifestyle when feeling good becomes paramount.

Some people rely on alcohol to feel good, some rely on drugs, some rely on negativity etc etc, you could be relying on the natural and best way of doing it. Good natural food, simple natural training and plenty of sleep will take you a very long way!!

12 weeks saturday is christmas day and time flies, what are you waiting for?!!

Twitt
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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
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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
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Fall of the machines, rise of your body!

The move from machines to more free-flowing methods of training has been remarkable in the last few years.

As anyone who has ever trained with me will know, I always emphasise the need to be able to support your own bodyweight/use your own bodyweight to achieve your goals and there are many, many ways to do this of course.

Machines can be limiting sometimes because of their limited range of motion, when perhaps sometimes the human body wants to figure out the exact movement for itself, and therefore get a much better workout in without the aches and strains that sometimes come from machines.

For me, I would rather be out there walking or running out in the wild countryside than be cooped up indoors on a treadmill, plus I like my body running in a natural movement than in a more artificial way in the gym/house.

I would rather be out on a proper bike in the outdoors than be stuck on a bike that doesn’t go anywhere. Riding a bike outdoors can be very exciting, you don’t get that inside and I think your body learns much more about balance when you have to handle all the twists and turns of the great outdoors.

I like all the stuff you can do in a house/gym involving medicine balls, fit balls, and exercises that make you use your own bodyweight and get you into different positions that you simply can’t do on machines.

I like working on unsteady surfaces to boost my own and a client’s balance and strength, if you’ve never done any of this, I’m telling you now that you are missing out big time and really denying your body of some wonderful results that will help you in every single area of your life.

The good news is that a lot of people have caught on to this way of training and that includes doctors and physiotherapists, the benefits have been proven by science and are now used from rehab programmes to professional sport programmes and everything in between.

If you’re one of those who are very bored with the same old stuff, get yourself away from all those boring machines, start burning more calories and fat with a different all over programme and literally the variety of programmes available are only limited by your imagination.

A change is as good as a rest so never be afraid to mix it all up.

Twitt