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Wednesday, May 11th 2011

I have a lot of questions about blood pressure, and by now, i have helped at least 100 individuals get off blood pressure medication that they seemed to spend a lifetime on. I am not a magician, intead i apply tried and tested ways to change a situation for people that can sometimes seem desperate!

A lot of people ask too what does blood pressure mean? And what ranges should they be in to be considered healthy?

A brief description would be that when doctors take your blood pressure, they are checking how hard the blood pushed against the arteries and veins as it moves around your body.

It is measured in mm of mercury and is always written as two numbers.

The top number, the systolic reading, measures the pressure of the blood when your heart pumps it out and the bottom number, the diastolic number, measures the pressure when your heart relaxes and refills.

Accoring to a million medical journals and accepted to be fact by 100% of the medical community, high blood pressure is diagnosed when readings are persistently above 140/90.

This means you are significantly increasing the risk of having a stroke or heart attack, and can lead to kidney disease, so its always a great idea to have your blood pressure checked at least once a year. You can also buy home machines cheaply in supermarkets these days.

One of the key reasons your blood pressure will be over the top is salt, this is the single most destructive reason why people get high blood pressure and this is why diet is so important. Salt really is the hidden evil in foods. People always go on about fats and sugars, but salt is equally as bad if not more so, and is more or less in every food, especially pre packaged food such as ready meals and all processed food, this literally is a disaster waiting to happen so try and get it out out of your life as soon as possible, and im VERY SERIOUS!!!!!

Other contributory factors are alcohol and a lack of exercise but we will touch on these important points again!!

Diet is so important, fail to pay attention and you’re on a one way track to ill health, change it now if you want to be at your best health levels!!!

Twitt
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May 10th 2011

Every time you exercise, see it as if you are looking after your body.

Every time you eat good natural food, see it as you are giving your body its best possible care and you’re healing it every day from life’s stresses. Your body needs protecting as well as it needs energising!

The process of looking after your body shouldn’t be seen as a hardship at all. If you view your training as a treat, a chance for you to have YOU time, then its going to be a lot more attractive.

Talking about attractive, that’s exactly what’s going to happen to you if you carry on training hard and eating well.

Anyone who looks slimmer, stronger and fitter, will automatically look more attractive. There is a glow about anyone who eats right and trains well, they give you a far better vibe than someone who idles their time away in a pub every night for example. Being a slob never did anything positive for anyone!!!

If you eat fresh natural food every day, then you know its going to being you a healthy amount of body fat on your body, its going to bring you more energy and therefore much more positivity in your attitude, don’t forget your attitude is key when you embark on your health and fitness programme, theres always a million reasons not to exercise if you are negative, that’s what we are trying to avoid-negativity!!

The difference between feeling positive and negative about life WILL make the difference between being successful and mediocre with your health and fitness results across the board.

If you survive on takeaways, ready meals and alcohol most days, then you know for sure that your body is not going to respond very well in terms of benefits, in fact there will be a whole lot of negatives that will fill your life, and lets face it, theres nobody if they are truthful wants to overweight, have bad skin, no energy and a low physical performance.

Life is there for living as the saying goes, so  cut the negativity out of your life and go shopping for the right foods right now, and bin the foods that are going to bring negativity in your life into a big black bag right now!!!

Its only then you can move forward!

Twitt
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Monday, May 9th 2011

When you miss a workout, you can’t be blamed for that as things happen, life happens and something may have come up last minute.

This doesn’t usually explain a week off training though, and definitely not two weeks!!! I find those who do take time off their training for whatever reason, always struggle to get back into it, and regret the time they took off. I am not talking about annual holidays of course here, when a break can actually be good for you if you have trained hard all year!!!

For example, over the last couple of weeks, we had more or less two three day weeks with the big bank holidays, and those i had to miss training for two weeks have really struggled to get anywhere near where they usually are!!! This is a fact and you may be going through exactly the same feelings yourself!!!

If you think two weeks off is not good, what happens to those of you who take a month off, three months off or even a year off? What happens to your get up and go during this period? My educated guess would be that your get up and go would be very low, and the lack of spring in your step would make you almost a different person, kind of like the opposite of the huge beneficial effects that exercise normally have on everyone.

Coming back from a lay off can be tough on the mind, as well as your body of course. Getting confidence back is half the battle when it comes to committing to getting yourself back in shape again!!!

Confidence comes from doing the right things every week, that means training a minimum of 3 times a weeks, eating well 80% of the time, getting some good sleep most nights, drinking enough water and generally being positive about your prospects about getting into shape over a reasonable amount of time.

Consistency is my favourite word, and the true secret to success!!!

Twitt
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May 5th 2011

So from yesterday, you should have identified the damaging habits that are putting weight on you, making your tired all the time, giving you bad skin, making you have poor sleep, and in general, not helping you at all get in the shape you know you really want to be.

It may be quite a statement to say that sugary and fatty food can cause all of those things to happen but it happens to be a fact.

Once you substitute all the rubbish in your life, or most of it for fresher more natural food, then your life becomes of a much higher quality across the board.

So if you have changed a least one potentially damaging habit for a good habit that will benefit you, give it a couple of weeks and then you will have momentum to change another one, in fact you will WANT to change another bad habit because you will be so encouraged by the success of the last change.

So if this week’s habit was to change the cake/biscuit with the coffee or tea, then how about making an even greater change. You’re not going to get a bigger change than swapping terrible breakfast choices with far more beneficial choices.

For example, if breakfast at the moment is something like a piece of white toast full of butter or margarine, then you can easily change that to wholemeal toast, VERY LITTLE butter on it (butter is a far more natural product than margarine), and maybe a bananas mashed on it, this is an easy choice you make right now and will instantly benefit you.

What about if you are having one of the typical cereals, usually sugar laden and full of additives and chemicals that are going to be destructive for your body?

Its time to change to a natural product such as porridge, which will be full of 100% rolled oats and nothing else! Chop some dried fruit up for flavourings, and a natural flavour at that, no need to add sugar at all!

 This will give you up to 4 hours of steady energy that won’t crash your blood sugar levels at any time, you couldn’t wish for a more solid start to the day!!!

These are simple tried and tested choices that are going to benefit you in the short and long term. Don’t overcomplicate things, its all about making easy but life-changing choices so lets give it a go today!!!!

Twitt
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April 27th Catch up

Two bank holidays in a row so we are right in the middle of it right now!!

Im was guilty myself of waking up very tired today, and the weekend has made me feel very sluggish, although I got through two good runs early on Sunday and Monday.

The great news now though is that I have had a massive morning of exercise and somehow my body feels very energetic once again!

Human beings like routine and depending on what yours is, the way you feel today will definitely be dependent on that routine.

How many people do you know who come back from holiday full of life first day into the exercise programme? The fact is that everyone struggles to get back into things after a short period of inactivity, so our routines become more and more important depending on what type of lifestyle we want to lead.

If you want to be sloth like in your lifestyle, expect to put on weight and feel very low in energy most of the time. Expect this because if you consume foods low in nutrients and foods high in saturated fat and high in sugars, this is the results you WILL get every time.

As a society, hopefully we are moving further and further away from this example and healthy food is becoming more and more fashionable at last!

People are becoming much more aware of the importance of fresh  fruit and vegetables, that they need to be consuming more fish and white meats, and they shouldn’t overdo their carbohydrate portions (size of your fist in terms of portion size and not the whole plate if possible!).

So to get your life back on track this week right in between the bank holidays, there’s only one way to go in terms of looking and feeling your best, a life high in energy means you are going to get a lot more done, and you will achieve far more.

Give yourself a fighting chance and life the lifestyle, the one big thing you can do today is consume much more water, instead of teas and coffees all day, instantly you will feel A LOT better and you will actually feel like DOING something.

Have a great start to the week!

April 27th

You may I have noticed I have been offline, but this has been down to my BT home hub for my broadband not working and waiting for its replacement!! Its finally here now and its times like these you wonder what you did before you had a 24/7 internet connection!!

Its quite funny how most people reported the sluggishness of the bank holiday yesterday and were struggling to get going.

I am really thankful that yesterday was a very tough physical day for me, so I have well and truly got the cobwebs out the way and I feel 100% more refreshed, PURELY down to great workouts, eating very well and drinking lots of water, which is always underrated!!!

The minute you don’t think that living this lifestyle is not important is the day your health will go downhill. Anyone who has been in great shape or at least their best version of being in great shape, it is impossible to forget how fantastic this feels and the desire to get back there must be huge in everyone who has perhaps let it slide over the years.

With modern train methods, it is entirely possible to get in great shape again, safely and relatively quickly is done with a well thought out plan, and realising that a good natural nutritious eating plan will make as much difference as the training will.

This always needs to be a 50/50 effort with the training and eating, anything less and you will fall short, its Wednesday 27th april and we are nearly in may, if its not time to do it now, then I don’t know what is, so let’s get out of bed and get some work done and finally get into the shape you really want!!!

Twitt