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Monday, 20th April

Nothing happens until you start moving. When you move often and with purpose, you get results providing you are eating right.

You will start off slow and let’s say you work up to 45 mins to an hour, then you are doing well.

You will be doing even better when you start doing far more during that time. You will work with more intensity, you will lift more, you will bike and run harder, you will hit more prowlers than you ever thought possible and your core will become the strongest it’s ever been.

Then once you get to this stage, you will get used to doing and being asked to do “just that little bit more”!! You had better get used to me saying that.

This is the added spice of your workout, it’s that extra heat your body will get used to generating and making the
difference between getting good results and world-class results!

Do your workouts and then that little bit more.

Commit to your entire programme, and then that little bit more.

This little bit more pushes you through your limitations, and takes you to the places you never thought possible!

We try to create this throughout our programme and what we provide for you should always give you that little bit more. It’s hard not to be positive about your programme that will give you so much, make you much more positive and deliver you to a place that you can be proud of.

Every time you take time to train, give it your very best no matter how tiring your day was/is. Once the first 5 mins is over, you will feel like stepping it up and aiming to reach new highs every time.

You will know by now too that you will feel so much better afterwards, both mentally and physically. Every time let’s give it just that little bit more!!!

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Monday, 9th February

Day 36 for most of you in this 12 week challenge and time to ask yourself a few important questions!

Are you getting big results still? From my records most of you still are! You should be very proud indeed so keep it going as you approach the halfway stage!!

Or has some negativity set in? Have you started to eat badly? Are you missing sessions for less and less important reasons?

Are you avoiding anything to do with exercising and eating well?

Are you true to yourself and remaining honest and accountable to yourself? As much as we want you to succeed, it is ultimately down to you and if you are not giving it your best, then you are unlikely to achieve the success you want unless you re-evaluate your commitment levels and what you are prepared to do to get it.

So those of you who are hitting some big numbers in your measurements, and performance numbers, this is the time to build on that big foundation you have!!!

Now is the time you go from doing well to being a contender to actually winning this thing.

Being your best in these 12 weeks means breaking away from the pack that maybe dictates what you do in life.

You have to say no to the friends who say its boring not to eat pizza midweek, the ones who tell you to get a life unless you drink all weekend every weekend.

People will question you as you get more and more successful. Some people won’t like you reaching your goals and beyond that again.

Realise that you are coming totally out of your comfort zone, that you are striving for more in life, and this success in your 12 weeks will mean your chances of success in every area of your life will increase dramatically too.

Now is exactly the time to really go for it, to test yourself like you’ve never done before so let’s give it everything you have!!!

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Thursday, 11th December

If we focus on improving ourselves every day, then success is very likely to happen.

One thing we don’t often talk about is “neglect” and the things we don’t get out of our lives that are hindering our progress.

It’s like trying to climb a mountain with a pebble in our shoes all the time.

What starts as a minor irritation soon becomes a bigger and bigger problem, until it becomes highly damaging.

Neglecting good nutrition and neglecting your exercise programme will always hurt your progress and affect you negatively, the longer it goes on the worse it gets.

Are you still eating something every single day that still hurts your fat loss efforts, despite training very hard most days? Do you still call in the same petrol station for example for a bottle of wine on the way home? The same box of chocolates? How about takeaways in the week regularly?

Do you let others stop you from training, or are you neglecting your training kidding yourself that you still magically will be in great shape by “watching what you eat”, and finally get around to training “someday”?

The old saying is that the road called “someday” leads to a town called “nowhere”.

Everyone picks up pebbles in their shoes along the way and the sooner you take your shoes off and shake them out the better.

If you’re neglecting something every day that’s stopping you reach your goals, then you need to have a good shake out and replace those habits with strategies that will actually help you.

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Monday, 24th November

32 days until Christmas and many of the general public will have stopped exercising and eating healthy until 2 weeks AFTER Christmas too.

Can you really afford those extra 32 days plus another 14 on top to get even more unhealthy? Forget about being unhealthy for a moment, wouldn’t it be much better just to FEEL better, to breathe well, not get out of breath even doing the most simple of tasks? Wouldn’t it feel better to have a lot more energy in your life-all the time?

All of you must remember that awful feeling of your first workout two weeks after Christmas, the tight chest, the breathlessness, the inability to move without pain the morning after, the gloom of January and the prospect of “trying” to get fit again.

Then the “groundhog day” feeling comes of reaching the end of January and giving up again.

Most people’s exercise commitment lasts until January 28th according to recent studies, despite the fact that they may have signed up to a 12-18 month contract with a gym that doesn’t care if they show up or not.

The next 32 days are an opportunity to change all of that, because at the moment you must feel relatively okay, the Christmas parties haven’t hit yet and you are probably living your “normal” lifestyle without the excesses of Christmas usually bring.

Most of our members train throughout the year, even when it’s dark at 4pm, even when it rains and its freezing, even when it would be easier to go home and sit on the settee all night, even when maybe their work colleagues say they should give it a rest for the winter, even when they are asked “why do you even do it”?!!!

Of course we have many, many individuals trying to look better all the time, but the overriding factor I find all the time, especially at this time of year, is the desire to FEEL better in all ways.

To have the energy to function in everyday life, and usually out-perform is a very powerful reason in itself.

The “added benefits” of losing body fat, being stronger and moving without pain, having more endurance, having much better balance, not having to hide under a big baggy winter jumper all the time, all will happen, but if you focus on just having a good end to the year right now by moving more and watching what you eat more, then you’re going to FEEL much better and start next year with a real spring in your step that you may have never had before!

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Tuesday, 2nd September

Practicing doesn’t make you perfect, but practicing a lot WILL make you attain a peak performance more often than not.

If you look at your habits every day, then you will realise why you are being successful or not by now surely.

What do you practice most in your day and week?

When was life working out best for you, and which habits did you used to practice on a daily basis back then?

What were you doing? Who were you hanging around with back then?

What were you eating? How often were you getting your training sessions in on a a weekly basis?

Who did you learn most from on a daily basis to create new productive habits? Did you have a coach back then and were you in any kind of programme to get the best out of yourself?

So from this you should be able to realise which habits work best for you, what inspired you to get into shape in the first place and isn’t it time you replicated all of those habits again and got into fantastic shape, both mentally and physically?

You know it’s going to take a lot of hard work to be at your best physically and mentally again, but dig out that roadmap again of how you were at your peak once in your life, and you will soon be getting the very best out of yourself once again.

Your daily and weekly habits will determine how successful you are full stop.

Twitt