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Monday, 27th April

Great question today about which ONE exercise is best for core?

The best answer I always give to that question is that there isn’t just one exercise, it’s EVERYTHING IN YOUR PROGRAMME that will give you your best and strongest core.

We do everything for a reason, and all we do is aimed at getting your waist down, your hips down but not only that. You need to be much stronger with your core too because it’s the central source of power for your body, and where all your strength comes from too.

You work hard on your weights and your core is a prime mover on every exercise. As you lift more, your core gets stronger.

You put a lot of exercises in on the TRX, vipr, Bulgarian bag and your core takes a pounding. All of those movements require so much strength and power.

Your medicine ball work requires you to be a certain level on core strength before you even attempt it. Steadily increasing your tolerance to medicine ball exercise is critical for your overall development.

Think of the tyres outside, the sledgehammer, the prowler-all are massive power movements that hit your things, hamstrings, hips, stomach, back-all that are vital in making up your core.

When you run, when you sprint through our ladders, cones, hurdles etc, your core is on fire.

The workouts we do on the grass are absolutely massive for core as most of you will know, getting to work deeper into your muscles than ever before.

So the bottom line is that EVERYTHING works for you and a stronger core will make you look, perform and feel at your very best, so keep hitting it from all angles!!

Twitt
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Friday, 10th April

Your habits shape what you feel like, what you look like, what ambitions you have, how much energy you have, how positive you are, how hard you want to work, how much you’re going to develop-just about everything.

No one workout is going to give you everything you need.

No workout will make you a super athlete.

It’s the culmination of many workouts done over a substantial period of time that will make the big difference-don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Start missing workouts and the results will slow down and eventually come to a standstill.

Everything will start to become much harder when you do show up for your workouts and motivation will wane.

Same with your food. Start eating badly and skipping your good meal habits and you’re going to have poor workouts, your measurements will struggle that much more and guess what? Your motivation will disappear.

I always say that the most important workouts are the ones you may not feel like making, but you do anyway. When you get to the gym, you will always be glad you came and you will yet again be excited about the results you are going to get from it all.

When you train, you will be motivated to eat well too.

Now you’re on a roll again and you’re back in the groove of being successful again.

Habits are everything so don’t start neglecting them. Your habits will reward you constantly so put yourself first and keep doing the fundamentals really well!

Twitt
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Thursday, 29th January

The most powerful weapon you can develop to achieve anything you want is the thing we talk about a lot-consistency.

All things that are worth getting are achieved through hard work every time.

There’s no short cuts, no easy way out, if you want to get better at anything you had better be prepared to put the hard graft in.

Assuming you are ready to put the work in, then the next step is to never give up until you get there.

How many of your friends started a fitness effort up early January and have now given up? According to research, 90% of them have given up by now!

There are reasons why they give up of course, and never been put on a proper programme is the biggest one, never been looked after and shown what to do properly are high on the list.

So you are on our programme and you are naturally setting your sights high.

You are positive and despite some ups and downs along the way, you are achieving great results but always looking for more.

It’s the carrying on when you feel a bit down that is vital.

It’s the never stopping losing focus of your overall goal.

Its making training sessions happen, showing up even when its dark, wet and freezing outside and the easiest thing is to go home and sit on the settee.

Once you get into a mindset of seeing things through no matter what, it will give you the confidence to achieve time and time again in all areas of your life, as you will have proved to yourself that you can do this and anything else you put your mind to.

Be consistent and you will win every time. You may see others make more progress over the first couple of weeks for example, but if you stick at it, and stick to your principles of doing things the RIGHT WAY and GIVE IT LONG ENOUGH, you will soon enough catch them up and leave them trailing in your wake.

Twitt
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Thursday, January 1st 2015

Achieving your goals doesn’t happen just because you just dream about it, talk about it, or even write it down.

It comes from the day to day decisions and keeping to what you said you were going to do, long enough to get to your end point where you actually achieve what you wanted to do.

Twitt
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Tuesday, 23rd December

Everyone who becomes successful with their health or just about anything never actually “own” it, it can never somehow stay that good forever without working on it. It needs to be something you to develop every day so you become better at it.

Once you realise that it’s really YOU who can really change your health, your fitness, your wellbeing, your moods, your energy levels, the way you look and feel, then you will feel liberated because you will realise that it really IS in your own hands after all.

The choices you can make vary wildly, many with wildly different outcomes.

1. If you want to become really unhealthy, start going for a takeaway each night and start buying wine/beer for the house and get stuck into it every night. Then stop exercising immediately and your mission to become really unhealthy will become a reality far sooner than you think.

Your moods will increase drastically, you will develop a negative state of mind and your standards in everything are likely to drop.

2. If you want to feel amazing and finally be healthy and fit, then try the following.

Try getting to bed earlier, start drinking more water, start exercising, drink alcohol in moderation, start eating more nutritious foods, and start setting targets for yourself along the way. Measure your progress and once you hit your initial goals, set yourself higher and higher standards.

Not everyone is prepared to put the work in to get to a high level they can be proud of. Focusing on getting better is the key, rely on your own efforts and forget about outside forces, because if you put your head down and really go for it, you can achieve anything you want.

Twitt