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February 8th

Now your basic level of conditioning is in, its time you thought about raising your performance!

Before getting into different ways of doing so on a traning basis, i would look at your diet before you do anything at all. If you keep eating rubbish foods full of fat, sugar and salt, you will be HIGHLY unlikely TO GET INTO GOOD SHAPE FULL STOP!!! This is the first thing you need to do before you move forward, or everything becomes a real struggle for you and things will not be easy for you, no matter how hard you work on your training. Its time to be honest, realistic and blunt if it means you getting to your goals quicker, if at all!!!

The old saying that you can eat anything you want as long as you train hard is totally false, and perhaps one of the most misleading claims you have heard for years but was foolishly wrong! You lose nutrients out of your body when you train hard, so it becomes vitally important to replace them as soon as possible.

Good food is good for your body in so many ways, in fact don’t see it as good, see it as vital in your goal to become the best you can be.

It makes sense to say that if you are 15 stone to start, and begin training hard, life will become a lot easier when you are down to 14 stone. Simply being lighter allows you to move more free, you will have less strain on your joints, you will have more energy and you will be far more positive because you have already lost a stone. You will develop the required momentum to easily come down from there.

The key to this remains your eating, without repeating myself too much, this has to be in place before you waste too much effort. Approach your eating and training with equal effort, and this way you get double results!!!

More on training improvements tomorrow!!

Twitt
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7th February

If you’re still struggling to be in shape, then don’t worry, you can still get into great shape.

For example, if you have exercised before and have got into decent shape, you should be able to get into shape again far quicker than you did the first time around. It’s called a little thing called “muscle memory”!

So all the pain and patience you took to get into looking good in the first place honestly WILL count this time around. There have been numerous scientific studies that show that its a lot easier to get into shape second time around, or even third or fourth time around in some cases!!! Some of you may even be in the teens when it comes to attempting to being in shape but don’t worry, thats cool with me, after all im here to help.

The only thing that may actually be stopping you the most is your mind. Putting yourself through all of this another time is extremely tough for a lot of people, even if the path you are about to go on is already greased and ready for you!!!

This is when your positivity for the task at hand is really tested out. There must be ten negative people out there for every one positive person out there. If you listen to the crowd, even attempting to get into shape may seem “well above your station”!! Don’t listen to these perennially negative sorts, either ignore them or tell them to shove it, plain and simple!!!

People in the main may not want you to get into shape again because they don’t have the guts and determination to do it themselves. Sure, anyone can go to a few weight watchers meetings and high five each other and feel great, thats par for the course at this time of year. Statistically, all that high fiving is about to collapse again this time of year, so its about time you developed some tougher resolve and a more meaningful plan, or you’re going to keep paying those lovely weight watchers people a lot of money over the next 40 years!!!

Lets go over it again and look in the diet/food section, hows your shopping list looking?

Hows your workouts looking in the training section, theres plenty on there!!! Are you training with drive and enthusiasm or are you going through the motions, how hard you train will dictate your actual results.

Are you sleeping enough, nothing worse for training and results than poor sleep.

Are you still drinking alcohol more than once a week, good results may be a thing of the past for you. Cut it down to once max if you want meaningful results you can be proud of!!!

Twitt
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Feb 4th 2011

A massive day for anyone who likes sport today, wales versus england at the millennium stadium and it doesnt get better than this surely!!

The game has been spiced up by various comments on different players and as i write this, i hear than ben foden, who is england full back today, claims that it is time england put its “little brother” wales in their place!!! This will surely get most welsh people’s blood boiling as we read this!!! God knows what effect it will have on the players, but my wild guess is that it will add even more fury to tonights game, which is great in my book and will only add to the entertainment and the whole occasion in general!!!

Anytime you get riled by something, its good to use it as a tool and not let it control you and you become your worst enemy.

For example, if tonight when a lot of people in pubs are drinking quite a bit, then its not beyond the realms of possibility that a fight could break out in some places. This is sad of course and the next day, both parties would probably regret it.

A lot of people actually get motivated to do positive things when they are riled and angered in some way. Wales in rugby tonight will probably be best to use those verbal taunts as a positive and play their very best rugby, instead of using it by being ill-disciplined. This is probably what england expect of course and i really think tonight that discipline will win the game tonight, who can keep their head’s when everyone else is losing theirs!!

Making the most of negativity towards you can be a great tool for you. If someone makes fun of your weight, then prove them wrong and use that anger to get into great shape, it will literally make those same people making the comments speechless and you will probably or make that definitely earn enormous respect for your transformation.

There is a positive out of every negative situation, all you have to do is read it properly and use the angle you want to properl you to new heights!!!

Twitt
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26th january 2011

Debbie makes a great point in yesterday’s comments about the importance of fruit and vegetables in your diet, and the dangers of taking in too much fruit, and the importance of taking in your green vegetables.

She is totally right of course because if you consume TOO much fruit, just like too much of anything, YOU WILL put on weight.

The green vegetables are great right across the range and will give you a huge range of benefits, without the sugars and the calories of course will be very low.

Let’s look at the broader picture too though. How many times have you heard someone say, “grapes put weight on me like nothing else”, bananas pile weight on me and i don’t know why”, “whenever i eat fruit, i pile on weight full stop”.

In my experience, and working with individuals who have told me such stuff, i have found deep down that the fruit is not exactly the problem. The problem tends to be the sugary chocolate and crisps they are tending to eat AS WELL as the fruit!!! This is the case 100% o the time in my book, and blaming fruit for putting weight on is usally a copout, or just another excuse. As i said above, it is entirely possible to put weight on eating too much fruit, but the reality is that not too many people actually get around to eating that much fruit anyway!!!!!

You have to be honest with yourself when analysing your diet, are you ignoring the glass of wine every night that definitely will cause weight gain? What about the full fat milky coffee you consume every day with biscuits, or a piece of cake, have you really factored that in? How about all of those low fat sauces and mayo, are you still eating that rubbish because it can be extremely destructive to your weight/fat loss plan for sure!!!!!

Another thing with fruit and vegetables, you should be eating them for what you don’t know too. We all know they offer plenty of good nutrients, but they also give an enormous boost to our immune systems, so as long as the fruit is eaten in moderation ,of course its going to be good for you, excellent for you in fact and give you a ton of benefits that perhaps we don’t know even exist right now, scientists are constantly finding new benefits of fruit so keep your diet varied and you won’t go far wrong at all!!

Don’t forget that the sugar from fruit will give you energy too, far better than the rubbish sugar you get from energy drinks, plus will be better for your teeth!!!

Benefits all the way in my book so lets get them into your body every day but in moderation!!!!

Twitt
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20th January 2011

Mixing up your training is the hardest thing to come to terms with, besides actually doing the training in the first place. Most of us prefer to do one form of training and be comfortable with something we are fairly good at.

I know many people over the years to be obsessed with running and that’s it, that’s all they would do and a steady run would be all the variety they would want to experience.

They had never tried sprint training, hill running, running on beaches, or any form of resistance/weight training, it simply didn’t suit them in their opinion of course.

The facts are that they were/are depriving themselves of an all round programme that could be designed to work far better than the one they are on right now.

Weight training/resistance training is used in every single sport in the world now as science proves its value, and has so many benefits it would be impossible to list them here.

Then there’s the trainers who would never leave the gym, the “gym” was everything to them and no other training existed. A run or cycle in the great outdoors was alien to them, after all it couldn’t really be better than a “gym workout” could it?!!!

These types of individuals are also missing out, training should be a very enjoyable journey for you, taking in different experiences in as the weeks, months and years hopefully go by. If you don’t offer variety into your training, that horrible word “plateau” will soon come into your life.

Deep down, you know you want to be experiencing the kind of results that impress yourself as well as everyone else. You want your health covered too, no point in looking great and internally, you are sick and need attention.

Fortunately, looking good inside usually leads to looking good on the outside. If you’re fired up to make a difference in your life, then you need to open your mind up to all different types o training, and different kinds of food too.

I you’re a one trick pony, you will tend to get one dimensional results. Any programme has limited results for a certain period of time, so open your mind to change and try something new this weekend and that will usually mean getting outdoors, you never know, you may get to like it, never look back and love being outdoors!!!

Twitt