January 14th 2011

Negativity is all around us especially in a tough economy and there’s not much money around. The trick is to either let it bury you so you become as negative as everyone else, or you use it as a tool to burst out of the quicksand you may be in right now.

The question is will you listen to the doom and gloom merchants about your progress, or you will shut them off from your life and concentrate on all your goals and ambitions.

Try and work out the issues that distract you from getting to where you want to be, and then you need to work out ways on how to eliminate them. Of course you can’t eliminate your husband, wife, family and work colleagues rom your life. Start by making a list of the people who distract or even stop you from reaching your goals, and list those who help you reach where you want to be.

Then you need to go back over old ground and start keeping records on your food again over 7 days. There have been a lot of studies showing that those individuals who record in detail everything they eat and drink periodically, say once a month or 6 weeks, the more successful they were in their fat loss goals for example.

You can do the same thing with your exercise, i go on about all the time the importance of trying to make progress in your training, are your numbers going up, sideways or down? Is your strength going up or down, is your endurance better and how’s your enthusiasm for training? All valid indicators that will determine how well you’re really doing, keep a close eye on all of these, you don’t need to do it every week but once a month will be very valuable if progress is important to you!

Another powerful way to make sure you’re successul is to make your private goals and ambitions public, this makes the whole thing more real and you will find that a lot of people are going to be supportive. They will know you’re on a stricter eating plan and not offer or make you high calorie meals/snacks, maybe someone will ofer to come and exercise with you and push you harder when they are out with you on a run or example.

When you make your goals public, you put your reputation on your line and you are showing the world that you can really make this thing happen. You may get some negativity but as we said, we need to ignore all that “noise” and concentrate on those who are going to help you get where you want to be. Its not tunnel vision, its called doing everything in your power to feel and look your best!!!!

As long as you use the number one secret-consistency, then you should advance very quickly!!!

10th january 2011

The start of the first full week for many people this week and thats great news if you thrive on routines and being busy. Life is busier for most people these days and that means you need an ever increasing supply of energy. With the general population getting more and more overweight, something needs to give here and if you keep following the majority of this country, living a normal life is going to become increasingly tough. Your new refreshed attitude will be key in determining how successful you are this year.

Since this site is not about january gimmicks, january is a month either to get fit and healthy properly for the first time, or build on the success you had last year, or put right where you went wrong last year, and maybe many years before that.

Joining a fancy gym is NOT enough to get you into shape and their fancy salesmen techniques. You can get fit in the most modest of surroundings as long as you work hard and keep putting in that work all this year, in fact by the end of this year you could be in incredible shape if you really want to!! Most people think perfection is impossible and of course it is, but you CAN get pretty damn close if you apply yourself more than you have ever done, 2011 can be that exciting for you as long as you show constant self-belief and develop an action plan to make it happen!!! Its about being YOUR best and nobody else’s!!!

I have been with several people this morning who have already promised to give their best again. The habits that developed over christmas again, alcohol more often than usual, chocolate for the first time in a long time, more processed food, more party food, less exercise, less sleep, less time for exercise etc etc ALL have to be rectified if these individuals want to get back to their massively high standard!!!!

Im pretty fired up and its only monday, but creating an energetic monday for yourself sets the tone for the rest of the week. I always have a great week if i have a good monday, so lets make sure you get out there and have a great workout today, some fresh natural food too, plenty of water throughout the day and some good sleep. You won’t do better than that on a dark and gloomy january monday!!!!

Set the tone right now and make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Explore the site and see how you can change it right now!!!!

January 8th

A huge weekend to get some workouts in, no excuses out there right now!! I have even trained on a saturday this week, which is highly unusual for me but i feel so much better for it. The reason was i didn’t get a run in yesterday, again highly unusual!!

Lots of reasons to get fit this year and start right now. In my own, mind, next week is a full week so its an ideal opportunity to get a full week of training in too. This means a whole week of fat-burning workouts, fat-burning foods and maybe alcohol free week for you?

Most people are trying to be healthier right now and its an ideal time NOT to against the crowd for a change! Feel lucky you have the opportunity to be fit and healthy and use it to do your very best!!! Have a look at the rest of the site in sections to see what you can do in training and dietary terms, see how you get on!!

Thursday 30th december 2010

If you had taken my advice yesterday, you would have made some kind of commitment to getting in shape again. If you had taken some action, you may be feeling stiff today due to your lack of activity over Christmas and the approach to the holiday period.

What also causes the stiffness is the often poor choice of food and drink over this time. The old saying goes that if you put rubbish fuel into your body, don’t expect it to drive well. If you keep on putting sub-standard food and drink into your body, it will splutter along and jump like someone driving a car for the first time.

If im honest, I am stiff myself today and really tired after starting back good sessions on Monday. Its important for me to get through this period so im back feeling great by next week. Some people will be off until 4th January but that is far too long for me. I WANT to be back in work this week so I can get back to feeling good full stop, im glad I made the decision to start back this week honestly.

Along with feeling good comes lower body fat, a harder and leaner body, much better energy levels and the inner drive that everyone has returning in a big way.

If I stayed off until 4th January, I would be lethargic, irritable, not wanting to do anything etc. The idea of going out for junk food every day and going shopping most days frankly makes me want to puke!! Most people it seems love to shop but I really think that there better things to do. There are only so many shops you can go through, after all these shopping parks are the same as any town or city, no individual shops around anymore unfortunately!

I would much rather be out in fresh air walking, running whatever, it just feels better and if you have been stuck in the house all over Christmas due to the snow and ice, NOW really is the time to get out there and feel much better about yourself. There is absolutely no excuse not be exercising right now, please don’t fall for the groundhog day faddy excuses for diets in the new year, PLEASE don’t do it, save your money and promise yourself that you won’t be fooled anymore with their false promises and sometimes damaging effect on your long term health! According to latest research, 97% of them DO NOT WORK over the long term!!

Let’s get out there and make a start!!!

Thursday, 23rd December

Exercising is the best way to keep your brain sharp well into old age according to a study released today in the daily telegraph. We sort of secretly knew that but its always nice to have it confirmed by the doctor’s and researchers finally.

Your brain’s ability to function properly can decline up to 40% if your lifestyle is not that great. For instance, if you smoke and drink a lot, your chances of declining sooner are much increased. Your choice all the way and after all, we live in a democratic society and it’s a free country!

Your brain is your most important thing when you think about it pardon the pun. Being aware of what’s going on around you keeps you in control and allows you to make decisions independently every day. Most of us take this for granted but probably most of us again know people who cannot think independently any more unfortunately.

One of the most important decisions your body will make is the decision to move/exercise. Moving around is vital if you want to stay healthy. If you don’t stay healthy, your brain will become less and less of a factor so they both feed off each other. Exercising is often considered a choice for most people, but when you really analyse its importance, it should really be considered vital!!!

So we have been talking all week about not wanting to put weight on over Christmas, the thought of not being able to function at 100% is pretty scary I’m sure.

This is another reason to do some workouts over Christmas, losing weight is not always the number one reason to train, the ability to live a normal healthy and active life should never be underestimated!