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April 20th 2011

The outstanding weather we are having should make you get outside this week, there cannot be any reason not to.

An American friend came over the weekend and couldn’t believe how much Llanelli and burry port had changed and the value now of having the millennium coastal on our doorstep.

The transition from a heavy industrial town to an area of outstanding natural beauty has been nothing short of inspirational and is begging you to get out there and use it every day, especially with the Mediterranean like weather out there the last few days!

Its never too late in the year to exercise as we are only barely a third of the year gone, so theres plenty more to achieve this year if you really get your head down.

A big achievement for most of you will be committing to exercising 3 times a week and making healthy eating a regular part of your daily life. This is a major move in enabling you much more likely to live longer, and a much higher quality of life!

Most people I know who are healthier and live the right lifestyle are usually much more optimistic in life, they approach the challenges in life in a much more positive way and are generally far more pleasant to be around as they don’t seem to suffer from the mood swings that most people with a poor diet suffer from.

Show me a person who drinks every day and you have someone who is highly irritable, and someone who usually takes their moods out on those closest to them.

Show me someone who smokes, eats chocolate and crisps most of the time and you mostly see someone who performs with very low energy levels, has skin issues at times, and internally is struggling to keep good health levels up.

I don’t have to tell you ANY of this, you know it yourselves!! You read it in the paper every day with endless studies done by doctors and scientists, the facts are there so you don’t have to take my word for it!!!

We are on a great run weather wise, the big question has to be “are you going to take advantage of it?”!!!!!

Twitt
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18th April

If you are struggling with your back, your knees etc and you know you are not able to run right now, or for the foreseeable future, then there is an answer that can sort your problems out!!!

Power walking up hills can sometimes be a lot harder than running on the flat, and i have done a ton of it today already!

If you pick the very worst hills by your house, then you have a choice of the best venues for your great walking workouts. Power walking is not just going at some leisurely pace, and you claim to have had a great workout, thats not what it is at all. It is about having great workouts that can be as hard as any run or bike ride, all you need is the right attitude and the right intensity.

So say you have a 30 yard hill by your house, aim first of all to walk it as quickly as possible in one go, if you are out of breath and feel well worked, then this is the hill for you!! Then you should aim to do it multiple times with adequate rest in between each one, aiming for a maximum of around 8.

As the weeks go by and 8 is much more comfortable, start your backward walking, and aim for 8 backward power walks too, this will thoroughly fry your thighs, hamstrings and bum and you will be very well worked!!!

POWER walking is exactly that, walking with “power”, this is achieved by swinging your arms vigorously to achieve sufficent power in your legs, and encourages great momentum in your walking and therefore in overall speed. This gets your heart rate up very well and demands great gulps of air, meaning your lungs will be working very well.

Theres no excuse not to get out there so lets give it a go!!!

Twitt
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Friday April 15th 2011

The quest to get into shape doesn’t all finish with your workouts. If it does, then i have news for you, you are not reaching anywhere near your potential!!!

If you are on just a diet and not training at all, then you are so far short of your potential its untrue, and you need to get moving right now!!! Your “diet alone” method WILL NOT work medium or long term, it may work for a few weeks but you had buckle down and get training now, or face the frustration of yo yo dieting, which i think most of us have been through  at least one time in our lives, some of you several times unfortunately!!!!

If you are working out regularly, eating healthily and have problems with sleeping, i mean you only get a couple of hours a night, this will throw you off track too! Sleep is the third part of the triangle and to my mind, just as important as eating properly and training hard. When you dont sleep properly, you have no energy to train, you are more than likely irritable all the time and when you’re tired, there is no way you’re going to be in the mood to eat well. Your patience can be destroyed and fast food stops seem to make sense rather than go to all the effort of making fresh nutritious food all the way from scratch!!!!

Lets get this one right and you’re onto a winner, training well, eating well and hitting the sack on time especially in the week, i cannot overstate the importance of this, i really can’t and i know myself that when im hitting all three right, my performances are right out of the top drawer!!!!

If the talk of doing basics bore you, then fair enough, you’re not prepared to buckle down and get serious results. I like that word, buckling down really is the way to go and spells HARD WORK all the way. Make your choice and deep down you know what that must be!!!

Twitt
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April 14th 2011

Not recording your progress is a sure fire way to get complacent and end up go through the motions with you exercise. Even going through the motions will give you a level of health that is far superior to being idle and sitting on the settee every day and not being active.

The question is though are you happy with not being your best, or at least being in a good range. Most people I know don’t want to be “average or below”, most people aspire to be better and it’s a human need to want the best for yourself and your family.

It turns out to be true that the “best” you hope for always starts with a good level of health, otherwise its hard to muster up the energy and enthusiasm to simply get things done.

A lot of us would like to be able to come home from work, call in the chip shop, eat whatever we want, have a couple of beers or glasses of wine, not have to get up in the morning and somehow be in fantastic shape!!!!

In real life, that is some kind of fantasy that really is impossible to come true on any level. More likely that kind of lifestyle is going to make you struggle with your health and lead to health problems unfortunately later down the road.

So if you want to be better than mediocre, you had better start recording your progress! We talk about it all the time, if you can do 5 press ups in week one, and 30 press ups in week 6, then that is substantial progress and you are doing at least most things very well indeed!!

This focus that most people give for the first month to six weeks should be carried on throughout your journey in health and fitness, it really make all the difference and stop you from slipping back too much. Keeping a workouts journal will also give you the road map that you have undertaken from being perhaps overweight and out of shape, to becoming much leaner and well toned. Your workout history will show you this and all you have to do is keep following it and you will get to the same impressive destination!!!

Twitt
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11th April 2011

April 11th is another turning point for us in this country.

The weather has been absolutely fantastic over the last week, signifying summer is just around the corner, and all the positive benefits it brings.

We have talked about all winter, that then was the time to put all the work in because summer would be here before you knew it? Well spring is here and summer nearly here, and the time when you all will be wearing less and less clothes, so you will feel like being in better and better shape. If you have been working hard all winter, then you should be looking heck of a lot better by now and feeling on top of the world.

If your winter has  been all about lazing on the settee instead of training, and wearing big baggy jumpers to hide all the weight gain, then you may be dreading summer coming in terms of choice of clothes.

So April 11Th could well be the turning point for you whatever shape you are in, and this moment right now can literally change your life.

Do you decide that the bloated and sickly feelings of fast and processed food is no longer for  you OR do you accept the fact that you are always going to be overweight and never in shape?

OF COURSE YOU SHOULD NEVER ACCEPT THE FACT THAT YOU WILL BE OVERWEIGHT AND OUT OF SHAPE!!!

April 11th could easily be the day when you DECIDE to do something about from this Monday, to get back into shape, or to get into really great shape for the FIRST TIME!!! If that sounds far more exciting than settling for a mediocre existence, then continue reading every day, and keep discovering the endless possibilities and benefits that come from living a very healthy lifestyle!!! There truly is another way to live your life in terms of health and its time to leave the faddy diets behind for good this time, THEY DO NOT WORK LONG TERM as 97% of scientific studies show!!!!!

Twitt