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Wednesday, 21st March

We talked about the value of training yesterday, and by that we meant “quality” training.

I have bumped into people today also who have talked about the importance of different types of training and activities, and how they will bring you yet more results.

This lady i train is suffering from shin splints, and i advised her to keep off the walking for the moment, even though she has a walking marathon in london in 8 weeks. She is now doing a variety of other work with me, so she gets in incredibly good shape, without straining herself.

She has become a very good cyclist in the meantime too, so her fitness levels have reached new highs even though she has an injury. On the weekend, i have told her to go to the pool and use a float again, and just use her legs to complete widths or even lengths. Anyone who has done all of this will find it incredibly tough, but will give a super workout that tests you to the limit without putting any undue strain on.

Another workout i have scheduled for her is underwater walking, which again is very difficult but will bring her some impressive fitness gains. There is ALWAYS a way around an injury, all you have to do is use your imagination and the sky’s the limit!!

Another person i saw today is a policeman, and he had to chase down a criminal this week for the first time in a while.

When he caught him, he had to wrestle and that means grappling with this criminal and using muscles he hadn’t used for a while. He found it okay if a little tiring at the time, but for a couple of days later he was incredibly stiff! Again this is down to challenging your body in a completely different way!!

 The great news is that your body will get huge benefits out of changing your programme around continuously, also it can be a lot more fun.

Give it a go and see how much you enjoy it!!!

Twitt
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Thursday, 15th March

If we are talking so much about analysing the food and drink what you put into your mouth, we must realise by now how important the “little things” really are.

If you can chip away at every meal by simply making small changes, to achieve a MASSIVE result, then this has got to be a change worth making surely?!! Its not really about the massive overhaul that most people imagine either.

If we talk about having a plainer breakfast such as weetabix which means no additives, then that does not mean a “version” of weetabix such as the ones which honey coat or sugar coat the wheat. This I can assure you will turn this normally good cereal into a cereal that contains heavily refined sugar, or the porridge oats with apple pie filling-IT DOES NOT WORK OUT WELL FOR YOU FULL STOP!!

This may taste nicer but its only going to do you harm in terms of weight gain and elevated blood sugar levels. Also, it will keep your “sweet tooth” well and truly alive, making you rely on refined sugars the rest of the day.

Its like taking sweetener with everything, what you are doing is keeping your taste for sweet tooth strong making you prejudiced on the kinds of foods you are “willing” to eat!

If you are only willing to eat heavily sugared foods, then you have little or no hope in achieving your true aims and goals. This kind of eating and behaviour will undoubtedly lead to potential diabetes issues in the near future unless you modify your eating without delay.

When you look at the carbohydrate section on the nutritional analysis on practically every food you eat, if the “of which sugars” is almost or all of the total carbohydrate, then its never going to be any good for you, unless its things like fruit juice which I advised to dilute anyway.

The “of which sugars” part should be comparatively low meaning theres a slow blood sugar release, and doesn’t play havoc with your blood sugar levels. You want stability all day long in this area, meaning you have longer term energy and little or no risk of developing diabetes over time.

Make it your goal to truly analyse what you eat, you may think you are eating healthy but in fact, you could be consuming a lot of unhealthy sugar which will disguise all your good work in the exercise department!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 13th March

Writing down everything you eat can be very powerful for you in terms of fine tuning the diet you really want, and really NEED to be on.

I do this exercise with all my clients from time to time, no matter how good they look!

This is because none of us are ever perfect, and most of us slip from time to time, sometimes without even noticing.

Take the article in the news today recommending that we do not eat more than one piece of red meat a week, due to the increase in incidence cancer and heart disease in the last ten years, and the research done in thousands of people.

One or two small steaks was more than enough for the entire week they said, and bacon was the worst offender in terms of meat being bad for you.

So if we rewind this article and go back to writing everything down, kind of a diary of what you eat over seven days, and in your head you think you only eat red meat just once or twice a week, is that really true?

How often do you eat beef, bacon, gammon even? What about steak and maybe pork? How often, go on count them and you may be shocked?!

The same applies to every food group. How many times do you eat white pasta, white potatoes and white bread?

How about alcohol? Is it really our recommended once a week?

How about your portion sizes? Do you eat too much constantly at most meals? Do you skip meals?

Studies have shown that individuals who write down exactly what they really eat over a seven day period tend to be very successful in their overall fat loss, and overall conditioning.

Nothing like being accountable, and it all starts right here if you really want to be successful!!

Twitt
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Monday, 12th March

Urgency has to be a big part of your programme or you will never get the fast results you demand!!!

I have got used to that world of urgency myself and i live it every day.

I am currently selling my house and at the final stage, so the slowness, don’t phone you back for days and dont care attitude that is shown by solicitors is always an alien situation to me, and to my mind totally unacceptable! This is exactly the wrong way to survive in business and i’m proud to say that my attitude is the exact opposite to theirs!

So if an individual comes to me and wants fast results and they want them yesterday, then i know i had better be on the top of my game and ready to work hard  right now, or the job is not going to get done.

You should have exactly the same attitude to your workouts, your food and sleep.

Your workouts should never be missed unless you are ill full stop. They should be done with intensity and urgency, you’re the one who wanted the results after all, so there’s no time to mess around and compromise in any way! Use your aggression on your workouts, and you will experience a fantastic inner calmness later!

Your food should be urgently taken care of too! There’s no excuse to have that white bread in the house, its going to be toxic for your body and a nightmare that will pile the weight on.

What about those refined sugars, are there biscuits, crisps and pastries in the house, instead of fruit, nuts, and other nutritious snacks?!!!

Is there plenty of alcohol in the house? If there is, then that usually means you’re going to drink it!!!

Are you sleeping properly or are you  in bed at 1am every night? Your answer to this question will dicate how good shape you eventuallly get in!!!

Don’t accept mediocrity because you really do not have to. You’re here to get results and to get what you want quickly.

Take action early and often and you will get what you want!!!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 6th March

How’s your food intake going? Good or bad? Stuck in a rut? Okay, here’s some ideas and can work espeically well for families for breakfast and mid-morning, we all need a great start before lunch!

  • Breakfast

–     We all  have problems eating breakfast, especially eating good stuff. Here’s some ideas. 

  • You can throw some sultanas, berries or some banana over your cereal, how about mixing 2 or 3 fruit juices up together as a drink or making your own smoothie by throwing in some fruit with some milk in a blender, you can make your own muesli more fun by putting in some apricots, dates, figs, chopped orange and apples.
  • How about chopping up a ripe banana on some toast instead of a big spoon of butter or marge?
  • Eggs are great for protein and can taste great on toast. These ideas work well especially when you’re trying  to get more fruit in your diet without really noticing.

–     mid-morning

–     Remember this is a way of life and not a diet! No starving yourself please?

  •  Smaller apples with more flavour work well as well as tangerines which can be easier to peel than oranges.
  • Kiwis taste great as well as cherries, blueberries and strawberries.
  • Nuts like brazils, cashews and almonds are beautiful as a handful and give you a lot of good fats for a change!

 Hope this all sounds a lot better than either being too restrictive, or on the other side being too indulgent which means foods usually dripping in saturated fat, which you know is going to be bad news for our hearts and arteries, which inevitably leads to heart attacks, strokes etc if done over a longer period of time.

Some people always go on about how much it costs for fresh food, but try comparing that with alcohol in pubs, cigarettes and sweets and its a pittance!!!

If you manage to get some of these great foods into your body daily, you will soon feel amazing and look around a thousand times better in all ways!

More tomorrow!!!

Twitt