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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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Monday, 19th March 2012

Another monday and you know that should mean a great workout to get you fully into your week, get you movitated and get you fired up for the monday to friday days that are essential for getting a good block of training in.

Whatever way you care to do it, just make sure you do. If you rely on a training partner, then make sure he or she turns up and that they are reliable and never let you down, a common training partner problem!!

If you have a certain ritual that you do before training that makes it a successful one, then please keep it up and keep it going.

You have more light than ever now this time of year, its around 645pm before it gets dark and its very light at 6am when you get up, you do not have any excuse now surely to get yourself going. Take all your excuses out of your life and i find the best way of doing that is exercising early before work, that gets the job done early and you will start the day in a very positive way!!!

Its a monday and hope you have planned things well. If you are working with weights tonight, then plan your other weights sessions for wednesday and friday to give your body a rest. Your cardio work can be done on tuesday, thursday and sunday ideally to make sure you make the most out of every session.

If you plan properly, then you will leave absolutely nothing to chance and you are pretty much guaranteed a good week!

Same with your food, plan to eat fresh and natural foods from monday to friday and have a big of what you fancy at the weekend. This will easily mean you eat well 80% of the time or even more, guaranteeing yet more results and big benefits.

Dont over-complicate it and make good things happen in your life, simplicity will always work for you!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 14th March

After seeing the need to write things down, lets analyse what you are writing down!

Start off with breakfast, do you realise that most cereals  contain too much refined sugars?

Most of the ones that actually come in cereal boxes are definitely too much on marketing, and contain very poor nutritional value. The worst of both worlds so you need to stop falling for it all!

Stick to porridge, shredded wheat or weetabix, the best examples of plain no added ingredients cereal that guarantee you a fine start to the day!!

Alpen type mueslis are another potential bad start for you. The no added sugar/no added salt variety can work well for you, but the normal regular variety cannot be classed as healthy!

If you fall for the “protein only” diets, and go for the bacon and eggs choice, then you’re not going to last very long being healthy, and you know this short termism is not really going to last for you!!! Plus, as i mentioned yesterday, bacon is on the worst list when it comes to saturated fat and meat that could possibly cause health problems for you in the future. A bad situation all round!

Breakfast should be a key start to the day, and will dicate usually how you eat the rest of the day?!! Start off well and you become more powerful and more focused, miss breakfast and you play catch up for the rest of the day.

Simply eating breakfast will be a very powerful start for you!!! If you do not eat breakfast, you will be keeping your metabolism in the slow lane, be likely to make poor food choices, and generally have a lack of structure in your day.

When i give an eating diary out and then filled in after seven days, seeing the breakfast part “missing” is a tell tale sign for me that the individual is not yet serious about their programme and we need to re-evaluate straight away!!!

Lets get serious and talk about the rest of the day tomorrow!!!

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