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Friday, 7th April
What’s your friday story look like? It’s fun to have a drink in the sun on a friday. I used to run sandy water park every friday whilst the Sandpiper used to be rammed with teachers and others celebrating friday and end of work.
Like being in school though and in work, you have to get through the work your body NEEDS first. Don’t you feel better when you exercise? I am guessing many of you, the trick is prioritising it in your day before the fun begins, or you really haven’t earned it at all.
If you don’t put it in, then your body will deteriorate and quickly. That youthful energy and drive will disappear into low expectations and a mindset of where is the next drink coming from.
Where you proudly used to go shopping for clothes, and anything would fit, now you may be choosing clothes that “hide” things because they are so loose, and you may be sticking to the darkest of colours to wear.
Where is that pride, youthful excitement and drive to be anything you wanted to be? 18 year old energy doesn’t last forever if you don’t work on it, but EVEN MORE energy CAN be created at 50 years of age IF you give your body the work it deserves, it wants to be active, it wants to functioning at its full capacity again, it wants most importantly to feel alive again.
Sunday, 26th March
If this weather doesn’t give you the kickstart to get more active, then you need to have a look at yourself.
Sun on your back means you are being actively encouraged to get out and about and show what your body was meant to do.
No excuse now to shiver indoors, and waste yet more time watching rubbish on TV that will only make you more miserable, more inactive. Superior knowledge of a reality programme gets you nowhere near where you really want to be in your life, unless it’s your chosen subject on Mastermind.
If you get off your behind right now, get down the harbour, beach, mountain-anywhere that looks amazing, then i guarantee that 10 minutes later you feel better, you will feel more hopeful, you will wonder why you didn’t do it earlier, and why you waited to get going in the first place.
Most of the time we worry about wind in our faces, how cold and wet it is, how dark it is, so the time is right now to seize the moment and realise we have everything working on our side for a change.
Please don’t contemplate it, don’t discuss it too much, no need to have a meeting about whether you should do it or not, just take action right now and DO IT no questions asked!!!
Friday, 3rd March
As we are about to go into our next stage of development at the gym, its timely i share with you this story i hardly ever share, for those of you doubting yourselves, doubting whether you can get a promotion, get fit and healthy, be happy, be positive or whatever it may be.
To say this is a long journey would be an understatement, but at more or less the very beginning, i was frustrated that i couldn’t get my fitness journey off the ground and went to see a career’s officer in Coleshill terrace in llanelli.
In this grand office, i went through one of the harshest interviews of my life. I was currently earning £42 (my best week) a week at this stage of my life out of fitness, and the officer tore me to shreds, not only doubted me about having a career but any potential career. Fitness was a “fad” he said that would never last.
“Get a proper job”, “nice effort” he said but promptly gave me a list of job applications such as a “Sludge” company and other jobs that instantly crushed my soul.
To say i was despondent would be an understatement, not only my prospects but to a minus level if possible, of encouragement.
Fast forward to now many years later and you can see its important to take your first step in the right direction, ignore those who try to crush you (and there will be many), and keep on pushing away in small steps but KEEP GOING FORWARD and you will eventually develop momentum.
Once strong momentum happens (and it will if you keep on doing your best), it’s then you and your hopes and dreams will become UNSTOPPABLE. Start today, ignore those who try to destroy your hopes and find a way to keep knocking through doors. Most of the world wants to help you, it’s just they aren’t so vocal as those who want to stop you in the beginning.
Tuesday, 31st January
Like you may have done, a long time ago i believed that some “Wonder” machine would be the answer to all our prayers to get into shape. “This would be it this time”, this machine would do “this and that”, this really new machine “was the business”!!
Machines i found out always left “gaps” in my fitness that could never be solved.
Machines i discovered were “ok” but never solved everything, and i still had multiple weaknesses, i had just become good on machines and nothing else.
Your body is the best machine you will EVER have, and you will have enormous benefits from it that never stop!
You can see that with our workouts, there is a huge amount of exercises where your body is relied upon. Multiple movements are tough with your body but ultimately will transform yourself.
We love free weights, we love bodyweight exercises, and we love extremely tough high intensity cardio, THIS is where it’s at.
To be honest, it would be easier to put you all on machines and give no supervision, but this would be disastrous for your progress and development.
I would rather throw everything at you in training terms, and leave no stone unturned, than settle for just the “easiest option”.
All pro athletes do huge amounts of workouts this way and we want the best for you, even if it’s tough to implement and get through, but you will be the long term winner from all of it!!