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Wednesday, 4th February

Today signifies the start of the year again for us in outside workout terms.

We got outside in a proper today, the sun was shining, but we got to do everything we usually do, and many of you were new to it today and hopefully enjoyed it.

It’s always good mixing it up, and the aim is always to make you good at everything, and be prepared for anything.

When you are a good runner, when you are developing your speed and agility well, when you become good at weights, when your balance is improving rapidly, when your endurance is ever increasing-then you know your fitness is where it should be and it easily translates into general life too.

Your energy levels should be having a huge uplift too.

There’s no point in trying to get fit and not feeling full of energy in general life too.
After all of that work today, you need to keep putting good food in to help you recover much better because you’re going to need it.

So from now on until December we are likely to be mixing it much more as usual, and although hard at first, you will soon get used to it and be able to deliver even more results in your monthly measurements!!

Twitt
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Thursday, 29th January

The most powerful weapon you can develop to achieve anything you want is the thing we talk about a lot-consistency.

All things that are worth getting are achieved through hard work every time.

There’s no short cuts, no easy way out, if you want to get better at anything you had better be prepared to put the hard graft in.

Assuming you are ready to put the work in, then the next step is to never give up until you get there.

How many of your friends started a fitness effort up early January and have now given up? According to research, 90% of them have given up by now!

There are reasons why they give up of course, and never been put on a proper programme is the biggest one, never been looked after and shown what to do properly are high on the list.

So you are on our programme and you are naturally setting your sights high.

You are positive and despite some ups and downs along the way, you are achieving great results but always looking for more.

It’s the carrying on when you feel a bit down that is vital.

It’s the never stopping losing focus of your overall goal.

Its making training sessions happen, showing up even when its dark, wet and freezing outside and the easiest thing is to go home and sit on the settee.

Once you get into a mindset of seeing things through no matter what, it will give you the confidence to achieve time and time again in all areas of your life, as you will have proved to yourself that you can do this and anything else you put your mind to.

Be consistent and you will win every time. You may see others make more progress over the first couple of weeks for example, but if you stick at it, and stick to your principles of doing things the RIGHT WAY and GIVE IT LONG ENOUGH, you will soon enough catch them up and leave them trailing in your wake.

Twitt
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Thursday, January 1st 2015

Achieving your goals doesn’t happen just because you just dream about it, talk about it, or even write it down.

It comes from the day to day decisions and keeping to what you said you were going to do, long enough to get to your end point where you actually achieve what you wanted to do.

Twitt
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Tuesday, 23rd December

Everyone who becomes successful with their health or just about anything never actually “own” it, it can never somehow stay that good forever without working on it. It needs to be something you to develop every day so you become better at it.

Once you realise that it’s really YOU who can really change your health, your fitness, your wellbeing, your moods, your energy levels, the way you look and feel, then you will feel liberated because you will realise that it really IS in your own hands after all.

The choices you can make vary wildly, many with wildly different outcomes.

1. If you want to become really unhealthy, start going for a takeaway each night and start buying wine/beer for the house and get stuck into it every night. Then stop exercising immediately and your mission to become really unhealthy will become a reality far sooner than you think.

Your moods will increase drastically, you will develop a negative state of mind and your standards in everything are likely to drop.

2. If you want to feel amazing and finally be healthy and fit, then try the following.

Try getting to bed earlier, start drinking more water, start exercising, drink alcohol in moderation, start eating more nutritious foods, and start setting targets for yourself along the way. Measure your progress and once you hit your initial goals, set yourself higher and higher standards.

Not everyone is prepared to put the work in to get to a high level they can be proud of. Focusing on getting better is the key, rely on your own efforts and forget about outside forces, because if you put your head down and really go for it, you can achieve anything you want.

Twitt
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Monday, 22nd December

Most of you are really finding it really difficult to make training happen for you this week in any meaningful way, and are just trying to get through your sessions in any way you can.

I see this happening most years of course, and a different strategy will always work far better for you.

So when it comes to your workouts, you need to simplify what you do more.

Time will obviously be the biggest constraint this week, so making the time you DO have count is ultra-important.

Time-crunching your workouts will mean cutting your overall number of exercises and sets, but raising the intensity of everything you do.

If you normally for example do 3 sets of 8 on each weight training exercise, then you need to drop that down to 2 sets of 12 giving everything in those two sets.

If you normally hit 10-20 prowlers at the end of your workout, then try just ONE to the three bollards. Much more time efficient but still get a huge amount from your sessions.

The new bikes are great for this, instead of doing 30 minutes on the other bikes, just 2-4 minutes can be unbelievable on these new bikes, and definitely get the job done.

You can use the same strategies on the rowers and ski machine, just work harder and for less overall time.

So when you hit the gym, aim to do what you can in 20-30 minutes, going as non-stop as possible, starting again when you get your breath back.

This way of training will definitely get the job done, plus saving you plenty of time to do other things at this very busy time of year!

Twitt