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Monday, 8th November

There’s no better day than a monday to set your stall out for the week and get a great workout in to blow away all the cobwebs away from the weekend!! I have already been outside a few times today and to say i’m fired up with huge energy raring to go may even be an understatement!!

If you can do this and give your all to your workout today, then you will be giving your body everything it needs when it comes to developing incredible energy for the week ahead. If you don’t have energy, you won’t have the drive to do anything of note this week. You will simply put things off and not get the things done you set out to this week.

I always like to get my lungs filled with fresh air on a monday to help me set the tone for the week. If i don’t, i am likely to be playing catch up for the week and thats the last thing i want to be doing with my schedule. Life is all about keeping on top of things, not letting things slide and your workouts should be the catalyst to allow you to perform at the high level needed to accomplish everything you need to this week and every week right up to christmas!!!

Six weeks to christmas now and hope most of you haven’t fallen in the “i’m giving up for christmas already” camp in november/december. This shows you’re not really into working out and health is not so important to you as it it clearly should be. This blog is all about avoiding pitfalls too, the roadblocks that halt our progress and im trying to help you avoid any of those if posssible. If you keep up every day, you develop momentum and before you know it, your workouts become second nature and of a huge quality!

The time is right now today to really make things happen in your life and get into the mindset you need to make the quantum leap that is indeed possible with your health and fitness. The opportunity is there for you so don’t you dare waste it!!!!

Twitt
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November 5th 2010

Guy fawkes night comes with a weather warning this year with many fireworks shows already called off. Everyone imagines these to be some kind of “cosy” night out, everyone hugging each other with sheepskin coats on and eating hot dogs. I can’t quite remember any of that going on myself in my past and perhaps it only exists in those corny american family films, are they corny or sickly? Whichever word is appropriate i think!!!

Anyway, how’s your week gone? Have you showed up this week for your workouts and done well? If you have, you should be proud of yourself that you are battling through the dark, wet nights and are literally changing your body for the better.

The economic climate dictates that there are less christmas parties going on this year, and in past years, some of you would have given december up completely when it comes to your health and fitness. You would have said “that’s enough for this year” and you were going to give it a good go in january!!!

Then you would feel absolutely dreadful in january and decide there and then that you wouldn’t let the same thing happen next year!!

Well here we are again, and the decision is again, are you going to have a good 7 weeks up to christmas or are you going to throw the towel in as soon as you see those sickening marks and spencer adverts for christmas, usually by Take That and Twiggy (i know some of you love take that so sorry but i find them sickening!!).

So by my reckoning and the lack of christmas parties around, you have less distraction this year and you should be really motivated to power into  december like you’ve never done before! Don’t forget one of the posts i made this week, for every week off you have, it takes 1-2 weeks to get back where you were so i can’t emphasise enough it really is to keep to your commitments most of you will have made at the beginning of 2010!!! January seems a long way off doesn’t it?

After all, wasn’t this the year you were REALLY going to keep it up all year long?!!! To those of you who have, you have my greatest respect and well done to you. Feeling good should feel pretty natural to you right now!!

Have a great weekend and get fired up to get outside the weekend, it can liberating to do workouts in the rain and you will feel great after you’ve had your bath or shower. Guy fawkes night and the last interruption before christmas, lets get on a mission and start upping your workouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twitt
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November 4th 2010

How many of you could fill in the calendar this year every week, every month and claim to have trained every week without fail? At least three times that is a week?

Not many I would guess and here’s how lack of activity affects your progress and momentum in your health and fitness.

For every week you DON’T train, it usually takes 1-2 weeks to get back to the level before you stopped. If you take 4 weeks off, it will take 4-8 weeks to get back where you were, if you take 12 weeks off or 3 months, then it takes 3-6 months to get back where you were.

You can see from this that having lay off’s from your training are very hurtful indeed to your progress, in fact they can write off long periods of time for all of us.

The only situation when a lay off IS beneficial is when you are ill or when you go on holiday, when a week or two off is actually going to refresh you and help you build up your reserves again.

If you’re still have these lay off’s, you need to look at yourself in the mirror and re-discover how important your health and fitness IS to you.

If you say to yourself that you have OTHER things to do, and health is something you will get round to at a “later date”, then you could be accused of being delusional and not honest with yourself.

Once you do become honest with yourself, you have to tell yourself that unless you do three workouts a week, then you WON’T get good results out of this.

You have to realise that you have to give at least a TWELVE WEEK commitment to this if you want to achieve noticeable and excellent results out of this that you can be proud of. I’m talking about the kind of results that your clothes don’t fit you anymore, the kind of results when people stop you on the street and ask you what the heck have you been doing because you look so unbelievably good, the kind of results when you feel so good, so self-confident and so energetic that you can’t wait to wake up the next day because EVERY day becomes exciting because of the endless possibilities!!!

This can happen and it DOES happen every day a lot of people’s world because they have believed in themselves and used a tried and tested programme.

What are you waiting for!!!

Twitt
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This is when the work is done!

A dull day in november it may be in terms of weather anyway, but days like today are exactly the type of days when you need to be putting all the hard work in if you really want to look fantastic coming up to christmas!!!

The most  important sessions are the ones you never really feel like doing, and once you remember that mantra, you will be much more motivated by days like today. Days like today are also days when you think of summer believe  it or not! It seems way off but the hard work is really put in now for next summer, as there’s no such thing of overnight success in this game, and every bit of progress you get is definitely well-earned!!!!

This time of year is also about finding out how tough you are, and whether you have desire and determination needed to change your body, change your energy levels and change your ambitions so you can be in superior health!!

Another reason to feel a bit smug with yourself this time of year is that finding out you are one of the few who actually exercises outside this time of year. If you are running, walking, cycling etc on a day like this, you are guaranteed not to meet many people out on the way!!! This shows to me and it should show yourself that YOU ARE committed and dedicated to changing your appearance and really focused on looking and feeling good.

This feeling inside alone is enough to brighten up the most dreary of days! You are investing in your future right now, today the 3rd of november if you get out there today and do a workout or stay inside and do a workout. You are really setting yourself apart from the crowd who would have thrown in the towel by now. You are different and you should celebrate that fact!!!

When i said there was 12 weeks to christmas a while ago, some of you probably laughed and thought it was a long time away. Now the facts are that its only SEVEN weeks away and how much close are you to your health and fitness goals!!! If you havent taken it seriously, you STILL have time so lets not waste another minute!!!

Twitt
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Five simple things!

Making health and fitness programmes complicated and hard to follow is the biggest mistake you can make when it comes to getting into seriously good shape.

When most of us entered gyms, fitness centre’s, fitness classes etc, many of us were intimidated by those wearing the fancy training gear, those talking a good game and those who thought they had the divine right to tell us what to do and when to do it.

This situation was and is my pet hate. The great news is that these “know it all’s” don’t really know anything, and can often set you back  a long way because of their lack of credible information.

You don’t have to follow the crowd, there is another way and it works, it’s also every simple, just ask any sensible doctor and ask them if this is faddy or is it truly a tried and tested way to get into very good shape and achieve great health internally!

It just comes to doing around 5 things every day and you will be successful beyond your wildest dreams, you don’t need the trendy workout gear, the trendy (but ultimately useless) diets or the rubbish exercise equipment in all those ads!

First of all, try and do your workouts 3 times per week minimum, and two more walks wouldn’t go amiss too. This would be a total of 5 times a week but is totally achievable, 3 inside workouts, twice outside, not too much to ask!

Second, eat well. 80% of your shopping needs to nutritious and good for you, eat smaller portions ever 3-4 hours maintaining steady blood sugar levels. You wont go wrong.

Thirdly, drink enough water during the day, 1.5-2 litres a day is fantastic and will make you feel amazing, plus help you digest food better and help you lose body fat at a quicker rate.

Fourth, get some sleep in! Getting to bed at a decent time every night, apart from Friday and Saturday maybe, will make you feel refreshed, boost your energy levels unbelievably, help you recover well from your workouts and life’s daily stresses and bottom line make your body function as well as it possibly can!!

Fifth, keep things in moderation! If you want a drink, then have one but try to keep it to once a week and don’t get trashed if you can. Plus you will wake up the following morning a lot better!!! Just like food, if you fancy a bit of what you fancy, have it  but no need to go on an almighty binge, moderation really works and keeps your sanity intact as you’re not denying yourself too much.

Does all of this sound simple and achievable? I hope so and let’s keep putting it into action!!!

Twitt