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10 weeks to go!

So have you had a great weekend of training like cyril has? Or has most of your weekend being spent feeling sorry for yourself in the pub saying you’re “definitely, this time, honestly im going to give it a good go after christmas”!!

This is prime excuse for anyone thats willing to throw in the towel now. Some of my most successful clients have started just before christmas and have been forever glad they did! Nothing feels worse than starting after christmas as your body is at its lowest ebb.

Too much alcohol would have been drunk, too much sugar and fat would gone through your body and there are usually any number of colds going around the area. This is when your immune system is at its year low, and the only way is up surely, the only problem is that it hurts a lot when you’re that out of condition and im advising you now to get going now, to save you the pain of after christmas training.

Starting now will also surprise people. Nothing better than surprising your friends and family by getting into great shape before christmas. You will then start 2011 with a fresh set of goals, and things you previously thought impossible will soon become achievable.

We concentrate a lot on here discouraging people from making excuses. These are the facts unfortunately. Most people work harder on making up far-fetched stories on why they cant be fit and healthy than they would if they suddenly embarked on a simple health and fitness programme, i know this to be true as i’ve heard all the excuses by now. I will now challenge people if they say they cant do things because i know thats not true. Most of us would like to do things the easy way, but im encouraging you all to take the hard road. Ironically, this will make life FAR EASIER in the long term once you have trust and give a minimum 12 weeks commitment to your workouts and proper food.

I say trust because thats what commitment is. I also know that the 12 weeks will be enough to show impressive progress and convince you what is possible.

The spending cuts by the government may be coming but theres no room for doom and gloon on here. There is only one way to go and thats up. No point fretting on all the negatives, lets make the most out of the cards we are dealt and make the end of 2010 a huge one, YES it is possible so lets do it!!!

Twitt
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Weekend results

Im feeling pretty good as we approach the weekend, this is a great weekend full of wonderful weather and the perfect opportunity to do a lot of stuff outside!

Im also feeling good because my eating has been good since monday and i will have my treat tomorrow probably. This relaxes me a bit and you should feel the same if you’ve been eating well all week and you can have some of what you fancy tomorrow!

So work it out, you have had 5 days of excellent eating and its time to enjoy yourself the weekend. Im not saying wake up first thing in the morning and stuff yourself until sunday night, but hopefully you’ll know what i mean! Moderation in everything can only be a winner when it comes to long term success and you should start as you mean to go on, instead of trying a new “wonder diet” every couple of months. If you’ve been eating badly all week, why not treat your weekend as having more time to cook and experiment with new healthy ways of cooking?

Your body likes continuity and a settled life. Healthy eating may not sound exciting, but if you’re creative with your cooking and pick good quality food, your taste buds will soon become accustomed to good old fashioned healthy food.

We as a society are addicted to foods high in sugar and fat, and its quite an achievement to get away from these foods that ultimately are likely to deliver poor health. You ask all the rich people in the world with poor health and they would give it all up in monetary terms to be back in full health again. Anyone who has been very ill will tell you same.

Most of you will have much more time on your hands the weekend, use it wisely and do the workouts and activities you consider most fun. Combine them with your family if possible and get everyone involved. Workouts hsouldnt always be something you do as some kind of solitary pursuit.

Good health is meant to be shared with everyone and good company will always help you enjoy it more, such as a fun training partner.

As i said yesterday, the weekend is shining down on us big time so lets make the most out of it!!

Twitt
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Summer in october

The warmer weather may be the perfect excuse to get back to normal with your outdoor training, and with the average temperature this weekend likely to be 20 degrees, there has never been a better time to get out on the bike and go for a run and go for a walk, not necessarily all three of course but hopefully you will know what I mean!

This is your chance to set a marker in the sand and really go for it again, and tell yourself that this is the time to do it once and for all.

Its also a good time to remind yourself that next spring and next summer will be here soon enough too. Its not going to be good enough then to hang out in baggy jumpers and coats to hide how much weight you may or not put on. You will want to show your improvements off.

The hard work is always done over the winter months and it starts right now if you really want to make a spectacular difference to yourself. The most important workouts are always those you don’t really want to do and the news is that the dark mornings are already here, and cold evenings are waiting around the corner after this hot spell. It is a false dawn before the winter so lets make the most of it and think of the rewards that will be yours next spring.

There will be no baggy jumpers or baggy bottoms next year, you will be able to show off your transformation if you really apply yourself right now, spring will be full of compliments if you just show up for your own workouts and shop well for good food!

My guess is that you will be able to see lots of people on bikes etc this weekend in the warm so lets make the start right now. The same people are not likely to be out in the dead of winter and that’s the challenge, to keep your training up during the harder, darker months, when the real progress is made so lets give it your best, starting this weekend!!!

Twitt
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Show up and fight!

Pretty amazing progress is within all our grasp.

You must have heard some people who have made it big in life say that as long as you really focus on what you’re doing, what you’re trying to achieve, and the most important thing, YOU NEVER GIVE UP, then you can achieve absolutely anything you put your mind to.

If you haven’t got to where you want to go yet, and if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you will probably be honest enough to admit where you’re going wrong.

You will have probably had wonderful periods of training and eating, you will probably have had some mediocre periods of eating too, and nobody can expect you to be wonderful all the time. But as long as you keep showing up all the time, or most of the time, then all good things await you. You have to trust me on that.

The more experienced you get, hopefully the down times should get less and the good times should form the majority of the year.

Each and every one of you tell me you feel lousy when you don’t train or eat badly, and especially when you do both.

All of this comes down to self-confidence or more likely, lack of self-confidence at times. Im not expecting you to be this super confident super achiever type of person. What I am expecting though is to show up in your workouts, when you make your big shop of the week, I wouldn’t expect to see white bread, biscuits, crisps, oven chips etc in your shopping trolley.

I’d expect a certain standard and that is very achievable for all of you.

The chocolate, crisps and wine stops in the petrol station during the week are not acceptable if you want to be in shape, they’re really not. It’s a free country for sure and we have a choice on how we look and feel. You know how to do it by now, you know that faddy diets will eventually drive you crazy and overweight, you know that moving is far better than sitting and you know the wonderful feeling of getting fitter and fitter.

So lets do this thing! Aim to improve every week but if you don’t EVERY week, then that’s no problem, but I guarantee if you show up all the time for your workouts, you take pride in your food shopping and what it contains, you don’t drink alcohol in the week, GOOD and even GREAT things will happen to you throughout every week, every month for the rest of your life.

Are you going to stick it this time? Or are we going to keep having this conversation?

TIME TO CHANGE RIGHT NOW!

Twitt
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Get inspired, its good for you!

Not many could not have been moved by the excellent ryder cup at celtic manor yesterday and its exciting finish. Im not exactly golf’s biggest fan but yesterday certainly excited a lot of people including me. Truly inspiring would be a fair description.

This sort of spectacle will get more people to play golf simply because they were inspired, and in my book thats always a good thing.

Many of you fail to get inspired because the day in day out nature of exercising may not be the most exciting thing in the world. The inspiration comes every time when you receive complements about your appearance, this isnt reserved just for others, it can be for you too if you put the work in, honestly!!!

This type of effort though requires you to be positive in everything you do and put health very high on your list of priorities of life.

Like we always say, its easy to be negative and not doing anything. Thats the easiest thing in the world, to become Jeremy Kyle’s number one fan and not move at all from the settee each day, except maybe into your car, another sitting down experience which wont help you in your quest for fat loss much!!

Changing from your old lifestyle to an active new lifestyle full of vitality isnt as hard as it sounds.

All it takes is daily action and taking every day one at a time.

You have every chance to do it too because its all about you. Unlike a team sport, theres nobody esle to rely on, really theres not. Every single thing you put into your programme, you will get 100% out in terms of results. If you let yourself down by not exercising or eating badly or both, its your fault and you cant blame anyone but yourself.

I think there is the individual in all of us, this is your chance to finally become successful with your health. Some days even a walk in the fresh air will be considered a success, especially if you were only going to lay on the settee and be a slob for the evening!

Doing things outside your comfort zone will be the difference between having a million complements and having medicore results. Its easy to slob in front of the tv every night, deep down though you know thats not right and you’re wasting your life away.

Its tuesday so we have all week to send a new trend in your life!!!

Twitt