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Wednesday, 8th May

After a long bank holiday, a big workout on a Tuesday and today, Wednesday is probably the last thing you feel like.

Deep down though, you know you HAVE to hit it hard today, to not only work the weekend out of your system, but to set the right tone for the rest of the week.

Did you notice that if you didn’t train at the weekend, your eating probably took a dip too, in other words you probably ate and drunk things that could be considered “less than healthy”!

The combination of healthy eating AND exercise should never be underestimated, and they both feed off each other.

You can’t really do one of them well without the other, and once you commit to doing both at the same time, then you’re telling your body that you’re are going to be committed to achieving big things with your health again.

So if its feeling like the week has hit Wednesday already in double quick time, then you would be right, and the race is on to get your body and health feeling back to normal.

A good way to do this is to hit as close as you can the numbers that you have been used to in your best workouts.

For example, if you are used to rowing 10 minutes or under over 2500 metres, then this will give you a barometer on how you are performing after a weekend of drinking and eating too much.

If you can run 2 miles in 16 minutes, then you will know that if suddenly you are struggling to break 17 minutes, then you are some way from feeling and performing at your best.

If your body fat is measured 2-3% more than normal at the end of the month, then you will know that you have to change your habits right now, to get back to the heights of where you have been before.

This is why all my training methods have a lot of measuring tools, both in performance and body analysis. Don’t leave anything to chance and keep aiming high through constantly monitoring yourself!

Twitt
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March 3rd 2011

March 3rd and its been a great week so far. We have had sunshine all week, meaning the possibility of a lot of outside sessions. The feeling of being outside is the best thing at all, the feeling of being more energetic leads to far more positivity in your life overall. Seeing the coastline on a sunny day lifts your whole spirit and gives fresh optimism even on days full of middle east tensions and economic uncertainty at home. You won’t get that same level of optimism on cloudy, drizzly dark days, some may but in the main most people do not.

A week like this full of crisp, sunny days can be the springboard into spring if you pardon the pun. If there was ever a motivating lift off for you all, this is the week just as the daffodils are coming out.

There’s no such thing as having failed before to get into shape, “you cannot do it” are the words of an irrational negative person, we need to come away from there. You are never too old, too overweight, too young, too insecure, too far away, there is NEVER AN ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE NOT to get into this thing and achieve heck of a a lot with your body, which in turn leads to a stronger and healthier mind, which prevents you slipping back into the situation you may be in right now!!!

You have accept that you’re not a robot, you’re never going to be perfect, you may never be an Olympic athlete but YOU CAN become the best version of you and you can do that by this summer for sure.

Don’t rely on someone or some organisation doing it for you either, because they can’t. You are perfectly capable of achieving all that you want to achieve and a whole lot more!!! In fact, you will gain so much more self-confidence if you DO IT YOURSELF, listen again, YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF as long as you are given the right directions, the right food options and the right workouts

Lets get out there and do it and take advantage of the sun and make a massive difference to your body and mind all the way throughout march!!!

Twitt