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Friday, 28th September

Training at the weekend can seem foreign and never happen for most people.

There are a couple of big advantages though for weekend training.

First of all, it can be a great time to play catch-up.

If you have missed a session or two in the week, then making up for it at the weekend is not only important, its vital for those of you who are after serious results.

Then there are those of us who train well in the week, and then still want to train Saturday or Sunday anyway! I always recommend having at least one day off a week, I personally take a Saturday off, but make  sure that  I really get a good workout in on Sunday to get myself going again and feel great.

The “feeling great” part of it is the most important part not only for myself, but for everyone else I speak to.

Hopefully you can relate to this.

If you have a weekend of overeating and bingeing on everything, have a few drinks and generally slob around, then undoubtedly you are not going to feel that great by the time Monday comes along!!! Most of us can relate to that!

This is when the importance of a Saturday or Sunday workout comes into it, and I find outside workouts in particular great at getting rid of an excesses of the weekend.

We all feel better when we rid our bodies of the toxins that have invaded our bodies at the weekend!

It makes sense if we get back to eating and exercising well as soon as possible!

So if we do this to feel better, then we know we will also benefit from losing body fat too. You can be sure if we binge all weekend without any exercise, the body fat will come on thick and fast, and we will face Monday morning with a bit of a mountain to climb!!!

You can see it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of the weekend to put your trainers on and workout!!!

Twitt
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March 15th 2011

The little decisions we have to make every day with food and exercise are put into context by our one big decision.

That one big decision is the one when you first started to workout and eat much better.

It could have been down to you being fed up with the way you looked and felt, it could have been because you were always teased about your weight, if you are a man, you may have been teased about being so skinny and weak, you may have always wanted to take part in a sporting event such as a 10k run or maybe a marathon.

Whatever it may have been, its time to remember that feeling all over again when it comes to your workouts and the way you shop for food.

If you’re buying chicken for example for you weekly eating at home, it really is not acceptable to have processed chicken with lots of additives all over it.

There was one such example this week when I saw that gentleman Levi Roots of reggae reggae sauce fame promoting frozen chicken. He was promoting the most pitiful small piece of chicken you have ever seen, and it was filled with additives and sauces you would never recognise the ingredients of!!! This was £2.20-2.50, and could maybe last one serving and that’s it.

Not only was it not any good for you, it wouldn’t even fill you up properly!!!

Compare that with buying a whole chicken to cook for around £3-4 or even a ready cooked one for up to £5 and you have many different meal options, as well as being very healthy as long as you strip off the skin of course.

These are the decisions that need to be made time after time to make sure you’re going to be in great shape. If you put in rubbish, then , you’re not going to look or feel good full stop. Its time to have a good hard think next time you’re buying all these examples of food, I call them examples because they are not proper food and they are not going to serve you well!!!

Eat natural, eat fresh where possible and keep filling your body with high nutrient, high energy food that is going to take you where you want to go!!!

Twitt