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Monday, 3rd March

Education through exercising is vital in your development. You need to seek out the best ways to achieve often constant moving targets in terms of strength, lung capacity and muscular endurance.

Targets change because a good programme will take you to your initial targets relatively quickly, once you get there you will naturally want to

If you carry on doing the same old thing, not only will you become bored, you will not get the results you really wanted in the first place.

Moving your body in all sorts of different ways is important to constantly test yourself. Doing endless sit ups is not going to do it, and we never do sit ups anymore anyway to get the best out of your core.

Personally I accept the fact that I need to keep learning throughout my career to achieve a better and better results for everyone I train. If I don’t do this, then I become mediocre myself at what I do, and that is unacceptable to me.

There is no reason why you cannot keep changing your own exercise programme, as long as it still has purpose and direction, and it takes you to where you want to go. Don’t do any exercises that you cannot feel or you wonder what benefit they are bringing you.

All the exercises i show everyone should be felt immediately, and the feedback of whoever I am training is ultra-important to see if any adjustments need to be made in that particular movement.

Always keep striving for more by changing things up and make sure there’s a plan to go with it!

Twitt
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Thursday, 30th January

Working as a team is always better when it comes to your family’s eating habits.

I see both sides of the fence, I train a lot of teenagers and I train a lot of parents, and they can both blame each other for their eating habits.

Your parents buy the food, they make the food and they actually put the plate in front of the kids in most cases. So the parents decide everything?

According to latest statistics this is not true, more and more teenagers are heavily influencing the family shopping, whether in the supermarket or through online shopping for groceries.

Over 50% of teenage girls contribute heavily to the eating choices, and a third of boys will say loud and clear what the foods should be in the household.

It doesn’t stop in the supermarket, most parents when surveyed said the kids were most influential when it comes to choices for fast food, snacks when they are out and restaurant choices.

So when teenagers say they have no control of what their parents give them, research says that if they keep telling their parents that they really want, then well made tasty healthy food with a bit of imagination should become a reality, as the parent is likely to eventually cooperate for the benefit of everyone in the family.

So if you are a teenager who is looking to get fitter and healthy, you had better keep on to your parents. The parent will be confused because for years you may have told them that you want Mcdonalds or pizza, or fish and chips and they got used to providing those foods that made you happy.

So changing your choices takes a while for the whole family to sink in.

If you are the parent, then usually you have got used to those “little treats” too, as you usually will get stuck in yourself! So change for you may be hard too!!

This is why when the teenager suddenly discovers that they really would like to be fit, healthy and strong, the parent needs to be completely onboard and live a healthy lifestyle themselves.

Expecting your child to be eating good nutritious food, while you’re stuffing yourself big time on sugary and fatty foods sets a terrible example, and will lead to a much big struggle in your child being successful.

Work as a team and the whole thing is much more likely to work!

Twitt
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Sunday, 22nd December

There is a huge increase in most people’s eating and drinking this time of year, this is what most of you are experiencing right now with a couple of days left to christmas. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying yourself either, as most of us are going to do it anyway!

As you get further into the holidays, the vast majority of people who train will always train less, most likely not at all, and train with less intensity when they do make it to training that is, and in general lose the enthusiasm they have had to be active all year. There is a direct link between stopping training and your enthusiasm to be active again almost disappearing.

This is why most people never get around to starting exercising again.

This “pause” usually turns into a 2-4 week slump that many never come out of. The start back becomes 100 times harder seemingly, and the new year resolution you are likely to make is 97% of the time never going to happen in reality (according to recent surveys).

In terms of exercising, surveys showed in 2013 that most people who promise to get fit in their new year resolution, actually saw that dream collapse on January 28th. So 3-4 weeks seems the average life-span of many people’s get fit plan each year.

Keeping your exercise plan, however short you want to make it, will often make the difference between you carrying on exercising, or becoming one of the statistics that often has a stab at exercise, but never carries it on due to the hammering their body takes over the Christmas holiday period.

Condensing your workouts into much shorter workout intervals always makes sense, it saves you time, you get to feel better because you have exercised, and it never crosses your mind to quit exercising completely!

More tomorrow on this.

Twitt
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Friday, 1st November

The half term week confuses a lot of people when it comes to exercising.

Routines are all over the place, kids are off school, Halloween has thrown a lot of people off their normal good choices, and exercise has usually ended up in last place for many this week.

So if your overall goal is progress and you regularly take part in our measurements, then this week will have been a write off for some of you with children.

One of the key answers would be to shorten your planned workouts, select key exercises that will get the job done in double quick time, and maybe shorten the frequency too, after all doing a little bit is far better than not doing anything!

So for example, if you typically train Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, for an hour each time, then if you really have no time, then just commit to three workouts for 20 mins a time, surely you can do that?

Those 20 minutes HAVE to count though! To make the most of your time, warm up before and after the 20 minutes.

For example, today I just did a 20 minute blast of using the prowler, batting ropes, boxing and swiss ball core work.

There is a nice variety in this work, making different demands on your body in double quick time!

Picking 4 exercises in a row can work very well for you if it TAKES INTO ACCOUNT your current physical condition.

You do not need to overwork, all you need a higher intensity workout than normal to SUIT YOU and nobody else!

Please consult a fitness professional before doing high intensity workouts.

So shorter high quality workouts can solve the problem of having no time to exercise.

Just make sure you are handled with care and WORK TO YOUR OWN PERSONAL LEVEL!

Twitt
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Friday, 25th October

Friday is a day which perfectly illustrates what we talked about energy levels being affected by lack of carbohydrates-the body’s preferred energy source.

How many of you have skipped your Friday session because you have “no energy left in the tank”. Perhaps you say to yourself that it doesn’t really matter anyway, because you have worked hard enough in the week anyway! I see this a lot.

If you manage to get a Friday session in, you will go into the weekend feeling good and much better about yourself. You will feel as if you have had a very good week, and you won’t be leaving your training Thursday until Monday, which is a who four days of training. This approach definitely won’t get you into the shape you really want to be in.

On top of all of this, when you get to the following Monday workout, you will feel that much more sluggish, and be less enthusiastic about starting your week with a bang!

Missing Friday also encourages you to start early on your weekend treats too. If you aren’t training, then you may just buy some junk food early, keen to “relieve stress” of your week with some sugary treats or alcohol bottles.

Friday for me is a “just do it” kind of day!!! Don’t think about, just do it and reap the benefits afterwards and put yourself in a great frame of mind coming into the weekend!

Twitt