Monday, 31st October

Most people think about their training in terms of splitting up body parts, splitting their cardio and weights workouts, splitting up between morning and evening training sometimes.

Then we come to food, some try to split carbs from protein, some try to not eat much in their day so they can drink alcohol in the evening,

Some people split their eating into different diets through the year.

They may  do red and green days for a month (protein on one day, all carbs the next), then they may do the no carb diet just before summer, then they may do a shakes and bars diet for a while, of they are looking for very quick weight loss even if none of these are really sustainable of course!!!

When you split up all of these aspects of your health, your body will suffer because you’re confusing it too much and you’re not allowing it time to settle on a healthy diet with a good amount of nutrients it can rely on every day.

The same thing can happen with your training, if you do just running one week, then just weights the next, your progress will slip back in  both these types of workouts.

These types of workouts should always be included WITH each other in every week you train. You must do resistance/weights AND cardio (run/walk/swim/cycle for example) EVERY week to have good results.

With time seemingly a lot shorter for most these days, IT IS entirely possible to do whole body workouts in EVERY session, and the great news is that the best results are usually from this way of training!

You will burn far more calories per workout, you will break more muscle tissue down (which speeds up your metabolism), you will develop a lot more endurance and become much more of an all round athlete!

The benefits are overwhelming so give your body the best possible chance by employing these methods and your body will appreciate very much the stability you give it!

Thursday 9th June

Okay, its Thursday and we are approaching the end of another week! Have you become one of the “victims” in life, the ones who sincerely think they cant get into shape no matter what they do?!!!

Or are you one of the people who actually DO good things for their health, they show up for the training session no matter what, having a healthy supermarket basket is a PRIORITY for them, and treats are few and far between, and pretty non-existent in the week in particular!!!

DOING is a very powerful mindset to get into.

You can “think positive” however much you want, but until you actually “do”, then nothing’s going to change in your life.

Listen to the next conversation you get in a hairdresser, or in a dentist or a doctor, when people start talking about health and fitness, it is often amusing to hear such stories going on about their versions of why the cannot train.

The ironic part is that doctors regularly recommend and prescribe exercise these days for all sorts of ailments, just about everything under the sun in fact, so what a time and place to be making excuses why they do not exercise.

So from all of that, you would assume I only want to concentrate on those who “do” rather than those who just talk about, but you would be wrong.

I have proven an awful lot of people wrong in their pre-conceived ideas about their own limitations.

ANYBODY AND ANYONE can get fit and health and I have a massively wide variety of people to prove it!!! All you need is an open mind and to replace negativity in your life with optimism and ambition, which are forgotten words in most peoples vocabulary, sometimes even after the age of 21!!!!

There has never been a better day to commit to yourself and create the best version of you today, Thursday 9th june!!!

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!!!