Pillars of Life

One thing that I believe is extremely important when you want to get healthier is looking at your lifestyle.

Symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle are things we all battle with: excess body fat, constant bad moods, stress, tiredness, unfit etc.

These are symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle. Not something we can fix directly.

Read that again - we cannot fix these things directly, without surgery and medication that is, and I’m assuming you don’t want to go down that route!

So let’s look at the main lifestyle factors that CAUSE these issues.

no gym makes me sad 😔

A few weeks ago I went for a run

Now this is amazing for two reasons:

1) I was anti-running for a long time. Thought it would affect my strength & muscle.

2) I just got up off the sofa and did it, outta the blue, no planning or thought.

You know what?

I felt awesome.

Normally I overthink my training and try to make it perfect.

I use the exact sets/reps and effort scales that the research dictates

But that day, I just thought ‘fuck it I’m going for a run’ and I went

the end of fitness as we know it

my world has been rocked

is everything we thought we knew about fitness been wrong all this time?

If so, it would explain why so many of us fail to achieve our goals of looking and feeling better.

Here’s just a few points to think about:

HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING

We’ve been sold the dream that training at a maximal heart rate for repeated sets of 30-45 seconds will increase fitness and burn fat.

When you can't finish a program...

You know, I've probably started more programs than I've finished.

In fact, who am I kidding, I definitely have!

I've been lifting weights for over 17 years now

And every 2-3 weeks since day one I pretty much get excited about some new program, or diet, or exercise, or gimmick...

....and I want to jump in and try it!

But let it be known my followers, thy divine secret of all future gainz is....

12 hours of hell.

There's no way to say this nicely

I hate walking, unless it's around a park, or on a beach...

I really hate walking up mountains.

But my lovely clients convinced me to walk the Yorkshire 3 peaks this past Easter weekend.

And you know what.....

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