Most have you have experienced the mind games you encounter when you first attempt to do box jumps. I can assure you that everyone goes through the same thing, but you’ve just got to take that leap like Debbie did and soon enough you’ll be jumping onto the biggest box available…
So while Darrin is overseas playing volleyball for our country, he has also been doing a little personal training of his fellow team mates. And taking the Fitta Bodies Octopus international!!!
So this is what my clients get up to when they are away… I’m impressed!
Only Tristan and Adam could make last night’s class, which means they get a lot of attention!!!
We started off with a deconstructed “FRAN” 5 Thrusters and 5 Pull ups, 9 rounds for time.
That set the tone before we tackled another couple of short but high intensity workouts.
Wow what a morning we had today.
Those winds were crazy! We ended up in my PT studio for a weights circuit instead of boxing in the park! It’s always worth turning up!!!
Well done Chris, everyone’s got to start somewhere!
Hi Everyone,
One of my dedicated clients Christina Jonson is a Neuro-Training Kinesiologist and she has organised a fantastic seminar about something that she is passionate about – “Zest for Life”
Zest for Life is a full day seminar to help people live with more freedom, vitality and joy in their everyday lives.
To provide opportunities to experience a variety of inspiring and empowering speakers and practitioners who
live by example and are passionate about teaching practical, effective techniques and strategies to live
happier and healthier lives.
The discounted rate of $150 is extended to all “Fitta Bodies” fans
because who is more passionate about mixing health, fitness and fun than Troy?
Contact the organiser direct for more information or to book your Fitta Bodies discounted rate.
ZEST for LIFE- live life with more passion
full day seminar
7th August 2010
9am-430pm
Crowne Plaza, Coogee Beach
info@zest-for-life.com.au
www.zest-for-life.com.au <http://www.zest-for-life.com.au>
Here’s a bit more info from Christina..
ZEST for LIFE- what is she talking about?
I woke up this morning with an urge to tell you all how this started and why I keep inviting everyone to come!
There are times when I can be a bit of a worrier and in the past I have sometimes taken the well trodden road.
Of course there have been deviations but the risks were rarely high. However, thinking back, the times when I have
felt most alive and what I would call ‘full of zest for life’, is when I have followed my heart.
One day after emotional and health issues I asked myself “what do I really want to do?” so that I don’t look
back at my life when I’m 80 with regrets. Some would say it was a turning 30 crisis- they’re probably right, but
my point is that it’s usually the things that we don’t do that we regret. I’ve learned that when I follow my heart
things fall into place.
The most amazing experiences can come from one idea like this seminar for example! A little idea while sitting
on my couch one day. I mentioned it to one special person (thank you Deborah Beers) and since then the journey began. Things that I
thought weren’t possible are happening and I feel more energised and passionate every day. I love that this seminar
will help people live happier and healthier lives and that this is unique to each individual. That’s what makes life cool!
Of course it doesn’t just happen. There are little techniques that have helped me stay focussed. These tools will
be shown to you at this seminar by people who have inspired my journey and supported me to follow a dream.
I really hope you will come and not only share this dream with me but also follow yours.
“this is crazy but damn it feels great!” says your little voice inside your head while you are following your heart
I hope you will trust and take the leap.
Have a fabulous day!
love and gratitude Christina x
After months of physical preparation and plenty of mental preparation, the tough bloke challenge was held last Saturday. But my final hours of preparation were spent in a rather different way than expected. See photos below…
Unfortunately my 2 year old decided to bring home a gastro bug from Playgroup which hit her pretty hard. Poor little thing! Now I am all for sharing as a family, but this is something she could have kept to herself!
By Friday afternoon, I was doubled over on the floor alternating between extreme cold shivers where I couldn’t get warm no matter how many clothes I put on only to go immediately into a hot sweat followed by vomiting and you can guess what else. This cycle went on for about 6 hours.
By early Friday evening, my 7 month old was throwing up almost on the exact same time schedule as me and by 10pm, my wife decided she would get in on the act.
Oh what a night!
So unfortunately the Tough Bloke Challenge was not to be for me this year. I always believe things happen for a reason, so no matter how disappointed I am that all of my preparation was to amount to nothing, I can only assume it was for a good reason.
The dilemma now is what to do next year. You see I actually wasn’t looking forward to the race. Hence the mental preparation. Don’t get me wrong, I am up for any challenge and the more physical it is the better. But I am not and have never claimed to be an all star runner. When I signed up for Tough Bloke Challenge, I had all sorts of thoughts as to what it would be, but the final race brief points out it is a 5km run and 1km of obstacles. To me that is almost a running race. We have trained in recent weeks on the obstacle course and had an absolute blast. I would love to have one of those courses in my backyard! 1 hour of stuff like that would be an awesome tough bloke challenge and worthy of the name.
But, I do have a bit of a problem pitting my tough blokedness against someone elses running abilities.
Having said that, Nelius (see my next entry or click here for the full story) did say it was tough and he enjoyed it and he is sore today and there were a few more extra obstacles in there than were expected.
So back to my dilemma. Do I just call it quits and say well I didn’t want to do it this year anyway so that’s that and never know how it was or where I would have come.
Or
Do I do it next year knowing I didn’t want to do it this year and am mighty angry that my preparation was for nothing and atleast know what it was like and get a ranking against other tough blokes out there?
I think we all know I will put my hand up for it again next year!!!
PS. What is it with my stomach and big events? 2 years ago taken to hospital for food poisoning 5 days before walking the 100km oxfam trailwalker…
PPS. If you are ever wondering how much water you can lose in 6 hours. On Thursday night I weighed 72.6kgs. When I finally got to bed on Friday night I weighted 69kgs. Yes, 3.6kgs in that short period of time!
PPS. An upshot to this is that my colon is now clean and it was a lot less invasive than a colonic!
PPPS. Sorry about the photo of the bowl of sick, I just though I would paint the picture for you and if you are looking for someone to blame, blame my wife, she took it! And sorry about the pyjamas too!
I came across this article over the weekend. It is outlining some discoveries into the role exercise plays in weight loss.
As I always say, changing your eating habits is the key to real weight loss and what they have found in this article is that exercise should play the role of maintaining weight once you have lost the weight through diet and regular exercise. In other words, don’t rely on exercise alone for your weight loss.
The article is far more in depth and interesting than that and definitely worth reading all the way through! The sections on hormones and appetite and how both can change when you exercise regularly are very interesting.
Weighing the Evidence on Exercise -
www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18exercise-t.html?ref=exercise>
Enjoy!
Before I start, I must warn you guys, I am reaching breaking point!
It has been over 2 weeks now since we had our eating for fat loss seminar and almost all of you are not sticking with the plan for various reasons and this frustrates me to no end. I am here for you guys, I want you to ask me any questions you have. There is no such thing as a stupid question, so don’t keep guessing at what is right and wrong. The only thing I ask is that you write it on the forum so that when I answer, everyone can benefit from it.
Firstly I want to clarify things and tell you what I am and am not not on a few subjects;
The am not’s
The am’s
Now that you understand I have only your best intentions at heart, please listen to me and heed my advice, you will succeed if you follow my guidance, but if you keep making it up in your own little world, according to what you think is right, then don’t expect the results you could otherwise get.
Now as the title suggests, you are all making it too hard. Keep it simple!
Don’t waste hours on planning menus, planning meals, searching the internet for more advice. It is unnecessary, time consuming and downright confusing!
This is not a diet, it is changing the way you eat for life. “If you cannot stick to a simple way of eating for life, then it is a diet and when you go off the diet, you will fail”
Think about what you want to eat for dinner. I will give you an example for an average female. I would like chicken stir fry – ok then, cut up 90g chicken, add as much good veggies as you like, add a dash of soy or oyster sauce and sesame oil. Done! Was that hard? Did I need to search the internet for that? Would you normally search the internet for what you are going to eat for dinner?
Please write to me on the forum and tell me what you want for lunch or dinner and I will simplify it for you.
How about a lunch for an average male. I think I will have ham and salad sandwich – ok then, buy 150g ham, spread avocado onto two slices of multigrain bread, throw on the ham, put in some salad from the good list and you’re done. Was that hard! Did that require hours of thinking?
Go and buy some digital kitchen scales. Please guys go and buy them, please. They cost about $30 and you leave them on your kitchen counter. Can you tell me how you know the weight of your meat if you are not weighing it? Can you please tell me how long it takes to weight a piece of meat? If it is an individual serve of meat, put a plate on the scales and before you cook it, put it on the plate on the scales to get it to the correct weight. If it is a roast or taco meat etc, as you are serving, put your plate on the scales then put the meat on the plate, get the correct amount then sit down and eat. A very easy way to do it with chicken breast etc is to cut it into the correct weighted portions then freeze it in those portions. After a while, you will be able to eye fairly well what your portion size should look like. If not, no harm in weighing when you are at home.
Don’t bash the protein supplements! I am so over hearing you all tell me what you had for morning tea or afternoon tea. Can you guess the most common thing? Nothing, yes, that’s right, nothing. No time apparently. No time to unwrap a protein bar eat on it’s own or mix up a shake and put it with an apple and nuts. No time and then when asked why they don’t have a shake, I get 2 answers. Firstly, I don’t like the taste of them. Well, suck it up and make a sacrifice so you can lose some weight for once. Not only that, I am sure you haven’t tried either of the 2 that I have recommended. Secondly, I don’t want a processed product. Well, stop eating bread, stop eating yogurt, stop eating half the shit you eat. Whey protein is the protein removed from dairy, yogurt is also a product made from dairy, believe it or not, cows don’t squeeze out yogurt, especially strawberry yogurt. Milk itself does not come out pastuerised, homogenised and bastardized either, it too is processed. Don’t even worry about the bread, if you eat bread and not protein powder for this non-processed reason, then…
Yes, protein shake is sustainable for life, the healthy ones anyway. There is a massive market of protein shakes out there for a reason, and that is because of convenience. No-one wants to eat that much meat. Go to a gym and spend some time with some fit looking people and ask them if they use a protein supplement. Don’t ask them which one they use as I am sure it is one full of artificial everything. Please don’t come to me and tell me about the powder you got from where ever, I only know of 3 all natural powders on the market and I have told you about 2 of them.
Remember the bad carbs on those lists earned their own reputation but how they rate on the glycemic index, not because I hate them. Also remember that they are on that list and so is their proportions, so if you want to eat them, then eat them, they’re on their for a reason, just stick to the proportion.
So now I would like you all to go away and when I ask you next week about what you ate, I want to hear simple balanced meals, nothing too different from what you used to eat except that it has the correct portion size and proportions.
I would also like you to get on the forum and give feedback and ask questions. I set you all up on their to make it easy for you, not so I could waste an hour of my time.
I can’t help you unless you want to help yourself, but for everyday that you don’t kick into action, their is someone else who is losing weight and heading to their goal and it could just as easily be you!
Post all comments etc etc etc to the forum here.
I have always said that Consistency is the vital key to success at just about anything you desire, but I want you to have a think about this…
I am going to use weight loss as my example for obvious reasons, but you can apply this to anything you like and still get the same result.
If desire was to get you to your goal, why are there so many people talking about how they want to look and feel but ultimately stay fat?
If motivation was to get you to your goal, why are there so many people signing up with gyms and trainers but soon falling by the way side and staying fat?
If knowledge was to get you to your goal, why are we constantly bombarded with information about healthy eating and proper exercise yet still hold the record as the most obese nation in the world?
“We often desire something and this motivates us to take action to learn what to do and start doing it, but unless you consistently do what you know you have to, you will never reach that end goal.”
Troy Shipsey
Please feel free to give me your feedback at the forum you know I love to hear what you have to say!