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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” - Muhammad Ali
“My muscles hurt, I must be because I am old ”
“I’m too old for doing ….” insert an activity
“I’m too old to start exercising now”
“It’s because I am getting old, that I can’t lose fat!”
Take your pick, I have heard them all, usually from people young enough to know better.
I was talking to some of my clients today over lunch, the lunch was a celebratory meal after completing a five kilometer race in the wet, slushy horrible weather we are experiencing here in Luxembourg this weekend. A couple of these “girls” are in the most polite way the wrong end of 30 something, but each of them has found that health and fitness doesn’t stop at age thirty.
They are planning to take part in a Triathlon next summer, they are talking about all the training they will be doing over the next few months, planning which preparation events they are going to do, including the relay ING marathon in May.
The thing is, just a few short months ago they were asking me if coming to do ForestFit was going to be too hard for them. Now with massively elevated confidence levels and a new understanding of what their body is capable of. Their goals are now much higher.
Some of my best clients have been the wrong side of fifty years. They still have managed to lose significant amounts of body fat. One of them has claimed they feel fitter and healthier at age fifty something, than they did at thirty something!
… Muhammad Ali’s quote is a startlingly coherent from a guy who did most of his talking with a brutal “right”. But it is a real observation of what is the difference between those that achieve massive results “despite” their age and those that give up as soon as they reach a certain age.
How old do you think you are??
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30 Day Guaranteed Drop A Dress Size
26.10.08OK guys… stop sending me emails. I was inundated with emails during my holiday about my 30 day Drop A Dress Size guarantee, and my schedule is now just too full.
However I had a quick phone call with Jess this afternoon, and she has mentioned that she was prepared to make the very same offer…
DROP A DRESS SIZE in 30 days or we give you your money back! Plus we will continue to train you for free until you DO Drop a Dress Size.
Jess has a real limitation of when she can train clients, so she is being really selective about who and when she trains.
So here are the conditions again:
- You’ll train with Jess one-on-one twice a week for four weeks, no excuses, no get outs PERIOD.
- You must follow the exercise plan Jess sets for you in full without deviation.
- You must follow our dietary recommendations to the letter, this is our Nutritional Responsibility program that is based around the Elimination diet . This means no alcohol, zero bread and pasta, zero processed foods, etc etc.
- You must commit to writing and reading your goals every day, and taking positive action every day to achieving them.
- You must write a daily journal, and email it to Jess every evening for 30 days to tell her what you have been doing that day, nutrition and exercise wise.
- At the start and end of the program Jess will ask you to take photographs to demonstrate the changes to your body shape and be prepared to write a full report of how you have got on with the program.
Now Jess is realy only taking 5 clients at this time, and having talked about her available times, during the lunch period is going to be the most ideal time. Now if this fits with you then you need to:
go to the http://www.getfit.lu/consultation.html page to register your intention to start training with us
drop Jess an email at jess@getfit.lu with the subject “Drop A Dress Size 30 days” and tell her why she should take you as one of the 5 special clients to help you drop that dress size(Jeans size for guys)! I wouldn’t wait for the deadline of the 31st October at 18:00 as Jess will have likely filled those places by then.
So get to it right now if your are really serious about making some extra special changes in the month of November.
You’ve got your goal to complete a triathlon? You’ve looked at what is your strongest and weakest of the 3 triathlon events. Now it’s time to start putting together your training.
When you start planning your triathlon training plan, you want to make the most out of your strengths and reduce your weaknesses, both physically and mentally. Reaching for small goals help you achieve this.
It’s essential to start with your weakest event. Swimming? Get yourself to a pool at least 3-4x a week. The more you are in the water the better. Take a Front Crawl Swim Clinic working on technique. Biking? Get a bike, get fitted properly and find a group to start riding with. Check with your local bike stores. Running? Again, make this 3-4x a week commitment. Put the most time into your weakest event until it catches up to your strong ones.
Lastly, the 4th event of the triathlon is transitions. This is the period going from one event (swimming) to the next event (biking) and to the final event (running). Your body needs to know what it is like quickly switching from one sport to the another using different muscles and more importantly, the same muscles already fatigued.
OK, some of you will have read about my Drop A Dress Size Guarantee, 60 days to drop a dress size or your money back…
Well I am personally going to UP the challenge some what.
Drop A dress size in 30 days or I give you your money back! Plus I will continue to train you for free until you DO Drop a Dress Size.
What at the conditions:
- You’ll train with me one-on-one twice a week for four weeks, no excuses, no get outs PERIOD.
- You must follow the exercise plan I set for you in full without deviation.
- You must follow our dietary recommendations to the letter, this is our Nutritional Responsibility program that is based around the Elimination diet I have followed this last few weeks. This means no alcohol, zero bread and pasta, zero processed foods, etc etc.
- You must commit to writing and reading your goals every day, and taking positive action every day to achieving them.
- You must write a daily journal, and email it to me every evening for 30 days to tell me what you have been doing that day, nutrition and exercise wise.
- At the start and end of the program I will ask you to take photographs to demonstrate the changes to your body shape and be prepared to write a full report of how you have got on with the program.
Sounds like a lot? And yet what I am asking is not unreasonable.
If you truly want the results then you understand that sacrifices and changes must occur.
Now I am taking on only individuals who really are committed to getting the results, and I only have time for 6 clients at this time starting from November 11th, when I return from my holiday.
What I need you to do is go to the http://www.getfit.lu/consultation.html page to register your intention to start training with us, then drop me an email at tim@getfit.lu with the subject “Drop A Dress Size 30 days” and tell me why I should take you as one of the 6 special clients to help you drop that dress size(Jeans size for guys)!
I will be picking up only a handful of emails next week during my vacation, make sure you put the subject in there!
Get to it now!
Tim
Ok, so it looks like some of you have set your goal to do a triathlon. Great job, that’s the first step. But how do you reach it? Training, right? But “how much training” is usually the first question.
To help determine your training program, you need to think of 2 things. What the distance of your goal (race) is and how you want to accomplish your goal (race). Is your goal to just finish the triathlon? Be an age group winner? Finish in the top 10 of your gender? Or be in the top 3? Once you answer those questions, it helps you to define your training program.
When I decided to do my first triathlon, waaaaaaay back in 1987, I was a beginner swimmer, experienced cyclist and competitive runner. I set my goal to just finish. It was a sprint distance, 500 meter pool swim, 20k bike, and 5k run. I reached my goal and finished, even with dropping my water bottle on the bike (having no water in 30c heat for the entire ride), and dropping my chain on the course! Because my goal was to finish a Sprint distance triathlon, that helped determined my training program.
Next, think about what your strongest and weakest event is in the 3 triathlon disciplines…that will lead you to your individual training, but that’s for next time!
My Magic Hundred Update
07.10.08I got started on my latest magic hundred a few weeks ago today is day 16 so how have i been getting on.
Well some days good, some days not so good. BUT the important part is I am ticking off some of the smaller goals and making steps forward with the larger ones too. Here are a few examples.
A couple of the goals related to the Elimination Diet that you will have seen some posts about this last week or so, so I am already 15 days through zero coffee for 30 days (one goal), zero bread for 30 days (two goals) and zero alcohol for 30 days (three goals).
Another goal was to do my shooting training (archery) 50 times in the next 100 days, I have so far shot 6 times. I need to up the regularity of this a little so I have scheduled specific slots in my weekly calendar to get this in.
I also have a goal to attract 100,000 people to a Facebook group related to my training beliefs. Yesterday I created a group called “Lets Ban Crunches From Exercise Programs” which has already got 18 members. If you want to join the group go here
I am also trying to sell my Toyota Celica GT4 (if you are an enthusiast you’ll understand :o), it has been a great car to own but I really want to move on to something different now. Drop me an email if you are interested.
Another goal that has not gone anywhere yet is the Find a Mountain bike race to compete in early next year. I think it is one that I’ll hit next :o)
The secret to achieving the 100 goals is really in the daily power questions and finding three of the goals that you are going to pursue that day. It keeps me focussed on doing activities that take me forward, not just “fire-fighting” all day.
If you want to start your Magic Hundred I would suggest you do so really soon, I got an email from Dax earlier telling me he is going to raise the price of this program really soon. So get in now to buy it at the lower rate.
About 3 weeks ago Tim asked me to fill out a GAS or Goal Achievement Strategy. I looked at my GAS today and realized that my MAIN goal has not changed. The thing that has changed though is that I am finally taking steps to achieve my goal.
The question is what was my goal. Well its a hot subject in the “Forest fit” class as its the (TRIATHLON).
Now this has been a goal of mine for years but I never felt that I had time and as I never wrote it down or told anyone, it remained a goal……. A never-ending one.
Though after writing it down and realizing what I needed to do, it became more realistic.
Well where am I now, I have done the easy bits, bought a bike helmet, got my bike checked out and bought a new swimming hat and goggles.
Now the other bit, well I have cycled a bit but the weather has not been too helpful, running has not been very often excluding sprinting in forest fit and playing a bit of squash.
However swimming has started, I swam my first 1000 meters on Wednesday and was very proud of myself. It was 5 x 200 meters with a minute break between each one. Next week I hope to go again and then 2 x the week following with next week being 5 x 250 meters.
So with me finally talking about my goals, now I have found a lot of other people who would also like to achieve the same goals. This makes it a lot easier to believe that I will do it.
So thanks to me just writing it down in the Goal Achievement Strategy or GAS, I am really going to achieve my goal.
First the TRIATHLON then the IRONMAN,,,,, well lets just complete this one first
Leon
Ok, so the girls started talking and got the brilliant idea of doing the 2009 Echternach Triathlon. So they started discussing the different ways of how to best train for it and that’s when my competitive streak kicked in and I started thinking: Hey, this could be fun, I am In!!!!
I like biking…The swimming isn’t to bad and the running…well, not great but I have two legs that can run if i make them, How hard can this be…:)
Then I realised that I have to swim 1.5Km which doesn’t sound that far but when you only know breast stroke…that could be a rather long distance…
Then I realised that to be able to do biking….40km, You will acctually need a bike!!!
Then I realised that I will acctually have to RUN 10km….Arrrgghhh:) I hate Running. Every time i run further than 2km, it feels like i am about to die….
That’s when the next thought crossed my mind: Let’s NOT do this, sorted, Maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all. That’s when the girls decided to make me the One to push them and make them train hard and i started thinking i can’t give in already, these girls are counting on me and better yet, This is a challenge, and I love challenges and i have been looking for the next challenge in life! Here it is!
So guess what, I wrote down on my ever growing Goals list: 2009 Triathlon and now all I have to do is start planning the training for it.Lot’s of swimming, maybe even try to learn proper swimming…Lot’s of running, starting off with intervalls…
First things first though…Hubby, I want a bike for christmas!
Jess:)
IF anyone has any good ideas for training for a Triathlon please come forward and tell me your secrets:)
One of the GetFit Fundamentals is the Goal Achievement Strategy. It is a workbook and an on going strategy to go about setting and achieving some of your biggest wildest dreams. Each of my intern coaches must go through the workbook as part of their induction… Here is an account of one of their experiences with it…
“It was about three weeks ago that I completed the Goal achievement strategy, and i have to say I did not find it easy……so why did I find it soo difficult and was it worth it??
When I first read it I almost panicked and felt scared….
I had not asked myself these questions since probably when I was in school talking to somebody like the careers people and even that was not as in-depth as this. It took me a while to digest it and to get on bored with this line of thinking…….why??? well I think that I had fallen into the trap(unknowingly) that allot of women do when they have children
For the last 3 years I have been a housewife looking after my very energetic 3 year old and without really realizing it I fell into the trap of coming last, your child partner house stuff and everything else that is entailed with becoming a mother be it working or not always comes first. There is so much to think about and do that on top of that you never get round to or do very little for yourself.
So I slowly plucked up the courage to write down what I really want and what I want to achieve,even writing that with the words “I” in feels good. It was hard going doing it but it felt like a relief when i had written it all down , it wasn’t to be scared of anymore it was to be broken down into little steps that would get me to achieving my Goal.
So how am I doing 3 and bit weeks down the road?? Well I have taken some small steps towards my goal so, I’m on the right path. I had a very hectic and stress full week this week so when it came to writing about my experience of the goal achievement strategy so far I re-read it, which I am so glad I did!! it put things back into perspective and made me realize what I’m working for and towards, which of course in a way you could say is the moral of the story!!
The whole point is to be active on my goal. It can be so easy to let real life get in the way sometimes, you need to read your goals again and again, and do something about them.
In answer to my question above is it worth it???, Yes it is, I’m enjoying the journey so far and very much looking forward to achieving my goal, so far so good!!!”
