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Consistency….A Boring word that can have an amazing effect.

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flipping-calendarI’m in the process of writing a book and below is a brief snippet of one of the most important chapters. It focuses on your mindset and outlook when it comes to what and how you eat, your diet and your training. The first thing to mention is that I’m not advocating bad eating habits, being lazy or continually blowing the positive steps you are taking out of the water. What i am saying is that by being consistent over a long period you can gain some freedom to enjoy yourselves now and then. See what you think and I welcome your comments. It is slightly out of context as it is sliced out of a bigger chapter so I hope it still makes sense. If it doesn’t just tell me I’m a berk…

Consistency.

This is the single most important concept in the whole book. Remember I just said that you are not going “on” a diet, that what you are doing is changing your life. Well consistency lies at the heart of that. You need to be consistent in all that you do. I can picture you wincing as I say that. “urrgggh, that’s my big problem, I can’t be consistent, I can’t stick to things” you say. Wrong, wrong, wrong. As I keep saying your mindset is everything. Consistency makes things easy, consistency gives you freedom, consistency allows you to drink beer and have fun. How? Why?

Well as we already discussed this is not a diet. If you are on a diet and with a fixed timescale and rigid eating regime you feel locked into that. If you fall off the wagon for whatever reason you feel terrible, find it difficult to get started again and more often than not everything grinds to a halt and you go back to your old guilty habits.

This is different. This is the new you. This is not a 3 month plan, this is forever. What that means in real terms is that if you have a bad weekend (Stag or Hen do, big birthday celebrations etc), go on a 2 week holiday to Thailand and can’t resist the food, or always go for beers with the boys after football every couple of weeks…….so what. A few days, the odd night, even a week or two of being bad mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. 14 days or even 28 days in 365 days a year won’t cause too much damage in the overall long term process you are adopting. If you are being consistent in your new good habits over the weeks, months and all the following years then you can allow yourself to really enjoy the odd blow out. It won’t matter, its mathematics. If you are being good 80/85% of the time then the other 15/20% won’t harm you too much and not only that you can really enjoy yourself. Can you see? By being consistent and by aiming for the long term you actually give yourself the freedom to cut loose and misbehave now and then.

That’s why this concept is key and is so powerful. If you can really embrace that this is your new life and you are going to be totally consistent in adopting it, then it allows you to do what the title says. You CAN drink Beer AND get fit.

However a small word of warning. You can’t abuse this thought. Consistency is what it is. You MUST be consistent. Having a week on and a week off doesn’t count and definitely will not work. You need to be aiming for an absolute minimum of 70% good behavior and ideally 80% plus to see real and outstanding results.

Take Care,

John

 

What to expect from Ordinary Guy Fitness.

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So here is my first ever post on my new blog……….er……what the hell do i write now?? How about some ideas of the type of posts you’ll find on here going forward and what you can expect from me.

Firstly a little bit of honesty. Why am i doing this? There are a number of reasons actually. The main one is that i think I’m having a mid life crisis!! Seriously! My work bores the hell out of me and i want to do something I’m passionate about. Health, fitness, training is an area i genuinely am passionate about. I enjoy….no i love it, and hopefully if you come here regularly I can demonstrate some of that love and passion and more importantly can try to help you to improve your general levels of health, fitness, weight, body shape etc.

Secondly i want to show that ordinary people CAN make changes to their lives, get fitter, lose weight, become stronger better versions of their current selves AND still have fun, enjoy life and have a blow out now and then. You don’t have to live the life of a monk or starve yourselves to achieve your health and fitness goals, you CAN drink beer, eat Chocolate, have a Curry etc and STILL lose weight and gain muscle. REALLY??? I can hear the fitness guru’s out there dropping their Beetroot and Kale juices as i speak. Yes it’s true, you can have the best of both worlds and I hope to show you how.

Finally, and I’ll be really honest here. I hope to build this blog up as much as possible, gain many thousands (Hell why not be ambitious….millions) of regular readers and then if the wind is blowing in the right direction, maybe make some money from it. So at some point the site may contain some adverts, may promote some other sites or products and may even sell some stuff at some point (I have a book brewing!!). If that upsets you, offends you or you just don’t like commercialism that’s absolutely fine. I get it, really i do. Perhaps you’d better look elsewhere and I won’t be offended i promise. If you are still with me I hope you appreciate my honesty from the start and anyway, none of that is likely to happen for a while……

So here goes, hopefully you will enjoy the ride. Please feel free to post some comments. This is as new to me as it is you and I’m learning as we go so if I’m doing something wrong, tell me.