This may turn into a very important post for many people. I’m going to be separating it into two posts, the first part is just a simple question which I need you to answer in the comment box below (if not at least right it down on paper). It’s all part of training your mind to become the best person you can be and develop the life that you want, as many of us are conditioned to our surroundings, bodies, earnings and more. If you read this and don’t take action, you may typically do this in other parts of your life and not get the results you want and I don’t want that to happen, I want you to be the best person you can possibly be, we only get one life right?
So here’s the question:
The Question: If you could click your fingers now and change one or multiple elements of your life….
Where would you be living?
Who would you be living with?
What would your weight be / what kind of body would you have, what clothes would you be wearing?
Who would be your circle of friends?
What would your home look like, the garden, a waterfall?
What hobbies would you have?
What car would you drive, maybe you’d get around on a horse?
What would your occupation be, would you even have one?
Anything else? Close your eyes, imagine all stress you have is gone and you’re in the perfect place, ok?
This is the dream, the absolute perfect scenario. Now simply comment and share and wait for my next post, this may just change your life.
Hey,
I’m always learning and trying to develop myself, both personally and in my business life. I grab elements from everywhere. I’m so glad you’re reading my blog, but don’t be afraid to reach out and take elements from other people who make you feel on top of the world. Even when I’m on the right path, something can stear me off and distract me from my goal, and that’s when I need a little extra motivation.
This video of inspiration, wisdom and feel good greatness put a big smile on my face and it translates well into weight loss, general pep talking and I just think it’s worth a watch. Will Smith is a Hollywood legend and is great on this screen, but this medley really taught me a lot more about him. Maybe you need need that little boost, a little push back on your road to success. Now get out there today and start making some changes… 
Woop woop!
There’s nothing like a full day of eating well. You finish the day with a smile on your face, your energy is up, you feel motivated and if you’ve exercised on that day, you get that extra endorphin boost, the feel good hormone. Today I thought I’d see in the weekend with a great plan for you to start on Monday. All of the recipes below are taken from the two new ebooks, The Lunch Box Diet: Breakfast & Dinner Cookbook and The Lunch Box Diet: 60 Tasty Recipes. If you use the code ’slim’ in the checkout up until the end of Jan, you can get a further 50% off the sale prices.
I’ve put together a combination which will give you loads of energy, pack your body full of nutrients and fire up your metabolic rate, so why wouldn’t you give it a try. What’s more, with the e-books pack you can mix and match everything, it’s like Christmas nutrition shopping at Boots. Ha ha (for those outside of the UK, we have mix and match presents in the shops)! A selection of treats that make you smile and you can use all year round!
Also, I’m very excited that the next few weeks will see the launch of some amazing new software that will allow you to use my diet, completely tailored to you. You will be able to input your personal details, track your calories and fine tune it so it completely works in with your personal calorie requirements, which I know a lot of people have really wanted, it takes the diet to another level. While I don’t want people to count calories religiously, the software will teach you what portions are right for you, so you can really start understanding when you go over, and that has to be a good thing. What’s more you can suit the meals to yourself and invent your own boxes and add them to your meal plans. Oh and print off shopping lists and more! Watch this space…
So, here we go, a full day for you, your breakfast, lunch box and evening meal. Get started Monday and enjoy…
Breakfast
Spiced Oats with Fruit
Makes one serving
1 cup oats (preferably old-fashioned, not quick cooking)
½ banana, sliced
2 tablespoons raisins
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch nutmeg
2 tablespoons low fat yogurt
Cook oats according to package instructions. Stir in banana,
raisins and spices. Serve topped with yogurt.
Lunch Box
Scandinavian Picnic
Group A
1 generous handful spring greens
1 apple
½ avocado
1 cup red cabbage, sliced or shredded
½ cup red onion, sliced thin
Group B
Pork tenderloin roasted with allspice
Group C
Chopped salted pecans, crumbled blue cheese, snipped chives
Active Carb option
Whole grain, limpa or pumpernickel bread.
1. Rinse and dry greens. Add to box. Core and slice apple, and immediately toss
with lemon juice. Slice avocado and toss with lemon juice. Add to box. Top with
red cabbage and red onion.
2. Coat outside of lean tenderloin with scant teaspoon olive oil, finely ground
black pepper, allspice and salt. Roast until done. Cool, slice and add to box.
3. Top with about 1 tablespoon each pecans and blue cheese, and 1 teaspoon
snipped chives.
Evening Meal
Asian Salmon with Shredded Cabbage
Makes two servings
2 salmon steaks, 1-inch thick
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ teaspoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon ginger, finely chopped
Dash of Tabasco sauce to taste (optional)
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1½ cups shredded cabbage
1 tablespoon olive oil
Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Preheat
oven to 400 degrees.
Combine the oils, soy sauce, brown sugar and ginger.
Whisk together. Put fish in baking dish and pour sauce
over fish. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Cover with foil
and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until just done.
In small sauté pan, heat remaining tablespoon of olive oil
and add shredded cabbage. Turn cabbage with tongs,
heating until just barely tender, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle
with salt and pepper, transfer to two serving plates, and
top with salmon.
Like the sound of these? Head over to The Lunch Box Diet: Breakfast & Dinner Cookbook and The Lunch Box Diet: 60 Tasty Recipes and grab your 50% off the sale prices by entering ’slim’.
The Fitness Triangle
Hey everyone.
If you read my posts regulary then you’ll know that I take care of every element of losing weight, not just healthy eating and not just fitness. While each of these elements is important on their own, togther they compliment each other and if you really want to see fast results you need fine tune both. So what if I told you that my training systems used a three-pronged triangle approach that you could also implement into your own programme. Would you be interested? Yeah of course you would… Check out the following details where I explain the triangle method, at the heart of New Body Bootcamp and my Rapid Weight Loss Programme. If you’re not seeing great results, it may be because you’re doing too much steady state cardio work and this post explains why…
The Rapid Wight Loss Triangle…
Weight Training
Strength training increases muscle and boosts metabolism, so it’s no wonder why it’s a massive part of the rapid weight loss programme protocol. Metabolism: The rate at which we burn calories per day. The majority of the calories we burn per day (70‐90%) are while at rest. So let’s get that number as high as possible. What we know: Metabolism decreases 10 % per year if we leave it alone
Metabolism can be increased 40‐60% through nutrition and exercise. Too many programs by average trainers concentrate on burning calories during the session. But what about the other 23 hours in the day? That is where we concentrate and why our programs have been so successful.
Nutrition
Here’s what we know‐every time you eat you are boosting your metabolism. It take energy to digest and assimilate the food that you eat. But if you are only eating 2 times per day there is too much time in between feedings. Your body will think it is in starvation mode and will preferentially store the food you consume as stored bodyfat. So we are going to fill in these gaps with small evenly spaced meals throughout the day. Now we are boosting your metabolism 5‐6 times per day instead of 2. Plus your body is much more likely to give up stored bodyfat when it sees that nutrition is coming in like clockwork every few hours. We will help you make better food choices so that eating like this will become a part of your new lifestyle. We will have you bring in a food journal which will review with you every time to make sure you are on the right path. Together we will determine what to eat and when. We will be manipulating the ratios of the 3 macro nutrients: Protein, carbs and fat.
Cardio
First of all we do not use standard “steady state” cardio as a primary fat loss tool. When you walk on a treadmill (or whatever) for 45 minutes, you are burning cals while you are doing it but it has ZERO carryover to the rest of the day. ZERO. Also your body adapts to it very rapidly. This means your body will become more efficient at using fat for fuel – WHICH IS NOT GOOD. It is called “Intervals” or “sprints”. We have you go hard for 30 seconds, then rest for 60 seconds and then repeat. We will play with the rest and work intervals as well as what exercise we have you use to keep your body guessing. The cool part is it only take about 15 minutes‐that’s a fraction of traditional cardio. On top of that your body will be burning extra calories 38 hours after the workout. That means if you workout on a Monday morning, Tuesday night you are burning extra calories because of that workout.
You can see this same effect in Olympic sprinters‐those guys have a bodyfat percentage of about 4‐6%. All they do is short intense bouts of exercise, with limited rest. Plus they have to eat like horses because their metabolisms are so fired up. Now if you look at marathon runners, those guys have a BF of about 11‐14%. And they run for literally hours at a time. Plus they look very emaciated – not a healthy look at all. We want your workout to be short – intense and effective.
So, when it comes to your training, and eating, use the triangle method, let me keep you motivated and you will get to your goal…
Hannah Waterman has been all over the TV at the moment and to be honest, good on her. She’s managed to completely transform her body by performing high intensity interval training which is the type of exercise at the heart of my rapid weight loss and boot camp training programmes. I wouldn’t normally promote a DVD like this as most of them are awful, but the training style she uses is sound, and the results speak for themselves.
The ex Eastender managed to pile on the pounds but needed to get in shape for a new west end role of Calender Girls. She was told that she’d had to get naked for the role and that was her ‘tipping point’ as well as the one photo, which is explained in the video below. I’ve spoken about ‘tipping points’ before. Maybe it’s when someone says something to you about your weight, maybe it’s the death of a family member because of heart disease, maybe like me it was bullying. But look at the transformation, she’s changed her body and this has had a massive effect on her confidence levels.
If you’re not able to sign up for my new personal training rapid weight loss programme or join my bootcamps and you want to train from home then Hannah’s DVD is worth a look, and with a familiar face to work out with, maybe this is just the thing that you need to help you get in shape in the new year.
If you are interested in Hannah’s Body Blitz DVD, click here to find it on Amazon. Combine this DVD with The Lunch Box Diet (click banner above for all-new recipes) and you will do very well. Better still, get yourself to Exeter and let me work on you myself! Ha!
Hey everyone!
What with new year resolutions, I’ve had a couple of emails form people asking how to find the right personal trainer for them, so I decided to get out my new flip video cam and record a video, on looking back it’s a bit wobbly, so sorry for that, I hope you don’t get sick from it! Anyway, being a personal trainer down here in exeter, I’ve seen a lot! There are some great trainers around, and some that just don’t give a damn about their clients. But when you get a good one, you will be in for a treat!
In the video I explain a few things you need to look out for such as qualificiations, what they have experience in, testimonials from people who have had good results from their trainer and more. Hope it helps. If you have any questions please put them in the comments section and i’ll reply asap.
Oh, as I say on the video, I may be opening a few slots for personal training here in Exeter, please mail simon@simonlovell.co.uk if you’re looking to lose weight and tone up.
The kind of things you want to look for…
I’d imagine that many of you will be diving into the gyms in the new year, maybe even down here in Exeter, if so hopefully I’ll bump into you! Now if you’re new to the gym, please please make sure you get yourself an induction by a qualified trainer, otherwise you could find yourself in lots of bother! For starters, the trainers will teach you how to perform the exercises correctly, how to pair them together to meet your goals and show you the proper selection of reps and sets, again based on what you want to achieve.
Here’s a very common exercise in the gym, it’s called the Seated Row – it’s great for developing the back muscles, particularly in the upper area, and if you sit in an office all day, the seated row can really help to pull the posterior muscles back help you look taller and more confident!
More exercises like the one below can be found within Training Buddy
Hey! We’re in 2010, welcome. Do you know what, I’m so happy! Why? Well, A) You’re going to feel absolutely amazing this year B) It’s my mission to change more people’s lives than I did last year and C) I’ve got so many treats ahead for you, I’m so excited. Oh and thank you so much for reading my blogs, emails and more – thanks for your support in 2009 and let’s together make this year one that delivers you the body, confidence and passion to do more than just lose weight or get fit! Agreed?
By now you should know if you’re not involved in some kind of fitness then you should be. It changed my life and even when I was busy, when I ‘got into it’, it changed my life. I am aware though that for a lot of people, finding the time to exercise and just getting that ball moving is a real struggle. That’s why, you can now download Fitness, Even When You’re Really Busy - there’s 50% off and an added extra discount for 24 hours only using the code ‘happynewyear’.
This new ebook is for anyone who needs a good kick start in the new year. If you want more energy, to feel a real zest for life and remember what I said in ‘The Snowball Effect’, if fitness isn’t in your life, it simply has to be.
Picture the scene, it’s Christmas day and my dad opens his latest present. It’s a power ball grip strengthener – i’ve done a post featuring these before, but since I’ve just acquired a lovely new flip video camera for christmas myself, I thought i’d update the blog with what I think is a quite a funny video. On a serious note, these powerballs aren’t gimmicks – they seriously help you build up arms strength, particulary the wrist which is great for tennis, squash, badminton, body building, climbing, bowling and many other sports. If you have generally poor strength in the wrist then this will affect the way you perform your exercises in the gym. This little tool is brilliant, as you’re about to see. I cant wait for your comments on this one…
I’ve included some links below to powerballs if you want them… There are now 4 of these between our houses!
Click Here for Powerballs @ Amazon.co.uk
Click here for Powerballs @ Amazon.com (USA + WORLDWIDE)
Ouch, my head is still bruised. In our final bootcamp of 2009 this morning, I decided to create a game using the big red boxes at our gymnastics club – they’re great, we jump over them, push them, wrestle with them and more.
I decided it would be fun to stand them all up tall and create ‘Chase The Elf’ with my little green hat stuck over my eats to amuse my bootcampers. After several hilarious games with screams from the girls as they caught each other (you can’t really see each other as they’re so tall, so it installs that sense of unknown), I decided to get involved.
In a split second before ending the session I decided to go to knee height – Alison, our new bootcamper (who has been doing great coming to pretty much every session since she started, well done you), ran directly into my head. As a result, the following photos show the evidence.
The message of this post! Erm, exericse is can be hilarious, but sometimes you can get a few bumps and bruises, you just have to get up and carry on. Needless to say, I had a lovely email from one of the bootcampers after this morning’s session which I thought i’d share to give everyone some motivation to find a bootcamp or something close to you that offers the same enjoyment as New Body Bootcamp here in Exeter.
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