LeBron James talks about how to live the life you want to lead

Say what you want about LeBron, this guy can seriously play basketball.

It brings up a great question about the expectations others may have of him versus the expectations he has of himself.

What should he do?

What should YOU do?

Are you trying to live up to someone else’s expectations?

Are you living the life that your parents or friends want you to live?

Or

Are you doing the best you can do to live up to your OWN expectations?

Are you following someone else’s plan for your body in your training?

Are you forcing yourself to crank out 1 more horrible feeling rep just because it says you were supposed to do 5 reps on your third set today?

Is that the best way?

Is there a better way?

I think so……

Hell i can remember not so long ago I myself was torn between doing what other people wanted me to do but at the end of the day deep down you know you will end up not feeling right and feeling you have missed out on something that you should have done.

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Find the time to exercise

One of the most common excuses for not exercising is “not enough time”. Now, I realize you’re busy with work, the kids, hobbies, projects, running errands, watching your stories – enough of the excuses. Take some time for yourself and exercise. Don’t wait around any longer. This week is the perfect time to do it!

So why is this week so special??
With daylight savings we moved the clocks and gained an extra hour this weekend. Instead of allowing the clock to dictate when you go to bed and when you get up, stick to your body’s internal normal routine. Yes that may mean going to bed an hour earlier (according to the alarm clock) but your body’s internal clock doesn’t know that. Keeping your old routine will allow you to get up an hour earlier. Look at what I just did; you now have an extra hour every morning to exercise without losing any sleep.

“There’s no way I can go to bed an hour earlier. I just have too much stuff to do…….” – here we go again with this excuses business. So why not get that stuff done first thing in the morning? If an hour is too early for you shoot for going to be 30 minutes earlier and getting up 30 minutes earlier (according to the alarm clock). This gives you 30 minutes to exercise. Go for a walk, cook a healthy breakfast, go to the gym on the way to work. Find the time. Take the time to exercise. Make it a habit. So go to bed. Your body knows its dark so it must be time to sleep and the sun will be coming up soon and it’ll be time to get up and get going.

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Fitness is not a marathon nor a sprint, but a series of intervals!

I have been involved in the fitness industry for many years now and I’ve seen so many ideas come and go. I’ve seen trainers come and go and I’ve seen clients come and go. The ups and downs of the fitness industry parallels the ups and downs experienced throughout life. Sometimes we’re up and sometimes we’re down, but we’re always striving for something higher.

I remember a friend of mine once told me that “Life is like the stock market. There are ups and downs, but as long as the trend is going upward then we’re doing alright.” I’m not sure where he came up with that from, but it made so much sense that I began to apply it to my fitness…but not just my periodized programming, my overall fitness.

I used to look at fitness as a destination…as if I was going to reach a point and that would be the end. However, fitness is not a race. There is no finish line in fitness because we can always do better than yesterday. We can always do better than last week, last month or last year. Often times we have a tendency to set a destination point in fitness and many of us stop before reaching it or once we reach it we feel that we’re done. I’m here to say that you are never done. My goal has always been to be fitter at 30 than I was at 20 and now that I’m past 30 my goal is to be more fit and strong at 40 than I am today.

But there have been ups and downs over the years. There were times where I needed to take a step back and let my body heal. I needed to take time out and lower my intensities, lower my weights and work on keeping my body from falling apart. There have been other times where I needed to go “balls to the walls”, pumping out the iron, hitting the weights hardcore. I’ve gone through periods of bulking up and periods of slimming down.

I’m always challenging my body to new heights and looking for new things to stimulate both my mind and body, developing better neural connections in attempts to recruit more muscle and keep my body off-balance, developing and changing.

A marathon is a long and monotonous event, and if your training routine is monotonous and without change then it’s most likely you will become bored and give up. A sprint is quick and over within a matter of seconds. The vast majority of people are looking for a quick fix in 6 weeks, thinking that the journey stops after this. Since fitness is a lifestyle then we need to understand that there are peaks and valleys to our overall fitness and so in the end our fitness lifestyle should look more similar to interval training with periods of high intensity, lower intensity and rest and leisure periods. Don’t get caught up in the mundane or the quick fixes. Variety is the spice of life.

FisioNostra at Planeta 10' Madrid with Aerobic y Fitness Barcelona

Quite some time back I was asked by Aerobic & Fitness Barcelona to present their first Kettlebell Workshop and Masterclass in Spain. I knew it would be a great opportunity for Fisionostra Barcelona to get its name out there and also to show them what kettlebells are really about so I jumped at the opportunity. Paid flights to Madrid, luxury hotel accomodation the scene was all set for a great weekend. It was'nt the first time I've been to Madrid but funnily enough it all seemed knew again. The masterclass and workshop went down really well it was a hard-working and enthusiastic group. There were fitness trainers from everywhere from Granada, Malaga, Galicia, Zaragoza all the corners of Spain so it was a great challenge for me to understand their different them and of course for them to understand me speaking in Spanish. The whole weekend went well, next step lets conquer the whole of Spain!