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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”28 January 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂 ———————-
Those of you that have me as a Facebook friend may had seen that I was at The N.E.C. at Birmingham a few months ago.
For a day with my coach.
You know what I’m going to say, don’t you?
Beware the coach without a coach.
We did 9-5 in one of the function rooms there.
Then we all want over to the new ‘Bear Grylls Adventure’ centre by the lake.
To do the high ropes course and archery.
In the centre they also have an assault course.
Based on the one at Sandhurst, apparently.
Cargo nets, high walls, monkey bars, high-low bars, fireman’s poles and the like.
The main sign challenged you to #BeatBear and his time of 63 seconds.
Which, on a second attempt, I did.
62 seconds.
Third on the leader board.
Absolutely dying at the end.
But very pleased.
Why am I sharing this with you?
Not for the standard FitPro reason of “Look how fit and strong I am. You too can be like this if you give me some money”.
The approach the vast majority of the population find massively off putting.
I actually surprised myself.
I was a fat kid.
Somewhere between rubbish and mediocre at most sports and physical activities.
101st out of 105 boys in Year 7 school cross country.
————— I’ve been saying 101/104 for years, but a recent get together with my A Level physics table made me realise I’d been forgetting Rob Staley. Sorry Rob 🙁 —————
Grew about a foot in a year and got skinny.
Discovered beer a few years later and got fat again.
And while I’ve been “in shape” for approaching 20 years now………..
There’ll always be part of me that’s that ‘fat kid’.
Somewhat surprised when I do well at something I was previously rubbish at.
A lot of our opinions of ourselves (in all areas), are formed in our youth.
Stuff we’re ‘good’ and ‘bad’ at.
Self imposed labels that guide our actions, potentially, for the rest of our lives.
Bad experiences in PE putting us off exercise permanently.
What those around us said about ‘healthy eating’ and ‘treats’ shaping our own opinions on that.
But………
It doesn’t have to be that way.
We can change our opinions (although I was somewhat surprised I beat him, I went in with exactly that intention).
Create opposite experiences that dissprove our old beliefs.
Cut portion sizes for a while and realise it wasn’t as hard as we thought it would be.
Get ourselves in a genuine, sustained, average calorie deficit and realise it wasn’t our ‘metabolism’.
Track our food accurately for a handful of days and realise it wasn’t the complete pain we were telling ourselves it would be.
Find a form of exercise that we enjoy with people we like (cough, this one, cough –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting) and realise exercise isn’t “boring and painful”.
The first step is releasing that much of what we hold as ‘just that way’ is, in fact, an opinion.
And not necessarily the opinion that serves us best.
We can question these beliefs.
Try on new ones for size.
We may decide to return to the original ones.
Entirely our right.
But we may settle elsewhere.
What we used to think or have always thought doesn’t need to be what we’ll always think.
Much love,
Jon ‘Neccessities’ Hall and Matt ‘George Foreman’ Nicholson
