According to the news, today is the most depressing day of the year.

 

“Blue Monday” they call it.

 

The combination of poor weather, money issues after Christmas, broken New Years resolutions and the challenges of the return to work all, apparently, peak today.

 

Which we get.

 

Life isn’t always easy.

 

If you went from the Instagram accounts of most FitPros, you’d think it was.

 

That life was an endless round of six-packs, Olympic lifts and happiness.

 

It may be for those guys.

 

But, knowing a lot of them, it isn’t.

 

They just feel the need to hide behind this ‘FitPro Facade’ they think will attract clients.

 

So we get that many of you may well feel a “bit shit” today.

 

I woke at 3.30am this morning and couldn’t drop off, so am hardly 100% myself.

 

“Feeling a bit shit” isn’t anything to be ashamed of.

 

But……….

 

It’s something we can try and reduce at least.

 

We get people may not feel like exercising a lot of the time.

 

We don’t always.

 

And nearly everyone that joins us feels that way to start (myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if that sounds like you).

 

But we know from both our own experience and that of hundreds we’ve worked with………

 

That you’ll feel more like having done some.

 

And that the body responds just as well even when you’re not “feeling like it”.

 

We get that healthy eating isn’t always something people fancy doing.

 

We, again, we know from experience, that a lot of it is just changing habits.

 

And that people ALWAYS feel better when they change those habits.

 

And that it’s more than worth the effort.

 

We’re not going to offer you “24-7” happiness.

 

We’re not telling you life will be perfect.

 

But, if by reading these and doing some of the stuff in them……….

 

We can get you to “Blue Monday” next year……….

 

Saying to yourself “I tell you what, I don’t feel anywhere near as shit as I did last year”……….

 

Then we’d be pretty happy with that 🙂

 

 

Much love,

 

Jon ‘Dysfunktional Uncle’ Hall and Matt ‘Kinky Afro’ Nicholson

 

P.S. Fairly tricky middle names there – 3 bonus Ninja Points to anyone that gets them (without googling)

 

P.P.S. Friday’s middle names (Pretty Green Eyes and Dry Your Eyes Mate) are, of course, songs.
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Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.