The Month That Was = February

February has now been and gone and we are over 15% of the year GONE, never to be seen again until 2011!! Man, how time flys........

Discipline is one of the most (if not the most) determining factor to reaching your goals, the fitness marketing guru will have you believe it's their "secret programme" BUT I can assure you it's NOT!!!

The "secret" is showing up CONSISTENTLY and that requires DISCIPLINE to do what needs to be done in the daily grind!!!

I've set goals for the year;

• Dead lift 220kg
• Meditate 90% of the year
• 250 workouts in 2010 (Stole this number from Alwyn Cosgrove)
  
• Read 10-12 books, just to name a few!
  

Here's how I'm looking so far for the above;

1. Dead lift (this has not been a focus, I just train at this stage :-)
2. Meditation
   Jan 2010 = 26days
   Feb = 27days
3. 250 Workouts
   Jan = 10 (started late)
   Feb = 19 (All MS & PE workouts are with Fighters in preparation for March 13th Fight Night.
   2 x Yoga (aiming for 1 per week in March)
   4 x Metabolic Strength
   6 x Power Endurance
   5 x Run (In preparation for City 2 Surf 12km run 21st March & 1/2 Marathon in June)
   
   
4. Reading Books = 0/Nil/Nothing :-) Just started reading first book today (Cardio Strength Training by Robert dos Remedios)

So as you can see, I'm not perfect BUT I'm DOING!!! I often "play" with the idea of measuring other things as well and I have no doubt I will! What I do know from all of this, when the end of the month comes to a close and I get to look back, it's bloody satisfying I can assure you! :-)

Sure there is room for improvement, but I can see exactly where I need to improve to raise my "numbers" if I'm on track or if I'm off track! That's the beauty of measuring!!

Take home message of all of this, measuring what you do actually tells the story of HOW you are doing and allows you to "adjust" things to suit!

March Goal:

• 4 x Yoga (1x per week)
• 7 Day Detox
• Raise my total training #'s to 22 workouts
• Have read 1 book.
  

All this while we are having our next baby any time soon........ So no guarantees on how I will go with achieving this but I'll give it a go :-)

Thanks for reading,

Spida Hunter.

Your Biggest "Secret" is in Turning Up....

With 3days left of 2009, I saw a post on Facebook by Alwyn Cosgrove that he had just completed #250 workout of the year.....

This got me thinking to how many days I have meditated this year as I've been "measuring" it.....

Well I can now tell you I hit my goal of 90% Adherence to Meditation and I'm very proud about it!!

What does 90% look like in the real world?
I meditated for 329 days out of 365
I missed 36 days of meditation which is 10% of the year!

I've written about Does Meditation Really Work? Before here
I've also written about #1 Secret of All Time here

This isn't about Meditation although if you are interested then go here this is about SHOWING UP CONSISTANTLY!!


So many secrets to your health and fat loss goals, yet people are missing a few important facts to anything in life!

1. Secret #1 Show Up
2. Secret #2 Show Up Consistantly i.e. 90% of the time (if 90% is too much start with 70%)
   
3. Secret #3 Totality of health/Fat loss is more important then your "secret ab exercise"! So look at many different facets rather then just exercise or nutrition......
   

Look you don't have to be completely anal about "measuring" everything other wise you won't start, however when you are ready to move up a level then things like this matter!!

The most important "secret" you can do right now is START..... enjoy the process and journey and let it come to you by DOING!!

2010 is coming and everyone is talking about "best year ever".....rather then look at it as a best year ever, maybe look at it from a perspective of "what would my life look like if everything increased by 10% minimum!!!???

Have a awesome New Year and Talk next year!!

Spida Hunter