Six Pack Weekend Round-Up

Here we are at the end of week two!
It’s been an interesting week for me and one full of surprises and lessons to be learned too.
You know, Monday already feels like such a long time ago that I have to really think hard to remember the things of the week that really stood out for me.
Lesson Number One – time passes whether you make the most of it or not.
I have only been able to train for one day this week and BOY has it been difficult watching time vanish and not be able to make the most of it! I’ve been doing my best not to agonise over my results for this week and chalk it up to exactly what it is – one of those things.
I’m doing my best to get my head to let it go. There was nothing I could do and there is nothing I CAN do to change the coughs, colds and sneezing events of the week. I can, however, make the most of next week! I’ll tell you this though, my abs have been getting a thorough workout every day with all the coughing and sneezing I’ve been doing *grin*
Lesson Number Two – Consistency = Changes and they’re happening all the time, whether you notice them or not .
When I took delivery of the cover for ’10 Things’ a few weeks ago, it was open on my computer. Ellie came into the office, saw it and said, “Who on EARTH is T H A T?!” pointing to the before shot.
Before I had a chance to answer, she went on to say, “That’s not YOU is it?!!!  WOW! I don’t remember you looking like that at all…”
I don’t either! Looking back at those photographs is like looking at someone else. They were only taken 18 months ago but it feels like a different lifetime ago – which, in a way, it was I suppose.
Whether you’re currently living a healthy lifestyle or on a path that leads to getting up close and personal with a Cardiologist, changes are happening all the time.
If you’re eating well and training regularly, your body will be getting tighter, smaller and healthier – it doesn’t have any other choice.
If you’re living at the other end of the health and fitness rainbow then your body will getting bigger, softer and increasingly unhealthy – again, it really doesn’t have any choice.
But these changes are gradual, you don’t suddenly put on 10kgs because you ate a bar of chocolate.  You won’t suddenly become super slim overnight if you DON’T eat chocolate.
Consistently do either of these things though and you’ll see changes one way or the other! The direction of those changes are up to you.
THIS is why in ’10 Things’ I say it’s imperative to take photographs of yourself on a weekly basis. Sometimes the changes can be small but they’re happening and the sum total of small changes..?  A BIG difference!
Lesson Number Three – take the advice of people who know what they’re talking about.
I amused myself with this one!
In my web design business I advise clients to only include things in websites, photographs or copy if they add any value. I bang on and on about this all the time and, as I know what I’m talking about, it’s very good advice.
The other night when I was adding the post Holiday Challenge interview with Kyle, I got carried away and found myself in Flash creating a slideshow to go with it with various timings and transition effects – it was going to be awesome; it was also getting v e r y late.
Then I heard myself talking to a client recently, “I know you think that big flashy animation on the front page looks really cool, but will it add any value? If yes, how? If not, dump it and move on.
No one cares whether you have clever graphics that can sing and dance and probably cook the dinner too, unless that’s what you specialise in and is what they’re looking for.
What people come for is information,to find out whether you’re the right person for the job and someone they believe they’d like to work with.”
It’s sound advice! I saved the slideshows, you never know when work will come in handy later on, added two still photographs instead (which convey exactly the same information as the whizzy slideshow would have done) under the play button and went to bed.
With everything training, I still research, learn and take the advice of people I know and trust – like Tom Venuto. He knows what it takes to get a six pack so I’d be crazy not to take his counsel and implement his advice.
There were lots of other things that happened this week, but it’s almost next week for me here in the UK and it’s time to call it a day on what’s passed, look to next week and listen to the advice which says:
Enough sleep is essential for muscle growth and recovery
I need ALL of those things so I’m off!
See you tomorrow for training and week THREE!