I signed up to train for the Manchester Marathon for the Ruth Strauss Foundation (RSF), established by the former England Cricket Captain, Sir Andrew Strauss, in memory of his wife, Ruth Strauss, who died of lung cancer.

During my fundraising campaign, I reached a total of over £7000. In recognition of my efforts, the RSF invited me to be their ambassador at the Lords test match between England and India, on the day dedicated to the RSF. I led the teams out onto the pitch, carrying the flag for the Foundation. Here are some photos of Andrew Strauss with me on that memorable day.

I would love to help you set a goal and then use my fitness and weight loss plan to help you achieve your vision.

If you have been reading my blogs and mails for while you will know that I sometimes struggle with my own weight and it fluctuates up and down.

Usually it’s down to letting some bad habits creep in especially around food and drink or a few unhealthy weekends away watching the rugby and drinking copious amounts of Guinness.

We all have these bad habits though. Its normal and natural. We are not robots we are human.

Even the holier than thou, broccoli and chicken eating personal trainers that work in the local gyms have their bad or at least unhealthy habits.

Usually its their coke binging at the weekend or the steroids that they secretly take to make them huge,but they keep it a secret from their clients. They are not being honest with you.

I know a lot of trainers who preach to their clients that they should never drink but are secretly out getting smashed themselves or off their faces at the weekend or binging on pizza and ice cream on their where to buy xenical forum “cheat day”.

Their clients then feel guilty because they can’t stick to nutrition plans and end up blaming themselves and feeling like its their fault. Bad karma indeed.

Getting healthy and losing weight shouldn’t be like this. It should never be an all or nothing approach.

All or nothing always leads to failure.

Deprivation will always lead to falling off the wagon, so its far better to allow yourself to have your guilty pleasures like wine and chocolate and fit it in to a strategy that works for you to lose weight without feeling that you are missing out on things.

The best diet and exercise plan is the one you can stick to.

As for me, I’ll be focusing on my own nutrition and training plan and putting a strategy in place as i have my sisters wedding in a few weeks to get trimmed up for.

No more guinness for me for a while.

Liam
Head Coach
Northwest Fit Camp Manchester

A few months ago I was in Thailand on a course with other fitness coaches and trainers.

One of the things they got us to do was to create a list of personal things that other people didn’t know about me that they could relate to.

Here are a few of them that I wrote and kept to myself. I’ve decided to share them to you guys because they are “normal” feelings at least for me.

I hope they can inspire you to get healthier or happier or whatever it is you want to achieve and maybe even inspire you………

Here you go…….

I’m actually really introverted and when I spend any significant time with other people, I often need to be on my own to recharge or I’m can come across as really moody.

Sometimes when I get grumpy or moody and we are driving my wife specifically keeps chocolate in her handbag for long journeys for this reason. Coffee also helps.

I used to be a shy, gawky, gangly insecure teenager with no confidence. That’s certainly not the case now, but one of the reasons why I can understand what it feels like to be lacking in self confidence sometimes.

I’ve been fat in the past, Ive never had a six pack (nor do I want one) and I love where can i buy xenical online food, because of this I have to keep an eye on my own weight because it fluctuates up and down.

I skip the gym sometimes because I’m too tired or can’t be bothered. Not all the time but it does happen now and again. I know that if I plan my exercise for the morning I’m more likely to do it.

I feel down sometimes and get stressed a lot, especially in the winter (Vitamin D helps a lot) as does exercise and practicing breathing exercises

I eat when I’m stressed. I can easily polish off a big bar or Galaxy or a Huge bag of Doritos without even noticing it.

I know from experience that the key to being healthy and happy is not weight loss, despite what most people think and despite what the diet industry or chicken and broccoli eating personal trainers tell us.

The key is looking inside yourself, working out what you really want and admitting it to yourself instead of burying your head in the sand about whatever is going on in your life.

Get that right and everything else falls into place.

Have a great Wednesday and please feel free to get in touch if if I related with you today.

Liam Thompson
Head Coach
Northwest Personal Training / Northwest Fit Camp Manchester

Last week we spent a few days over in Ireland at my parents as we do every year.

We had to be up early for a flight back to Liverpool on Sunday though and even though Belfast Airport is only 15 minutes from my parents, my dad had the radio on which was covering news of the Air Asia plane that had gone missing.

Not what you want to hear on the way to the airport.

Anyway all is well at Belfast until we are about to board the flight and out of the blue they announce the flight is delayed.

A baggage truck had crashed into the plane and they had to fly a new one in.

4 hours it took, so we sat in the lounge watching BBC new with guess what?

Yup 3 hours of plane crash news!

Now I’m usually a good flier but that day i was petrified. I had all sorts of horrible buy orlistat no prescription uk images going through my mind.

Bad news has that effect on us, this is why I don’t really watch the news anymore because it’s full of negativity.

It drags us down to their level. Same thing with people who moan and whine about not being able to lose weight or who tell you that whatever you are doing won’t work.

It has an effect on us (and our happiness).

So here is my best tip for 2015.

Surround yourself with people who are supportive and don’t bring you down.

Support (and accountability) just part of what we offer our fit camp.

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Liam
Head Coach
Northwest Personal Training / Northwest Fit Camp Manchester