It's been a while...

Back in September I had a freak accident, stumbled, tripped and shattered both kneecaps.

For months I've kept the discipline but today I've decided to bite the bullet and start my body transformation.

Weighed in at 96.2kgs so my targeted weight for next Monday is 95.2kgs, a kilo a week is my target.

Set myself the targets of completing:

1. 1 chapter of way of the Seal
2. Listen to 1 day of the 67 steps
3. Read 15 pages of Rudy's Blueprint Volume 2
4. Eat clean
5. Drink 3 litres of water
6. Train legs

All completed. whoo hoo!

So what brought about this change?

I’ve been watching lots of different presentations over the Easter Holidays. In one they told a story about Warren Buffet. I’m always cautious when people tell stories because 9 times out of 10 times they turn out to be myths. 

I’m going to tell this story. If it’s real it’s real, if it’s not, it still has a good message anyway. 

Warren Buffet is giving a presentation at a top university and says how can you tell which one of you is going to be successful?

Let’s frame it a different way and go back to High School. Imagine you’re sitting with your entire year, look round. You have to pick one person from that year and you will receive 10% of what they earn in their lifetime. Who would you choose? 

The pretty girl? The jock? The guy that gets straight A’s? The alternative girl who’s in a band? That guy that’s never at school because he’s always goofing off to do something to make money? 

You look around the room. You’re looking for a set of intangibles, who should you back? 

Now if you know who it is, what character traits do they have that you haven’t got, because why aren’t you backing yourself? What traits do you need to develop to be person most likely to succeed financially?

I’m listening to this story and thinking financially I wouldn’t be the guy to back. I’m visualising all the guys and girls in my year. Who would I choose? 

But then I thought about my clients. If you put me in a room full of the best trainers in the world, who would I back? 

Without hesitation. Myself. Myself whoa, big statement. I think about it again, the best trainers in the world, yes I’d still back myself to outperform them. 

What traits do I think separate me from the best trainers or make me one of them? 

Knowledge. I have 30 years of experience. Not just book knowledge but applied and tested 1000s of times type knowledge. 

Adaptability. Being able to train different people from 480lb morbidly obese men, to 73 year old women, to Olympic Athletes and World class fighters, then being able to see totally unrelated fields and draw them together to create something new that I know will work. 

Curiosity. I'm always asking questions? How does this work? Why does it work this way? What if I did it this way or put it with that? How will this effect my body? Or this? Then seeking out solutions or creating new concepts. 

Empathy and understanding, I don’t look at anyone and think one size fits all. Each person requires small tweaks and adaptations for it to work for them, and that can change in a heartbeat. I’ve arrived for sessions with my coach shattered and distracted, and had the best session ever. Other days I’ve felt invincible and nothing clicked once I got in the water. For some reason I can read people and instinctively know how to push them to achieve their potential.    

Warren then asked so now lets flip it, who won’t succeed and what characteristics do they all have? 

Inconsistency, sloth and no execution. 

I often hear people say life isn’t fair. It’s far fairer now that at any other time in history. There’s a certain logic to how things work. Let’s say Usain Bolt trains hard, eats all the right food, follows a world class training program and comes last. While Denzil (safest example…) eats Big Macs, cakes and Easter Eggs and sits at home playing Xbox, trundles to the track and wins in 9.6 secs. 

I don’t want to live in that world, it doesn’t make sense. In that world I don’t know if the train I’m on is going to Blackfriars or falling into the Sun. Whether the plane will take off or crash. Whether the food I eat will feed me or kill me. I want a World that follows a certain logic. 

If you want results you have to eat right, train right and rest. That’s it. 

So now you are in a room full of people that want exactly the same results as you. Who are you going to back? What traits will the people who gets the results have? Which do you have, and which do you need to develop?

This time you NEED to back yourself , and if you aren’t prepared to back yourself 100%, then you don’t DESERVE the results you want.