How much should i workout?

I received an email recently from a lady called Kay.

She had a great question as she is starting out with regular workouts now using my martial fitness routines from my latest book it’s all about you.

Here’s what she wrote to me:

Hi Richard!

Thank you so much for the inspiring book, It’s all about you – http://www.rhmartialfitness.com/products

I am now getting stuck in with your routines in the book. I have to say they are more fun than I would have originally thought. Some of the pairs routines I really like and I will defiantly be getting my other half to workout with me more as its good for both of us.

As I am quite new to regular fitness, I was wondering how many times a week should I be looking to workout and how long for each time?

Kind Regards

Kay
Birmingham UK

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(Answer)

RH:

Hello Kay,

Glad to hear you are getting stuck in with your routines and enjoying them. My answer to you would be as you are still getting use to the routines start off a couple of times a week working out then as you become more confident with the routines add another session in the week. Lot’s of people start off too much with a bang and then wear themselves out after the first month of working out then get put off. So start slow and look for a gradual process, its really about finding consistency then you will enjoy working out more and see great results.

Now with wanting to know how long should you work out for best results each time, you need to have a good look through the plan I have provided in my book and that will give you a great guideline to go by from beginner to advanced level. I would always say, look to workout out more intensely for a shorter amount of time rather than going on for to long working out. You only need a good 25-30 minutes workout, rather than over an hour. This saves you time and gets just as good or even better results with the exercises in It’s all about you.

Thank you for the email Kay and good luck with the workouts.

Well that’s it for this time.

Be well,

Richard Huntley

P.S. I get quite a lot of questions asked and I will always love to hear the feedback from everyone. If you have a question don’t hesitate to email me or twitter DM me and I will do my best to get back to you asap.

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Martial Fitness

Here’s how RH Martial Fitness was born.

It all started in 2007 with having the chance to represent Great Britain In Sport Jujutsu at the world games in Germany.

This was my debut as competing in sport Jujutsu at international standard and I knew the stakes were going to be high.

I had to get in great shape, even better get in the best shape of my life. I had always had my own martial fitness routines that my father had taught me over the years of training, as he was one of my coaches/mentors. Over the period of being focused and rigorous hours of training striking/throwing/grappling techniques and my martial fitness routines it had all paid off. I had gone and won a bronze medal. (I was ecstatic as you could imagine!)

I had spoke to a few friends who struggle with getting in shape and they had tried lot’s of different method’s which they had learnt but had either no enjoyment out of it which lead to being unmotivated then giving up, or couldn’t get the results which they wanted.

So I thought to myself, I know how to get into great shape as what I did for Germany, so I sat down a started hand picking out the routines that would suit a general persons standard.

I started helping out a few friends and students, who I already taught martial arts to. I had taught them a few beginner routines to follow and workout a couple of days a week. The plus side was they didn’t have to spend out a penny on any exercise equipment at all, as in the RH Martial fitness routines are mostly made up of bodyweight exercises.

The results were great, and just as important people enjoyed the Martial fitness routines as well.

To Many people find working out a chore, and I am here to show you that in my martial fitness system it’s not a chore at all, and actually to show you how much fun you can have while getting in the best shape of your life.

Over the next few months I am proud to say you will start to see the RH Martial Fitness routines bought out on dvds and other programs for people all over the globe to enjoy the benefits of my system.

Be Well

Richard Huntley

The Hills Are Alive

The other day I went out for a run with a good friend of mine to see how she was progressing as she had been running for a little while now.

As we were stretching to warm up gently before the run began my friend say’s to me, which route shall we go? I said let’s hit the hills today. Her face dropped like an English bulldog. The hills?

The thing is I nearly always like to go up a hill on my runs because I always find that they are the most rewarding runs.

For health benefits hill running burns loads more calories than running flat land. They are also great for breaking the mental barrier mindset of negative thinking.

You need to be in the now right here, not at the hill, we haven’t got there yet.

People can run flat no problem but when you put a nice steep hill in front of them the attitude soon changes if they are not use it running them. But that’s really it, they are not use to running them because half of the time people tend to avoid them. Staying in the good old comfort zone!

I have found training in jujutsu for many years that most of the time it’s the power of mental thinking rather than physical image.

My friend explained to me how she found the hills very hard last time she ran them, and there was this one hill in particular that always got her. The hill must have nearly been thinking, “Oh here she comes again, she hasn’t got a chance!”

First thing I explained was to throw out the past information stuck in her mind about running that certain hill, because you can’t change your past, but my friend, you can change your the future!

We are going to run that hill and you need to start loving the hill.

She looked at me as though I just gone crazy. I replied; you need to love the hill. If you don’t love the hill you will always struggle against it. Don’t fight against it, run up there with enjoyment and tell yourself you love the hill. That’s exactly what I used to do and still do now. Every time I even thought about going out running before I would almost always take the easy route and keep well away from any type of steepness. When I started to love the hills that’s when everything changed and I started to really enjoy hill runs, even though some nearly get the best of me from time to time. But that’s good! That means there’s room for improvement, and I personally love improving and bettering myself.

So we breezed the whole run up towards the hill, as we got closer I said to my friend stay relaxed and pace yourself plus control your breathing patterns. Before you know it, we were at the top of the hill and running our way back to where we originally started.

As you could imagine when we finished she was very pleased with herself and I was pleased for her. It must of felt like a piece of weight off her shoulders. I know it did mine. You need to remember that all of these small things in our life count. Once I started to conquer the hills I used the same approach on all sorts of things in my life from competing to business and I know it has helped others. It is more than just running. It is shape shifting your mind and body.

The question is, what hill are you letting get in your way?

All the best

Richard Huntley

Breaking Down The Barriers

What are the barriers? Negative Thoughts, self-doubt, fear, Self-comfort. All of this leads to procrastination.

The main focus is don’t let things get to you; it needs to be the martial way of thinking, having mind over matter. There actually is never anything the matter, only when you allow it to become one. Inner mindset strength is what you need. That’s what you call real strength. You see, it’s not about being able to lifts the heaviest weight and do the most reps even though that can be a good achievement for some people but more about having the mind over matter approach in our lives that we know we are able to control your self in what we do.

When becoming good at something you have to break down the barriers for the success you come your way. I know that when I was learning a new technique in martial arts, especially the big throwing techniques, you would see other people do it and I used to think to myself, there’s no way I’m going to be able to do that. The barriers popped up with me saying to myself, those guys are higher belts or they are a lot stronger than me. The problem with that kind of thinking is it holds you back from achieving anything. Yes okay maybe I am not going to be able to do a spectacular throw like some of the top players out straight away, but heck am I going to try? Yes I am! Once I started to bring those type of thoughts into my mindset I was doing those throws that were in front of my eyes watching other people do it, to in no time I was throwing over people with effective technique and throwing a lot heavier people than myself. So I had to ask myself, had I changed? Physically no, mentally yes. I just thought about the situations differently and let the mind over matter approach come into play.

Is it easy to become great in certain areas of your choice? From my experience and lot’s of people who are successful in their field I know the answer is no it’s not that easy. If it were that easy everyone would be great at the fields. But the inspiring thing is, can you become great and even better the best in what you do? Yes you can, and you will with putting in all the right action steps to succeed such as time, effort, sacrifices, passion, love, and tenacity. Those are just a handful but can take you through the door of success. All of this is the ingredient for your success. First just like I did, you need to break down the barriers and go get what you really want.

We seem to put limits on what we can actually achieve. The first thing that we need to do before even achieving anything, is start to get out of their every day comfort zones. Comfort zones are the things that we find easy to do. It would be easy for me just to stick writing one article every month or so to update my website, and yes that would be very comfortable. But am I growing as a person and stretching myself? No not at all. So let’s feed the world my knowledge once a week, now that’s an improvement. There is no growth and self-improvement in getting comfortable. So when you feel the barriers of comfort around you creeping in I want you to break them all down and go into the discomfort. Before you know it, the things were discomforting to you originally become nice and comfortable. The next stage is to continue on breaking down the limits that you tell yourself and what you hear from other people you can’t do. You can do it, and you will.

Are you comfortable right now? Break down those barriers!

Be Well

Richard Huntley

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