Finding A Balance In Life
Quick motivation tip on learning to find a balance in life. It’s the yin yang and zen type of way.
Don’t Listen To The Nay-Sayers!
Some people understand what this means… some people might be a little confused. Either way find out what i mean and how this can help you keep on track.
Creating A Champion Mindset
Creating a champion mindset. Win within, live in the now, keep
learning and take action!
How To Get The Most Out Of your Workout
Lots of people nowadays have been lifestyles, and even though how important exercising really is and how everybody should be doing some form of activity to keep their mind and body in shape, i have produced a few good key points on learning how to get the most out of your workout.
Up the pace
What i mean when saying up the pace is for example rather than long distance running or a long cardio session just steadily pacing along, start to introduce short sprints or short hill runs or on the spot do squat thrusts. But make sure you do them in sets of repetitions such as 4x 1 minute squat thrusts.
With upping the pace of your workout you will find that it will cut the time down a lot and get you the same or better results than doing a gradual pace for longer.
Mix it up a bit
Time to mix it up a bit with the routines and it makes sense to me. People get bored easily with doing the same robotic workout that they lose the interest quickly.
Also this surely does help you get the most out of your workout, for example try and mix the exercises throughout your workout so you are giving one specific area time to rest while you work the next part. It then turns into a full body workout, what more do you want! : )
Push yourself harder
To also get the most out of your workout a good tip is to increase the pace of your exercise like I mention before above, but only if it requires effectively doing so. Another good suggestion would be to add a set of repetitions to your workout to push yourself that little bit harder than usual to achieve the peak results you want. Remember though, do not over do it and push yourself to hard that an injury occurs. Understand the difference between discomfort and pain.
Create your plan
Finally the last way will be to make sure that you have written up some type of plan to work from. This will help you bring all of the above tips together and you understand what you will be doing before you even start your workout, which is a plus and saves you time trying to rack your brain of what to do next.
So get writing and start putting these pointers into practice.
Learn to put all of these points into practice and you will soon see a difference in getting the most out of your workout.
Martial Safe Technique
I feel there are 3 main parts of the martial way lifestyle. Keeping yourself fit and healthy for longevity, being able to protect yourself and your loved ones, and lastly creating that strong striving for success mindset.
I filmed this a while back and decided to share it with my loyal followers, which will give you a little insight on learning how to protect yourself in a physical situation using a method which I have learnt over the years.
All the best,
Richard Huntley
4 Ways To Add More Fun & Excitement To Workouts
One of the reasons why people exercise less is because they find it a bit boring and more of a chore. If you get bored with working out there is not much hope that you will be seeing the results you wanted to achieve. So i have put together some ways to spice things up a little and get the excitement back into your workouts.
Listen to Music
Nowadays it is not hard to find the latest music from places such as iTunes for your iPod. Now I understand that listening to music while working out is not for everyone, but I do think that for people who enjoy listening to music is brilliant and it helps get them in the rhythm of things.
The more you enjoy exercising the better, so if you feel you would like to get some tunes going to spur you on while you exercise , go for it!
If i listen to music it tends usually to be for more on the cardio side of things such as jogging, jumps, bag work, shadow sparring. Anything really on the more active side of working out.
Invest in Some New Gear
You will be surprised how it helps lots of people feel more focused when they buy a new piece of gear, and you know why? It’s because they are investing in themselves. Now I am not saying to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe of gear! No not by any means, but more like down the lines of rewarding yourself with a new pair of suitable running trainer’s. In the end I feel it is a good encouragement because you know that you will be helping yourself to continue your path to a healthy fit lifestyle.
Variety is King
Variety is important and I have always said this because I see far too many people get easily put off exercising, because they are bored of doing the same old thing all the time. I do totally understand this and that’s why I feel it’s important to have a good variety of workouts to do to keep in good shape.
I would suggest maybe focusing on one or two areas at a time when working out if you want to mix things up a little. For example: Focusing on exercising for the abs one day and the next time stick to purely exercising the legs.
Stay Focused on the Feeling
You always need to remember how good exercising will make you feel. In the long run it will pay off and make you feel superb and you will be glad that you kept up the consistent effort of general exercise throughout your life.
People always say to me how exercising helps release stressed when they have had bad day at work. It clears the mind throughout and gives you a rinse out of negative energy and fresh start again. You see, it’s not all about how you look but about the most important thing of all… how you feel.
That’s why exercising in the morning helps set your day off to a great start and you continue that feeling throughout.
When you feel in the best shape of your life it is an amazing feeling.
Be Well,
Richard Huntley
Commitment – The Secret Key To Success
Why is commitment key? 
Well let me tell you first that commitment is one of the keys to success and goes hand in hand with improving the self.
People nowadays find it hard to commit to certain things as there are many distractions out there to pull them away from what they originally set out to do.
You can sit here reading this right now and I am sure that you have experienced starting out with something that you really wanted to do and achieve, then after a month or so you become side lined and then that was it, you got distracted or disheartened and didn’t follow through with what you wanted so much.
I have always found that you will not achieve much if you do not stay committed on what you really want.
First of all don’t worry too much about it, as we all have done this before. The key is to make a change to your present as you cannot change your past.
The good news is you can sit here and read this and know that you have kept a great commitment as well, whether it’s exercising more often, eating more healthily, having a great long term relationship with someone or committing to a job that you love. Whatever it is I know that you have experienced the feeling of commitment in your life.
I have had the great opportunity to meet and train with some of the best martial artist’s around on this spinning planet. The attitude they have towards their training is inspiring for millions of people out their wanting to achieve what they have in their lives. The only problem is most people see only from an outsider’s point of view, and do not realise how much dedication and commitment it takes to get to that kind of level.
But is it possible? Yes it is. I see it as if they can do it why can’t I?
Will smith the famous actor who has been in countless blockbuster films once said in an interview I remember listening to. The interviewer asks Will how he had become so successful with all of the other talent out there in the world. Will simply replied with the amount of drive he has inside of him and how he knows that he out works everyone else in his field.
He says that when the others are sleeping he’s working and when the others are eating he’s working.
Will smith obviously shows that he has great commitment and he thinks that there is a difference between talented people and skilled people. Talented people are the ones that are more born with this, but the skilled people which he says that he is, are the ones that have worked the most on developing their skill over a long period of time. What does this all come down to in the end? You guessed it… commitment!
I totally agree with this, I hear lots of people saying how great they are going to be at martial arts and they only train 2 maybe 3 times a week. Understand that the best are training 3 times a day!
Now that doesn’t mean dive into things training 3 times a day straight away at something that you want to become good at. It does take time to lead up to this and we must condition our mind and body to the best we can gradually.
Commitment is a key factor in successfully achieving goals in life, if you do not have the combination of taking action and staying committed to those goals you can kiss them goodbye.
You will always find that the most successful people in the world are the ones who are most committed to what they want in life.
In the final words realise that there really is no big secret behind being hugely successful in anything you want. But alot of people simply do not realise about the importance of commitment to anything. As long as you stay committed to what you want and believe in yourself you will improve immensely within your life.
All the best,
Richard Huntley
Diets? No Need!
This is a topic i am sure everyone reading this has thought about as it is such a common issue these days. You see it advertised everywhere you go “Lose weight with this diet!” or “Take this pill” especially this time of the year with a New Year beginning people want to lose weight as they have put on the pounds over the festive season.
No Need to diet
If you really want to lose weight the safe and most enjoyable way you need to make changes with your lifestyle more than anything. You see, the aim is to lose a bit of weight and keep it off, not lose weight and put it on over and over again. That is a yoyo diet, and will not do your body or immune system any good at all.
For lots of people the word diet does not bring a smile to their face and is not an enjoyable experience, especially when you seem to end right back where you started with your weight after a short time of dieting.
Making small tweaks in your lifestyle
It definitely is not that hard to lose weight but a bit more tricky to maintain around the weight loss. I feel that’s what most people struggle with and i totally understand where they are coming from. But once you learn to have self control over your eating patterns and general exercise you will start to see a huge difference!
You need to start to create a strong mindset that will take you to the next level of living a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle. What i am not saying is to start living like a monk and be really strict on yourself. It’s fine to have a treat now and again, but just not all the time.
That’s where people make the biggest mistake. A little bit of stress comes into their lives and out comes a bar of chocolate or a cake to indulge. This is where you need to reach that sense of control and find other ways to release your stress such as exercise.
Consistency
It really is everything in moderation with eating and exercising. It’s just like the ying and yang symbol with having a balance in your life. Not too much of one thing or the other but rather a consistency of balance.
This is one of the reasons why i created my martial fitness system, because too many people keep worrying about dieting all the time and not many enjoy a lifestyle where you can eat what you want but in moderation along with fun ways to get in shape without having to join a gym.
I have only touched on the tip of the ice berg today about losing weight, but keep a look out for future things to come. Once you come to master this concept i have given you today, the diets will not even come into your life again.
Be well,
Richard Huntley
Top 5 Ways To Start Believing In Yourself!
1. Get The Right Influences
It always helps if someone else believes in you too. How do you get this? Simply by mixing with the people who will be willing to support you and give the right kind of encouragement you need to believe in yourself. The best way would be finding a type of mentor, to help guide you along the way.
2. Get Rid Of Negative Words
Throw away the negative words such as “ I can’t or I don’t know” for these words are a disease which is hard to get rid of. Start learning to say, “I Can or I Will” more and you will see the difference within yourself.
3. Replace Negative Thoughts With Positive Ones
You must remember some times in your life when everything just went right and you were full with happiness and fulfilment. When doubtful thoughts start to pop up in your head, look to the great things which you have achieved in your life. It will soon top the fuel up of motivation.
4. The Choice Is Yours
Remember that the choice of what you believe is up to you. If you choose to think about negative things, expect to receive this in your life because that is all you are creating. So decide rather to choose to believe in yourself and receive the positive energy and attraction you deserve.
5. Condition The Mind
The last tip for learning to believe in yourself more would be one of the most important factors. Conditioning the mind to its peak level to take you to the top.
For example: If you watch any of the top sports people in the world, they have such a strong belief in their abilities that they are half way they to winning the match before they even start. In sports and in life its a big mental game. I know this first hand from entering in competitions and events from a young age. I personally knew lots of great competitors who had fantastic technique but when it came to the big stage, the doubts would start creep in and they would perform no where near their best. I remember times when this use to happen to me, and it’s very frustrating!
The key in the end for me would be to just relax and control your breathing while keeping the mind flowing with good thoughts and not let Mr. Doubtful creep in.
So there you have 5 Quick tips to start believing in yourself. You can take these away with you now and start to implement them into your life.
All the best,
Richard Huntley
P.S. Happy New Year To You All!
How To Achieve Great Things In 2010!
Decide what you want
Okay, so first of all starting off in 2010, you will need to know and understand what you want to accomplish in the year. Basically, what do you want to experience within the year?
Most people seem to not get the best results for getting the bodies and lifestyles in shape throughout the year because they simply do not know what they want. You need to think of it as a road map. Right now you are planning for where you want to go. If you don’t know where you are going, sorry but you will not be going anywhere.
When deciding what to want to do in 2010, don’t settle for less than you want, you have to stop saying: I don’t know, I don’t care, or may or whatever. You need to take control and turn these negative responses into positive ones such as: I can and I am or I am going to.
Make a list – One of the easiest ways to find clarity in what you want to do, is to write down a list of what you exactly want. It could be to lose a stone in weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Or to exercise consistently three times a week. This exercise of writing a list will only take around 15 minutes to think things over and write them down. So make sure you get out that pen and paper and start writing!
Visualization
It is definitely true that the higher achievers in life have bigger visions. They don’t put limitations on things. Once you decide in what you want the next stage is the visualization period. So going by the examples used before with maybe wanting to lose a certain amount of weight in 2010, the vision process for this would be to understand and clearly see in your mind what you look like from an observer’s position and what you feel like from a personal view.
One of my visions as a young boy growing up through to my teenage years would be visualising myself as a full time martial arts instructor. I would draw pictures of me teaching others, and I also wrote down one day of how I would be competing at a high standard international tournament in sport Jujutsu.
Cut a long story short, by the time I was 17 years old I was on the mat teaching around the UK with my father and by 18 I had my own private classes I would be teaching. At 21 years old I competed in a world martial art games tournament.
So let me say from experiencing the power of visualization myself, I strongly recommend you do this to achieve what you want in 2010 and throughout life.
Believe In Yourself!
This one’s a big one. If you are going to achieve what you set out to do, you need to believe that you are capable to achieve such things.
You need to be around people who believe in you and support you in your life. This is one of the keys to success in anything you want to achieve in life. You must have good people around you, helping you strive forward.
You need to give up “I Can’t” and all of its related words, they will just hold you back and keep you on track for nothing but procrastinating.
You need to start conditioning your mind that you can and you will, this is what will smash procrastination away from you and go on striving forward towards success.
Just remember that it’s our beliefs that change our results, so start believing.
Take 100% Responsibility
First of all, give up the blame game; it doesn’t lead you to anywhere except an unfulfilled person with blaming others for the position that you are in right now with the choices you have made. You need to keep all of your positive energy to yourself and not blame others for your faults, as you will only direct your energy in the wrong place.
It’s the choices you make to where you have ended up now, so take this into consideration and think about the choices you make in your life right now and what changes you could make in 2010 to make it a more successful year with your new lifestyle.
Just remember that you can’t change the past, but you can right now start to make the change for your future!
Keep Focused
Keep your eyes on the prize! Learning the art of staying focused can bring you through the rough times, especially through the rollercoaster ride of emotions. Learn to master your emotions and keep focused on what you want in 2010.
Talk to the positive people who are going to uplift you in 2010, rather than speaking to people who are doubtful and not willing to fulfil their own lives let alone yours.
Goals
Goals are extremely important for knowing exactly where you want to be heading with achieving your lifestyle goals.
As I mentioned right at the start with deciding what you want, it is to know where you want to go on the map. Well with goals, it’s the road map for how you are going to get to that destination you set out to achieve. The goals will really help you guide yourself there. Don’t forget also that you can always add to your goals which you have set out too.
I would have to say though, that more importantly with the goals is to make sure that you are specific! Too many people are not specific enough to understand what they are actually aiming for. The more specific the better I say. So rather than writing down your goal for 2010 as, “I want to lose weight and be thinner in 2010.” You should write down something along the lines of “I am going to lose a stone in body weight in 2010, and most of all maintain it with a balanced lifestyle of exercising 3x a week and not over eating when I am bored or stressed out.”
Don’t forget that you need to write more than one goal to really stretch yourself and start to see growth in 2010.
Take Action
Action is the most important thing of all, as with no action nothing will be achieved. You can have all the books a gather all of the inspirational material out there in the world but without actually putting anything into practice would be like learning how to ride a bike without actually getting on and falling off a few times to only pick yourself up and get straight back on again.
So remember, do not hold yourself back and take action right away!
Commitment
Lastly you need to stay committed to what you have set out to achieve in 2010. You won’t achieve much if you do not stay committed on what you want. Commitment is a key factor in successfully achieving goals in life, and the most successful people in the world are the most committed to what they want in life.
So there are my tips on having a fantastic year for 2010 with achieving your lifestyle goals and beyond! You can use these methods above for anything you wish to achieve in 2010.
All the best for a great 2010!
