Armed With A Mind

Even after the 8 hours of workouts and nothing but green salad, even celebrities dont look the way they are shown to us. There are few things sadder to me than a beautiful person hating the way they look. All because of bullshit like this.

I have so many tiny girls come to me for training saying they want to just get rid of that last little bit of belly fat or make their waist just a little smaller, GUESS WHAt? its not going anywhere.

Get unrealistic skinny and get sick, mentally and physically, or accept that you will always have what is called ESSENTIAL and HEALTHY fat and you do not need to look like this to be happy. You will never look like that. Ever. Be happy with yourself and what your body gives you, or be miserable about it forever. These are literally your two options. Choose the first, fight through it and force yourself to see your positives, the alternative is not worth your time.

(Source: bright-happy-healthy, via outofmyvulcanmind)

In 9 deadly rounds of pain. Thought my hands were going to bleed.

But still. Success! :)

About to chuck these bad boys in the freezer! I have forever struggled trying to drink disgusting protein shakes after workouts, so instead I’m eating these. My homemade chocolatey, vanillary, nutty, protein balls, estimated 8g protein per ball and only about 80 calories, my protein shake is 130 calories for 25g of protein, so this is close enough and way more delicious!

My body fat % is still a little too high, but that’s cool, I can fix that.

My training has been intense lately and appearance was never a goal, but its nice that my body is shaping up as well as my strength and fitness.

Hit me up if you have any fitness/ nutrition/ health questions!

I am working so fucking hard at the moment, starting at 5am every morning and most of the time not getting home til 8pm.

I’ve always hated the concept of giving up your life to work ridiculously hard to get a ‘good job’ and follow socieities rules.

But I really love this job, being a trainer is shch an amazing experience and better than any ‘real’ job I can think of.

I will succeed at this. I just need to keep pushing through these stupid, deadly days for a few more months.

Need to breathe.
Need to sleep.
Need to eat well and train regularly to keep my mind as strong and positive as possible.
Need every client to know I care about them and not just the money or work.

Not long now :)

bastardxcrew-deactivated2012101 asked: As of now, it would be out my home. There's a gym opening up a block from my house soon, I'm really excited! As far as goals go, I'd just like to slim out my stomach again and get back into shape. My abs and legs are what I'm really focusing on at the moment. I'm sorry if this isn't much help, I just don't really know of many exercises to do at home until the gym is ready.

Home is a good place to get started, you’ll feel ready for new challenges in the gym when it opens! Id say start with something like this and change how many you do in each set or how many sets you do as you get better/ more comfortable with them.

jump squats x 20
pushups x 15
walking lunges x 20
renegade rows (get in a full pushup position and use even just cans of soup, pull up into your side with one hand at a time) x 20
Shadow boxing: hold your cans of soup and punch straight forward for 20
Shadow boxing: punch straight up for 20
Burpees x15: horrible painful things to get your heart rate up,do look them up!
Mix these around and add in a quick run to the end of your driveway or 30seconds of skipping between each exercise or two to make it harder :)

Abs: 200 reps (double when ready!)
- crunches 25 and 25 = 50
- twists 25 and 25 = 50 (feet together and knees bent, hold your hands together and lean back until you feel your abs activate, hold that position and twist to point your hands one side and then the other)
- floor sweeps 25 and 25 = 50 (lay flat, hold onto something above your head or push your fingertips into the ground above your head use your abs to pull your legs up to 90 degrees then let them down again trying not to touch the ground)
- bicycles 25 and 25 = 50 (rest your fingers behind your ears, dont pull just rest! Come up like a crunch and then twist to reach your opposite elbow to knee, bring the knee up in the same direction, move quickly between both sides without letting yourself lay down between each one)

Good luck I hope this helps!

mynewliferesolution asked: I just read your post about not supporting body type hate(best way for me to rephrase that). Anyway, I really enjoyed that, so I had to follow you. It really made me feel that I can send you a message and feel like I've got someone to talk too. I have a bad knee, so I was wondering what you might recommend for easy at home leg exercises I could do? I'm doing cardio at the gym, but I have no idea how to use the machines at the gym, so I want to do strength training at home if possible to start.

I’m so glad you felt you could ask me :)

Unfortunately its hard to explain HOW to do the exercises so you may have to do some googling, but I can definitely give you a few exercises to strengthen up your knee!

Firstly you need to be aware of your own body and judge when your knee is hurting because its always hurting and when its hurting because the exercise is bad for it, you might feel some soreness but it needs strengthening if youre going to walk on it every day, so start light and see how you go.

Exercises you can do at home:
Squats (look these ones up as technique is important and,only go as low as your knee will allow comfortably and slowly work on getting lower!)
Lunges (These will definitely either help or hurt, so dont force yourself to do them if they feel unsafe)
Step ups (onto a ledge or step or anything you can find!) Do these quickly for fitness and toning and also super slowly to build up control and strength in the muscles around your knee.

These are the basic ones that dont require equipment, hold anything heavy to your chest or in your hands later down the track to add some extra weight. Avoid jumping/running/high pressure exercises to begin with.

Hope this helps and good luck :)

And so many other things!

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Monday: Boxing and Cardio
Tuesday: Working 12 hours so no workout aside from running around with my own clients.
Wednesday: Legs and Abs
Thursday Chest, Back and Arms
Friday: Cardio Resistance circuit
Saturday: Laser Tag
Sunday: Sneaky short workouts between PT sessions at work while they gyms quiet ;)

Workouts need more laser tag!
Need to stop using lack of time/overworking/tiredness as an excuse, working out makes me feel 100% more energetic, healthy and happy if I just do it, making the time I have much more productive.

And I expect my upper body to begin its pain cycle tomorrow. Christmas break + jumping back in too quick is proving painful haha. I spent some time stretching in the sauna today, I hope this will help the next couple of days.

Next gym, Sunday :)

Tell me about the workouts you’ve been doing?

Keen to talk to more people if you have questions or info about health, fitness, straight edge, vegan (im new!) and relationships, or anything else you have :)

xtheworldisyours asked: I love your blog. Thank you very much for the follow. I'm looking to get fit, any suggestions or advice? :)

Aw thank you! And thanks for being my first fitness question :D

What are you doing for your fitness at the moment? Best advice I can give you is the obvious eat healthy and exercise, but to be more specific:
-set yourself goals, long term and short term. Long term eg: lose 5kg in 3 months, short term eg: I WILL complete this workout and not give up when I have a few sets to go.
- Make sure you always have snacks! The quickest way to eating badly is to have nothing ready to eat. If you’re hungry NOW try to have some fruit (grapes and strawberries are good because they take ages to eat and are already in little snack bits for you). This will avoid eating chips etc when youre looking for something easy.
- Personal trainers are truly amazing if you can afford it, otherwise set yourself weekly goals for the gym (going 3/4 times) and make a quick and simple workout you can do at home in case you cant make it to the gym, you’ll feel better having done something :)
- Try to do weights as well as cardio, as well as being super good for every aspect of your body, it will speed up your metabolism and overall fitness!
- Last one, dont watch the scales, see how your clothes fit, how many pushups you can do, how far you can run etc

And dont forget to feel good no matter what, you’ve made a great choice and your body will love you for it! Good luck! (Sorry for the rant!)