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THE SILLY SEASON IS UPON US! A it's definitely called the "Silly Season" for a reason... We suddenly have to buy presents for family, friends, next door neighbours, work friends, the people we do like, the people we don't like so much and then not to mention decorating, cooking, seeing family (if we like them or not) All of this pressure suddenly hits as soon as December does and we completely lose sight and lose track of ourselves then as soon as it's all over and we are a bloated, tiered and probably abit hungover. Then New Years happens and suddenly we are reminded that it's a "New Year" and "Fresh Start" so we all make our "New Years Resolutions" Do you remember what yours was last year? Do you remember how long you stuck to it? Did you even stick to it? Did you even make one! The New Years resolution is just as bad as it is good. Why should people be waiting until January 1 to make positive changes to themselves and their lives? Why can't we see the problems for what they are when they happen and solve them then and there? Because we all want to put off today what we THINK can wait until tomorrow. We PROCRASTINATE! We've all done it at some point but it's time to put the brakes on, take a step back and think where we could be now if we'd stuck to that resolution we made this time last year! Don't wait to make those changes you've been wanting make all year. If you constantly wait for the right time, the time will never be right. Grab life by the balls, take the bull by the horns and accept 100% accountability and control of your life starting now, then continue it into 2015. Separate yourself from the non-committed and become committed!

Start your journey right NOW by checking out www.vicfitfactory.com and starting our ICE or reCOveRE programs and this time next year when you ask yourself the same questions you will have an answer you can be proud of.

The Power of your MIND SET

Last weekend I completed my Metabolic Precision Level 3 - Athletic Conditioning Specialist This weekend was not only a test of physical strength but a mental one too. Friday and Saturday I was doing well, staying tuned in to Paul Cribb’s lessons on advanced periodisation for athletes and transformations, power training and manipulation of the human force curve. But by Sunday I was starting to drain and even worse Sunday was the day I was down to do an ICE sessions. After 4 intense weight sessions the days before that lasted 1.5hours each I was not excited about this ICE session. Sprint Training - with Dave Oulton and Mel Cook. If anyone know these two they will know endurance, running and lack of mercy are what these to thrive on when running ICE classes. By the 3rd sprint my glutes had ceased up, by the 4th my legs were heavy, by the 5th I couldn’t breath, by the 7th I knew I was going to chuck but none of us gave in. We could easily have just walked away after the 3rd set, 5th or 7th but we didn’t. Everyone encouraged and supported each other the whole way out and back on each sprint. Team work and Mindset. Pushing through the pain to get the reward. Later that day we had guest speakers One of the Trish Veug. She spoke about the periodisation of her last full prep into comp. How she trained, what she ate and the different choices she made purely because of her Mindset plus COMMON SENSE! Suddenly a light bulb flicked on in my head. I’m not where I want myself to be physically purely because of what was going on in my head mentally! To many excuses, to much emotion and no common sense. If you want to succeed at anything in life emotions have to take a back seat. Emotions are often a breeding ground for excuses and excuses are what cause us to fail time and time again! Since Sunday I have now kept a food diary everyday. I take it everywhere with me and write down everything I eat and drink and how many hours of sleep a night I am getting. I have planned out my next full year of training as I plan next year to be able to focus on myself again and take myself into comp in October. I also have the mindset and focus/mental clarity now to pick out the nitty gritty details of what each of my clients want to get out of their next year of training and plan it out step my step for them!

Do this for yourself today! Clear your head of emotion and doubt. Free yourself of fear and anxiety! Your body WILL NOT CHANGE until your MIND does.

When was the last time you took a RISK?

Since this Vic Fit 12WC started we have all been talking a lot about risks. Take a risk can mean anything, it doesn't have to be a big risk or a life threatening one it can be something as simple as the risk everyone has taken in joining in their first MP Body Transformation!

So here I am going to talk about a few of the risks I took this year and ones I plan to take in the coming one and show you just how taking a leap of faith can change so much of your life for the better.

Last year I was working at Genesis as a Personal Trainer and while I was still new to the industry and probably still very inexperienced at how to run my own business effectively we, the PTs, were treated like dirt. So I eventually got out of my contract there and left vowing never to return to the Fitness Industry as a Personal Trainer again until late December when I received a call from the PT Manager at Goodlife who had found my PT profile online and wanted me to join their team. I was hesitant, I thanked her for her call and told her I would get back to her. After a few days for thinking it over and talking to my Boyfriend and Mum about it weighing up my options I decided to go for it! I went in and had the interview and already before I even got in there the PT Manager had read through the resume online and decided she wanted me. I couldn't refuse, in my head I knew this was happening for a reason big or small something amazing was going to come out of this I could tell.

So started there at the start of Feb and within 1 month I had 23 sessions per week and was absolutely smashing it! I didn't know myself! Then, around the start of April I got an inbox from another trainer there asking if I could run her ICE classes while she was away on holidays. I got that feeling again that this was going to be important and I needed to do a good job with her groups so I did! I went in there the first saturday morning met a huge group of people I didn't know and one of them was Nathan (the wheelchair dude) little did I know he was coming because my whole program was based on leg workouts that day! (this is something we still laugh about to this day as I now found out Vicki, Nathan and Caroline had set me up ;P) But still we re-jigged the program and had a killer workout! I then took Vicks classes almost each week for the next 2 months until she asked if I wanted to come with her to the gym she was opening. Moving into a PT Studio type gym set up was a goal I had since starting my PT course and I had never expected to be doing it within in 1 year of becoming a PT! I knew this was going to be a huge risk as a lot of my clients I knew would stay at Goodlife so my income for a while was going to be pretty low but I accepted and handed in my resignation at GL within the week and I can tell you I haven't looked back since! It has not been easy and Vicki and I have both worked our butts off to get the Factory to where is it today but I wouldn't change a thing for the world! Thinking all the way back taking that risk and going back to Personal Training at Goodlife is what lead me to be here now, in a job that I love, with a BossLady who i consider one of my best friends and dedicated/motivated clients who are transforming their bodies in ways I could never have imagined I would be capable of doing for people! So NEVER be afraid to take a risk with something you never know what the outcome will be! Whether it's a stepping stone or leads straight to something amazing take it, take the risk and do it for yourself, I promise if you do it will be worth it!

The risks I am currently taking and plan on taking in the future - I have joined Able Bod and Wheelchair basketball teams! I joined Able Bod as I have always wanted to join in a team sport again since playing soccer between 2006-2010 and for my cardio health and fat loss as well. I also joined Wheelchair in support of my close mate Nathan Wilburn, a truly amazing paraplegic man (you can read his story at our website: http://www.vicfitfactory.com/testimonial/nathan-wilburn) Although I have no clue about the rules of basketball and I'm very aggressive from my years of playing soccer I know that if i persist with it I already have the skills to pick the game up in no time. A life with out risk is a life half lived. Take a risk, do something for yourself and you will find out in the end it was only a "risk" in your head ;)

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What is really involved in a 12 Week Body Transformation?

Following on from a post I made a week and abit ago about how I was struggling at that point with the challenge and I'm pleased to say now I have found my balance. DRINKING more vegetables and staying consistent and structured for progressive overload with my weight training and then also hitting 2 ICE sessions per week because my nutrition is now on track and I am able to train 5x per week and recover fully from each session. When undergoing a body transformation people tend to throw them selves into it 100% and start flogging themselves on the cardio machines, slashing calories and doing small (and very unstructured) weight training sessions. This could not be any further from what a REAL body transformation involves.

What does a real body transformation involve? (In order of importance) -LOTS OF NUTRITIOUS FOOD MORE OFTEN -MORE STRUCTURED RESISTANCE TRAINING BASED ON NUTRITION COMPLIANCE -INTENSE CARDIO EXERCISE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO JUMP START FATLOSS!

What could be better than that? Most trainers and gym goers seem to have the whole structure backwards and this is why they give up as quickly as they started and end up putting on more weight than they began with. Now in saying all this a transformation is not in any way EASY. Not at all. For those of you who read the post a short while ago about how I was feeling with the challenge I was struggling, bad. Not so much because I wanted to eat bad food but more because I wanted to be seeing more results FASTER! Yep us trainers do it too. We get impatient and demanding of ourselves. But now week 7 I have not given up, I have not beaten myself up, I've kept going forward, kept training consistent and kept my nutrition at 90% compliance. This is what is really involved in a Body Transformation along with the understanding that it doesn't end after the 8,10,12 weeks a true Body Transformation is a lifestyle change. It's a chance at a longer, healthier and happier life with more confidence and quality. It's about changing your body and your habits in order to enhance longevity and quality of your life. Ask yourself how bad you really want it and if you're willing to go the whole way. We all have set backs but a set back is never anything more than a speed hump in the road. Head over to our VIC FIT FACTORY page (www.vicfitfactory.com) to read about some of our members who have had their own challenges through out the 12WC but are still going strong and achieving amazing transformation results!

http://www.vicfitfactory.com/blog/challenge-within-a-challenge-lea-forbes

http://www.vicfitfactory.com/blog/challenge-within-a-challenge-nic-cocu

http://www.vicfitfactory.com/blog/challenge-within-a-challenge-kathy-loeff

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One weekend can change your life for good. Metabolic Precision Level 2

What can I say?! This past weekend was one of the hardest and most eye opening weekends of my LIFE! I went in thinking I already knew everything, thinking I already knew how to run a business well, how to take clients through good programs, how to maintain and grow a business and thats exactly what I was doing. Being average. I hadn't realised it but I was no where near my true potential as a Trainer and a person who's career is based purely upon changing peoples lives! Boy was I in for a HUGE shock! After 5 gruelling work outs where our egos where stripped back down to that of a person stepping into the gym for the first time and classes with Mr. MP himself Paul Cribb on effective business management and growth it became clear quickly I had been doing nothing but spinning my wheels the past 6-7 months. I am so incredibly grateful for what I experienced and everyone I met last weekend. I gained so much knowledge and experience but most of all i gained the 2 things I was lacking in the most that were REALLY holding back my business and its capabilities -

Confidence. Confidence in myself as a trainer and the product I was servicing my clients with. I had no belief in myself and it is now clear that if you don't believe in yourself and present yourself and your product with confidence how else is anyone else supposed to believe in you? Structure. I was lacking BIG TIME in this area. I was your typical young PT wanting to be a jack of all trades and master of none and after this weekend there is no questions asked which trade I want to master and that is the art of Transforming peoples bodies and lives for good! This weekend gave me so much more than I bargained for. It gave me back everything i'd lost that I loved about my job and now that it's back the world had better watch out! The training wheels have come off and it's time to make some serious shit happen!

Got some epic goals to smash over the next 6-12 months. Try and Keep up.

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Update on MY 12 Week VIC FIT metabolic precision challenge

I've done 2 challenges before this 12 week challenge. Both Metabolic Precision 12 week transformation challenges but those challenges never meant as much to me as this one. In the past I was always motivated to train and eat well and improve my health but it's only since being at Vic Fit Factory that it's become my main focus and goal! So what happens when we finally decide to commit 100% to a transformation challenge and want to look like a sports model at the end? We become our own worst enemy. That's what happened to me anyway. I became my own best and worst critique and it was bringing me down like you could imagine! I was seeing all of our members getting awesome results in just 4 weeks and looking at myself feeling like i hadn't changed one bit then feeling embarrassed because I'm the trainer, shouldn't I be getting awesome results as well? Not necessarily because something called life gets in the way and has a lovely habit of fucking things up for you. At the start of week 3 I got really bad food poisoning and struggled to get my nutrition back up to 90%+ until nearly the end of week 4. Obviously this brought me down like crazy and messed with my moods and emotions and caused me to be snappy and pretty horrible to be around. I even started getting a little jealous or other people in the gym while still feeling embarrassed. But after finally spilling these emotions and fears out to my boyfriend over the weekend I've been able to accept them and worked on ways to move forward and get back on top of things. This challenge means a lot to me, I want to be a role model and strong example for the people that come to vic fit to better themselves and also I want to feel confident for the photo shoot with Vicki on the 5th of December. The idea of the photo shoot is exciting but also scaring the crap out of me. I want to look good standing there next to Vick who already has made such a huge change to her body I don't want to let her down. Now after talking with my boyfriend I feel like I am back in control and can achieve the results and goals I have set myself for this challenge. But in saying all this the most important thing all this has reminded me is this is not just a 12 week Challenge. This is a lifestyle. The results I get at the end of this 12 Weeks are not going to just stick, you have to maintain or continue to change or you will go back to your old ways and then really was it a lifestyle change or just another fad? The main message here is an honest view on what i've been feeling recently during this challenge. Life isn't perfect, humans aren't perfect and transformation challenges ARE NOT EASY and anyone who tells you they are is lying. Keep true and honest to yourself, accept when you are struggling, talk to someone and most importantly get back on track and in control as soon as you can. No one ever got where they wanted to be by quitting.

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