Health With Me

Before you know it the Christmas and new years festivities have been and gone, and now every person that you meet seems to be asking… Whats your new years resolution?

Now if you like myself have perhaps overindulged a bit on the cheese spreads and Christmas dinners as well as seemingly being invited out for a meal every day over the Christmas holidays then January can often be about resetting and getting back into a routine and base level that you were before the holidays, whether that be in the form of your weight, your fitness level or perhaps a meditation routine that you had nailed down before all the hectic ness the ensued.
Heres a few tips from me to help you get started!

1) Aim To Be Well Rounded

When I say try to be more well rounded I don’t mean around the waistline. Try to view health as a more general thing and not just your physical, mental, social or spiritual wellbeing. An example of bot being well rounded would perhaps be just focussing on losing 3kg of weight by the end of 2022, if you become so tied down with this aim and forget about looking after yourself on the whole, maybe you’re always stressed out or feel like you can’t be social and go out for food because its detrimental to a singular physical goal it can often make the goal harder to achieve as you become so downtrodden in achieving it.

2) Make the Goal Accessible and Attainable

The more that you can feel the goal is achievable and realistic the more motivated you are to achieving it. Find the sweet spot for your goal for 2022, something that will be challenging and maybe not be achieved straight away but on the same note not so unrealistic and challenging that you feel unmotivated to a point that you feel you will never achieve it will be no use to you. In terms of accessibility try not to set a goal which you may find difficult to access, for example if your goal is to lose weight but you don’t drive a car and maybe the only way to the nearest gym is by public transport which takes 30 minutes on a good day you may find that after a while you may lose interest in your goals. So a change of tact is needed and the planning to make the goal more accessible, an example of this would be to try running, this requires next to nothing equipment wise and sometimes all that is needed is for you to step out your front door to achieve this goal.

3)Reward Yourself!

For the most important tip of them all, the best to last as they say. If you’re on a super-strict diet the last thing you want to think about is not knowing when you can taste you’re favourite take-away order again. An important thing to keep in mind though when you think about treating yourself is as always do it in moderation, if you’re going for a cheat meal try not to make it day. Even at that cheat meal itself you can make reductions within it such as light versions of beer or diet mixers with your favourite spirits, this way you can save those hard earned calorie tokens that you’ve been working all week for at at the same time still enjoy a pink gin and lemonade (make sure its diet though).

These are just a few short tips to bare in mind when making new years goals this month, theres no bulletproof method to it, if you find it somewhat enjoyable and think you can achieve you’re pretty much there. Get in touch, I’d love to hear everyones goals for the year. All the best!

The Million Dollar Question… Why?

I’m sure this is a daunting experience for many bloggers around the world and for me its not different. How do I introduce myself to people I’ve never met, it’s one thing doing it in person but doing it over the internet is something I’m finding very, very strange. I suppose I should start with a background about myself and how this blog came about for me.

My name is Kieran, I’m a 22 year old from the U.K and for as long as I can remember I’ve always had an interest in sport and being active, not because my parents forced me into it (I’m sure they wont mind me saying but neither are particularly sporty) but because I enjoyed being with mates and often they would be outside playing (yes believe it or not I did that) some kind of sport . At primary school I was game for anything, from the old athletics events in a random sportshall where the fastest kids in school had to earn the famed accolade in a relay race to orienteering in a muddy country park if I really had to. Yes of course missing compulsory education to go do some sport had a big park to play in it, but for me the feeling of competing pulled me in from a young age.

The Early Days

I think around the age of 8 the local football team left flyers at my primary school, now at 22 years of age I don’t really have many moments that I think were big signposts,crossroads whatever you want to call it in my life but for me, this was definitely one of them. Before this point I’d never expressed much interest in football at all apart knowing that if you hit someone in the head with one on the playground you were in big trouble with the teachers. Anyway, I took the leaflet home from school and begged my parents to let me get involved with the local football team. Luckily for me they did and my love for the sport began, from day 1 (so my dad tells me haha) I think I had some sort of natural talent for football now I’m not sure where it comes from because my Dad has 2 left feet and my Mum is from the Philippines and trust me it’s all basketball there. I spent a year and half with my local football team and then from the age of 9 until now at 22 I’ve been lucky enough to play football professionally and be involved with professional football teams

What Am I Up To Now?

Luckily for me football isn’t a year round sport so allows me for some time to rest, recover and find other hobbies that I enjoy or have an interest in. This very reason is perhaps why this blog has come around, my cousin runs a class in a local gym and when I finished my latest football season I thought I’d get involved. Now these classes aren’t just bench presses and squats but more crossfit based with prowler pushes, ski-ergs the lot, and trust me its a lot more painful. Straight away I was hooked and it made me realised that for me health and fitness was not just about football for me, but that I loved the more general idea of becoming healthier. In the run up to what will be 2022 (here’s hoping for a better year) I thought there would be no better way than to share my views and be able to interact with you readers which I’m assuming because you found this also have interests in similar topics. 1) I feel it will make me as a person more accountable and 2) Get my brain working again because it hasn’t done that in years.

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