Just do it....

My mantra in life over the last 12 months - well JFDI to be precise (Google it!!)

Any time that things seemed to hard, any time I thought I couldn't do something - this is what I would say over and over in my head.

One of the hardest days for me had to be the first class I took at my local gym. Seems easy doesn't it? Go down the gym, walk through those studio doors and enjoy a class. I wish it had been that easy for me! For some unknown obscure reason my brain spent nearly six months telling my body that I had no hope of ever completing one of those classes....

I would visit the gym regularly spending time in the cardio and weights sections without worry but when it came to walking through those doors - NO WAY!!! 

Don't get me wrong it isn't that I didn't want to join in - the music pumping, great instructors motivating everyone to work just that little bit harder, the smiles at the end of the class as everyone made their way out. I wanted to be one of them more than anything. I would stand there peering in trying to take that step but always walked away back to the cardio section.

I have done a lot of self analysing over the last 18 months and looking back it seems so silly the reasons for not doing it but at the time the feelings were so strong. NO WAY could someone as big as me do a class like that, NO WAY could my body be pushed that hard, NO WAY could I move that fast, NO WAY would someone like me fit in with all the fit thin people. 

I don't know what changed that Friday morning. Seeing a class about to start I made my way to peer through the door but instead found myself walking back to the reception area to get a ticket for the class. I told the voice chanting NO WAY in my head to shut the hell up and scurried to the back of the class. It wasn't pretty, certainly wasn't easy but I did do it. And I kept doing it. I became completely hooked on the Les Mills classes and tried them all out and regularly show up for Body Combat, Body Attack, Body Vive, Body Step and Body Pump.

Now the only voice in my head it the one screaming JFDI as I push myself as hard as I can which is so much better than NO WAY!!

I was asked today why I became a personal trainer and the answer is simple - to teach people how to shut up the negative voices in their heads and discover just how much they can do :-)