work as hard as you can pushing yourself
to limits
no one just turns up to gym is
absolutely animal and you've got to
develop it having that self-belief that
you can achieve anything if you if you
work towards it and
you dedicate a lot of time you can
achieve anything you want you want to
achieve in life
i was very overweight i was very
self-conscious didn't like the way i
looked i hated exercise
i'd have mcdonald's four or five times a
week i remember i'd go to kfc on my own
order a family bucket of kfc and eat all
the skin and leave all the chicken
yeah i just literally love junk food
i have to sacrifice going out for meals
with friends because i want to stay on
my nutrition track
i've got to sacrifice just going to a
friend's house because i might have to
get in bed for a certain time and
so i get my nine hours sleep so i can
train the next day i've got to train
four and a half hours four hours a day
and that takes a lot of sacrifice to be
able to be in the right condition to be
able to do that
belief is something that is so important
i've always had a very strong belief
that i can one day complete the crossfit
games
failure is something everyone goes
through i've been through lots of
failures in my closet career
one was last year i was very close to
qualifying for the crossing games last
year and there was one worker that cost
me that spot
everyone's gonna have failures but it's
how you learn from how you progress from
that that makes a difference so you
should never be scared of failure you
just got willing to learn from the
failures that you have in life
you never want to be less than anything
you do but i think that's a natural part
of life and you are going to come last
in certain aspects of life but i think
you can learn a lot from coming last
in anything and you've got to use use
that and learn from it
i remember lots of times at school if we
had swimming lessons i'd try and
fake i had a cold or something so i
didn't have to go swimming to take my
top off
um i remember lots of times being at
home if my parents had friends around
i'd always run upstairs and just
kind of hide away if i had my top off
because i was so embarrassed of how i
look very overweight not confident in my
own body
my dad was trying to get me to lose
weight for many years
and my mum was always like oh he's fine
he's perfect like i could never do
anything wrong in my mum's eyes
and then my dad said um we'll give you a
goal to work towards
and if you do it we'll get you the
playstation 2 that you've always wanted
so i really wanted to play social at the
time so is that right i'm just going to
eat a little bit less junk
and i reckon the weight will drop off so
after the after a month um we weighed
myself
lost some weight i can't remember how
much weight i lost but i felt really
good and proud of myself because the
first time i'd ever set a goal
and then work towards it and achieved it
i was starting to
like the way i looked because i looked a
little bit less overweight so
i was wearing different clothes i was
getting a little bit more confident in
my body so that was like the
the kickstart to my fitness journey
it's really important to to set goals
put things in place to achieve those
goals and then tick them along the way
and i think once you achieve the little
goals it really gives you a massive
confident boost it keeps you motivated
and it makes you feel extremely proud
and
it doesn't let you get stale because
you're always achieving a goal
feeling great about yourself and then
work towards the next goal
i'll put markers that i that i'm aiming
towards to take off
and it's just just a little mental trick
that if you're doing a 10 round workout
10 rounds seems a lot and you think god
i've got to do 10 rounds this workout is
going to take forever
but if if you just take one round at a
time do one round to get off then i'm
just thinking about next round to get
off
you're kind of breaking the workout down
instead of just seeing it as a 10 round
kind of a whole workout so mentally it's
a lot easier
i say to everyone is to make sure you
enjoy the process and to run your own
race
so i mean by that is when i was on my
fitness journey
and to losing the weight i lost it um
it was a long process but that was right
for me
that someone might see me doing crazy my
ring muscle ups
doing the amount of volume i'm doing
every single day twice a day and they
might want to jump into that straight
away
whereas that's been an eight-year
process for me to be able to get to that
point
you're just seeing the end result of
eight years of hard work and i always
just say you've got to run your own race
i've been doing this for eight years i
could never have done this eight years
ago
i've had to build up to this workload
and about to get my body conditioned to
it i didn't just jump straight into it
it's taken seven eight years you've got
to run your own race you've got to be
willing to put the time into the process
day in day out even if you're doing
pull-ups instead of being muscle that
doesn't matter just know one day you'll
build up to that level that i'm at
and you've got to most importantly enjoy
the process and make sure you're doing
it for the right reasons
so on my fitness journey the playstation
2 was what
first got me into it and that was that
first goal that i worked towards
but i didn't really get into the the
fitness engine and really start enjoying
it until i wanted to do it for myself
so that external goal was was great but
once i got it
i kind of i could have easily just said
oh i'm going to go back to eating again
because
i needed something else for someone to
give me to work towards
some people are just born with a strong
mentality but then it's also something
you can
you can develop throughout your career
so i definitely wasn't as mentally
strong as i am now
seven years ago just because that
everyday pursuit of
coming into the gym working as hard as
you can
pushing yourself to limits that
resilience and strong mindset is
definitely something you can you can
work on
and i think it's an element of fitness
that i think a lot of people
don't focus too much on because you
could have exactly the same
athletes fitness-wise strength-wise but
if one's mentally stronger
and willing to go into those dark places
they're going to do better in crossfit
than the other one
so it's definitely something you should
focus on and you should
spend time developing that strong
mindset and it's just that mental
strength to be able to keep pushing
every single time you come into the gym
and not letting yourself slack during
your sessions
so i could easily come into the gym pick
an easy rep scheme
complete it super easy and then go home
and carry on like that whereas
me mentally i'm always trying to
progress and i'm always trying to push
my limits
i always have to do an extra rep
somewhere or do something a little bit
faster
and i think that that's just something
that's built inside me that definitely
helps within crossfit and
definitely helps you go to those dark
places but it's definitely something
i've developed over the years
so it's definitely something you can
work on no one just turns up the gym as
absolutely animal
you've got to develop it and that's the
that goes for the same with your mental
attitude as well
shoot for the moon because even if you
miss you'll be amongst the stars
so i remember having that on my goes
board and that to me means
aim aim so high
that even if you don't get to that point
you've achieved
so much getting to that point so
if some people are quite scared to aim
high and they just sit low goals
because they just want to make sure 100
they achieve it then they'll achieve it
but then they could have missed out on
so many other areas in life or so many
other opportunities because they were
they were a bit scared to aim that high
because they might not have achieved it
so i've always been like i said in 2013
when i first saw
the crossfit games straight away i said
i want to compete across the games
whereas a lot of people could have said
right i just want to compete at a local
comp
but i wanted to set my goals so high
that all that journey leading up to that
would have led to so many different
opportunities and so many career options
and i was never scared to to set that
goal and never scared to not achieve it
because i knew
even if i didn't achieve it there was
lots of lots of goals i would have
ticked off along the journey
so yeah i think that motto is always
something that i live by
and i'm very fortunate to achieve the
goal that i set
all those seven years ago
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