What’s the point?

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This website is one that I am taking a very long term approach to…I would like this website to look and feel as it should in maybe a years time…maybe it will take 18 months….on maybe it will take 3 months….that will depend on the people who visit and can be bothered commenting and how jazzed I get about getting things off my chest. The point being that down the track…this plea for help will be gone and no one will know that you helped get the place to where it will be when ‘they’ turn up…so let me know what you think.

Good question what is the point. This is where you guys get a peek into the chaos that is my mind.

What I am going to do here is several things simultaneously.

1. I need an outlet…I see and hear too much crazy stuff on the interwebs now. As some of you know….lets say those of you that have known me for a decade plus….I used to be quite outspoken in…lets just call it the health and fitness community both openly and behind closed doors…and I miss that.
2. I need to get myself back into shape…not only have I taken a break from coaching professionally for the last 7 years plus I think I have trained a total of 7 times in the same period.
3. I want to help other people get fit for a purpose….mainly for better health and in the hope to enjoy a better life.
4. I want to discuss the environment I am in, what’s influencing me and just other general stuff like my old blog.

So with regards point one…when I see stuff that is idiotic I might mention it and tell you why I personally think it’s dumb. I will tell you what I am not going to do though…I am not going to include references or links or ‘proof’…I used to do that…it took a huge amount of time and it only ‘worked’ on a small amount of people in that…only a tiny fraction of people seem to be convinced by evidence…if I tell you something you will either agree with me because you know I won’t lie to you and you know that what I have to say to you has been filtered through 20 years of experience or you prefer to believe whatever rubbish you have in your head….and a tiny fraction will be brought back from the darkside and into the light.

On point two…I think I have to practice what I preach…in that it’s a cop out for me to say trust me and to still be a fat crippled mess. So I am going to get back into shape…a shape that isn’t so round. The thing is I am going to do it in a normal non idiotic way that anyone can do….because if I don’t then what’s the point. I am going to do a totally non bullshit transformation in that yes, I will do some before and after shot…but the before shots won’t involve terrible lighting and me sticking my gut out…then an after shot where I get a tan and a haircut and suck my gut in and have professional lighting. We will talk more about this.

This brings us to point number three…there are still people I help…and I’ll continue to do this with a view to getting back to doing it semi professionally…and no, that doesn’t mean that I will do a half arsed job of it…it means that I will make some time available to do a professional job.

On the last point…I have been studying permaculture and as with most forms of study and research my experience of permaculture has been influenced and effected by what I brought to it…but it has also had and influence on me and my thoughts about coaching, training, health and life in general and I want to share and explore that as well.

So that is the brief intro…let me give you a bit of a timeline…I have spent a few $$$’s in setting up this site…because I can and I want to…I think long term…I’ll end up spending more…again…because I can and will want to. A lot of that will involve the interplay between me and you…and want you want and what I want to do. I was watching a podcast…it might have been an Joe Rogan Experience one and he was talking to a comedian…I can’t even remember who it was….but something they said really struck me and pretty much set me on this course. I won’t bore you with the whole story and my partial memory of it…instead I will tell you what I got out of it…the dude was working away trying to be a comic…he was doing so remarkably unsuccessfully to the point that he was about to give the whole thing away after struggling for years….so as a final ‘Fuck You All’ to everyone he wrote a show that was just about him and was completely done to please him…his thought being…this was all a failure..his career that is…so before he left he’d just just everything off his chest and just do the stuff that made him laugh. Well it was a huge success. Actually now that I think of it…it was Bert Kreischer podcast. So anyway…what I decided was that instead of trying to make a website for others….I would make it for me…instead of trying to come up with a company name I could market…I would just make it about me….instead of coming up with a way to commercialise it…I’d just do it. This website is just going to be about me and what I want…as in what sort of training I’d like to do….the sort of diet and nutritional advice that I think is good….what health regimes will make me fitter and healthier. So I am going to set myself a goal of trying to organise and structure this website to make it easy to navigate and find stuff. In May I will start producing new content with regards my training, diet and health and start documenting what’s happening….as well as writing on all the other stuff mentioned earlier.

So now I want feedback. I am thinking of under promising and over delivering for a change…in that rather than publish daily as I did in the past…that instead I might do it monthly to begin with…as in get stuff done and then publish it all on the July 1st so all of May and June will be there to see? I could publish weekly maybe….and if I do what’s a good day for people….Monday morning so you can avoid work and read stuff while you have your coffee before getting into work mode? Friday arvo so you have stuff to read over the weekend? You tell me. I am also going to mess around with videos…I am thinking the discipline of Instagram and 60 seconds or less might be good? I need to have a think about this. So if you have read this far and can be bothered tell me what you think?

The Plan
So…in May and June what I am going to do is actually train…I know that will come as a surprise to many…including myself…what I want to try and do is to get fit and healthy…and do it in a way that ANYONE can do.

So how am I going to do it….I hear you ask….well what I am not going to do is anything extreme….because I hate that shit. I have pretty much steered clear of social media except for bookface for pretty much ever…in the last year however I have been doing more reading and research on the web, twitter, instagram and and bookface and what I have found has been pretty much a complete dumpster fire. The only training stuff I see is pretty much idiotic…in that it is just show boating stuff that you have to go out of your way to ‘make up’ it isn’t training…it’s a fitness/training exhibition event. No one wants to watch someone doing ‘real’ training…well thought out and planned exercise that’s executed well because it’s boring….but it’s also what was required to get people to a place where they can make a stupid instragram post of them doing battle ropes while balancing a kettlebell on their head over the side of a cliff at sunset. So what I am going to do is write a program for myself for the month of May and June and then execute it. I am going to do nothing with my diet, make no changes to my work and lifestyle in any way….the only change will be my program. I am going to write more about this…like I said in the intro I am a bit pent up. I will do some measuring and assessing…I’ve FitBit scales so I will use those. I will take some pics/vids so we can see if there are any visually discernible changes and take some girth measurements…if there is anything else that anyone can think of then let me know? Then at the end of the month we’ll see where we are at…I’ll tweak or start all over again with the program and then in July I am going to modify my diet…I’ll do this once I have my training dialled in. I think one of the most common fitness and health mistakes that people make is that 1. They change everything. 2. They change everything immediately. I am not going to do that…I am going to do things piece by piece month by month…I think that for me as a client….what I need to do is get moving….then fix/improve my nutrition and then after I have go my exercise and nutrition sorted I am going to get some proper advice on my supplements with a view to improving my health. The reason I am doing it this way is because I want to see what has an effect and look to measure it in some way…I am in no hurry…I will get each piece in place and I want to show people how easy and or how hard it is….so lets see 🙂