Recently my sleep has been a little messed up.

Well… technically its been the waking up part that has been the problem.

I have had an incredible pain in my leg since Friday. It happens even worse when I try to move around and keep my hips stable.

Pretty much makes the movement of turning over in the middle of the night almost impossible. Without wanting to punch my hand through the wall anyway.

It makes me not want to go to sleep at night.

Because I know I will be waking up multiple times each night and have to battle it.

Last night was a little crazy.

I woke up in the middle of the night after some crazy zombie dream.

It was bizarre.

It was like a film. In fact, after I woke up I had to get up for a pee and on the way back I jotted some stuff down on my whiteboard here in my home office.

I literally have crazy middle-of-the-night jottings here next to me. I will probably turn it into a book or something one day.

Will tell you more about it another day.

Anyway, the injury thing has been on and off for just over 2 years.

It has not been this bad for a while though. Must have aggravated it Friday somehow.

But the thing that scares me is it being the same and being no different (or even worse) this time next year.

And I know people feel the same about how they look or feel about themselves.

Seriously just take a minute…

Imagine how you would feel this time next year having made NO changes to your body. Or even being in a ‘worse’ position than you are now.

Scary, right?

Even thinking a few months ahead is.

Because TIME is the one thing you can’t get back.

I would rather get things sorted now and enjoy myself than feel pissed off and full of regret down the line.

Rather than have a constant battle all my life.

The good news is that you have a choice and are in control.

Speak soon

Ben Hanbridge

P.S. The good news is that if you want help with reaching your goals and making sure your body and confidence is different this time next month to what it is now…

Then I can help.

The bad news is I don’t have my next intake of new clients for a couple of weeks, in fact its not until April 28th.

However, you can apply early for a spot on the bootcamp.

We have morning sessions at 6.15am, and also evening sessions at 6.30pm.

Go here to apply:

http://www.bodyfitacademy.co.uk/bootcamp-manchester/

No idea why, but its a number that keeps cropping up.

2 stone.

People saying that’s what they want to lose.

Spoke to a handful of people in the last week or two who had this VERY goal.

A lot of the time people have some insane time frame for it though. Like wanting to do it in 10 months or something.

Which is pretty slow.

Insanely slow.

Even 10 weeks is kinda a bit too long, never mind 10 MONTHS!

Thats 2.8 pounds per month.

So, 8 weeks is usually about right for that.

I mean, some people will even do it in 6 weeks.

But I typically find that people I work with who have that goal manage around a stone and a clothes size each month (depending on their goals obviously).

So, if you have that goal, you need to make sure you don’t give yourself TOO MUCH time to do it in, otherwise you just leave it and leave it because you think you have loads of time left to do it.

In fact, most people don’t have any time deadline at all. Which is even worse.

Thats why I like this 2 stone in 8 week thing.

In fact, I am even thinking about bringing in a few challenges next month for BFA.

One of them being 2 stone in 8 weeks.

Not everybody will need to drop 2 stone though, so will have other stuff like a jean size in 21 days etc.

But if you want to drop 2 stone and are not part of our Manchester Bootcamp Bodyfit Academy then let me know…

Speak soon

Ben Hanbridge

By the way… Will be giving everybody who is due to start the next programme in 3 weeks some ‘homework’ to do before then.

So everybody can make a start on the nutrition before kicking in the programme on the 28th.

You might even drop 10lbs before we even start!

Register here and let me know if you have a goal of dropping 2 stone.

Not sure about you but I find it pretty difficult to steer away from junk food sometimes.

Especially snacks and treats.

I remember the other year when I was in Cornwall I got a small cake from Morrisons..

You know, one of those £3 mini-birthday chocolate cake things.

I didn’t even plan on buying it. Just seen it and had to get it.

Which meant I had no ‘tools’ to eat it.

No plate. No knife. No fork.

Just sat on a bench down the road from the supermarket and eat the whole thing.

Using the card packaging as cutlery.

You can only imagine how difficult it was.

I bet everybody has done something like that before.

Thing is, at the time I didn’t realise that eating healthy can be interesting.

I just presumed that anything healthy had to taste boring.

Not true.

You can make healthy food taste amazing.

Especially stuff like cookies, chocolate, cake etc.

You can make healthy versions of all that.

Some of it even tastes better than the unhealthy versions.

So, big tip from me today is make your healthy food taste amazing and you will find it MUCH easier to stay on track and obviously get better results!

And when you do it for a few weeks and then go back to trying something unhealthy… watch how ILL it makes you feel..

Speak soon

Ben Hanbridge

By the way, if you are not sure about where to find healthy snacks that taste great then check this out:

Healthy Snacks & Treats Cookbook

WOW.

I had a wake up call yesterday.

And you’re about to get the same one.

Did you know that 25% of the year has gone already?

Thats means you must be 25% of the way through your goals you had for 2014, right?

Pretty scary thought. I thought so anyway. Mainly because I am not on track.

And I ain’t just talking about health and fitness goals.

WHATEVER your goals are for this year, a quarter of it has gone.

So, that means either one of two things will happen.

Either you carry on at your same rate of achievement and in which case you can multiply your results this year so far by 4 and you get an idea for the year.

Or…

You can change your approach and work hard for the next few months to ‘catch up’ on the missed opportunity for the first quarter of the year.

And remember..

What gets measured gets improved.

Don’t measure your progress… it likely won’t improve.

Speak soon

Ben Hanbridge

P.S. If you want to apply for a 28 day transformation to Bodyfit Academy, which is a bootcamp in manchester just click here.

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