Allow yourself to let go

To forget about the opinions of others

Just embrace that inner child and get involved with doing the things that brought you joy and please as a child.

Watch how playing with your children

Doing the silly things like building a den

Can make you happy and destress you

A lot if our issues come from us trying to force ourselves to be what society says we should be and not actually acknowledging the feelings within us

Use your kids to justify doing it until you realise you don’t care about others opinions, after all, we are only here for a period so short that it is crazy to think we would waste it worrying about what we think others think about us

Myself and paul talk about what makes a great strength program

Why his methods have produced so many world class results and then DIVE into the crazy world of FUN conspiracies 

Are fitness tracking devices starting to have a negative impact on people’s health?

When you take a step back and look at society today from a neutral point of view, you can see how fucked up it is.

We accept people because of how they look, not because of who they are.

It has been shown we find attractive people more trustworthy. We are willing to follow leaders if they are deemed desirable by society. We are won over by smiles and bodies, rather than by the substance of the person!

Now look at how this affects the actions of us all.

Men creep over instagram images, subconsciously telling women that

"THIS IS WHAT WE FIND DESIRABLE"

That can translate to,

"Look like this and we will give you as much attention as our phones"

So they do and then they get applauded for it, in both attention from males who see the woman they have been conditioned to believe is what we want and the females who are telling them "amazing chick" "stunning" "❤️❤️" and so this continues, deepening the beliefs that this look is what beauty actually is

But the truth (and it’s what we all already know) is, true beauty is much more than this.

Beauty is what is contained within each person, how they treat others, their actions.

We all find different shapes and sizes beautiful, beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder but to allow ourselves to settle on a certain look and subconsciously demand that others copy it, is fucked up!

Ask yourself this, would you want your daughters/younger sisters/younger nieces to grow up with this belief that only by looking a certain way, will they be accepted and found attractive?

Well when we creep over fake images of women, that is what we are doing

When we praise others for basically boils down to mutating their faces and bodies, that is what we are doing.

When we get these procedures done and then act with more confidence, that is what we are doing!

We have been perfectly conditioned to not be happy with who we are because broken people are easier to manipulate! Try controlling a confident, self believing society and see how easy it is to implement ever increasing draconian measures.

In order to do that you must first break the will of the people and keep them distracted.

Distracted with social media and pointless videos of cats

Distracted with images of porn and fake images of what sex and love is

Distracted with unrealistic body images that cannot be maintained and then convinced that THIS is how to find happiness

Ignore  the importance of spirituality

Ignore the importance of self love and acceptance of who you are

Ignore the encouragement of self discovery and finding your passion

Ignore self belief or acknowledge it but do so in a manipulating way that is filled with sound bites and bullshit, repetitive advise.

And we wonder why we live in the world we do?

As parents and mentors, if we TRULY want a world for our children that is better than we currently have, we need to look inside ourselves and accept the painful truths, that it is our beliefs and actions that is creating the foundations for the world we all know we do not want for them and then TAKE ACTION to change it

Is weighing yourself having a negative impact on your self esteem?

Have you ever asked yourself why?

Why are you allowing some numbers on a machine to dictate how you feel about yourself?

The scales should he there as a tool to track progress, not as a method to feel proud or beat yourself up with.

Remember just because you are avoiding tracking your progress, doesn’t mean that it will stop happening!

If you continue to eat more food than you burn on a daily basis, you will continue to put on weight regardless and there will come a day when you won’t be able to hide from it regardless of whether you use scales or not!

Would it not be better to address the elephant in the room and start asking yourself why this is a problem rather than pretending it isn’t one and it resulting in you putting on more weight?

Should You Weigh Yourself Everyday?

I speak with Andrew Read, an Australian coach and one of the most recognised trainers for those over 40

From the very beginnings of MMA in Ireland, right up to The UFC, Rodney & I talk about how it was in the beginning to the UFC coming to Ireland for the first time and how it has changed now

In this episode that has been banned over and over, I talk to Andy Chapman, head coach of BJJ/MMA gym Team Rhino Limavady 

we talk about the subject on everyones lips that is being suppressed over and over again COVID!

Training at home should be simple, it should be consistent and it should be minimal as far as equipment goes

the less distractions you have, the easier it is to do it

The Royal Court of Home Gyms

Body weight

Kettlebell

Gymnastic rings

You have these three items and you have a fully functioning gym that WILL build you a better body

All three of these items are fully portable and can be thrown into the boot of the car and taken wherever you go

of course you can have more items if you wish but IMO the less room required and the more portable the items, the better

If I brought a barbell, plates, bench and a rack home, I better have another home to stay in because

I am not gonna be sleeping in my bed with the wife, I can bet she will make sure of that

Of course things like macebells, val slides, resistance bands, sandbags are a welcome edition to any home gym and opens up many other options but I suggest getting the basics and build from there