Breaking the glass ceiling on my morning run

We all need a push every now and again if we are going to achieve our best. As a personal coach, it is my job to push my clients into achieving the best they can in many aspects of their lives, and like them, I too need a good push every now an again. I’ve been a long time advocate of early morning exercise as a great way to kick-start your day. In my recent article, Breaking your own glass ceiling I mentioned pushing myself on my morning run last week and achieving my fastest 5km run in over 18 months. This led me to wonder at why I was...

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Breaking your glass ceiling at the gym

One of the things I often advise clients to do is find a buddy who shares a similar goal, and work toward them together. If you have a fitness goal, this can be an easy thing to do. The world is full of people who want to get fit, but for one reason or another, can’t stick to a regular fitness routine. Regularly going to the gym is one of those activities I’ve struggled with over the years until, about five or six years ago, when I teamed up with a friend and together we’ve kept each other on track by setting gym appointments...

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Breaking your own glass ceiling

It is so easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we are doing our best, but are we really? It is just too easy to be mediocre. In fact, the world seems to conspire to make us fit somewhere in the middle… to be average. I’ve fallen into this trap many times myself, and what it means is that we create our own glass ceiling in each aspect of our lives. A week ago, I decided to really push myself at the gym. Working with my personal trainer, I managed to lift much heavier weights in almost every exercise I’ve tried. Spotting...

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