Oh NOOOO Christmas holiday time again!

November 18th, 2011 - 3:34 pm
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Christmas means something to everyone – for some it is time to celebrate the birth of Christ;  to others, holiday time at the end of a long year and to a lot of people mixed thoughts and feelings. On one hand it is a time to make merry, drink and eat as much as they [...]

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A ‘mind blowing’ ……SUCCESS STORY

October 24th, 2011 - 2:26 pm
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As a health and fitness professional I love nothing better than a good success story but this one really touches my heart. Devlin Palm grew up in a small town in the Kwa-Zulu Natal midlands in South Africa. As a youngster he was a national BMX champion and then as a  big strong healthy lad [...]

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A renewed energy towards my best ME ever…..recharge time is over

August 15th, 2011 - 2:50 pm
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This is where I am going… SEVEN PERCENT AT 62 – Let’s ROCK ‘N’ ROLL 17 weeks and some days to my best ever. I’m talking about my best ever as being 7% because that’s what I believe I am capable of and have never been there before; even when I am in recharge mode [...]

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Until I met a man who had no feet……

July 5th, 2011 - 3:44 pm
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“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”. In a surfing accident in 2008 I flirted with death for a while and emerged alive with…let’s call them limitations and I could probably have been forgiven for wallowing in a long pity party, but this story is not [...]

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The only thing we can control…..

May 15th, 2011 - 4:29 pm
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Deep in everybody’s soul is a GIANT screaming to be let out. ALL of us are destined for greatness and we all feel it bubbling around deep inside but we just don’t know what it is. WE HAVE TO SEARCH for it. How do we do that? By Listening. There is so much chatter going [...]

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Transformation is SIMPLE….

April 3rd, 2011 - 11:15 am
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…..but it’s not easy. Set a goal Create a nutrition plan Set out a training program write down your action steps put affirmations everywhere Begin Put one step in front of the other and you will eventually reach your goal. So WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Why is it that soooo many people either do not [...]

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Do you take responsibility for the health of your children?

March 24th, 2011 - 12:34 pm
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I often think about the way I view  my health and fitness in relation to that of my children. My younger kids love sport and both play school A team hockey and club hockey as well. I have sorted gym membership for them given them eating and training plans and check that they are spending [...]

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Thoughts become things….Do they?

March 19th, 2011 - 10:30 am
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The planet and the people who live on it is in crisis. Anybody who is not aware of that has no access to international media and lives in the middle of no where whether by choice or not so we could exclude them. From what? you ask. From taking responsibility for whats happening. Especially if [...]

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Gratitude is a an attitude not a noun

March 10th, 2011 - 2:01 pm
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Everyday I am thankful for the many wonderful things in my life and I say so unconditionally. Gratitude makes me feel good, it makes me happy, and it uplifts my spirit, why then would I not be filled with gratitude. It also helps me to remember to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in [...]

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So WHY did I shave my head – to support people like BILLY!

March 6th, 2011 - 9:07 am
CANCER SHAVATHON 2011

Mark Pilgrim, radio DJ | TV presenter | MC | voice artist and cancer survivor, has long been a champion of CANSA’s Shavathon and has actively worked to spread a message of early detection and prevention of cancer to all South Africans in partnership with CANSA. Poster right: Mark in the red T-shirt at the [...]

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CHEATING DEATH: AVAILABLE NOW!

October 13th, 2010 - 12:00 am
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CHEATING DEATH IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE BOOK STORE

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Help me to help 5 million people

June 14th, 2010 - 8:09 am
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Weight down | Body fat down | spirits UP What a great day to be alive! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, it’s a Monday morning and I’ve done my session. By now most people know of my quest for 5 million people… “…to empower 5 MILLION people to find and fulfil their [...]

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Learn from your mistakes….It’s FREE

June 13th, 2010 - 11:18 am

Are we letting our MISTAKES teach us anything. We keep saying it, but do we learn from it. “Man where did the time go” 2 weeks into the ‘Summer Burn’ and are YOU running at full speed. If you aren’t are you at least READY to hit the ground running come Monday a.m. And if [...]

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Life was your parents choice…living is yours

March 21st, 2010 - 6:45 am

Early SUNDAY morning silence is awesome What shall I do today…Whatever I want it’s sunday. No plans, no training, no deadlines, no pressure, no anything. I lie in bed, it’s early, and I muse over the past year. My personal Growth has been exponential…hospital and my injuries are a thing of the past, my physiology [...]

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The Puzzle

February 28th, 2010 - 5:28 am
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My life is an 84 day jigsaw puzzle. Day 1 to 7…. I put a 7 pieces, the modules on the board. Reading the program  didn’t make a whole lot of sense at the time. Day 8 added an 8th piece…started training..The modules had made sense now and the training I can do. Day 9 [...]

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Is your heart OVERWORKING?

February 26th, 2010 - 10:05 am
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I have, like a lot of people, had the slightest hint of a cold these last couple of days…not enough to stop me training but this morning doing cardio I noticed that my heart rate was higher than it normally is and at the time I wasn’t working that hard. What does this mean? Well [...]

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I Believe

February 18th, 2010 - 9:32 am

Dax Moy, probably the best known fitness professional in the UK threw out a challenge on his blog a while back. To write about who we really are and not just the persona that we present here….sometimes, to garner sympathy, sometimes to make ourselves look good, sometimes, because we have nothing much to say. I [...]

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Bandwidth and PATIENCE

February 15th, 2010 - 9:53 am

These things go hand in hand in South Africa. What a waste of time. In South Africa we do not have enough band width. Throughout business hours and into the evening it is seriously difficult to access and browse, never mind, make contributions to various forum, blogs etc. So what can I learn from this [...]

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My Perfect day……EVERYDAY

February 11th, 2010 - 2:11 pm

It’s 3.45am…..everything is still, not a breath of wind and the only thing penetrating the extreme blackness of pre dawn is the constant ringing in my ears (like Christmas Beetles) a never ending reminder of the pitfalls of diving head first into a sandbank. At this time of the day I own the world, well [...]

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Thank goodness for …CHOICE

February 9th, 2010 - 9:43 am

Isn’t it wonderful that we have this thing called choice. We can choose what car to drive, where to live, what to wear, what kind of mood we are in, where to spend our holidays. Why then do we sometimes make bad choices? Why do we not listen to our intuition (or our wives or [...]

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