Days Are Expensive...

What an action packed weekend - That sunshine was awesome!

I made the most of the great weather yesterday and got out to film some workout videos that you'll be able to see soon on my DPM Performance You Tube Page. As well as enjoying a post shoot coffee at a nice little cafe in the rocks with my girlfriend.

I was also able to enjoy the hospitality of a corporate box at the footy on Friday night when the Storminators crushed the Sharkies who went MIA yet again at the business end of the season.

Gotta tell you - if there is a better way to watch a game of footy then being in a catered box then I am yet to experience it.

Lucky I got a good workout in before hand so I didn't feel guilty about enjoying some good food and a drink or two.

Not to mention seeing the Hawks cause a massive upset in the AFL Grand Final on Saturday. Nice to see the underdog get up. I enjoyed the action while sitting on my laptop doing some work.

The words I've got for you today are from the depths of my resource doco folder that has 210 pages of jammed packed quotes and words that inspire me.

I have not doubled up once in the 5 or so years I've been doing these and this one is no different from Motivational Speaker and Author Jim Rohn:

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely”

I think that tied into my words about getting a heap done on the weekend.

Surely yours wasn't spent nursing a hangover - or was it?

I posted an article on my blog on Friday that you might have missed.

It was about the good, the bad and the ugly of Personal Trainers. Worth the read if you missed it.

If you have been reading my stuff for a while now, you would know that I don't usually plug other peoples products very often.

Well today, I'm going to make an exception.

One of my mates, and fellow mastermind group member BJ Gaddour's Workout Muse is a must check out for any fitness pro or person just keen to train seriously.

BJ had the genius idea to put together music that you can workout to when you do your interval training.

I cranked it yesterday and did one of BJ's Tabata workouts - 20 secs flat out on the spin bike, 10 secs recovery for 4 mins and went through it twice. Got the heart rate up and got a great sweat on.

The end result, is you don't have to look at your stopwatch to know when to stop and go and you can concentrate on maximising your BURN baby!

You can check out the workout muse phenomenon and download your free sample workout track (which is a great interval set that I like to do from time to time) right here.

As a heads up, there are 2 categories - 1 for fitness professionals and one for the general punter who just wants to get a burn on.

Check it out, I personally love it. He's got some killer content and bonuses to match - I even get a jersey on his bonuses!

Finally, don't forget to join me on ISweat - where you can log your own personal workouts and you can see what I am up to each workout - best of all it won't cost you a cent!

http://www.isweat.com/AussieFatblast

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

How Good Is YOUR Personal Trainer?

Yesterday I saw my "favourite" Personal Trainer again.

It has been the first time in months that I'd seen the bloke, so I'd sorta missed him.

This is a Personal Trainer who has a big gut.

This is a Personal Trainer who sends his clients on a warm up jog around the block - we got rid of that sort of warm up years ago as a heads up.

I don't say this to be negative and bag people.

I just need people to realise that there are a lot of cowboys out there that can call themselves a Personal Trainer.

Some people may say there is nothing wrong with having a bit of a gut and this guy may well be the nicest bloke in the world. He just might be.

Well, I say there is something wrong if you have a fat gut and want to call yourself a Personal Trainer.

Now you know why I don't call myself a Personal Trainer. I don't want to be dragged down with people's negative associations with trainers in the past.

I am a Fitness Conditioner that conditions new habits in people - one of them being the habit of losing body fat and getting the fat loss results that they deserve.

I take pride in looking after my body. Sure I enjoy my cheat meals when I have them but my whole diet plan doesn't consist of cheat meal after cheat meal.

If you are asking - show me the proof Daniel, let me see your six pack abs, you will get to see 'em very soon - in fact on October 20 I've got some big news for you - and you'll get to see the efforts of my hard work - ha!

So, in the mean time, if you want to see a real Sydney Personal Trainer in action, you gotta make sure they walk the walk as well as talking the talk.

What's your excuse? Fire UP!

STEPtember Week 4 Update

Team,
If you are on this STEPtember challenge you should be flying by now.

By this stage your diet should be looking pretty sweet.

If you have removed one food/drink or problem area from your life each week, with this weeks removal you should be killing things.

If you are lacking in certain areas, use this weeks challenge as the call to action for you to add those extra vegetable servings or add a piece of fruit at each meal time to send your intake of vitamins and minerals through the roof in a good way.

Nail this months STEPtember challenges and you will have that body you want by Christmas time GUARANTEED!

Riding Them Horses Home - 100th Blog Edition

Today is the 100th edition of this blog, so if you have been with me since then, thank you and happy aniversary.

If you are a recent discoverer of DPM town, thank you for joining the ride

I kicked it off in October last year and have been a little slack in some weeks, only publishing one edition but for the last month or two I've been getting three posts on here a week and another three on my Aussie Fatblast blog, so be sure to check out both blogs for the best info from me on a regular basis.

For those of you who saw my post here on Friday with my 2 Saturday tips at the races, I hope you got on board because they both saluted and I was doing the "I'm going to Sizzler" dance on Saturday night (Remember White Men Can't Jump movie line?)

I was riding Musket down the straight at Rosehill more than the jockey I am certain and when it crossed the line first paying 13's the milky bars were well and truly on me!

Anyway, down to business.

The words for this week come from an anonymous source but I like it and hope you do to.

"The doors of opportunity are marked push"

Make sure that you're the one doing the pushing.

Have a massive week and enjoy this beautiful sunshine if you are lucky enough to be in good old Sydney town this week.

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

Spring Carnival - Bring It On!

I thought I'd take a different angle today and not talk about fitness and fat loss for a change.

I'm heading out to Rosehill tomorrow for the first time in about 2 years for a bit of a punt and spring carnival action.

So instead of studying the latest fat loss techniques tonight, you can forgive me if I take some down time and study the form guide, not that it'll help me much!

If you've got any tips, please send 'em my way, I'll probably need them!

The ones that I have for you if you are keen for a punt is Weekend Hustler in Melbourne even though he'll be a bit short and Musket here at Rosehill who just happens to be the 3/4 brother to Makybe Diva. If he's half as good as she was the odds might not be what they are at now.

I might even work out how I can get a DPM Performance stakes race happening...

Make the most of the sunshine this weekend, get out, get amongst it and get fit.

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

STEPtember Week 3 Update

How are you going with your STEPtember challenges?

Are you kicking goals and successfully eliminating the 2 biggest problem areas of your nutrition make up by now?

If so, awesome news - keep it up!

If not, what are you waiting for?

The month is half over!

This weeks challenge for STEPtember if you have been following along, is to remove a third problem food or drink from your diet.

If you need to add a food source this week, such as eating at least five serves of vegetables a day, this is your challenge this time around.

If you can nail this, your diet make up should be looking pretty sweet by now.

If you are reading this thinking, yep I need that extra kick in the rear, please check out my site and see what DPM Performance can do for you.

I have group sessions located throughout the Sydney CBD and Inner West that will kick your fat loss mission into overdrive.

DPM Performance is the Sydney Personal Training specialist.

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

The Man Is Back!

How was your weekend?

If you are anything like me, you were loving the 31 degree Springday on Saturday - summer is on it's way baby!

My weekend was a sporting feast in front of the box:

- Paralympic highlights on Saturday arvo
- Club Rugby Semi on Saturday arvo
- The Bledisloe although it was disappointing to see us go down to the All Blacks again and give up a 10 point second half lead...
- NRL finals- Swans getting touched up (once again, it wasn't all good footy watching)

I also managed to get in some good Aussie Fatblast inspired workout sessions too.

I was feeling flat yesterday morning but still got in and did a boxing session with my girlfriend - it's the only time that she gets to belt me up and trust me, she packs a punch!

I felt awesome after finishing it though and a lot better for sticking it out when I didn't really feel like it at the start.

That's a great lesson there.

Do the workout even if you are feeling a little flat and you will pick up and be the better for it!

But the best news I heard in the last week was the news that the man is back.

Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen, 7 time Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong is getting back on the bike.

To tell you the truth, at first I was a bit surprised to hear that he is making a comeback considering he has nothing left to prove.

I didn't think it was a smart idea to try and get back and mix it with the best after 3 years out of the saddle.

But that was until I heard his reason for making a comeback.

He wants to continue to raise awareness and some extra benjamins for cancer research.

He did some awesome stuff with those yellow Livestrong bracelets a few years ago, so he can obviously raise awareness and continue to raise some good coin.

So, you can't knock the bloke.

I am not going to write him off.

Especially when I went back and dug this quote out that was in his first book "It's Not About The Bike":

"If there is one thing I don't want to hear, it's that I can't do something. Telling me that is the best way to make sure that I'll do it" - Lance Armstrong

It'll be a tough choice deciding who to cheer him or Cadel next year!

Don't let fear hold you back!

New Workout Tool For You

I've just been given a heads up on a great new site that is like twitter, but with a fitness theme.

It is called I Sweat.

This site is brand spanking new and only in beta testing so it hasn't even been formally released.

My suggestion is to get in on the ground floor and be a trend starter.

I don't twitter but this is a must see if you want to get a heads up with what training sessions I am doing when I do them or what some other trainers and their clients are doing.

http://www.isweat.com

I've even created a group that I'd love you to be a part of - Aussie Fatblast

I've posted the Aussie Fatblast workout that I'll be doing this arvo so you can get a heads up with what I am doing for my own fat loss training sessions.

Best of all, it is free!

see you there

STEPtember Week 2

You may have read my post last week on STEPtembers first step for changing your diet totally in only 30 days.

Well, if you missed it, you can read it here.

The game plan was to pick only one food or drink that you needed to remove or something you needed to add to improve your diet and work on achieving that every day.

Now, week one's diet plan challenge should be crossed off.

Time to pick something else you need to improve. Let's say you need to drink more water.

Your challenge this week is to continue on with last weeks challenge - you still want to be working on that one, while adding in the new step as well for a total of 2improvements to your diet plan.

Sticking with this drink more water example your goal would be to drink a glass of water before and after each meal.

If you are eating only 5 times a day, that is 10 glasses of water.

Bingo, you are on track!

Give it a shot and let me know how you go.

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

Triumphs in Adversity

Last night I saw some pretty inspirational, and moving stories on 60 Minutes. I don’t always watch that show but the ads got me hooked this time.

The first story if you missed it involved the family of the young Sydney bloke who was bashed in Mykonos last month. His family went to meet the people who received Doujon’s organs.

That nearly brought a tear to my eye watching that I must confess.

It is amazing how his family were so positive about the legacy he had left behind in only a short time since his passing.

The second story involved a couple of young girls competing in the Paralympic Games at the moment. One was 19, the other 27 and it was a really positive and uplifting story on how they overcome their own little demons and battles to become a success in their field.

The other reason I liked that story was it also had in it my all time favourite athlete, John MacLean – the man is a freak. Google his name if you have not heard of him – he is a freak. His book Sucking the Marrow Out of Life is also a must read.

Some people are just amazing people to be able to have the attitude they do even during adversity.

It makes me thankful for what I have and continues to inspire me in my daily, and long term goals.

Sticking with John MacLean, I thought I'd borrow some words he used in his biography I just mentioned.

“Giving up is simply not an option”

Simple but it is true in any form.

On another note, I saw a truck today that made me shake my head.

I forget the company name but it was flogging grain fed meat. The slogan was something along the lines of premium quality meat or something like that.

Let me give you the tip here team.

Grain Fed Meat is unhealthy for you.

It is not a better meat option.

Your best choice is grass fed cattle only, otherwise you will be getting all the toxins the cow ate in it's life passed onto you.

My Aussie Fatblast Secrets Revealed free report delves into this further.

Definitely check it out if you are yet to do so.


Finally, If you need any help with goal setting, then you cannot go past the awesome product Dax Moy produced - The Magic Hundred which he described as the fastest goal achievement program on the planet.

Worth checking out - it gets the DPM Performance double thumbs up.

What's your excuse?

Fire UP!

The New and Improved Aussie Fatblast Food Pyramid

You may have seen my blog post on the food pyramid for fat loss recently.

If you missed it, the link is here

Anway, thanks to some reader feedback to convert it all into an easy to follow picture format, I took action and got my designer to work.

The finished product, the new Aussie Fatblast inspired food pyramid for fat loss is now here.

If you receive this via email update format, please visit my blog to see the graph in full colour action.



Does your diet look like this or the recommended crap that is pushed by the nutrition organisations

thanks for the tip Lee!

I am interested to know what you all think.

enjoy!

STEPtember - What's the Deal?

You may have seen me refer in Monday's post to STEPtember and wondered what it's all about.

Well, I know that Winter is the time when a lot of people, hopefully not you though, get into a rut.

It's too cold...

It's too wet...

It's all a bit too hard...

It's all a bunch of BS to me...

Well, I created DPM Performance's STEPtember to give you the easy way to change your diet and your lifestyle in only 30 days.

I've decided to split STEPtember into 4 weekly brackets.

Each week your challenge is to pick something and focus on it.

Start with the most pressing thing that really needs to be addressed.

For example, you may have eaten too many comfort foods over winter because it was cold, or because you were depressed about whatever.

You may have neglected your fruit as a mid morning snack option and swapped it for the hot chocolate because that is what everyone else on your floor was doing and you didn't want to be left out.

Whatever it is, I need you to pick something to work on.

Your challenge is go without that food choice or to reintroduce whatever needs to be for 5 days out of 7 this week.

Let's start small and suddenly in 30 days, the STEPtember challenge has given you a brand spanking new diet that looks pretty damn good.

What are you waiting for?

Find that something and let's work on nailing it this week.

Let me know how you go...

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!

Goodbye Winter, It's Been .... Cold!

Congratulations,

You made it through winter!

I heard on the radio this morning that it was the coldest winter in I can't remember how long but yep, it was cold.

Now that's over and done with you can come out of hibernation (if you have been in one), dust off your training gear and start getting that body into shape for the summer months.

Remember, if you have been out of the game, don't forget Sydney's Premier Group Personal Training Option - DPM Performance

The words that I have for you today come from a succesful businesswoman that I have been hearing a bit about lately.

If anybody here knows of Dan Kennedy, you will be familiar with Lee Milteer.

“If there’s no wind for the sails, row”

I read this quote from her last week and found it great.

You can apply it to you, your training, or your business however you like.

I take it as you've got to roll up your sleeves and do some hard yards if you want to get anywhere.

For ultimate fat loss results, that means you cannot take short cuts when it comes to eating too many cheat meals.

You know you gotta row hard to get your ultimate body.

You know you gotta row hard to get your business to where you want it to be.

I'll be back in a day or two to share with you something new I am introducing for September, or STEPtember as I have renamed it.

Stay tuned to my blog for more news soon if you are receiving this through email.

What's your excuse?
Fire UP!