Muhammad Ali - Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

You Just can’t help loving this guy, watch Muhammad Ali in this video - It’s Fantastic.

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The lightness and Swiftness and Quickness in his feet together with his lightning hand speed are just remarkable, even shows us the “Ali Shuffle” too.

Something everyone should think about is “Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life”, it’s a book that recently hit bookshelves and written by Shawn Phillips.

I was a big fan of one of Shawn’s previous books ABSolution: The Practical Solution for Building Your Best Abs and also “Body for Life” by Shawn’s brother Bill Phillips.

Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength was great in explaining many of the fundamentals of Fitness training and nutrition in a way that is understood by everyday people. The nutrition side was certainly an important aspect for me to understand and had helped me to make some important changes in my life.

Body for Life also introduced goal setting to me, encouraging that we not only make long term goals but weekly and even daily goals, more importantly it helps you to monitor whether you are achieving these short term goals.

Achieving these many small goals really help to make the much larger, long term goals more attainable. This whole concept can be applied to any area of your life and not just applied to your Fitness or Health plan.

I have only read a few chapters of “Strength for Life” so far but already I’m finding it to be a riveting read. There are many things that are put into perspective. One of those is how Health is a choice, whether, you decide on making a conscious effort towards good health or just drifting through life and see what happens. Strength for Life is based around FIT - Focus Intensity Training and goes into detail regarding the Power of Focus.

Regardless of where you are at now, I highly recommend these books as a “MUST READ”, one of the other important factors they teach you is that fitness is relative to you, where you are at now and where you want to be, not comparing you with anyone else but you.

These books also explain how simple you can make this and does not require a great deal of time to incorporate a fantastic, effective program into your lifestyle and allow you to gain great benefits just as tens of thousand of people have by using the information that is made available to you.

Wherever you are at now, grab yourself a copy and put the information to work and become another one of the success stories.

As we grow older, the need for exercise and good nutrition becomes even more important, if you don’t understand why then it’s time to find out.

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Muhammad Ali is still one of my favourite Fighters, he was without doubt one of the greatest fighters ever.

I also love some of the Muhammad Ali Quotes, but this one in particular, I really like -

” I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life”.

What a truly great attitude to have!

100 Push Ups is a good little challenge for anyone. The single exercise is great for working many parts of the body. The Chest, Triceps and core are the main muscles called upon. There are also many variations for the exercise to make them even more of a challenge.

If 100 Push Ups is too many for you to do in one go then break it down into sets of whatever is comfortable for you. 10 sets of 10, 5 sets of 20, 2 x 40’s and a 20 etc.

As a little bit of inspiration for you, take a look at this video. Once again the main star of the show is “Pretty Boy Bam Bam” Watch and see for yourself, personally I think he is incredible and if you have not watched the video on Boxing Training Tips, see him in action on my post covering that too.

100 Push Ups (I forgot to mention - by a 5 year old kid too)

Keep on Going! Give 100 Push Ups a try for yourself

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There are times when life becomes tough, when training becomes hard, we meet obstacles, adversity, misfortune, hardship or unexpected challenges. Times when we need that little extra push, times when we really need to dig deep and find some extra strength from somewhere.

There are some truly fantastic inspirational quotes in sport, from people who have been through the mill themselves. I have added some of my personal favorites inspiration quotes in sport below.

When times become a little challenging for you then just think about a couple of these inspirational quotes -

“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days into a life of action, and purpose”.
Lance Armstrong - 7 Time Tour de France winner

“The pain won’t last forever, but the memory will”.
John Maclean - Champion Australian Athlete (The first wheelchair athlete to finish the Hawaiian Ironman)

“The biggest fight is the one within yourself. You must get rid of any negative thoughts or emotions. You must always be Positive”.
Kostya Tszyu - Former Undisputed World Champion Australian Boxer

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision. They have to have the skill and will. But the will must be stronger than the skill”.
Muhammad Ali - Former World Champion Boxer

“Plan your Work, then work your plan”.
George Foreman - Former World Champion Boxer

Some great people with some great advice. You’ve gotta love those Inspirational quotes in Sport. Next time you think it’s getting a bit tough just stop and think about a couple of them and get back to it.

Train Hard - Fightwize!