Trtle Event, Transformations & Working in The Shadows
Good morning everyone. First of all, we had another turtle event on Saturday in Orangetheory and it was awesome. So thanks everybody for coming, to people that came on their own because it takes guts to do it. You know, you come all the way there on your own to a fitness class with people you might have met, some of them most people you haven't before. So massive props to people that did that.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, thanks for coming and and, you know, pushing yourself. You know, people like Leanne Moon. Leanne, shout out to you. You know, you got 51 splat points. You pushed through some painful injuries or whatever you had on your feet, blisters and stuff.
Speaker 1:Fair play. Fair play. But what I love about classes like that, you know, the vibes beforehand is like, oh, is it gonna be hard? And, like, ah, people like, oh, it's not too bad. I was like, look, it's solid, guys.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie. It can be as hard as you want it to be, obviously. But, you know, before, it ever has been nervous and you've been fearful or whatever. And I remember a quote by Greg Plitt, right, and he talks about and I I wanna see him live once. He's he's passed away now, unfortunately, but he was one of the OG fitness kind of motivators.
Speaker 1:And he always used to say stuff like, you know, when you got fear, right? Fear, it's like energy, it can't be created nor destroyed. You know, the law of thermodynamics, only gonna be converted from one form to another. And he says when you got fear before something, like a skydive or a big work or whatever, you got that fear. After you get over that fear, it converts it converts from fear into exhilaration and excitement and just this positive massive avalanche of positivity and you feel amazing and you want to do it again, maybe not straight away but you want to do it again.
Speaker 1:And you feel amazing. You add an endorphins to that and you just feel unbelievable. And I think a lot of people experienced that after the session. Were like, know what? That was solid.
Speaker 1:And if you had told me it was that hard beforehand, wouldn't have done it. But loved it after it. So I think it's important that we do keep that in mind that we, fear is obviously made up in the mind but you can convert it once you overcome it it does convert into complete ecstasy in some sorts of sense sometimes. So that was awesome. But yeah, I think it's amazing to see everybody there, people there for a birthday as well, having drinks.
Speaker 1:We had a cake and cupcakes and we just, you know, spoke for hours after that and it's good to speak to everybody in a sense like not just about fat loss and strength. Do know I mean? We're all human beings. So we don't do this improvement stuff to just be robotic. We do it to try and, you know, improve our lives obviously.
Speaker 1:We're still humans. We wanna have fun. Wanna have drinks. We wanna enjoy ourselves. So it was really good to see everybody after the event and talk to everyone.
Speaker 1:I think good some good ideas are coming through like Jocelyn I thank you for ideas about you know explaining the community has morphed into more than just health in terms of in terms of fat loss and stuff. It's morphed into, you improving your life really. So we'd be doing like a personal development stuff soon, weekly thing. Think it'll be awesome. I'd love to do that with everyone.
Speaker 1:So we'll start doing that. But yeah, just seeing everybody meet in again. I think people did meet obviously in the run. But I was outside and it was like, you know, probably a bit less time, but a lot of people were there for the weekend and just amazing to see the bonds and people have. It's unbelievable, like, know, the what I love is the different age ranges of people together.
Speaker 1:Just I love it. Like, I think it's so rare. You go to school, you have people the same age as you. You go to uni, people the same age as you. The only time you actually mingle with people not in the same age as you is either in work, but then they're kind of just colleagues, or if you live in a village and you go to the local club, there's people there drinking from age maybe 16, 18 to 60 to 70 and you kind of guess some conversation between people who aren't family members of different age groups.
Speaker 1:And you think of think about it, how how weird that is that there's not much of a cross kind of like dialogue going on between different age groups these days that aren't family. And that's I think that's where you lose a lot of, I wouldn't say like wisdom but well maybe, but you just lose a lot of like, well different dynamics, I mean. I think it's, it's something it's quite sad. So that's an amazing thing that's come from Turtles. So we're gonna do more events guys.
Speaker 1:We're gonna do more. We're gonna do Snowdon next October I think it is. If you wanna come you can still put your name down. We're gonna be doing one in Scotland. And we're gonna try and do like fitness group classes as well, in different parts of The UK.
Speaker 1:So we can kind of replicate that Orange Theory Day, in different places, ideally in Orange Theory Studios. But you know, I don't think they got them all over The UK at the moment, but we'll try and do that with you guys. And it was a was a rare occasion because we did we got, so it was Prima, Crystal and Jackie were in a portal together for the first time since they won the Octagon Challenge, last year. And honestly, the transformations I know we've we've we've we've shown the transformations many times, but just to reiterate like that the transformation happened maybe within six months you saw the a big change and you kept going and going and going. So Crystal, Jackie, and Prima, you still managed to even to today still improve and stuff, right?
Speaker 1:But if you if you're someone now thinking, oh, I don't know if I can do this change, don't know if I can do it. Trust me like what you can do in a year if you stick to something, engage with the community, have the support of everyone, right, and you stick to the plan, you can completely change yourself. Right? Not to say you should you should always just think that you're not good enough now or whatever but just know that Crystal, Prima, Jackie, all of us, right, we're all human beings, we're all the same, none of us are better than anyone else. We've all got the same in a sense, we've got many of us who've got the same types of struggles in life, we've got the struggles of working and financial stuff and you know relationships and all our stuff.
Speaker 1:Of course some people have got tougher things than others but in general we're all trying to do our best. We're all lost in this life. We're all trying to do our best and get through it. But the difference is right you've got to be comfortable doing the work in the shadows. Okay?
Speaker 1:And this is what Jackie, Prima, and, Crystal have obviously done right. So you see now the final transformation and it's it's it's beautiful, it's blossomed. It's like wow what a transformation right. What you don't see when you see pictures like her is the going for going for steps on days when it's raining, doing a workout when you don't feel like doing it, tracking your macros when you ah, do I want to track? Do I want to do it?
Speaker 1:Prepping some meals, making sure you're getting a meal prepping. And in Octagon we're doing running, going on those runs when you felt unfit. I don't like it, can't run. Right? No one's there to watch.
Speaker 1:There's no crowd there. There's no Instagram photos being taken all. Go and go on and get likes and stuff. It's all done in silence in the shadows. Okay?
Speaker 1:And doing work in the shadows is the most powerful thing you're gonna do with your life and that goes for everything. Right? It's easy easy easy to do stuff when people are watching. Right? When you're there people watching, know, a boss comes in, you're doing work when he's there.
Speaker 1:Easy because he's got he's looking at you. Right? It's easy to work out or like go out and take photos and have like the kind of end result show. And a lot of people are willing, happy enough to just have the image of success online as opposed to the work in the shadows behind it as well. It's all a fugazi.
Speaker 1:It's all nonsense. So the lesson for you today is like these transformations and seeing them all not just those three and you're saying those are the optimal winners. But seeing all the people in Orange Theory change not just physically and mentally, right? You cheat it, right? Your body and your mindset is the end result of you working really hard on yourself, right?
Speaker 1:You can't cheat it like you can cheat. Of course, you go to Instagram, put a photo and edit it up and you can look on Instagram, whatever you can change, right? You can kind of cheat looking rich on Instagram or on social media. You've got you've got loads of money when maybe you don't, so on credit. You can look like you've got your life together.
Speaker 1:But what you can't cheat is a healthy strong mind and body in the flesh, okay? And that takes working in shadows. One of my favorite examples of this is there was a bodybuilder called Dorian Yates, he's from England. So he won the Mr. Olympia like six times.
Speaker 1:So the Mr. Olympia is every year, it's the one that Al Swashnager won back in the seventies. It's like, know, massive bodybuilding competition. So in the nineties, had loads of bodybuilders. The Americans were steamrolling everyone.
Speaker 1:Everyone was like, the Americans are winning all the time. And this guy comes out of nowhere, Doreenier from England, he wins the title. Okay? After he wins the title, he then goes back to England, disappears. Right?
Speaker 1:Disappears. Nobody knows where he is. Nobody knows, what he's doing for training. He just trains in the in in his dungeon gym, right, in I think maybe Birmingham, whatever it was, grungy gym, and he's training there. He doesn't care about going on the magazine and stuff.
Speaker 1:He just said and he comes back a year later, people are shocked. He's bigger. He's leaner. He wins again. And he gets the nickname, the shadow.
Speaker 1:That was his nickname because nobody nobody was seeing the work he was doing, but he was working like mad. I just love that kind of manifestation of what working in the shadows was. He didn't care about the limelight of the magazines and doing his interviews and photo shoots and all that. He just wanted to work. He just knew that if he did that work every day, he will turn up the next year.
Speaker 1:The other people would have been focusing on the the magazine shoots and being like famous bodybuilders and doing all these supplement campaigns. And he knew if he just did his work every day in that gym, in that darkness, in the shadow, he would win. He did. He won six times in a row and then that was it. So your lesson today, be comfortable working in the shadow, working on your own because that's what is the difference between people that succeed and people that don't.
Speaker 1:Example of this and a few more examples maybe. So for me, I've always been comfortable working on my own in the shadow of computer researching, working all our stuff and I can do it. Four more doesn't take over me and I do have to fight it sometimes but like right now when it's raining I feel it's slightly easier to work because you're like oh you don't to compete with should I go in the sun and make the most of it, should I work? No there's no alternative. It's like get inside, get the work done.
Speaker 1:Another example is so Vanessa G's, husband, Papa G, Ed, he works in producing films and all that stuff like that. And he's got a little, Vanessa, he's got a little man cave where he just does all those reading all scripts, looking at looking all the things, looking at the details. Right? Doing all this kind of work analysis and stuff on his own in the man cave, you know, every day, right? That's not glamorous, isn't it?
Speaker 1:It's not glamorous at all. But what is most glamorous is when the final project comes together and people are like, oh, it's amazing. You must love it. Yeah. Of course, I love it.
Speaker 1:But you haven't seen all the work that I've been doing on my own before that happened. And that's the same Crystal, Jackie, Prima, all the other amazing transformations. They've had to do this. There's no way around it. Right?
Speaker 1:There's no way around it. So if you want success for health and fitness and in your life in general, be comfortable doing this. And that's your lesson this week is to do the work when nobody's watching. To tell yourself this is what people have had to do. I'm going to push through and do it because you too can transform to whatever you wanna be.
Speaker 1:You can be who you wanna be. You can do it. You can change if you want to change. And it can happen. Look, the slower you military saying slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Speaker 1:Whilst we do go slow with Turtle, we take it one day at a time. By doing so, we're actually getting towards that end goal faster because we go slower, the gains are more permanent, the changes are permanent, and it's not like an extreme fix. It's a lifestyle change. When you do get that golden egg and you've done that transformation and you don't let it go and you look at other ways to improve and you look at this and that and that, it's a beautiful thing. It's a very beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:So I hope that sticks with you. And I wanna thank you all again for tuning up on Sheery. We're gonna conquer Wales next. And yeah, I will see you all in the voice note tomorrow. But book club this week, are starting The School of Life by Alain de Botton and reading to page 40 by Thursday, please everyone.
Speaker 1:And that's it. The sun has gone. It's time to catch up with work we missed out because we're in the sun. But, yeah, enjoy yourself. Get your steps in today, Track your macros, kind of volume you need do to get back on that momentum, build that momentum up, and, watch those results come over time.
Speaker 1:Trust the process and trust yourself.
