Should there be only one 6 o clock?!

Monday morning 6AM, the alarm goes off and it's go time...up and ready to be in the gym with the rest of the squad or am I?! Could you do it?! Would you do it?! What a way to start the week, knowing that at 8.30am on Monday morning as you sit physically destroyed and feeling slightly sick that you have another full week ahead of you! Project after project, deadline after deadline, crit after crit is it even possible I ask???

Then when you somehow pull yourself through the week, surviving the work, the training, the game, the hits, the euphoria and the devastation as it all becomes too much, you get to Friday. Eyes puffy, mouth sandy dry you rub the sleep from first the right eye and then the left to squint towards the time on the cracked phone screen...6AM. It starts again, in the gym for 7, ready to smash your legs to pieces with the rest of the boys, effectively writing the weekend off as walking anywhere becomes a chore...

Then somewhere you have to fit in the downtime, Wednesday afternoon basking in the euphoria of victory, Wednesday night in ridiculously brilliant fancy dress, Friday night, the moments that make it all worthwhile?! I'm no expert but the copious amounts of snakebite consumed whilst shimmying across the packed dancefloor must have many negative effects but it is needed to allow us all to get up and do it all again next week.

I'll leave you with a few quotes that help me through the tough bits...it's a fact that in life you get out what you put in, I've worked myself into the ground at points to get where I sit now in all aspects of life and I don't intend to stop until I get to where I want to be...and I'll know that when I arrive there...anyway I digress: -

"The fight is won or lost far from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" Muhammad Ali.

"Yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, so what you gonna do today?"

and last but certainly not least,

"If you want to be Number 1, you have to train like Number 2."

I'll be doing it as long as my body and my brain allow it, would you?