I asked Danny to write up what he told me this morning, and I want to share it with you. Here goes:

Regardless of our goals, be it to lose weight, run a mile, run 10 miles, work out 3 times a week, make more sales calls, whatever, each day, each 24 hour period plays a vital role…To build to running a mile you may have to go out and run 1 lap each day for 5 days….to lose weight it would be to eat smart AND exercise – each DAY, each day that you successfully complete that component, look in the mirror and tell yourself, “Well done” …. It’s a cliche, but the old saying “nothing succeeds like success” works! Nobody else may be aware how hard you are working to achieve your goal, but YOU know. So tell yourself each day, reinforce the ‘good’ that you did EVERY DAY! Look in the mirror at the end of the day when you are brushing your teeth and tell yourself, “Good job”…reinforce the GOOD, each day, every day. If you screw up, have a bad day, drop the ball – whatever, tell yourself, “Today’s gone, just a speed bump, tomorrow – back in the saddle” and do NOT look back. Each morning tell yourself, “today’s the day” and if you string enough good days together, regardless of your goal, one day today WILL be the day! Make you believe in you, one day at a time!

Your body is a remarkable machine – it adapts to whatever stress it is presented and OVER TIME adapts to meet that stress. People start lifting weights, they aren’t bulging with new muscles in 3 days, you start a diet, you don’t lose your weight in a week. You begin a running program, it takes 7 weeks to build from zero to a 5K (doing it smartly). As you progress in any physical discipline the body adapts, but it also ‘learns’ to operate in the most efficient manner possible. So we need to continually ’surprise’ it with easy days and more difficult days (work out wise). For ex. if a man goes out and runs 5 miles a day he will burn up an average of 800 calories +/- each run. After a while the body will adapt and he’ll only be burning 400 or so each run. So keep variety – run 3 miles one day, 5 another, then 6, then 4 and AVERAGE 25 miles a week! One day lift heavy (heavy weight/low reps) and the next session reverse that (low weights – high reps). The body responds best when it is continually ’surprised’. For ex. if your run hard one day, easy another, long another, etc. the body will gear up for max energy burn for EVERY run because it doesn’t know what’s coming…keep it guessing for best results…..

To learn more about Danny, visit his website at: http://www.rununiversity.com/meetdanny.html