04/01/2026
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It seems everyone is doing it from celebrities to your everyday Tom, Dick and Harry.
I haven't yet decided if I'll do one yet. Maybe I might nearer the end of the month, maybe I won't
New year, New you ? Haha - that's a story for another post.
It's great that people set goals but maybe you are already good enough and just need to make some tweaks.
Why Jan 1st just to start thinking about changing everything up.
I'm going to be honest, the last 5 years since Covid and 2020 have been really tough for me.
I don't know if it's been a struggle for everyone else ?
Some of the things I'm proud of are I've kept my business going and also kept my fitness and health up.
Over that time ZEN have helped hundreds of people get into great shape, lose weight, build strength and maybe even save lives.
We won awards and helped Clients get some amazing results and transformations for their health, fitness and strength.
We had many social events for our Clients.
The last 4/5 years my focus hasn't always been working on myself.
I could have done a lot more in terms of building ZEN up, but maybe with what I was going through it wasn't possible as had little time for myself and development.
I put a lot of energy into helping others including Gintare when she wasn't well.
Most of the time I felt tired and in survival mode during that period.
The first pic is the kind of shape I'm in now. I put on about 7/8kgs of weight on over November and December.
This was taken the beginning of October 2024. One month after my sweetheart Gintare passed away.
Just shortly after she died I continued working and bringing new clients on board.
I increased my training from 3 x a week to 5 x a week and kept consistent with important things like hydration and sleep.
I hardly drank and didn't smoke or do any drugs ๐
I used to smoke 20 a day, but gave that up back in September 2000 after my daughter was born.
I've not smoked for 25 years now.
My diet has been pretty good on the whole.
Very little of my diet has processed food. Maybe the odd pizza and odd takeaway here and there over the last year and a half
The last pic was taken in 2025 and was the kind of shape I maintained throughout that year. I did do my own body transformation which I've not wanted to share up to now.
Finally now after 5 years I feel like I'm getting the hunger and drive back to put myself forward and go after opportunities.
I'd like to start posting more and sharing my knowledge that I've learnt over the last 15 years.
I've not really done that since 2020.
I've found it almost impossible to post anything positive on social media about what I've done, including my own body transformation and strength gains. That's also included sharing knowledge about health and fitness.
It's a bit of a long post but maybe sharing something about myself is a way back for me ๐ช
