LEP Fitness

Best summer of my life summed up in a few pictures 👉🏻

One of the most powerful lessons I learned about 25 years ago was compound interest...

And I’m not just talking about money

The principle with money is pretty simple...

Save... invest... keep adding to it... give it enough time... and eventually your money starts making money

But somewhere along the way I realised...

Life works exactly the same way

Your physique compounds...

Your knowledge compounds...

Your skills compound...

Your business compounds...

Your relationships compound...

Almost everything worthwhile in life is built through small actions repeated over a long enough period of time

I’ve been training for over 20 years...

My physique wasn’t built from one amazing workout... or one perfect 12-week transformation

It was built from thousands of pretty normal workouts 😂

Thousands of walks...

Thousands of decent meals...

Thousands of times doing the basics when nobody was watching

And I think social media has completely distorted our perception of this...

We see somebody with an amazing physique... a successful business... financial freedom... incredible skills...

And we see the result

We don’t see the compound interest that created it

The early mornings...

The studying...

The investments...

The mistakes...

The boring days...

The thousands of hours where nothing particularly exciting happened

You might look at somebody you went to school with and think...

How the hell have they managed to do that?

But you’re looking at today’s result...

Not the last 10... 15... 20 years of deposits

And fitness is exactly the same

Stop looking for the workout that’s going to transform your body...

Stop looking for the perfect diet...

Stop thinking in 30-day challenges...

Train...

Walk...

Eat well...

Sleep...

Then wake up tomorrow and make another deposit

Whether you want to build an incredible physique... become financially free... build a business... become a better footballer... or master a skill...

The principle is the same

Small actions...

Repeated consistently...

For a very long time

Play the long game ❤️

Nick

38 lessons at 38... 🎈

1 - Keep going... you never know what’s coming
2 - Family is everything
3 - Marrying Sally & becoming a dad are my biggest achievements
4 - Noah & Darcey have taught me more than any book
5 - Kids don’t need a perfect dad... just a present one
6 - Watching your kids discover life helps you rediscover it
7 - The little things are the big things
8 - Relationships have ups & downs... weather the storms
9 - Don’t make permanent decisions on temporary feelings
10 - You’ll mess up... I certainly have 😂
11 - Messing up at uni wasn’t the end
12 - Failure isn’t the end
13 - You can reinvent yourself
14 - Your past doesn’t define your future
15 - Discipline beats motivation
16 - Keep showing up... you’ll get good
17 - Confidence comes from keeping promises to yourself
18 - Progress doesn’t require perfection
19 - One bad day doesn’t need to become a bad week
20 - Your health is your wealth
21 - Look after your body... you’ll need it
22 - Fitness is about more than looking good
23 - Getting older is a privilege... but jeez you notice it 😂
24 - Business has chapters... adapt
25 - Hard times build character
26 - Money matters... pretending it doesn’t is BS
27 - Money gives you security, freedom & choices
28 - Time is one of the greatest forms of wealth
29 - Success means little with nobody to share it with
30 - Kids watch what you do... not what you say
31 - Reward effort & attitude... not just results
32 - Let your kids become who THEY want to be
33 - The older I get, the less I care what people think
34 - Nobody thinks about you as much as you think 😂
35 - Don’t waste today worrying about tomorrow
36 - Most things work themselves out
37 - Trust the timing
38 - I’m 38 & still figuring this s**t out 😂

I’m not where I thought I’d be at 38...

In some ways I’m ahead... in others I’ve work to do

But I’ve got a wife I love... 2 amazing kids... my health... a business I’m proud of... & a life younger me would be happy with

Maybe lesson 39... look around occasionally & appreciate how far you’ve come

Here’s to 38 ❤️

Bono called… “he wants his sunglasses back?” 🤣…making the most out of the last week of summer holidays ❤️

The kids wanted to draw monsters today 🤣🙈…

It’s safe to say I won’t be giving up coaching to become an artist 👨‍🎨 🤣

Was impressed with Noah’s though 💪🏻

Happy days ❤️

“I could write you a plan on the back of a napkin right now... & you’d get great results”

A coach said this to me about 15 years ago...

I’d met him at an event and we got talking about my physique goals

I asked how much it would cost to work with him...

£4,000 for the year

Which 15 years ago felt like an unbelievable amount of money 😂

So I said to him...

I don’t mean this disrespectfully... but you’ve just told me you could write me a plan on a napkin in 10 minutes that would get me great results...

So how can you justify charging £4,000?

I’ll never forget his answer...

“Because it’s taken me 30 years to be able to write that plan on a napkin”

And that stuck with me...

Because when you pay for a great coach... you’re not really paying for the plan

The plan might only take an hour to write...

You’re paying for everything that came before it

The mistakes they’ve made...

The people they’ve coached...

The problems they’ve solved...

The thousands of hours they’ve spent learning their craft...

The years they’ve spent on the gym floor...

For me personally... I’ve delivered well over 15,000 one-to-one coaching sessions

I’ve spent nearly 20 years coaching people...

I’ve invested well into six figures into my own education and coaching...

And I’ve made more mistakes and learned more lessons than I could ever count 😂

So when I look at someone’s physique... their lifestyle... their goals... their limitations...

And I know what I’d do pretty quickly...

It’s not because the answer is easy

It’s because it’s taken me nearly 20 years to recognise it

Sometimes you’re not paying someone for their time...

You’re paying them for the time it took them to know what to do with yours

Nick