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54-YEAR-OLD Wayne Lèal taught his first fitness class over 30 years ago. He said “I've seen and heard enough diet and exercise rubbish to last a lifetime”. 20-21 is a fusion of callisthenics, yoga asana, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Meditation. His training is based on the premise that 20 minutes is the amount of time that a person can concentrate on a task without becoming distracted; and that creating a positive mental habit takes 21 days to improve your shape, strength and flexibility.

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Santé et bien-être

Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

Fitness

Health

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Publié par	Libri Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	26 mai 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781912969647
Langue	English

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20-21: Move Your Body Change Your Mind
Wayne Lèal

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First published in 2023 by Libri Publishing
Copyright © Wayne Lèal
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ISBN 978-1-912969-64-7
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Cover photo by Tony Harris

Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Lincoln Lèal 1946–1993

INTRODUCTION
‘People always say they should do this, they should do that, but few ever do’
MOST FAILURES ARE caused by a lack of confidence, lack of direction and negative thinking.
Success requires a change of attitude, and this will ultimately frame the person that you are.
The goal for success in any area of performance requires mental and physical change. Once you have set that long-term goal, it will always be there.
Move your body, change your mind. 20-21 provides the steps that are necessary to change the way you look, feel, think and communicate.
But before I go any further, let me say this at the very beginning. I am not a writer. And I will not pretend to be, but if you find yourself reading this, thank you.
By way of background, I wrote this book to log an essential part of my life fitness journey. There was a time when I lost my discipline following a near-fatal motorcycle accident and hip surgery. I had completely lost my will to exercise and needed to change how I exercised to kick start getting back into regular practice. This story is about me, my life and my training.
Until the operation, I trained clients, worked in the building trade, taught yoga classes, and was an unpaid assistant boxing coach at All Stars boxing club in Harrow Road, London. I am a certified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) coach. Fitness and mental strength were my business. It was a way of life, but I could not do it myself then.
I was making excuses to everyone about why I did not feel right to train the way I used to; it was me feeling sorry for myself. I also felt like a fraud because, for years, I had been telling everyone to dust themselves off and start again, and here I was, ready to give up. I then realised I had no accountability to anyone but myself and thought, what if I could set a specific time-frame for my healing process?
That was my light bulb moment to say, if I could find the discipline to do it for myself, then I could do it for others. Because discipline is the key to doing hard things, but it’s not just about making yourself do something you don’t want to do.
My hip story began two years before the operation when I rode my motorcycle to the boxing club. I knew the route to the gym from Fulham like the back of my hand, but that accounted for nothing when an Uber driver decided to make an illegal turn into a street with a no entry sign. His action caused me and my then 1200cc Buell motorcycle to hit him side-on at 30 mph, and I flew over the bonnet of his car upside down, as if in slow motion. I remember seeing the horror on his face as I tumbled over the bonnet of his car with my motorcycle in the sky above me before I landed on the opposite side of the road.
Luckily no cars were coming in the opposite direction. The last thing I could remember was hitting my head on the kerbside. Then it was lights out. I was knocked out cold, I’m not sure for how long. The next thing I knew was a paramedic shining a light in my eyes while his colleague attempted to put me in a neck brace. I was in and out of consciousness until we got to the hospital. While in my neck brace, I had no idea how they removed my crash helmet, but I lay there hearing the doctor talking to me. As he began inspecting my body, I had only one thing racing through my mind, and even though I could barely move my jaw because of the neck brace. I remember asking the doctor, ‘Is it still there?’ Because my body was numb below my waistline.
The doctor replied, ‘Is what still there?’ I replied through gritted teeth, ‘My cock.’ The handlebar of my motorcycle had caught me in the groin, and I could feel nothing. He paused, looked at me incredulously, and said, ‘Really?‘ I said life would not be worth living without it. At that point, I could see the ambulance paramedics and nurse doing their best to hold back their laughter when the doctor said yes, it’s still there.
Following the accident, I had no broken bones and recovered quickly. Sadly, my motorcycle was a write-off. The police charged the driver and, sometime later, it became a court case. At court, they ushered me to the witness waiting room. Quite a few people were there, and I asked, ‘Are you here for the motorcycle accident?’ They said they were and I thanked them for coming. At this point, they looked at me with shock. It turns out they came because they thought I had died, and felt a sense of duty to attend court. I will never forget their reaction and mine to this day.
Two years later, I began to experience excruciating low back and hip pain. I went to see a physiotherapist, a chiropractor, and an osteopath. They all had theories on why I was getting hip and low back pain. Separately they said that for my age, back pain is a ‘prevalent symptom that peaks in mid-life and is more common in women than men’. I thought, is that the best you could do? I’ve just invested my hard-earned cash, and that’s the best you could offer. Oh! I forgot each of them suggested that I should book further appointments. At the time, I said yes to everything to make the pain disappear.
I know that everybody gets back pain at some point in life, and for most it’s often a short-term episode that will resolve over time without needing specific treatment. But I was in the group where I had pain lasting months after the natural healing period – usually six weeks. It was labelled non-specific low back pain simply because they didn’t know what was causing it.
It was when I spoke to a pal who said why don’t you talk to a hip specialist – you’ve tried everyone else. Guess what? He was right.
It turned out that I didn’t have a problem with my back, and the specialist practitioners who saw me were wrong – I required hip surgery. The first surgeon I spoke to said there was no guarantee I could do high-level sports again. I did not want to hear that news, so I sought a second opinion. It was from Marcus Bankes, who proudly said, ‘I would do my job. The rest would be up to you to do yours’. I loved his confidence and knew I had found my hip surgeon. I went on to have hip resurfacing surgery – not a hip replacement.
Staying positive is something that many of us need help with. But exercise is one way to stay focused, and to do it every day following hip surgery was a real challenge. But, soon into the regular practice, my body started to look and feel much better. And my negativity was slowly diminishing too.
Setting myself a specific time frame gave me a clear objective to make a 20-minute yoga video. I also rebuilt my discipline habit based on the 21/90 rule. To commit to doing the practice for 21 straight days. I adapted my training and yoga practice, and many of the exercises I was doing were the same as other specialists were suggesting I should be doing.
I don’t have discipline made of iron, but I know it’s worth developing. It was not easy to wake up early while everyone else slept in their warm, cosy beds, but it was better than waking up with regrets and looking like a ‘Mr Blobby’. I also hope that what I do will encourage more people to exercise and help more men to take up yoga.