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The42 Gym Series: A new training programme to enlighten, motivate and inspire your workouts

We’ve teamed up with Smart Training to bring you seven weekly workouts designed to hit all parts of the body.

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IT’S THAT TIME of the year again — but let’s remove all the crap out of the ‘New Year, New You’ health phenomenon and cut straight to the chase.

We all want to make a positive change in our lives in some form or other, but there are ways and means to go about it.

Embarking on an unsustainable fitness journey with the intention of achieving unattainable results in the space of a few short weeks is, well, unsustainable.

When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, we’re probably all a little guilty of diving in at the deep end and complicating matters but strip it all back and improving your health and well-being — both physical and mental — requires time, effort and commitment.

There are no shortcuts. Exercise and healthy eating has to become your life, not part of it.

So we’re not going to recommend a four-week quick-fix plan which is supposedly designed to make the scales drop an inordinate amount and for you to develop muscles in places you didn’t know was even possible.

This is not a rigid plan we’re forcing you to adhere to for the next seven weeks. The42‘s Gym Series will hopefully enlighten, motivate and inspire your workouts and training this January.

We are not guaranteeing results between now and the end of the month and we are certainly not pushing this out as gospel. Living a healthy lifestyle is about adapting, flexibility and sustainability.

Use these seven workouts as your own, pick and choose exercises or simply take inspiration from them; do what you will but the idea of The42‘s Gym Series is to empower those of you who want to embark on a fitness journey and provide current and factual information to those already on it.

With the help of SMART Training, we’ve designed seven workouts of three exercises each to roll out over the course of the next two months.

This week, we’re focusing on chest and these are the following exercises we’re incorporating into our session:

  1. Incline dumbbell thumbs up chest press
  2. Hover plyo press-up
  3. Double arm flies 

Personal trainer, and former hockey international, Jonny Bruton guides us through each exercise and how to perform and execute them correctly in the above video.

Check out more from SMART Training on their website or on Facebook and Twitter.

Checklist: 8 things you need to do before embarking on your fitness journey

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    Jan 5th 2016, 5:24 PM

    Wife? 21? Really?

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    When I was 21 I was blowing shit up in the microwave ala Ian Henderson in a student house

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    Coutinho been married since he was 19 too I believe.

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    Jan 6th 2016, 1:00 AM

    Check her out, she’s an absolute lasher. I’d be wifing that at 21 as well.

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    Image of Bale

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    Jan 5th 2016, 8:31 PM

    Let’s hope he will be as good as Bale !

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    They say supposedly there’s around 7 people in the world who look exactly like you..

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    Yip. Lucky enough that mine is Ryan Gosling

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    Jan 5th 2016, 10:32 PM

    :D

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    He’d make more money as an impersonator

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    Jan 5th 2016, 5:26 PM

    Or even league one. Being on the books at a top prem club then going to league two is a massive drop down

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    Jan 5th 2016, 5:50 PM

    And probably offers us an insight into the actual level that this fella is at. He’s not going to league 2 for any other reason than he didn’t have any other options. He might rebound in a few years but I’ve a feeling that looking like Bale will be as close to a top footballer that he may ever be and I mean that as no slight against him, the odds of making it at the top level of football are in the high millions.

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    Jamie Vardy. ….

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    Jan 5th 2016, 5:22 PM

    Surely he could have been picked up by a championship club rather than having to drop down to league 2

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    Why would that be?

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    Jan 5th 2016, 5:24 PM

    You would think that. But here we are.

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    And york city are in last place

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    Jan 6th 2016, 1:01 AM

    Plot twist, Kenny is actually playing for Madrid and Bale is off to the metropolis of York.

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    Jan 6th 2016, 8:57 AM

    So it was Kenny who got Wales to euro 2016!!!

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    Jan 5th 2016, 10:32 PM

    Give him time, Alan Judge was in a similar situation when Blackburn. Now PL teams are interested in signing him.

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    Jan 5th 2016, 6:52 PM

    Hope ha can play like bale

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