Soar Performance Training

Sometimes the best progress doesn’t show up on the scales.

Yesterday, Kay was at the playground with her 3-year-old grandchild when she was told:
“Grandma, you must be training really hard… because you’re getting much faster!” 🩵

And THAT is what it’s all about.

Getting stronger. Moving better. Having more energy. And being able to keep up with the people who matter most.

That’s training for life. 💪

The goal might start with losing 5kg, getting stronger or simply feeling fit again.

But the real goal is bigger than that.

It’s building habits you can maintain when motivation disappears and life gets busy.
Do that for long enough and something changes…
You’re no longer someone who is constantly trying to get fit.
You become someone who trains, looks after their body and sees themselves as a fit and healthy person.

That’s the goal.
Not another 12 week transformation followed by another restart.
A change that lasts. 💪

22kg down. Under 100kg for the first time in over 30 years. 🙌

But as good as those numbers are, they’re not the best part of this story.

The biggest win is that training, eating well and looking after himself are no longer things he has to constantly think about.
They’ve become habits. A way of life.

And even when life got bloody tough, he just kept showing up. Time after time. 👊

That’s what real, lasting change looks like. 🙌👊💪

Somewhere along the way, we started treating hard like it was a bad thing.

But hard doesn’t mean bad.
Sometimes it simply means what you’re trying to achieve is going to require effort, consistency and patience.
Whether it’s your health, your fitness, your career or your relationships, the things worth having rarely come without some work.

And maybe that’s the point.

Because the reward isn’t just getting where you wanted to go.
It’s who you become doing the hard things required to get there.

Don’t avoid hard.
Get better at hard.

Plant-based iron might not be absorbed as easily as heme iron, but there are some simple ways to change that. 🌱

🍓 Pair iron-rich foods with vitamin C
☕ Keep coffee and tea away from iron rich meals
🍳 Try cooking with cast iron, particularly with acidic foods

Small changes that can help you get more from the iron already in your diet.

🥩 Is the iron in meat really “better” than the iron in plants?

It’s true that heme iron from animal foods is generally absorbed more easily than non-heme iron from plants.
But more easily absorbed doesn’t automatically mean better.

Your body can regulate the absorption of plant-based iron depending on how much it needs, and foods like lentils, beans, tofu, pumpkin seeds and leafy greens bring plenty of other nutritional benefits along for the ride.
So yes, plant iron is different. But “less absorbable = inferior” is way too simplistic.

And in Part 2, we’ll look at a very easy way to dramatically improve its absorption.