Check out the latest blog from one of our Core Brand Ambassadors, Chantelle Grove from Durban.

And so another year comes to an end... Some glad to see the end and yet some wishing it would go on forever. Whether good or bad, 2011 are full of memories made and lessons learnt. For some of us, lessons that were shaped through marriage and children and for others, through heart break of failure. Yet it doesn’t really matter which journey you took into 2012, but that you made it and that you’re still standing with your head up, ready to face the next twelve months with excitement, perhaps with a little fear, either way or both ways, it is a new start for each and every one of us.

Some of you have done your yearly sit down with a pen and piece of paper and jotted down your new year resolutions.  Some of you have decided to steer away from resolutions and just go with the flow.  I for one have decided to skip my yearly resolutions and have decided, that instead of writing down a list of things I need to do, to wake up every morning and live my life to the fullest.

2011 marks a year of heartbreak, it marks a year of lots of downs, many mistakes and expensive lessons learnt, but I stand at the end of it smiling.  I haven’t lost who I am, I haven’t changed as a person, and I haven’t sold myself short – not once.  I am proud of taking the bull by the horns and making my dreams come true one step at a time and therefore I look back at 2011 and I smile, because it also marks a year of victory, the year that I moved to Durban after dreaming about it for years.  It also marks the year that I became part of the Muscle Science team and that through that the year that I got to meet many people that will become very dear friends of mine.  So, both lows and highs bring me where I am today and I welcome 2012 with great expectations.

With new coach, new diet and new training programme, I look forward to step back into gym on Monday.  I am very proud to have such an amazing team of people behind me and so many people following my progress, I am excited to walk this journey with each of you and I hope that I won’t disappoint. Bulking phase is definitely my favourite part of the process, my body loves protein loading and heavy weight lifting and like a kid, I wake up every day with a big smile on my face.  I also can’t wait to get back to taking my supplements; I’ve missed my pre-workouts and those yummy chocolate protein shakes.  I have some great ideas for recipes that I want to try out this year and I will be sure to share it with all of you.  Back to the kitchen full time to prepare my meals every week, this usually ends up in all sorts of yummy, interesting adventures.  Dieting is never boring in my house, so watch this space and I will try my best to make your dieting a little more adventurous.

Here is to an amazing 2012! Let’s stick to the plan, follow our dreams, reach our goals and never ever look back.  Let’s take all our lessons learnt, all our memories made and everything else that brought us here and let’s make it work for us and in doing so making 2012 bigger and better and a million times greater than 2011 ever could be!! Here is to you, here is to me, and here is to the birth of new legends!!