Loosing everything gave Mathew Jones the strenght to turn his life around….
In the space of six days in May 2007, mathew Jones lost his job, his flat and his fiancee. He was close to losing his life, too.
I was drinking a botle of vodka a day, and probably snorting an eighth of a gram of coke every day, too. My whole world fell apart, and it was sink or swim.
he swam. His was in the Welsh Guards for 28 years and knows about the benefits of a disciplined fitness regime. Mathew moved in for what amounted to five weeks of basic traimning. He pointed out how from a certain point to a gatepost and then back again was three quarters of a mile, and the first time I walked it, it took nine minutes. he built a makeshift gym, and I did basic weights and hit a heavy bag. It ws tough, but exercise became crucual to my wellbeing. Then I came back to Brighton, where I live. I stayed with a friend and he showed me some more weight exercises.
At the start of 2008, his ex-partner moved away from the area, taling their young son with her.
That was a hammer blow, and in the past i would have coped with it by going back to the sauce. Instead I decided, Lets step this up.
He joined ZT fitness in Hove, a gym run by top UK mixed martial artist Sol Gilbart. Progress was swift.
It is a no-frills gym. People there are serious about what they do, and they helped me. I am in six days a week, and every six to eight weeks I change what I am doing. The body adapts. My body adapted to the abuse I had inflicted on it, now I inflict something more positive on it.
These days Mathew works for BUPA International selling medical insurrance – an irony of sorts – and he does not drink or take drugs.
I am not all, I will never dring again. It is all about balance. This all had to happen, though. Sometimes you have to lose everything on life to let others things in. What happened was a blessing in disguise – a very heavy disguise.
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