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Thursday May 19th

How’s all your training targets going?

For example, if you are used to using the coastal path and your target has always been the outer reaches of the country park when cycling, then why aren’t you doing it now?!!!

If you are, what time are you clocking in for that trip? Do you test yourself say once a month to see how fast you can do it? I find this very beneficial when training people to enable me to check how they are doing, it also gives the individual concerned satisfaction in knowing that they are constantly improving.

If you never check yourself, then it’s a recipe for mediocrity in your training and your overall results full stop.

If you are a complete beginner, your initial aims need to be just to show up to your training sessions and showing an optimistic and positive attitude. When you’re actually doing something about your health and fitness, nobody can fault you for your attitude, and this is where it all begins.

We were all beginners sometime or another and its exactly the right time to remember that again, and why we got into exercising and eating properly in the first place.

None of us get it completely right either, none of us are perfect and we are there not to judge others. From my own perspective, my role is to help others, give individuals the benefit of my experience and to save people time getting into shape, and getting them there safely and without injury or strains of any kind, that’s always been the most important thing for me.

So basic things you can do to check yourself are get a measuring tape to check your waist and hip measurements, they are the key readings I ALWAYS look for!

It would be a good idea to buy a blood pressure machine too, they are cheap enough these days and will give you an accurate measure of your very important blood pressure AND resting pulse rate.

Back to your waist measurement, a simple way to check your health is take your height, say you were 5 foot which is 60 inches, and your waist should be a maximum of half that amount, if it isn’t then it needs to come down for all sorts of health reasons!

So if you are 5 foot tall, and 60 inches, your waist should be 35 inches or less.

If its not, then keep reading this and I will help you all the way or email me on fitness@kerimckibbin.co.uk

Twitt
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Debbie’s Comeback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Debbie’s going for it big time again, and following jean’s inspiring example, yes SHE CAN DO IT!!!!!

These are her words so far and im going to help her all the way, just like jean so lets go!

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Hi Keri and the Gang!!!!
 
I have made a fresh start thanks to my dear friend and motivator Keri McKibbin.
I met him at his gym yesterday afternoon, after making the decision to commit to getting on the right path again.
I have messed about for far too long, kidding myself that “it” would happen “one day soon”!!!
Hearing of Jean’s renewed efforts, which are paying huge dividends, I decided to grit my teeth and do the one thing I have been avoiding.
ADMIT I AM NOT DOING IT, AND JUST GET OUT THERE AND DO IT!!!!!!
 
Keri took me gently through my paces to assess my capabilities, planning a workout that will get me started but not put too much pressure on me.
I came out of there feeling positive, energised and committed. So much so that I also went to Zumba class last night, though I admit to feeling absolutely
knackered last night!!!  
I saw Jean at the gym working hard and looking good. See you there again soon, Jean. CYRIL come and join us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I asked Keri to have a look at my diet to see where I can improve. Unlike Jean, I am not going to count calories, prefering to cut my portions and eat healthy choices where possible.So, here is my menu for today, see what you think Keri :
 
B: 1 sl. wholemeal toast with banana on top.
L.: Mackerel with home made pasta salad/toms/rocket/cuc.
T: Home made spag bol made with wholemeal spag/steak mince/veggies
S: Apple/grapes   
Breakfast/Lunch/Tea/Snacks
 
There you go!! I can’t get to the gym today so going for a walk instead.
Will be at the gym tomorrow though.
See you there xxx “
Well done debs and we will go through the eating solutions tomorrow!!!
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May 18th

I love the attitude that we are going to stop messing around, stop pretending to work hard, stop pretending just because you have a gym membership you are somehow fit, stop pretending just because you read a few magazines suddenly you know everything about training, its time to get real right now and give yourself to hard and proper training, give yourself over to proper nutrition, proper supermarket shopping of good nutritious food, proper good eating in the week and ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSES to do well ths time-“this time” it IS going to happen!!!

Life is not easy all the time so lets stop pretending is. But life is not always so hard you havent got time to exercise, its never so hard that you HAVE to eat all the rubbish food because “you were stressed”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life is never THAT hard so lets stop using the same old excuses!!! Good food and good workouts will help you no end and help you reach the pinnacle of health that we are all after!!

Once you take all of the excuses out of your life, we go several miles forward in our aim of achieving the body of our dreams, and great health thrown in too, which is perhaps the most important thing of all!!!!!!

Life should be like that for all of you and im hear to help. Im really not in the mood for posers, you know the type who have all the gear and no idea, in fact most people i know who train well really don’t care for show offs of any kind!!! They are never the fittest of people and are usually far more concerned with their image. We are about hard work on here and making solid honest efforts and being proud of our progress!!!

Im not concerned with ANY shortcuts and false dawns of diet clubs, all im about is good hard and proper training done in the right way and CONSISTENTLY-This is the true secret of being successful, so if you want to get onboard and be the best you can be, then its really time to step up to the plate and get that weight off, get a lean harder body, get more energy in your life and really get fired up about life again, because i know i am and ready to help everyone!!!!!!

Email me with any questions on fitness@kerimckibbin.co.uk

Twitt
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May 17th 2011

Some of you are going through a fresh start at the moment, and that’s always a good thing.

Don’t look back at your failures of the recent past, you can learn from them. They can only be classed as failures IF you don’t learn from them, simple as that. They can be classed as “learning” experiences if you proceed with confidence in the future, knowing you’re not going to go back to the place that caused misery and unhappiness before.

Unfortunately, the process of putting on weight, then taking it off, then piling it back on and this time 5% more again, can be deeply distressing! Some of you have been through it a number of times, and it doesn’t make it any easier of course.

This is an opportunity to put them to rest, and tell yourself you simply won’t accept the faddy diets you used to go on, you won’t fall for buying a faddy piece of exercise equipment again that you never use, you wont accept mediocrity in your training attendance.

For example, how many times have you wondered how you’re putting weight on in a particular month, and if you go back through that month in your head, you would have realised you may have missed a lot of scheduled workouts, the one day a week drinking rule has become a two-three day a week rule, and your stricter eating habits have now become somewhat less than strict, and the one day a week “have what you like” rule has become a three to four day a week rule!!!

So coming back to our point, making a fresh start is exactly that, there is NO GOING BACK this time.

If you are focused on getting your mind and body in top shape, you have to choose which lifestyle you really want. Is it the pain of constant disappointment and regret? Or will you be brave and actually DO IT this time and make it sustainable for the rest of your life? No regrets and no going back, you have to remember that so lets go!!!!

Twitt