Keri McKibbin Personal Training

It’s not always easy to exercise and get into a routine, but staying in routine is all important.

You have two stark alternatives. Be your best and trust the process on how to do that, train at least 3 times a week, eat well 80% of the time and give good attention to rest and recuperation-PLUS vitally get human contact every day and with people who will LIFT your spirits and constantly encourage you.

OR

Accept your best days are somehow behind you (I wouldn’t listen to ANYONE who told me personally but your choice), and SCALE BACK your activities dramatically thinking it’s somehow going to be better for you, again fitting in with other people’s low expectations of you.

SO you have two choices, one to FIGHT every day and thrive and live your life on your own terms, be fit and strong and love all the amazing benefits that gives you

OR

Accept a poor quality of life, let pain invade your body and mind, and your body eventually seizing up with all the lack of movement you have somehow accepted for yourself.

Choices we all have, but to be truly free and have our own independence of thought to live the life we want and deserve depends on our efforts, attitude and our own grit and determination. The things worth getting in life are never easy. 

If someone tells you that exercise isn’t worth it, and you have undeniable PROOF of the great things you are doing and have done through training, then question WHY they are giving you such terrible advice because they certainly haven’t got your best interest at heart.

Exercise science is proven beyond all reasonable doubt, both for your body AND mind, but you will always get some people saying it’s not much good for you and will be often trying to put you off.

Almost in every case, people will tell you this because you are showing them up, they haven’t got the guts to stick at it themselves, they haven’t got the courage to give the big efforts you constantly do, and it’s easier to “shout from the sidelines” because they haven’t got the get up and go to be on the “field of playing being in the game” like you do every day.

My father started the gym in 1957 and even some doctors said even then “don’t go to the gym, it will give you high blood pressure and a bad heart”, this would be laughed at these days when we know now that people go to the gym to  ONLY help high blood pressure and only strengthen their heart, along with doing everything else to do their bodies and minds a lot of good.

If you are doing well with exercise and eating good food and only feeling amazing, then I urge you to stick at it, to show up regular and only enhance your quality of life and the way you feel.

Whilst most people should encourage you, be thrilled with your progress and only applaud you on your positive changes you’ve made in your life, accept you will always have a few who won’t always be happy with you doing well, and always remember it’s not you, it’s really them and their own insecurities.

I’ve done this for a very long time, and the improvements individuals make not only in health but the big improvements in self-esteem, self-confidence and simply being happier in life have always been staggering for me.

Stick to it, keep making positive changes in your life, and ignore the doubters, the naysayers and the ones so not happy with their own lives than they only want you to fail to justify their own lack of effort and ambition

Don’t lose the fire in your belly to do great things because you have negative people around you who don’t really want you to make anything of yourself-keep being the inspiration to everyone around you and do your best to stay clear of all the toxic influences in your life who are selfish enough NOT to want the best for you.