Keri McKibbin Personal Training

The world has made us “rationalise” effort or even lack of it.

We emerged as humans having to hunt for our daily food that would nourish us well.

These days we are encouraged to have fast food that over time is harmful to our health, delivered through an app on our phones.

We all struggle with how much we should be doing every day, because we can always “compare” ourselves with those who don’t do as much as we do.

I had to mow my lawn today, thoughts went through my mind (especially as rain was very near), should I do just half today, put the rest off until tomorrow? Should I put it off until friday when it’s meant to be sunny? I carried on and did it anyway because experience taught me that if I didn’t get it done when I had the chance, then it would likely slip to next week.

If I rationalised too much, people would advise me to get one of those robot mowers?

Before buying this mower, I spoke to one of the guys who sells the mower on behalf of the company, I asked him which one to get. Was the one that propelled itself the easiest and best I asked him?

He said “yes probably for easiness”, but he was 65 now and he said he still had the heaviest one because it was good exercise for him every week, gave the best stripes on his lawn, and didn’t want to give into technology too much as if he did, he knew his body and mind would soon go into decline.

We all know that exercising at least 3 times a week will do us good, physically and for our mental health. We all know that making bigger efforts to overcome challenges build our grit and resilience to even bigger life challenges to come.

In a world where we can make life as “easy as possible” often without leaving the house, eating ultra processed food and not moving much, deep down we know it’s not the “easy option” at all, especially if we want to keep avoiding ill health, physical pain in our bodies and mental health issues from not experiencing positive human contact on a daily basis.

There has never been a better time to get back to challenging ourselves, seeing how much reserves we really have to get us ready for any of life’s challenges, and fully testing our bodies and minds to make us much more resilient to anything that comes our way.

Keep your standards high, be the best you can be, sometimes doing things the hard way will ultimately make life much EASIER long term

The worst events can make us more resilient. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger as the saying goes.

Things aren’t going to go our way all the time, and we MUST make the most of our time and do the things that REALLY MATTER.

You know I’m going to say that sitting on the settee most nights is a big waste of your time when you could be training and doing yourself a lot of good.

Everyone is entitled to laze around all day every day if they want. But what they can’t do then is complain how tough life is for them, when they aren’t taking any kind of action to improve it.

Hitting the gym means you are actively trying to feel better without tablets, without any side effects, and improve your well being without any strings attached, and you will DESERVE all the great results you will have worked for.

Most people who filled their supermarket shop with junk are not looking after the health anywhere near as much as they could, eating healthier choices, foods in their natural form will transform your health, they will energise your body and heal the damage done from daily life, and rejuvenate you to keep going again after your workouts.

Life is calling you to step up and be tough, and to keep building your body and mind for life’s big challenges to come and maybe what you are facing right now.

Embrace tough workouts, embrace fresh natural foods, and keep showing up, that kind of routine, discipline and relentless pursuit of getting better will only get you stronger than you have ever been, and ready to smash any challenge that comes your way.