Keri McKibbin Personal Training

The power of 10 minutes

Most of you know I have training people for a long time, most of them extremely busy people, so when I got to their house for a session, they could often say I only have 20 minutes today, can we do a good workout in that time? I say OF COURSE!!

Then that 20 minutes often ends up our best workout of the week due to the sheer intensity of it, 20 minutes at high intensity can always be better than an hour of low intensity just waiting for the time to go.

I have also done TEN minutes workouts with time crunched adults and kids who would otherwise not exercise at all.

Not only is a great workout possible, it is a certainty, plus it can be measured effectively too by me and you with real data, and is designed to keep you improving constantly.

Another huge plus is the habit is keeps you in, once you stay in routine of exercising, you tend to eat better too, sleep better, your mental health tends to be way better, and you have that sense of purpose back in your life too.

Habits make you or break you, make it happen!.

I wave at a LOT of people on the road, the kids often ask “who’s that, who’s that”, and I have to explain who it is.

Tonight I answered the question “she called me a twit for giving up my office job donkeys years ago”. 

Next question “do you still like her”, I said “yes of course I worked with her and she’s a nice lady, but you have to realise EVERYONE has an opinion, and entitled to their opinion which I always respect, but it doesn’t mean we always have to agree with that opinion”.

I have often made decisions that don’t come off, just like many outlandish decisions I have made have come off big for us as a gym.

But I went to explain that the biggest failure is NOT having a go, NOT trying new things, NOT going with your heart, and DEFINITELY not letting  others’ opinions put us off trying something big that we know has a great chance of working, even when most people think are mad to even try!

In your life, even if everyone knows that exercise is good for you, you WILL have people trying to put you off doing it, and always form people who don’t really want to make the sustained effort doing it..

In your efforts to eat healthy food because everyone knows it will be doing you good, there will be certain people who want you to eat badly, because it’s “what they do” and they want to feel better for making poor choices (but “better” choices in their minds), and despite often against their doctor’s advice to eat well, they try to continue to prove science wrong somehow.

Opinions are something EVERYONE has, but do what’s right for you, whats right for you family,  do what makes you feel better, do what creates energy in your day, do the things you know that will get pain OUT of your body, and treat your wellbeing, both physical and mental with the utmost importance.