Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Everyone has opinions, it’s a fact of life, but when we let negative opinions define us, it can be the biggest hurdle we have when we want to succeed at something.

In many cases, we may get 8 or even 9 good opinions of our efforts out of 10, but it’s often the one petty, unkind and often cruel opinion of us that we focus the most on.

So if we have a range of ambitious programmes ready to go in the new year, I know some of you will naturally wonder “am I good enough?”.

I’m here to tell you 100% that you are..

Bill Bowerman’s (joint founder of Nike) main ambition was to get everyone wearing the Nike shoes to think of himself/herself as an athlete.

Most people who bought the shoes didn’t likely think of themselves as an athlete, but once they started moving more, and started doing athletic things on a regular basis, they moved much closer to becoming an athlete than before they even first thought of buying their new training shoes.

When you think of yourself as an athlete, you are likely to take your training more seriously. You are likely to want to eat better (more like an athlete), you are more likely to want you move like an athlete and not restrict yourself to all machine workouts (which never do much to turn you into an athlete who can move really well).

Not many people suddenly become an athlete from nothing, everyone has to work at it, we all have to learn better, to move as the body was intended to, to learn how to run faster, to learn better balance and coordination, to get stronger and to continuously learn new skills to make us, you got it, a better athlete.

All of these vital skills can be taught every day at the gym or online with us, practice things you may not be very good to start with, and give it enough time, and you will soon be able to make the very difficult seem like second nature.

All part of your transformation to become a good athlete.

Happy New Year everyone and just to confirm we are open from tomorrow 830am. There will be some more big changes this year too.

Many of you messaged me over Christmas when you saw the gym door open and activity outside. This was due to me pushing through young very talented athletes who play high level sport through their paces, and taking them to a higher level again.

 I didn’t advertise this (we never advertise anyway) as we were officially closed and they were very small groups and high quality sessions, and most of you know I do private training at the gym and away from the gym anyway and I couldn’t leave these athletes down.

I am bringing these type of sessions to the gym on Tuesday 530pm, Wednesday 530pm, Thursday 530pm and Friday at 430pm every week in 2024. If you want to participate in these Athlete Training Camps, please message me because they will be highly beneficial and rewarding. 

I consider you ALL athletes anyway so you are ALL welcome, and all the sessions will be sport specific but will benefit ALL of you if you want to get better with your strength, power, speed, agility and balance.

Morning classes will continue at 9am and 1025am every day, plus whatever time you come in, we will continue to work very well and very hard together.

On top of all that, I have FOUR new programmes operating the same time at the gym, and I will be starting them TOMORROW our first day back so there will be a LOT of teaching. There’s a lot of new stuff you haven’t done before, it’s about using the latest science of training and making 2024 your best year ever.

We also had massive support for our online training last year, this will resume TOMORROW and this week will offer a lot of new stuff in those new workouts too.

So as long as you bring in a great attitude and a willingness to learn new things, this year is very likely to get off to a GREAT START for you!!!