Keri McKibbin Personal Training

It is said that the Special Forces are always training, always keeping themselves ready for action, ready for combat and always on the “edge”.

Their philosophy is that if you train well all the time across a variety of scenarios, and you train with real intensity, then you are ready for any eventuality, physically and mentally, and you can rely on your training.

We are what we train to do, and our training becomes a massive part of who we are, creating not only a toughness in our bodies but a mental toughness and protection too, a stronger body means a stronger mind all ready for the daily stresses of life.

BUT without the exercise part, our minds don’t respond so well either, all sorts of laboratory tests prove this as the latest science shows..

We can train ourselves to get good at sitting down too on the settee, we can really good at remembering all the plots on the latest boxset, and it’s easy to “train” ourselves to do this through our daily habits.

We can get exceptionally good at posting on social media thinking we are an authority on all sorts of different subjects, venting our frustrations, our fears, things we don’t like and debate our time away thinking our opinion really matters on every controversial subject.

We got to ask ourselves what are really training ourselves for, is exercise becoming a part of who we really are?

I like many others, have found that in working out through our most stressful times in our lives is highly beneficial in the way it crushes stress, and gives us a clarity of thought that cannot be achieved through any other process.

We rely on our training to get us through any situation. Exercise isn’t just about “losing weight” or looking good, it’s about feeling our best, performing at our highest level when the highest pressure of life is on, protecting us against serious illness and making us mentally strong just when life threatens to overwhelm us at times.

“The wheels eventually will fall off the bus” is a phrase that will affect us all at sometime in the future, but delaying that scenario as much as possible is largely down to us.

You will know by the weight you are using at the gym if you are declining or not. BUT even a slight decline in the weight you are using is SO MUCH BETTER than not using any weights in the first place, or not even doing a workout at all.

After the age of 30, our bone density and lean muscle starts declining but ONLY IF WE LET IT.

When we are in our teens and early 20’s, the motivation to LOOK much better is pretty important, but as we age it’s all about the longevity question taking over.

Most studies into people’s lives and health notice a “not so great” decade with their health, where we have let ourselves go a bit, which is often associated with both infrequent exercising and not eating so healthy as we should, which can eventually come back to haunt us.

Our body clearly decays during this decade where health declines and usually it’s our lifestyle is the “architect” of our health being in free fall.

Recent studies have shown that exercise not only halts any decline in your cells and your body’s important functions, but it will actively reverse decay and along with eating well, turn around the decay phase into a “thriving phase” which actively changes the way you feel very much for the better, and changes the way your body is capable of performing, which drastically transforms your quality of life every single day.

Be aware of how much you move directly affects what’s going on in your body AND MIND, and you have direct control too whether you are in a decay phase or a thrive phase-all the latest science backs this up. 

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