Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Many of you are back in work tomorrow, some of you have worked all the way through of course, but right now is the time you need to be back in routine with your food, or your body will not function the way you want it this week.

Asking your body to be full of energy, to recover well from your workouts and your working day, whilst putting rubbish and ultra-processed food in disguised as fuel will never work, and the process can be quite painful to go through.

Hopefully you will be back training this week and ready to be back in routine. Exercising is great but you will splutter your way through the whole process until you knuckle down and eat right.

It’s not about a radically restrictive diet, it’s about eat as many fresh foods as possible, it’s about not eating meals that have been created in a laboratory weeks or even months ago, if you pursue this path it means you are asking your body to survive on foods that have almost no nutritional value, no energy for your workouts, and no recovery vitamins/minerals for your body after your workouts.

Also, if you have overdone over christmas, you will have become accustomed to sugary and fatty foods and it’s hard initially not wean yourself off all that sugary and rich taste.

See this week and a chance ot reset your body, strengthen your immune system again and set yourself on a strong and healthy path as we look to have a great January under our belts.

Just got a New Years workout in at the gym, did a run this morning with the dog. The thing is I didn’t HAVE to do it, I could have rested, could have convinced myself that I’m up early tomorrow anyway, got a big day, let’s rest up.

The problem with that is if I hadn’t put those workouts in, I would have had LESS energy, less of a sense of wellbeing, less circulation around my body, less sense of purpose and less momentum going into tomorrow, I made the right decision because I feel fantastic now and I know I’m likely to sleep better later because of it.

Never see your workouts as something you “have to do”, they should be seen as your energy boost, your wellbeing boost, your mental health boost, your get and go catalyst and the best way to get stiffness and pain out of your body.

Never has a small time investment given so much back in return, don’t kid yourself, you need to get moving early this year and never stop if you want to feel anywhere near your best.