Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Making improvements to your performance is first a question of your attitude and secondly you following up on that attitude and commitment you made to yourself.

Whatever efforts you make in your sessions today are what they are, you did your best and they are at a certain level as long as you had a good attitude (and we have had plenty of people doing great already this week)..

If you show up at least three times a week, your body naturally adapts to the next level as you will be hopefully eating right too, and getting to bed early enough to give your body enough rest to go again.

You showing up regularly shows to me and everyone else what your commitment level is like. Three times a week at least over 4 weeks is 12 sessions, enough to stimulate a big performance increase and you being able to sustain it.

Performance increases don’t come by accident, and I know who they are likely to come from, the ones that are always in the gym and always putting the work in. If great things happen for these people, then I’m not surprised.

Showing up once or twice a week is okay, if you want to tread water and not really improve as you would like. Trust me that third session really signifies to your body to improve as I have trained people for a lot of years, to get stronger and to adjust superbly well to the extra stimulus.

Three times a week means thriving, constant improvement, not letting pain into your body and feeling good all the time.

Don’t ever see your workouts as daunting, scary, not possible, don’t view them with dread, you need to ask different questions about your approach to them?

Tell yourself how much you are benefitting from them.

How you are  becoming more resilient.

How you are knuckling down to the challenge and if you can do this, then any area of your life is open to improvement as long as you stick with it no matter what.

Life lessons are learned every time you stick at something rather than quit something. 

Quitting teaches absolutely nothing, staying with a challenge teaches us a lot about ourselves, how much courage we have, how much determination we have, even under adversity in our lives at times which we all have now and again.

You and the gym ought to be a tourney, where you not only learn how to exercise right, but how to get through any challenge in life no matter how hard it is, because if we do, the rewards are always way more than we ever thought.