Keri McKibbin Personal Training

It’s important to remember we all have a history of moving forward, and then falling down, and then having to get back up again.

This happened when we were learning to walk MANY times.As long as we expect this, remember that we will fail at times, realise we have to get back up again each time, except this time we will not have a parent dragging us back up again, and urging us to go again.

We MUST do it ourselves, we must remember and keep to the process, realise EVERYONE gets setbacks, stumbles and losses along the way.If we keep getting back up, then we will begin to trust the process because we will know it’s a necessary part our journey, accept that falling down is only a natural process of attaining victories, learning new skills and most of all developing RESILIENCE which keeps us going, when most people would happily quit.

You CAN do it and achieve great things, but realise that bumps in the road are only a normal part of life, on your way to something a lot better again than where you are now.

In the late 90’s, I started training someone at 35 who had a heart attack. He was overworked, over stressed, over everything!! 

The doctor who came around had a grave threat for him after reading his post operation analysis.

The doctor told her it was “impossible” to have such arteries in a young body, and what had he been doing to get in such a state?

Instead of giving him medication and some vague advice like many doctors, he was much more specific with him. 

He asked him did he have children, she said yes, a new born boy and an older girl. The doctor asked him if he planned on walking his daughter down the isle? He said “of course”, the doctor replied that he would definitely would NOT be doing so IF he didn’t change his lifestyle and start exercising and eating right.

Also, the doctor said he had better get used to having another man in his house, as he wouldn’t be around to carry out his fatherly and husband duties. He was upset, but things began to hit home.

I’m happy to say he did turn his life around, and over achieved with his health and never looked back, BUT the warning did him a world of good or probably he would have sleep walked into even more serious health outcomes..

My sunday sessions have taken a sharp turn in the right direction, as you get older you think of things different. I hit farmers walks up the hill with the 56 pounders by the front door three times, used more weight on the leg press than I have for a long time.

None of us should ever look back and say “that was what I ‘used’ to do, the time is NOW and we all need to actively challenge ourselves TODAY, because we are either falling back or going forwards in life.