Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Normally throughout my days at the gym, apart from those working shifts, i know who i am going to see at the gym at certain times.

The members who are the most successful you know you’re going to see often, usually around the same time, they train with the same impressive intensity, the weather doesn’t matter and never affects their decision on whether to train or not, how much stress in their life doesn’t usually affect their training (exercise is the best stress reliever anyway), and in general they are as regular as clockwork.

Their consistency dictates their success levels.

They are also great to train because you get to know them inside out, their strengths, their weaknesses and you can go into detail on everything, and they always push you for more which is fantastic.

They are successful BECAUSE they always show up no matter what.

If they had to post their diary, their calendar up here right now, then their workout would be an ever present in their diary, it will be the one constant, it will be the main thing that allows themselves to think clearly, to think strongly, to get rid of stress and their one part of their day when they take back control, and they dictate their pace for that next hour.

Once your workout becomes THIS important to your day, it doesn’t take a genius to see that this type of habit makes you ultra-successful. Your standards are high, never wavering and you’re not going to be someone who “plays around” with their fitness.

Ask yourself are you this consistent? If not, what’s holding you back? Do you need a diary and SCHEDULE it in no matter what?

Your progress is dictated by often you show up, your habits dictate how successful you are going to be, so you have to decide how well you want to do, how important exercise is for you and realise we all have the same amount of time in our week, how we handle our time and what priority exercise becomes is up to us. We can do it if we really want to make it happen.

Everyone says that your state changes when you exercise. First of all, you may be tired and lethargic and a bit one paced, but afterwards you seem to be so energetic, full of energy, feeling better from head to toe and you leave the gym full of great intentions to do something straight away.

Your state of mind is at it’s best. Remember this when you feel like missing a november night of training.

How many pay to go on a fair ride, a roller coaster, sometimes an hour in the big parks, JUST TO CHANGE THEIR STATE of mind!!!

What you get fed in nutritional terms is usually what you look like, feel like and move like.

What you get fed in the mind shapes our current state and future.

If we are written off in school or don’t get the help we need, then we tend to switch off and get put off learning full stop. School and learning becomes the last thing we want to do.

If we see a careers officer and they are negative about our future, then we tend to believe it and accept that bright future we dreamed about as kids, has disappeared because the system doesn’t work for us.

If we start a job, and it doesn’t stimulate our minds, we get caught in a situation when we loathe going to work, and the thoughts of advancement doesn’t even enter our minds and we get stuck in a rut.

If we try to get fit and healthy, then our first attempt is at a gym that never helps us, then we get fed up and never go despite being on a straightjacket of a contract that keeps us paying for 12-18 months. We are unlikely to return after this deeply negative experience.

We try to eat healthy but we are offered many faddy or shake diets that are heavily marketed, that initially take weight off us, but we always end up piling the weight back on and a lot more too. Losing weight becomes associated with misery and we aren’t confident enough to give it endless attempts as we are constantly let down.

All of this shows examples of us listening and being offered negative solutions to what we really want. Not one of these situations give us hope and get us thinking that we are doomed to failure in everything we do.

This is why we need to programme ourselves differently. Seeking out tried and tested ways of getting healthy through people who have track records in getting the job done and listen to your needs, how to get a better job through a more attractive way of learning through people who actually listen, make sure your friends support you and never put you off, if not seek new people to hang out with as they aren’t your friends.

Getting a better “newsfeed” everyday is vital, if we all listened to the news each day, then we would all think it was the end of the world, and there’s no point in doing anything positive with our lives.

Start right now by telling yourself you deserve the best, you deserve to find the best way to do things, you deserve the same opportunities as “other people” get.

It all starts with what we tell ourselves internally every day, which influences we choose to listen to, and this makes us approach every challenge in a completely different way much more likely to succeed.