Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Developing a strong body helps you greatly in dramatically reducing the occurrence of falls, which can be devastating for every area of your life, broken bones, often leads to a loss in confidence, and a loss of balance-you NEED to get strong and stick at it so you stay strong.

Exercise protects your joints, bolsters them and gives your joints freedom from pain.

You exercise not only because you want to look better, it’s about PROTECTION, we all take good balance, agility, good movement without pain-UNTIL it’s gone.

Keep putting the work in, start your week off right and when it comes to a higher quality of life, sitting down and not moving much can NEVER be an option.

I cut the lawn today for the first time, it was really long and scruffy, it was a slow arduous task, took me well over an hour and thats without tidying everything else up which will take considerably longer.

At times, I was thinking of giving up, doing a quarter, then I got to a half, then I thought another quarter, then I debated doing the top half of my lawn, I was tired by now, but my muscle memory reminded me of last year, every cut when I was tempted to quit half way through.

I carried on and eventually I did all of it, picking dogs toys, tennis balls and just about everything else that was tangled in the grass along the way. 

Here’s the thing, it wasn’t a particularly pleasant process, but the feeling I got afterwards, after seeing it tidy again ( but far from perfect) was very satisfying, it was all worth it, the parts of it that were unpleasant I cant even remember much anymore.

Anything worth doing it often going to be hard, I know next week when I do it, it will become a little easier as it won’t be so long, my body will start to get used to it again and the week after that I am likely to be in the swing of it even, and it will likely take 20 mins even (as I have done that lawn literally hundreds of times before!!).

Our gym sessions can sometimes give us the same feeling, especially after a lay off or lack of consistency, getting going again or the thought of it can seem overwhelming, but we must never lose sight of the big picture, what exercise really gives us, how great it makes us feel, how it boosts our self esteem, raises our self confidence and gives us the best health insurance policy we could ever have.

Negative thoughts, negative talk from others, negative talk from OURSELVES to ourselves is a fact of life, but it’s up to you if you let them win or not.

You don’t have to accept it, it’s only an opinion, it was never backed by science, it was only usually coming hugely negative people themselves.

Negative opinions never come from people who do GOOD things, negative people never come from people who encourage others and negative opinions never come from people who had have any kind of success themselves.

Today start off how you want to carry on, refuse to take the “word” off someone even if they are close to you, don’t let them doubt you anymore, don’t let them put limits on your life anymore and please stop them deciding which opportunities you should be taking in life too, it’s NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM especially if they are good opportunities that are backed by science (and common sense too on top!).

Don’t hide in the corner, don’t hide behind the settee, don’t ever think you aren’t good enough anymore.

Most of all, stop fighting with yourself, cut that negative self talk, you ARE good enough, you are strong enough, you have got it in you and you have got the fight in you to keep showing up and doing well, making YOURSELF proud during the process.