Monday, 30th September
The opportunity to exercise properly, train right, work up slowly and gradually should be the right of every single person out there.
Some people do not like training in front of other people, at least until they get used to it and get their confidence up, in fact this could be MOST people!
A lot of women do not like training in front of men, as they find it intimidating and struggle to get puffing and panting in front of those who are used to training regularly.
As anyone knows, I try to look after each person’s training programme and take responsibility for the individuals progress and development.
Over the last few months, I have had numerous requests to do a ladies only session, because of the reasons I mentioned just now.
We will aiming to work with all sorts of physical abilities, those will be some with lots of weight to lose, those who want to get into the best shape of their lives, those who have just had a baby and want to know how their body will adapt to the new demands of an exercise programme, will their body really get back into the shape they were pre-baby, and will be anxious to get their self-esteem and confidence levels back to somewhere near their best, or even to a brand new level and I have seen this being achieved all the time.
So I have listened to a lot of women’s feedback, and started my own ladies hour 11am to 12 Monday to Friday from now on at the gym in burry port, right by the railway station.
The session is there to develop female members slowly and steadily, and improve the lady’s health in all ways, better blood pressure, better body fat levels, a stronger heart rate, a leaner waist and hips, and in general create a massively positive experience for those who wish to attend.
I am trying to create a hugely positive hour for all of those who are giving it a go, I am here to listen and see how far we can all improve!
For appointments tel 07968 980808 or fitness@kerimckibbin.co.uk
Last friday in September
One of the most common questions is how to reduce an individual’s stomach area.
The misconception is that you can reduce one area of your body with a couple of exercises.
There is no way you can do this without reducing your overall body fat. You cannot have a lean tight stomach with your abs showing, without your arms being lean and tight too, without your back being defined, without your legs looking leaner etc etc.
Your body fat as a whole is the key element in you looking fit and lean. I have seen many, many people train really hard, but never eat well and consume a diet high in sugar and saturated fat.
Their goal in having an impressive stomach area will never be reached until they change their diet and start eating more whole foods, more natural foods full stop, and cut out the processed foods full of sugar, saturated fat and salt.
Eating sugary breakfasts like crunchy nut corn flakes will never make you lean, it will only put on body fat!
Having chocolate and crisps for lunch will only bulk you out in the wrong way!
Not paying attention to your evening meal and eating anything you want will make your stomach and hips expand only!
You can train as hard as you want, but until you start paying attention to your diet, your goal of leaning out in the stomach area is never going to happen!
Your taste buds will take a few weeks to change maybe, some people get into it quicker than others, but I guarantee you the results will be definitely worth it!
What’s more, your taste for sugary products will wane so much that you want to eat all those sugary snacks and fatty meals in the future.
This is all part of the new you and will last a lifetime if you put your mind to it!
Thursday, 26th September
You need to get around the “no time to train” problem that many suffer from.
One of the easiest ways is to SCHEDULE it in! Would you miss a doctor’s appointment? How about your dental appointment? How about the meeting with the solicitor? Are they more important than you fixing your body?
So the times you make for your workouts should never change too much, or you will keep putting them off!
This is why I strongly suggest many individuals train first thing in the morning, before they go to work or the kids get up!
This takes care of your exercising before anything else comes up! It will be tough at first, but everyone I know who has done it for a while wouldn’t train any other time!
Make exercise your priority, and study you weekly diary to get at least three sessions in!!! Your body needs regular workouts, it needs regular attention and you want to feel good?
Exercising late at night never usually works, this is because you will usually be too tired, something else will usually come up, and training before bed will get you going at the wrong time, causing you not to sleep straight away because your body will not be shutting down and calm like it usually is before bed!
I haven’t met one person yet who really hasn’t had time to train, there is always a way if you want it bad enough!!!
Tuesday, 24th September
The subject of missed workouts is very important to me.
First of all, if you are ill you should NEVER ever train full stop. You need to rest and recover and not do anything until you’re better.
The rest of the time, missed workouts really concern me because it sets off a chain of events that lead to individuals losing progress quickly, both physically and mentally.
You have probably heard me mention that even a pro athlete who has a week off from training, can take 1-2 weeks to get where they were. So 4 weeks off, can take up to 8 weeks to get back to normal and back to the previous standard.
So if you miss the odd workout, then that’s no problem, if you miss a week, then that becomes more of a problem, miss 4 weeks and you slip back by up to a couple of months.
Missing 4 weeks also sends you backtracking mentally. When you have 4 weeks off, you are not really motivated to get back into your training, and are likely to have an even longer lay off!
Through experience, I have learned to watch people closely, and arrest the slide to mediocrity.
Let me say this, I have many people who work 10-12 hours a day, I have a lot of women who have 2-3 kids, some 4, one even 5, and not one of them has said “I have tons and tons of time to train all day, let’s do it”!!!
What they do say is that they have very limited time to train, and can I solve their time management/workout problems!!
Suggestions on how to do this tomorrow.