Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Workout energy and how you need it regularly is well documented to allow you to succeed with your health and fitness goals, but the same intensity is needed with your injury recovery too.

We do hear lots of stories of athletes coming back sooner than ever from injuries. But this is due to their relentless effort and help from professionals to do so. An ACL knee injury often took 18 months, many footballers would retire and their career would be over, and this thinking was around 30 years ago too.

Now you hear of recovery taking 9 months to be able to play again, but that again involves the daily commitment to doing the right things over and above what you would expect of a “normal” person who isn’t a pro athlete.

You may not recover quite as quick but we are determined to help you as much as possible to get back to normal life as quickly as possible, but this requires you to keep your side of the bargain and keep showing up and doing your best, the more you put into it, the better and quicker your recovery end of story!!

Positive attitudes change recovery too, it’s very easy to be frustrated, to get fed up, but as long as you are moving in the right direction, and keep your spirits up along the way, your recovery will be far quicker than a sheet of paper with exercises that are often given to you by physios in hospital (they often don’t even demonstrate the exercises with you or test you on them to see if they are suitable or cause you pain).

REMEMBER how far you have come, remember how well you are doing and double down on the effort side of things as well as the showing up side of things (3 times a week minimum) and great things WILL happen for you in the healing and recovery process.

Most people give up on things they want because they get discouraged.

The discouragement can be a lot of things, but in the gym’s case, it’s mainly to do with not walking through the door, as many people will find many reasons not to walk through the door as it can often be the hardest part..

When you get in the door, we know you get ENCOURAGED because your body will start moving, the positive chemicals in your brain will be activated and your mindset will change completely.

Your gym experience will hopefully be extremely positive, but if you don’t do it enough, then it can be like a holiday, that great memory will soon FADE and your motivation will often fade with it.

This is why routine is so important, unless you pencil in 3 time slots a week (and even 20 mins with us is great), you will soon find the excuses not to come far easier to reach for and to use way to often.

It’s important to realise that many in the gym will have it worse than you, NOBODY has all the time in the world, NOBODY springs out of bed daily saying they can’t wait to get to the gym, NOBODY has the perfect set of circumstances to make fit to the gym, WE ALL are time-crunched as life is only getting busier for all of us, and often more stressful too.

I URGE you to show up regularly, to do well like so many of you are, to take your mind to a brilliant place every time you do a workout with us, and take up all the wonderful opportunities you have right now!!!

Swap discouragement to GETTING EXCITED about your life again, and it all starts with your workout so keep making it happen.