Keri McKibbin Personal Training

I always test some of the new exercises in the new programme (which arrives next week). This morning we tried some new exercises. Moves that benefit the shoulder, the trunk area, the back and last night I worked on a lot of stuff for the hips, knee and back again.

Today already I am very stiff as it shocked my body in a good way, but I will be much better off for it. 

It also showed me once again that all our body parts are linked to each other. It’s clad the “kinetic chain”, and despite what you may think at times, it moves as one, and your weakest link on that chain needs constant strengthening and increased movement and flexibility.

Training this way consistently is very powerful for your body, anyone who tells you to avoid testing yourself in movement terms (no matter what your age) is not just factually incorrect, but most likely looking after their own needs meaning taking more money out of your wallet.

A muscle and joint can only get out of pain by moving better and of course that can take time, but sticking with it makes all the difference. If anyone promises you a recovery without gym work, without strengthening and never gives you a timeline on when you will be fixed is usually a fraud, backing their own made up “system” which has no end date, a hope for the best approach and means they have spent very little time actually training individuals to get better, relying on a “theory” that may never work well in practice.

Keep moving well and keep testing yourself slowly but steadily to get out of pain and perform at a high level.

Being in a “reactionary mode” to your health because it may be failing is a common reason to start training. Being grateful for how you have come out of that situation should never be allowed to be forgotten. You have worked hard to feel better, to get stronger and to reduce pain in your body, and its important you never let anyone talk you out of feeling good and performing at a good level.

Exercising regular is about re-enforcing feeling good and making sure ill health doesn’t get a chance to come back again, you can’t do much without good health.

FIND a reason to get your workouts IN, instead of making excuses to avoid them because nothing’s too important to avoid strengthening your body, your immune system and your mental wellbeing.

It’s easy to get out of routine. Missing your workouts EASILY changes the way you think. You should be in routine but something comes out of the blue and causes you to miss a week of workouts.

All of a sudden the following Monday is not routine. You think “maybe it’s ok to miss this monday, after all nobody likes monday do they?!!”, I will try tomorrow.

Tomorrow comes and the temperature has dipped, its harder to get out of bed and everyone is telling you it’s easier to stay in and keep warm. The rest of the week is much easier to miss-“I will start next week”.

The week after now becomes a HUGE effort to get going, to get back in the flow, to get your mind right, to feel good, to perform anywhere near you best etc.

STAYING in routine is MUCH EASIER than getting out of it for all sorts of reasons. Monday is an ultra-important day, vital you start the week off right.