Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Having faith in yourself is exactly like a muscle. It needs to be worked, it needs practice and it needs regular attention.

If you work your arms for example, and then have a few weeks off, they will get softer, they will get weaker and not be capable of anything like you were back when you were working them regularly.

It’s easy to lose faith in yourself the same way. If you miss workouts, stop testing yourself, think it doesn’t matter anymore that you don’t challenge yourself so much in life, then you will start doubting your ability again, you won’t be battle hardened, and quitting is the number one way to lose faith in yourself.

Faith doesn’t come back easy either, but faith is the only way you will get back in the saddle and try to be your best again, faith is the thing that keeps you going when things seem dark and cloudy in your life, faith is the thing that keeps you strong when everything around you is falling down, faith brings you back up to your feet just when you needed to get out of the hole you may have got into.

Faith needs you to be courageous and keep showing up no matter what.

A new member came in yesterday and said one of the most refreshing things they saw at our gym is not only the constant coaching and other members helping other members, but the constant chatting, talking, members asking about other member’s welfare, health, what’s going on their lives, AND they said this NEVER happens wherever they trained before, as everyone usually puts their headphones on and just goes on a machine and they usually don’t bother with anyone. 

All the workouts, all the workout plans, schedules, remedies for pain, plans for great performances all matter too but having so many individuals who care train with us matters more than anything!!!

Thank you to all of you who care about others, who pick people up when they are having a bad day and this shows the SOCIAL side of the gym is deeply important to all of us in good times and rough times, as everyone will have their ups and downs in life.

Stress at work, negativity, being miserable every day are all things I hear at the gym-EVERY DAY! 

Fortunately I hear the great stories how you conquered those feelings of anxiety, stress, outrage, frustration, in a rut BY seeking solace at the gym and getting a workout in EVEN if you didn’t feel like it at all and you were putting it off because of such darkness and such hopelessness.

Your workout absorbs the stress and somehow crushes those horrible feelings to bring clarity in your mind, and lifts you back to a place where you can actually get stuff done.

You often tell me its better than any pharmaceutical drug, pill etc that promises much but often makes the situation worse long term.

I urge you to continue to tell me the great stories, to put the work in and accept the huge benefits that will definitely come from the process ever single time.

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone going through a very difficult time and dealing with it the tried and tested way to make you feel and perform better, when it would have been easier to quit at times. You all deserve massive credit for doing what works and what has zero side effects.