Keri McKibbin Personal Training

There’s never a perfect condition day for training. MANY of you this morning had an ailment, recovering from something and some have many things going on in their lives that not many people know about, yet put on a smile and grind great workouts out no matter what.

See your workouts as a balance maker, if you go down the negative, depressive state too much, then you need your workout to balance you back out again.

You can’t stay euphoric all the time either, that high will always come back down so the exercise balance is even more important.

Nobody needs massive highs followed by incredible and often devastating lows in their lives.

Exercising, eating right, fresh air and good company keeps everything in a good order even when you may be tipping over the other side, keeps you well balanced and makes life much more enjoyable and predictable (in a good way!).

Most people who exercise want results overnight, they want to be pain free in a couple of sessions, they want huge strength increases in a couple of sessions, and they suddenly want a great lung capacity in a week’s training.

BUT the reality is not a week, you WILL improve in a month, and over many months you wlll see a tremendous difference in yourself physically and mentally and your standards will only keep rising from week one.

Don’t become the one who trains for one week, then has two weeks off, and then a week here and week there. Be the one show shows up all the time, in good times and bad times, using exercise as the ultimate daily stress buster for your mind as well as your body.

You won’t be motivated every single day, but your commitment to showing up will carry through any any situation, keeping you sane through all the highs and lows in life, and keeping your life on an even keel just when at times you may think of throwing in the towel.

Life is at times very tough, but if you exercise regularly every week, you WILL become more resilient, you will develop inner strength to overcome any challenge and you will finish every week with a sense of pride and achievement that you are getting better all the time, doing it the right way and not trying to take short cuts and falling for fads and gimmicks that never work long term.

Keep going and keep fighting!!

If you keep showing up, keep moving forward, keep having a go, then nothing can beat you.

The only way challenges can beat you is through you getting discouraged, but that won’t be based on the real evidence.

The evidence shows that when you show up you get stronger in all ways. You get more self belief and you start to feel a lot better, you aren’t so stiff anymore and you start to develop new goals based on your successes.

Being courageous is the opposite of being discouraged and being courageous will take you in the exact opposite direction of where you end up if you stay discouraged.

Challenges may come and go, but staying courageous takes you to exactly where you want to be so stay the course no natter what. The alternative is not worth thinking about!