Keri McKibbin Personal Training

This time of the week I am usually pretty tired, especially it being new programme week, BUT given the level of your performances, I have received a LOT of energy of all the members in the building, and in our outside area too, it has already been a memorable week!!!

Standards are huge, and they have developed month on month, new programme after new programme, we have a fantastic group at the gym right now and a lot of very high level performers!!

The best thing is that you-the high performers-were the beginners once too, the ones often had a bad back/knee/shoulder etc when you started, that’s how far you have all come.

Keep putting the effort in and physically go to new heights, as well as only increasing yourself belief and self confidence along the way.

Today’s day two of the programme makes us realise one thing, we must continually adapt to the ever increasing and variety of our workouts, physically and mentally.

When we attempt a movement we aren’t familiar with, part of our brain can shut off and makes us not want to even attempt it, but part of us knows we should have a go.

It’s the “we need to have a go anyway even if we fail” part we need to never give up on, because chances are we will be able to complete it, even if we aren’t very good at it to start.

This is what the whole month is about, we get time to get used to it, and with that time we get plenty of chances to get good at it, and by the end of the month with enough practice, we are likely to become very good at it and we wonder why we worried about it in the first place.

It’s human nature to avoid hard things, but if we do it can become a habit and we are likely to give up on everything hard in our lives.

If we embrace the struggle of doing hard things, then our resilience is built and knuckling down soon becomes “the way we do things” and nothing will beat us.