Keri McKibbin Personal Training

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.

At 18 I was told any role in the fitness instructor wasn’t a “real job” and it had no future, being ridiculed publicly was normalised even when you just mentioned you were studying it, so it was best not to mention it.

At 26, I was told personal training was a “flash in the pan” and to find a “real career”, in fact many people presented me with a whole host of jobs I “should be doing”, anything but fitness.

At 30, many people said behind my back and to my face that I would be a “cripple by the age of 35 (not my word it came from other people”), as I would often train and run and bike with  several people per day and it was “too much”.

At 35 when it didn’t happen, I was asked what would I do in my 40’s after all “how could I keep this pace up?!!). When I replied the top trainers in the world were all in the 40’s and 50’s (and now in their 60’s and 70’s) due to their experience, it was met with a blank stare.

When my father got ill with dementia and we need to radically upgrade the gym in 2008 as the banks were going bust around the world and we fell into the great recession, I knew that training people properly and serving one person at a time was going to work and pay off over time.

In 2016-2020, nobody believed we would create a gym where the inspiration came from professional sport, adding things slowly and then radically with a 8000 square feet outdoor area that was built for sport training and custom made for individuals and teams. 

When the pandemic came, we openly got told we would never open again anytime soon as many gyms closed and never reopened, and our business was “finished” despite immune system’s everywhere needing to be built up urgently  again. Our expansion meant we were ready to open earlier than most and come back stronger than ever, and we were able to get so many’s people’ bodies stronger, as well as their minds despite all the threats of the world coming to an end.

I urge you to not “fit in with the crowd”, don’t take everyone’s opinion as gospel, they often have their own insecurities and often they don’t have the courage  or fire you have inside of you,  and use it as “fuel to prove everyone wrong”, to create your own future, your own reality and most of all be yourself and see it through no matter what.

If any new programme is designed to shock the system, then it’s the one launched TODAY!!! 

A whole arsenal of weapons was thrown at you today and you ALL came up trumps, despite the hardships, the difficulties, the extreme challenges, we got it DONE!!

There is a big reason though WHY we do it like this and we are able to put so many challenges in. It’s because last month was so hard, but all of you again adapted and adjusted to it and OVERCAME it!

It’s only day one but I can feel this programme is going to elevate everyone in a huge way!!