Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Who you stay close to makes all the difference.

If all your friends are big gamblers, eventually you will fancy your luck yourself and give it a go, and sometimes It can get out of control.

If all your friends are big drinkers, then you are likely to spend a lot of your life in the pub, and it will become increasingly unlikely you will have much control of your drinking.

If all your friends are ANTI-exercise, they all rely on an endless array of tablets to feel better and never eat well, they aren’t going to be too happy at you eating healthy, working out regular, and having no health problems, because you will showing them up and they will try their best to put you off going to the gym, they will want to pull you back down to their level.

Moderation is great in most things, and the more healthy friends you have who take action most days to move  and workout more, take an interest in eating healthy eating, and the more friends who take action on their mental health, who are positive around you and encourage you, then the better off you will in the short and long term.

These friends are not “boring” either, they may well like a drink occasionally, may like to eat what they want occasionally too but overall they want to live a high quality of life and they know that a healthy lifestyle is the quickest way and most tried and tested way to achieve that.

Most people only change when they act on good advice to get active again. If you think about change too much, you won’t do it.

 I’ve seen many people have advice they need to change but never act on it no matter how much strong evidence they are given. They would rather ask one, two, three other like minded people looking for anyone to agree that their current lifestyle is indeed the best thing, and that change is not necessary after all and the status quo should remain.

Until you START exercising, you won’t truly believe exercise is good for you because you won’t feel the benefits until you start working out regularly.

Once you start, you will be automatically reprogramming your brain to realise that moving more helps you feel better mentally as well as physically. You will realise the days you don’t exercise, you won’t feel so good.

It’s much easier to stay in an exercise programme where you feel the benefits every day, rather than starting an exercise programme after many years being inactive. 

The power comes from ACTING on your intentions of being healthy again, and THEN you will feel the benefits. Putting it off to “another day, another week, another month, another year” will mean you never get started and you will never see the benefits.

The power in starting a new healthy habit is immense, that first step is vital, don’t keep talking yourself out of being healthy, mentally and physically.

Fantastic effort on the new programme, it is challenging but  the end of the month to have you moving better and faster, getting a lot stronger again and get you in and out positions you may have thought were beyond you.

Remember the most important part is you showing up. No amount of motivational quotes will get you doing the work, you have to show up and do the work and that’s how you get better!!!

Nothing feels better than doing the workouts, challenging your mind as well as your body, overcoming doubt and adversity and coming out the other side all the better for going through this process.

You are good enough, strong enough and are capable of doing this.