Author: Keri McKibbin

When you have time off from the gym for whatever reason, your muscles go softer, your whole body feels softer.

Next time you come back, everything feels tough. The next session though feels a little better, the session after feels a lot better, and before you know it, you get back in the swing of things, all it takes is time.

Your body hardens up, you breathe better, and you become more optimistic. That last word “optimistic” is not a lie, exercise will give you stronger hopes in life.

I spoke to someone today who came off anti-depressants for the first time in TEN years. That person confided in me how important exercise now was for his FULL recovery. That rammed the message all the way home to me that exercise and eating right cures a lot of ills.

I know many of you have been through hell, and then back again, but the stories of hope and elevated mood enhancement I see every day are very REAL indeed.

Here’s reality check time. If you aren’t making your sessions, then you will struggle with everything more, you won’t feel good, you will become downcast in your moods, and you will soon start to feel older than you actually are.

Reality time on your food time. If you still eating 2-3 courses at home every day, then can I ask why? UNTIL you start to eat smaller portions and one small meal at a time, you’re kidding yourself if you think you will be long term successful because IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Secretly you know this to be true however you hate me right now, but it’s my duty to tell you the truth.

We are all about picking you up in life, but we are also about giving it to you straight. Get serious about your training because its the best medicine you will ever get.

Get serious about your food, if you are secret eater its tough, but it needs addressing. The time for losing lots and putting on lots is destroying your health, every time you do it, your body rebels more every time.

We want to help and support you in your difficult journey because if you are eating more than you say, drinking more than you say, then mentally you are struggling and living often vicious highs and lows mentally.

Find solace in our gym, find pain relief with our dumbbells and have a smooth ride every day with our bikes, treadmills and rowers. Our environment is custom-made for you, we welcome you all with open arms because the life you deserve is shaped decisively by your everyday habits.

Your priorities are what matter.

Your way of thinking will be “let’s do it” or “let’s get out of doing”. Don’t pretend to be in the middle, you are either in one camp or the other.

If you don’t feel like you can do it, and you haven’t done much exercise since school, and you are in pain often, then
life will seem like a struggle right now.

Driving EVERYWHERE is easier and more comfortable than walking ANYWHERE. Life is a b.tch and life is somehow “against” you.

Reality is that life is not always against you, someone in the same circumstances as you as often proved the odds wrong and gone on to achieve staggering things, bring fulfilment and long term happiness, which everyone deep down is looking for.

Happiness starts when you get your get your red tshirt ironed for tomorrow, this will already be a signal to your brain that you mean business this week.

Fulfilment comes when you complete your three or more sessions this week, and you got a little better each time.

Completing a full week means you are reversing the ageing process or at least slowing it down. It means that at this age, you can still grind it out, and discovering you still have grit in you feels pretty amazing and you can apply that grit to so many other things in your life.

Some of the greatest trainers in the gym and elsewhere have a small little journal. A life story of progress, and a record of what they did last time, and several years before that. A journal will bring you pride, but also give you the day to day road map you need to always rise above your past performances, or at least stay in the same range.

Is this week going to be the start of a new story for you of consistency, pride and achievement?

OR will you stay in mediocrity claiming to go to the gym but never actually showing up?

Only you make the choice, and life is NOT against you. There are more opportunities now than ever in history.