Author: Keri McKibbin

Most of you are in that daily habit of sorting your head out through exercise, sorting your mind out from one of not feeling great to one of smiling, being happier, seeing and experiencing more fun through exercise.

But like a piano tuner, we have to keep tuning our bodies to experience these great feelings.

Thursday is here and it’s another great opportunity for me and for you.

You have a chance, an opportunity today again to feel better, to take away the gloom, to take away those feelings of sluggishness, feeling down, unable to get going, and despite the overwhelming science that proves that exercise changes your state of mind, loads of people don’t take advantage of even short bouts of exercise.

Your environment today will be filled with negativity with times. 

You will wake up often that the world is in a bad place on the news, when you get into work you will often have uncertainty and some people moaning about everything, you will be worried about this and that, and it will bury your day often before it starts. 

BUT when turn OFF that noise, get your trainers on and just MOVE, a lot of that negativity can go in just a few minutes. Those toxic thoughts will be washed away, at least for a time.

I don’t know of anyone who has started moving more and regretted it. If they do it at least 3 times a week, combined with eating more natural food, it will change their lives in a relatively short time.

It will change your thinking from one of negative thoughts and hopelessness to one of possibility and opportunity-JUST by moving more on a regular basis.

Sounds easy? Too many have proved it right, too many have people have changed their lives, too many people know the value of exercising for it not to be true.

Medical science will back you up too, BDNF is a chemical in your brain aroused by exercise, and you RADICALLY change your brain and the way you think, very much for the better.

If one person reading this changes their lifestyle for the better, then it’s always worth the time writing it. Everyone wants a great life, but it all starts with getting out of your bed a little earlier, getting off your settee more, and just MOVING more.

It will be your catalyst for a NEW life when you see the world differently.

I hate “yes” men/women. I don’t want anyone to suck up to me or anyone else, I want you to shout at me if you want to, debate me, ask anything on why we are down what we do.

Speak your mind, tell us how everything is working for you, and how you struggle on certain movements, and how we can work out how it can go better for you if we do it another way.

You will always have your say, you will always have your chance to scream at me if you want to, as long as we do things better at the end of it.

I can encourage, coach you, raise your standards of performance, but deep down, YOU need to want to get fit, get healthy and feel better about yourself.

Nobody likes being told what to do or definitely everyone hates being forced to do something they don’t want to do.

When you make your own decisions, you will likely give more effort in everything you do. When you really want something, and understand there’s going to be some hardship and challenges along the way, you are already very likely to succeed.

I can advise you on a plan that will work for you, but you have to tell me how that plan will work if you have to raise 3 kids at the same time, how to fit it in, shorten some sessions due to lack of time so we can still get the best out of you.

I will also tell you its vital to have everyone at home onboard too, a supportive environment is everything, not only at the gym, but at home and ideally a couple of your closest friends too.

You can see that your mind has to be fully onboard too. If you really want to be fit and healthy, you WILL find a way, you will stop telling yourself “stories” on why you have never done it before, and you need to realise and follow through on why this time will really be different.

Everyone’s time is precious, use your exercise time wisely. This is why having a coach overseeing your sessions is much more likely to get the results you want.

Get good results, and you will be much more encouraged to carry on. Keep getting good results and those around you are much more likely to see giving you great support, which will be invaluable.

We are with you all the way and would love to coach you, but remember it’s ALL YOUR decision to start, and it’s YOUR deep down reasons on why you want to be fit and healthy, that will keep you going when the ups and downs come.

Give it time, get support and get committed to doing the great things you are really capable of achieving. It’s your choice at the end of the day and take full responsibility for the opportunities you have right now.

Sometimes you feel like taking big steps and everything in life is sunny. Take advantage of those days, weeks and months.

When its grey, stormy and dark, you feel like quitting, and it’s hard to get going again when you do. Whatever you do, keep moving even if it is one little step, you are going forward and not backwards.

Pain in your knees, hips and back? Get down here on the foam roller, ease out your pain. Get those legs moving, at the same time you lift your spirits.

Elevating your mood allows you to attempt things you wouldn’t do if you are down in the dumps. When you’re low in your mind, then anything seems too much trouble.

Don’t waste those times when at your lowest point the tiniest bit of exercise can make all the difference to get you going again.

Everything starts off small, but keep showing up and you will always be pleasantly surprised by where all your efforts lead.