Author: Keri McKibbin

I love going on body boards more, I’m not much good on them either, but I have a lot of fun on them, I experience exhilaration and deep feelings of being on top of the world once I do it, and I come out of the water feeling incredible.

The “movement” part is the key part of this, and the more I move the better I feel.

With workouts in the gym, you may not feel incredible all the time, you will have many failures as you learn new things, things don’t always go your way and sometimes you wonder whether you will ever master some tough exercise, but with practice all of a sudden you do, as long as you keep moving, as long as you keep trying.

Deep feelings of exhilaration will be achieved through exercise in the gym too, you may be used to those great feelings right now because you are a regular trainer, but if you stop, that feeling of wellbeing can soon go, as many of you know.

Moving every day is the key to you feeling better physically, the key to you feeling on top of the world mentally and the key to you feeling like an 18 year old your whole life.

Keep trying, keep failing, keep getting back up, and enjoy the greatest ride of your life because it never has to stop.

So from our end, hopefully you can feel the force of good we are trying to throw at you. We are trying to give you everything, give you the lift you need every day to go out and do great things.

Here’s what we need from your end of the deal. You need to eat right, as little chemicals and rubbish in your food as possible. You need to NOURISH your body every day, and recover well from our workout, eat well, eating fresh when possible will make the difference between ok results and staggering results.

You need to make sure you hit the sack early every night too. If you’re training hard, you need proper rest, your body only improves when you sleep and the more quality sleep you have the better.

We have a deep responsibility to do our very best for you, and thank you for your trust and effort. All we need in return is you doing your best and making it to us 3 times a week, and shopping for good food to heal and energise your body.

It’s a two way street and when we work together and the effort is two way, it’s then that the incredible results are guaranteed.

Forget one miracle workout, you better be putting 3 in a week no matter what. Stop pretending that one workout a week is enough because its not. You’d better be lifting weights too if you want to change your shape, get your body hard and healthy, and protect yourself against injury and keep your bones strong.

ANYONE who tells you otherwise doesn’t have your best interests at heart, is likely a cowboy or doesn’t do this for a living or ALL THREE.

You don’t cheat yourself. Don’t pretend that not doing every rep counts because it matters BIG TIME. Whatever you put into your workouts at the gym, you are rewarded with big time results, and we are with your every step of the way to make sure incredible things happen for you.

Don’t complain that you aren’t getting results if you are having takeaways in the week, drinking bottles of wine in the week, grabbing breakfast on the go, eating rubbish for snacks and not preparing your food before going to work. If you rely on petrol stations and convenience stores for food on the go, then your results are doomed.

You will NEVER out-train a bad diet, nobody in history has yet, and you’re not going to shock the world by pulling it off. If you’re eating rubbish, then there’s no way in the world you feel like training in the first place on zero nutrients and energy coming in.

OWN your actions, don’t make excuses for what you know is wrong. REMEMBER we have very high standards and we want to make sure you keep them too, so you are ultimately happier, more at peace with your body and mind and feeling incredible every day.

There’s no substitute for hard work, following a great plan based on science, nourishing yourself properly and seeing your body adapt to an ever-increasing workload.

THAT is when the magic happens, save yourself some time and knuckle down and hit this thing as hard as you can!!

What happened when that conversation comes to you?

Who is battling your corner? Do you thrive on being in our environment when people look out for you, lift you up regularly and are willing to have a laugh with you and make you smile in every session?

How important is this in your life?

You may think I’m a pain messaging you sometimes to get your behind to the gym, but isn’t that much better than nobody looking out for you in any other gym or in life in general. I’m very keen indeed to see you maximise your unique talents.

Everyone wants to feel wanted, everyone wants to feel significant and whether we want to admit or not, we want to know that people around us care.

Loneliness is one of the most cruel diseases. Sometimes all it takes is to let people lift you up. Let people support you and come along for the ride.

Then when you discover that you’re actually not finished, you DO have some real talent and spark left, and you can create a brand new life full of possibility again that is actually fun and pain free, then your mood will lift and you will wonder why you didn’t exercise and look after yourself so well much earlier in life.

Appreciate you have lots of us in you corner, wanting you to succeed and be happy every step of the way.