How many times do you hear in the media that they don’t know anything about exercise, they don’t really know what diet to be on, which exercise equipment to use, how long to exercise for, what the “best” exercise is for their stomach’s etc etc!
I’ve pretty much had a gutful of all that rubbish. Did these people have a good formal education to get on air, or were they just picked up from the street one day? Which one was it? Some are very good of course and im talking about the airheads who occupy some radio and TV stations. There’s so much trashy information out there these days, perhaps thats they they are really getting confused by all these false promises by so called “guru’s” or charlatans as they should be called!! Its time to stop falling for all that rubbish so lets call an end to it right now!!!
Well lets fix this thing once and for all because im not putting up with that rubbish any longer!!!
You have to do your resistance training!! Whats that mean? It means working against resistance and includes press ups, squats, arm dips, weight training etc and you need to be putting in this type of workout THREE times a week, just like coronation street, monday, wednesday and friday!! Pick 6-8 exercises and you need to do around 3 circuits of this. See the workout section of examples. These will tighten up your body no end, make your body VERY efficient at burning fat, exactly what you want to be doing. Running and walking will never re-shape your body, working against resistance DEFINITELY will!!!
You need to GET OUT at least twice a week and YES, EVEN IN THIS WEATHER!!! You WILL feel better afterwards!!! Getting out in the fresh air i meant!!
You need to walk up hills if you can, you need to run shorter distances but with more purpose, you can cycle in daylight hours and enjoy the many cycle paths around here, YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!! This is ALL about making you FEEL BETTER!!!
You need to eat every 3-4 hours, breakfast, lunch, evening meals and snack twice mid-morning and mid-afternoon healthily on fruit and nuts etc. Plenty of ideas in the diet/food section. This is not being a pig, this is keeping your energy levels constant and this will help you to avoid hunger pangs which can often blow your diet!
You need to give sleep some attention too, try and get your head down early in the week and get a good nights sleep. Dont use wine to send you to sleep, its the worst kind of sleep you can get, its not cool or trendy in the week to get trashed on wine, plus it will ONLY make you put on body fat and make you hold water/get bloated, not very good side effects!!!!
There are some basics there and sorry for the rant, because after all this time, its time to let you know that anyone can do this, and if you’re not achieving what you want in life right now, its time to do it and right now, no excuses, no trendy talk, quit all the “‘i’ll do it tomorrow” rubbish, its never going to work with that attitude.
Its a dull rainy tuesday, but still a great day to change your life around!!!!
Jeus Ke, ouch, what side of the bed did you get out this morning. Resistance training 3 times a week, JUST LIKE CORONATION STREET, mon wed and fri, sorry Ke, but I burst out laughing, your so funny. You ought to have your own show, “KERI McKIBBIN LIVE AT THE APOLLO” I for one would watch it. Lighten up, I know you must be sick of repeating yourself, but that is your job Ke, I’m still laughing. OK, everything your are saying is bang on, you have explained very well and made it simple enough that we can ALL understand, so everyone out there come on, give Keri a break. Oh and FYI, you dont need a formal education to be on air, you just have to look at JONATHON ROSS and RUSSELL BRAND to know that, they are FIRST CLASS IDIOTS. So, deep breaths Ke, and dont let the “guru’s or charlatans” get to you. I did a run this morning, soaked thru, but not complaining, would’nt dare, my usual 30min run took 29.10, not very good but there was a strong wind, no GALE down the beach this morning. I dont watch Corrie, only Easties. Well Ke, all is not lost you made me laugh today. Hope your day is better 2mo.
and you made me laugh too jean, thanks for your post, cheered me up. Finished now for the day so now much more relaxed and chilled!!! All calm on the western front for me now sorry!!
Sounds as if you’re doing really well and a 30 minute good paced run in todays weather is a SIGNIFICANT achievement, most people wouldnt or couldnt do that!!!