Keri McKibbin Personal Training

There is great satisfaction on getting your workout done on a monday. 

It sparks off a positive chain of events. 

You feel better, you are inspired to eat better, your mind instantly gets into another great place, and you will feel a great sense of accomplishment.

This will give you everything you need in terms of momentum to have a great week. Get monday right and tuesday is likely to be good too, and much more likely to include a great workout.

We all need a spark in our day, we all need a catalyst for us to turn the corner and be on our way to a successful and fulfilled week.

Darker nights are here, but we can all control the way we feel and perform no matter what the weather and what is going on around us, we can control our OWN ENVIRONMENT by getting our workouts in and delivering a better future for ourselves.

Using the right kind of self-talk 

Our thoughts can be a two way street. Listen too much to our doubts, negativity and we will always struggle.

What if we started a self-talk programme with ourselves, telling ourselves what we NEED to be doing to feel better.

Even if we sometimes don’t feel like it, we know if we hit the gym most days, get fresh air, we will elevate our mental health, feel better, elevate our physical health and get ourselves on a better trajectory in our life as a whole.

Accept the fact you will have negative thoughts daily, we ALL do, and it’s how you deal with them will make all the difference.

We know that alcohol can elevate our thoughts-but only for a short time, and then it will all coming crashing down quickly, as alcohol is a depressant and leave us in a mess not wanting to do much afterwards.

Same with sugary food, it will give us a warm fizzy feeling for around 30 mins, then we will have an energy crash, no energy and our stomach will often hurt from all that junk.

Mental health is often a daily battle for everyone and we need to employ strategies that.regularly will make us feel better, that lift us up emotionally, physically and help us build on good foundations we have already created with training well and eating right.

Expect to feel not so good sometimes, but when we have strong coping strategies and take action on it, we can immediately lift ourselves out of that into a much better and more productive place every time.