Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Here are facts from what I see every day. If you have trained for years with a decent level of intensity and consistency, then 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 or even 90 years of age are not “body old” anymore, as long as you keep doing the right things.

As you get older, many people have falls, breaking bones, hips, etc and can spend months in hospital, and often never recover 100% or much less than that.

A large part of our training is geared to that never happening to you, or at least cutting the chances down drastically.

We are very aware of what’s coming in life, and we are adequately equipped to win that battle of never slowing down, never getting weaker and never ever getting poor balance. 

Here’s what I see every day too, if you eating rubbish every day, then your health WILL decline over time, it’s impossible to dodge that bullet as feeding your body garbage will eventually make your engine splutter and eventually blow up!

If you are willing to show great pride in working out hard, then the other 50% of the equation is going to be eating well and HEALING and fuel your body, instead of trying to destroy it and undoing all the very good work you are doing.

When you are at the gym, you will be treated like an athlete and your weaknesses will be addressed too, as we are only as strong as our weakest link.

Every time you visit our gym, its a reality check, its your time of complete honesty in your day, finding out what you can really do. There’s no dodging the farmers walks backwards up the hill, there’s no dodging the heavy sled and there’s no easy workouts that ultimately will make you fall short compared to our new programmes devised with alarming regularity!

Working hard at the gym can be contagious and can become what you do, and who you are, the great exercisers we have at the gym are ALL hard workers, willing to do their best and if they struggle on a new challenge initially, they know by the 3rd to 4th time they do it, they will start excelling at it, that inner confidence comes from practice, repetition and as knowing our bodies can overcome anything if we keep working at it.

When you workout hard a few times a week, your mood elevation alone will become addictive and it’s a great “side-effect” of exercising hard.

On the opposite side of the fence, try getting a takeaway every night (after all it makes you “fun” according to some people?), try having a drink every night, try sitting on the settee all week without moving too much, even throw in some vaping-and see what happens to your moods, your energy levels and the depth of your lack of desire to do just about anything.

You will get big supporters of both lifestyles as the second one is a great example of “misery loves company”.

Choose to be great today, choose to lead by example and inspire your kids/grandkids, choose to have your best days FIRMLY in front of you.

It’s ALL within your power, do something that makes you better every day, and never listen to the “crowd” who haven’t got the guts to go for it!