Keri McKibbin Personal Training

This has ALL DO WITH FAITH but it works.

We all want to do things, we all want things at times that mean a lot to us, we probably have completely different goals at 16 than we do now at 40, 60 or even 90 years of age. I’m betting ALL of you have very different goals reading this right now.

Some of you were lucky to get exactly what you wanted.

For many of us though, what we really wanted at different ages we often didn’t get, but often got pushed off into another direction that became even more satisfying, even more rewarding and we may even have made a business/long working career/sporting career out of it often against the odds.

BUT the starting point of doing good to great things in our lives started with us initially not knowing how the heck we could ever do that. That part when just hope is supposed to get us to where we are is often called BELIEF, it’s often called FAITH, and often involves things we don’t really want to do to get there.

Sometimes we have to do not what we WANT to do, but what we MUST DO.

I know I didn’t have any money when I first started training people, I went in 4000 pounds of debt after my first meaningful course, I remember withdrawing cash from my VISA card just to live, but from those worrying times, BELIEF carries you through but that belief forced me into ACTION or I would be bankrupt very soon, it definitely focuses the mind!

Whatever you want right now, even if you can’t do it now, I’m asking you to do what you CAN DO, and not always what you want to do.

In the gym, if your knee is bad, I’m asking you to turn up anyway and we will fix it, plus put your upper body through a ton of work to work around it.

I’m asking you to do better with your food, to ditch takeaways in the bin and save yourself some money but save your health so much more, do what you CAN and that includes eat good healthy food to look after yourself and if you have a family, to LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

All of us never get what we want straight away, but doing what we can NOW, will eventually get to us to a position where we can do what we want, lift bigger, walk up tough hills to see great views, feel better inside and out and yes that WILL transform to ALL areas of your life.

Along the way keep the FAITH, BELIEF whatever you want to call it, because ultimately that along with daily action will get you to achieve anything you want.

The biggest rates of growth you ever had was when you were a child.

Studies have shown too in that age group, that games were the area where the child learned the fastest, the child was allowed to think for themselves and figure things out as problems arrived in games against each other.

When you let someone problem solve for themselves, they become more resilient naturally in life, they have to dig deep when the easy way out isn’t there anymore, and that resilience builds when challenges are presented to that child in a game-like setting that is presented as fun.

As adults, and after the age when we stop playing sports, we tend to accept that our “best days” are behind us, and this naturally sends signals to our brain that we don’t enjoy being challenged anymore.

I also see it a ton of times with people still playing sport, and doing a programme on machines/exercises that have no relation to the sport they are playing, it often seems that “getting bigger” is the goal no matter what, often at the expense of movement, speed, and ability to change direction quickly which is actually vital in their sport.

I’m a massive believer that weight training will massively improve your sporting performance and even if you don’t play sports anymore, everyone will benefit from getting stronger.

The problems come when all you do is weight training (often on machines), your flexibility over time reduces and I’ve trained so many sports people who could be late 20’s and can’t even push their hands above their shoulders.

Encouraging more flexibility, better movement, working on tight hips for example which inevitably also cause a weak and bad back, along with a host of other forms of training (as well as training right with weights) will literally transform you and your performance.

Relying on medication to solve your back problems, moving less to save the pain in your knees for example are awful long term strategies that never come close to solving the underlying problems or weakness at the heart of it.

Re-creating those very fast rates of growth mentally and physically is what we are all about with training, making your body move much better, letting you think for yourself at times when you need to figure out the right way when challenges are presented to you, and creating the feeling again you are back in a game, this time you will win every time as long as you keep showing up with a great attitude and do your best.