Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Thank you for all of you who have adopted the new programme with open arms, and your intelligence in starting to learn it so quickly, I mean that in all seriousness.

There is a lot of detail in there, a lot of science why we do certain things a number of times, a lot of exercises that complement the other, and you are all embracing it and it’s a pleasure to coach that to such eager and great members.

It comes down THIS.

We go ALL IN on coaching great programmes, and then changing those great programmes with new and contrasting new schedules.

This is what makes us tick.

I NEVER want to be a place where you put a piano in a warehouse and send my kids to that place and NOBODY to teach it, I wouldn’t tolerate it and hopefully you wouldn’t sink to that low standard either in anything you do if you get what I mean.

I never want to be a gym where people walk in and have to push a button and hope for the best on a machine and make wild guesses on how to get the most of their bodies and health or get hurt doing the wrong thing endlessly..

“Exercising is not rocket science” is exactly that if you are relying on a piano in warehouse with no teacher type of place, exercise IS the LATEST SCIENCE when you DO IT RIGHT END OF STORY!!!

We all chase something, but we have to realise that disappointment, sadness, frustration make our life victories so much more meaningful and special, and are an important part of the whole process, especially at the times when we are only given 1% chance of succeeding..

Sadness in our lives makes our happier times feel more special.

When we finally achieve something we have been after for a long time, we can often relay the endless disappointments along the way, and appreciate they very much shaped our successes.

We all get frustrated, but the question will always remain for us, do we throw our toys out the pram or do we react by working harder than ever before, refining our approach and accept we may have made mistakes along the way, that through using our heads we can put right again, even making us overall better.

I have trained plenty of talented people in all walks of life over the years. Some people’s talent is so great that they have little problem succeeding in their chosen field, and they have always found that-UNTIL suddenly they fail, or reach a standard where they need to work a lot harder and keep refining their approach.

I will tell you a large percentage of the most talented people often lack the resilience to really make it, they lack the work ethic often, they lack the grit to carry on especially when they are told they “aren’t good enough” anymore.

They don’t realise it’s ONLY one person’s opinion usually.

Then the most resilient people I have trained fail ALL THE TIME, countless times and they have became very good at not taking one person’s opinion of them.

They usually take onboard good advice, where they are going wrong and work on the skills that are letting them down right now, THIS is really how they become ultimately successful, because of the PROCESS and journey they have been on, it’s made them tougher, make that MUCH tougher than the most talented, because they will always out-work them.

So sadness, disappointment, frustration and failure is all VITAL in us eventually reaching where we want to be. 

And I really believe it’s the process that’s the special part and makes us be able to come back from anything, the times when life throws curveballs at us and we end up under big load of of rubble, and wonder whether we can ever get out of it again and poke our heads up out of it and say “that was tough but what’s next?!!!!!”.

The 1% chance we are given when most people think we could never do something special with our lives, that 1% should motivate us, should keep us hungry, should make us look deeper within ourselves to bring out all the stops to get the stuff done we really NEED.