Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Finding out the truth 

When I was 7 years old and first started going down the gym, it was often very cold in winter, and you had these iron and steel bars and dumbbells everywhere, but amongst the cold and grey days, you always had members who were glad to be there, some seemed ecstatic to be there and most were always smiling-i swear to God that is true!!

This went on year to year as I struggled to get warm and do my own small exercise programme, and if I was idling around, I was told to DO SOMETHING and I would indeed GET WARM.

I saw these days as like a church in my mind too, where you arrive and meet like-minded people all aiming to make themselves better in some way, or many ways.

People who arrived with characters that were maybe questionable, would come would to sort themselves out once they learnt the discipline of lifting weights and exercising right. 

They started mixing with people who had strong character, didn’t put up with any nonsense and soon learnt there was a better way in life if you exercised, ate a lot better and hard work would eventually make you into a better person all round even if it was tough at first, and often change your life.

Fast forward many years later when I took over the gym, I did introduce a new form of heating which was actually warm. BUT despite the expense of installing it, I was told to turn it off after 5 minutes because it was too warm and ”uncomfortable”. I didn’t turn it on again ever.

Right now when it is cold as winter’s usually get with us, everyone knows the way it is. Since we are an all in coaching gym, if you are cold in our place, then indeed you are not training hard enough, and that I believe is a great culture to have.

I find the people who are doing a ton of stuff outside with us are working so hard that they have to take their hoodies off, and even on the coldest of mornings or evenings, are in a t-shirt sweating from all the challenges we choose to push them through.

I find at that exact moment, they have found more about themselves than any more “comfortable” moment in the rest of their days, they are finding about the REAL TRUTH about themselves, about what it takes to make it in life and what it takes to overcome any challenge that life decides to throw at them.

“I don’t have time to do that much exercise”, “I don’t have time to make food from scratch”, “I could never go to bed that early in the week”, are all based on the list of priorities in your life being upside down and the wrong way around.

Do I need to mention how much TV you watch without coming across as highly judgemental? I really don’t want to!

Do I need to point you in the direction of your screen time on your phone? Did it ever lead to anything productive in your life?

How about social media scrolling alone? Need I say more?

All of these things are fun ONCE you get your priorities done.

You tell your kids often to get your homework done first, you tell your kids to not rely on food from the local convenience store and ‘get a good meal in you’.

You tell your kids get off that Xbox, off the PS4/5 off the cartoons/trash tv etc, and you do it for a reason, because they NEED TO GET STUFF DONE!!

You can’t preach to them unless you lead from the front, you can’t be the one who sits on the settee moaning about your life all day, moaning on social media as if that will somehow make it better, moan about your health when you don’t do nothing about it, moan about how little energy you have when you don’t do the things that will the tried and tested to change that situation.

Getting stuff done means for you having good health, having great energy, having way less irritability and bad moods so people around you don’t have to avoid you either, getting stuff done means getting your house in order and getting your priorities straight full stop.

Time to work and get at it!!!

If it’s down to anyone, it’s down to you.

Whether you have experienced unfairness in team sport, a job promotion, been passed over for endless things in your life,“knowing the right people” whatever it is, no more “favourites” will exist when it’s YOU training because it’s against yourself, nobody else, no outside influences, no fixes, JUST you against you and the efforts you are willing to keep putting in!

Then we give you TOOLS to do great things, and the right pathway to do that. 

Professional training that’s ALWAYS got another level of difficulty and performance, and it’s down to YOU to dig deeper than you ever thought.

This is WHERE the great results live. 

The hard work matters and the consistency of that hard grind takes time to show up on the success page, and others noticing and acknowledging you are doing/have done incredible things.

Success and achievement never happens overnight, it never happens after just one hard session, it’s a long road and the showing up when it’s dark, cold, raining even when it would be easier to spend the day on the settee “talking a good game”.

You have everything in your favour, everything going for you, all it requires is for you to step up and show the courage relentlessly to keep doing your best over a long period of time, that’s where true success and accomplishment really lives.