Keri McKibbin Personal Training

Most people who train hard, keep on improving year in year out, don’t see keeping fit as a chore, don’t see eating well as a hardship, achieve a lot by keeping a strong balance and a sense of perspective. In between bank holidays, this strategy has never been so important.

These people’s “in the week” nutritional habits are strong, their foundation is a lot of fresh food and strong efforts working out, aiming to consistently get better.

Then when the next weekend, the next bank holiday comes, the odd drink, the odd meal out, the odd takeaway doesn’t matter too much.

If we eat well 80% of the time, have treats occasionally and put the effort in at the gym/online workouts, then we have achieved a good balance in life.

Throw that balance over to 80% eating badly, hardly ever training and you will have a problem not only with the way you look, the way you feel etc, but your general health and wellbeing will suffer too.

Being on some kind of spartan regime eating strictly ALL THE TIME doesn’t work long term, but having a balance does so you appreciate those occasional treats when they come much more.

One more thing, try and be active the day AFTER you have a treat especially. 

Having a good sweat the day after not only burns a large part of the night before off, it makes you feel so much better despite the initial discomfort, and sets you up for a proper day of recovery too, meaning you are back in balance not only physically but mentally too.

This is the first proper day this week when you need to go ALL OUT to get the balance back in your life, no excuses, put the work in and feel better afterwards in all ways.

A rare Sunday post but its an important one for those who are struggling in life right now, and there are many.

I did the lookout hill again just now. Not because I had to, for the fun of it, but it follows on from the gratitude list I mentioned friday.

So I am running up that hill because I am GRATEFUL for what I have, and I don’t want to lose my health either, because unless I am healthy I will not be able to enjoy fully all those things I am most grateful for.

The minute I can’t do that hill, I will know I am on the decline. I will have “accepted” my best days are behind me, I know I will not have enough energy to do the things I do now, that’s why I keep fighting and I always put a sprint in at the end right to the bench to remind me I am still alive.

I sometimes think of people who would say my business would never last when I am halfway up, I think of those who would never back us a gym, I use that negativity as FUEL and I secretly say “thank you for pushing me to be better”.

Doing a big run on bank holiday Sunday is no hardship, it’s a gift from me to me, and I mean that in an unselfish way. I don’t want to be burden to anyone else by losing my health, I want to share my stories and experience, of victory and of defeat, because we often learn MORE when we lose, and I have lost lots of times, but as long as we LEARN, we come back stronger than ever.

Lots of you have been BROKEN in life, but I’m here to tell you that you CAN put yourself together and YOU can do that and be great again, just ask for a little help too and you can again be the DESIGNER of your own exciting future once again.

We are with you all the way!!!!