Keri McKibbin Personal Training

The missing ingredient is always energy.

“I don’t have enough energy to do that”, “I don’t have half the energy I used to have”, “I could never do that many hours working, I would never have the energy”.

Lack of energy holds us back in life, and often puts our life on hold too.

It means the difference between a life watching from the sidelines to a life of actually taking part full time, often for the first time in years.

Energy is sparked by our workouts, eating nutrient rich food (not dead food like ready meals), having daily fresh air and resting well (which happens far more often when we exercise regularly).

Energy doesn’t come from energy drinks (bad for the heart too), it doesn’t come from a glass of wine/beer (great for half hour then big lows), and it definitely doesn’t come from scrolling your computer/phone all day.

Energy is something you can’t do without obviously and is critical to your happiness, welfare and get the things you really want in life, your habits will always dictate how much energy fills your day and what you actually feel like getting done every day too..

Re-wiring your body and mind has been ultra-important over the last few years, and doing nothing has NOT been an option.

Some of you worked from home, some still are, some of you retired and life has never been the same again.

Re-inventing yourselves has been the key though and some of you have been re-born.

Some of you have launched businesses, some of you have been grandparents that has filled your time and purpose, and many of you are doing the things you mostly put off during your working lives.

Then you have the other side of the fence, after the first couple of weeks of retiring, working from home, things became a new way of living and not for the better. 

Your sense of purpose may have gone and the initial celebrations, parties and well-wishing you soon may realise that you are wondering “what now”?!!!!!!

Slowing down is good is it means not moving much anymore, slowing down and ignoring working your body is the biggest trap for your mobility, you wellbeing, joint and muscular pain and your mind.

You can go from optimistic to being the pessimist, life ”was better in the good old days” but facts are there were bad times back then too.

All that free time you have now NEEDS a fully or at least mostly functioning body to maximise these golden years.

For every victory we have at the gym daily, I have to tell someone they have to pull their socks up, they have to sort their eating out because you can never out-train a bad diet, I have to encourage them to hit the gym more often and quit making excuses.

In short, the truth CAN HURT but long term will be the kindest thing we do for people, because if it sorts someone’s health out, the rewards and life-changing improvements are very much worth it.

Re-invent yourself, re-wire yourself, realise that you can’t stop in life, only keep moving and finally put yourself first to ENJOY many great years to come.