Keri McKibbin Personal Training

The real you is the one that does very good things with your body and mind, even if the odds seem against you at times. 

Lots of you down the gym and online this week raising your OWN bar, not setting for run of the mill, not settling for what could have been if “this or that happens”, you are grinding and doing it extremely well, we strongly appreciate it.

If you aren’t making it so often as you would like, consider how much effort you make for things that don’t help your body and mind anywhere near as much, perhaps they even send both into decline.

If you are making time for your health, you really value your life and relationships in my view. Those closest to you DEPEND on your being mobile, healthy and you leading from the front. You won’t always be super healthy maybe but you can least have a go, then NOBODY can fault you.

If you aren’t at your best right now, the last thing you should do is hang your head in shame. NOBODY is perfect but EVERYONE can show up and make the effort to go TOWARDS being your best again.

You may tell your kids and grandkids to always do their best, but you may tend to miss yourself out of that conversation. Those kids and grandkids really look up to you for inspiration, without saying anything, they look to you to lead, to inspire them and most of all lead by example.

You have a million reasons to be fit and healthy, but you should know there are some very strong emotional reasons too to get this done you should never ignore before it’s too late.

Waiting to see “what if” for too long makes you think that you are freezing time, but the reality is that you are wasting your time in favour of hoping things turn out for the best as if by magic, and life soon begins to pass you by.

The reality is you have a fresh opportunity to boost your health every single day, and it can work two ways. 

Number one way is to show up, end of story. You show up first and let everything else happen for you because once you step int the gym, you are bound to have a great workout, bound to be tested and pushed to go a bit further than you think you can go.

Number two way would be to skip today, and then maybe tomorrow and before you know it the week has gone without you doing a single workout. No medicine for your brain in terms of better mental health, no medicine for your body in terms of getting pain out of your body and getting increased energy, your progress has come to a screeching halt!

We all have things on our mind, things we often hope will happen for the best, BUT exchanging our workouts because “we can’t get our heads into it” is a path to disaster. 

We make better decisions when we exercise, we have more incentive to eat well when we exercise and we have a much greater sense of wellbeing when we exercise-FACT.

Life carries on every day no matter how much we think it doesn’t, stay in the game, look after your health and build a better life, both now and in the future by doing the things you know work so well for you.