Keri McKibbin Personal Training

The best teams don’t stay where they are, they don’t only “defend” the position they are in, they ATTACK new opportunities. Without an attack mindset, none of us ever get better.

Every programme we get I want you to attack it no matter how hard it is to start with, get better every time, lift a bit more when you can, do some more reps when you can, you must stay on the attack.

Defending your position means you have “settled” and waiting for things to only get worse for you, “doing what you can” is not the same as wanting to get better, defend is a defeatist attitude, you must aim for improvement more or less every workout, even a little bit each time adds up to a lot, and if you feed your body right too, then substantial improvements WILL happen over time.

Doing the right thing is what we always have to do, we try to avoid fads and actively tell individuals we train why we don’t adopt certain ways of training.

Of course we could have you all do burpees and run around the block several times, but we want to improve your fitness with intelligence, show you that we can coach you properly, plus not risk any injury to you by employing unintelligent one size fits all training methods that are destined to fail over time.

We want to get you stronger and eliminate pain from your body, not give you a treatment that may reduce pain for 24-28 hours and not really solve the real weakness in your body.

Social media is full of people who have ideas on how to train someone, but their sample size of people they train is often minuscule and the length of time they have been training people is dramatically short to form any kind of opinion with any confidence.

Nobody can convince me EVER that white bread is “okay” or even “good for you”, or convince me that taking supplements is better than having a strong foundation with your diet eating good fresh food every day, nobody can convince me that any faddy diet works, because they get dis-proven almost every single day.

We tell you straight that hard work is the way to do it, I see people in the gym every day who are regulars, they achieve iNCREDIBLE things, people who show up now and again struggle to make improvements and it’s important to be straight and honest with everyone, we do things tried and tested not what “he said or she said”, watch our for people who give you advice, who have their trained? Have they got self-interest at the heart of their advice? And is it their main job or something they read on social media or the magazine in the hairdresser?

We start another week with complete conviction we are doing the right thing for everyone that comes through the door.

It’s still cold but spring is around the corner, by the end of march a lot of us will be back in the garden. We need to tidy things up, cut things that shouldn’t be there or have overgrown, and we need to get the garden in some kind of order.

We need to get rid of the likely many weeds, and this process is likely to continue until late October. We may cut the lawn as soon as its ready, and that lawn will start growing faster and faster after the first cut, then we develop some kind of weekly routine that needs sticking to, or everything can soon get out of control again.

Your body and your environment is your garden and you need to keep on getting rid of the weeds. 

Your daily food intake should be all mostly good, but if there’s continually lots of sugary foods still in there, then they need WEEDING and got rid of or your joints will soon start to ache more and more and pain can soon start to invade your body through the ultra-processed foods we may be eating. .

Your body is your garden too, don’t let weeds come into it through missed workouts, you need to keep moving, keep getting stronger and keep yourself good order, get plenty of fresh air and realise you were meant to move often, and the less you do the less you WANT to do.

Last of all, your mind is constantly at threat of being invaded by weeds, meaning negative people and influences are always threatening to take over your good thoughts with negative and highly destructive thoughts. 

We must weed them daily and the people you hang out with will dictate often how you think and even behave, be careful the company you keep.

Weeding time is here, do it daily and keep on top of it.