Keri McKibbin Personal Training

If we don’t have a battle to fight every day, then we get frustrated because we haven’t had enough stress in our day.

Too much stress is not good, but we DO need some stress to challenge us, enough stress to make us better, and to keep us wanting to improve.

Stress, doubt, frustration, impatience, anxiety are all human emotions and if we leave them build up, then they can feel overwhelming and top us doing many things in our days that we NEED to do.

Workouts are commonly thought of as something to make us look better, but the reality is 100% of the time the workout makes us FEEL better too, and a big part of this is keeping stress and other negative emotions in check.

Your daily battles are essential, don’t shy away from them because they are essential and we need to deal with them head on. From those battles we do get better, we do feel better, and we only grow with confidence every day from winning them.

New programme week means new movements, new challenges, new moments whether you can even get through it.

This is just part of the process, and you must trust it and get through it no matter what.

You can be sure that after the October is over, you will be much stronger, more resilient to the movement challenges, you will become more flexible, better balanced and feel better in every area of your life full stop.

If you are’t challenging yourself, then you aren’t improving.

We all have weakness that we sometimes avoid because it is uncomfortable to face head on. 

These workouts are full of such movements, they will expose our preferred one sidedness preference, they will expose our lack of balance in some situations and they will correct any inconsistencies we have on one side because none of us have perfect balance.

Going to be a great month, and the one way you can guarantee that is to keep on showing up no matter what. 

Training matters immensely, but put a strong mindset on top of that and that’s where great things happens.

Training lets you do what you think is possible on a particular day, a good mindset lets you go on a higher purpose.

Failing one challenge can have a bad effect on us, we can tell ourselves if we fail one thing, then there’s no point in even trying it in the future, and this can transfer to all areas of our lives.

This is why it’s super important to keep trying and having another go, because if we overcome failure on something we previously couldn’t do, we will find out it wasn’t us or just our bodies that stopped us in the first place, it was our minds.

Completing that task not only makes us feel good, but encourages us try more and more things with much more confidence.

Failing is a confidence destroyer, keeping trying and eventually accomplishing what we set out to do is a confidence booster and that’s why never giving up no matter what must always be the plan. 

We all rely on confidence because without it, we don’t often have a go at much in life. To get it we must continually overcome, and do do this we must continually show up and never ever throw the towel in.