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Tuesday, May 24th

I sense individuals are on bit of a high lately, there is little if any complacency and there is a desire to improve. This is a great place to be as the only way is up.

Belief is high, there are not many negatives on the horizon and there is a positive nature in everything we do.

This state of mind is usually when your best training efforts are done. New highs can be achieved and your past physical peaks can be revisited, and who knows, even surpassed.

This is the state of mind that reminds us that age is not really the deciding factor after all, and I have seen this time after time. I have seen 60 year olds in great shape, looking 45 and I have seen 35 year olds looking 55!!! This is a true statement and not a joke or an exaggeration.

I have heard stories about 70 year olds having a good love life, and I have heard 30 something’s dead and buried on that front!!! These are real life stories again.

Its Tuesday today, and most people try to survive Tuesdays, they call them boring and just another week day to “get through”! To me and many others though, its much different.

Tuesday offers a great chance to get your best training session in because training should have no interruptions to worry about.

Tuesday is a day when you usually don’t have a night out, its usually early to bed and usually there’s no alcohol involved either. Good healthy food should be consumed and this should automatically make you feel better and perform better.

When you look at it rationally, Tuesday is in fact one of the best days of the week in training and health terms. Tuesday creates the foundation for a fantastic week and a good Tuesday will make a very powerful statement of intent!!

Good Tuesdays mean you want to be living life to the full, you want to be healthy, vibrant and full of energy, THIS is the life you want to live and the endless benefits and rewards that come with it.

It’s a great positive start to the week so make this Tuesday a new high in your development, push harder even when you want to give up, dig down deeper when you know you’re not quite there and do your best to finish this day off super-strong!!!!

Twitt
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Monday, 23rd May

What a monday already, wet and windy and what happened to the heatwave promised?

Anyway, we are already into a great monday when your body has been working in many ways already.

You may know already that you work your “core” in every single movement.

Your core in general terms is your stomach, lower back, hamstrings and thighs and these muscle groups control every movement in your body.

You could be making a cup of coffee, and the turning side to side to get the milk, coffee etc works your core, okay in a small way but still works it.

Reaching for a product in a supermarket also works your core, picking a child out of a car works your core, lifting anything works your core, just about anything works your core, and its VITAL your core is strong for any activity in life.

Anyone who has ever worked out with me will know that practically EVERY exercise will work your core with me, and you can always tell by the next day because you will be a little stiff in the most important area on your body!!! It shows that we are going things right and safely, which is always important to me and it should be to you too.

And you can forget about any fancy machines too, they claim to work your core but they don’t offer the flexibility that free motion and more natural movements offer. When you are on a machine, you are always in a limited range of  motion, and your body will therefore be limited in the way it can move. Anytime this happens, it means you are not getting the full benefits you should be out of your workouts, and therefore not going to be improving in the way you know you should be!!!!

I have found that with machines, they offer limited success and i am always more in favour of free weights, and much more free and natural movements you can do with a medicine ball and the fit ball (the pumped up big ball you see in gyms etc) of course.

The bottom line, stay away from these fancy machines who promise the earth, and stick to tried and tested methods that will safely deliver big results every time!!!!

Twitt
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May 18th

I love the attitude that we are going to stop messing around, stop pretending to work hard, stop pretending just because you have a gym membership you are somehow fit, stop pretending just because you read a few magazines suddenly you know everything about training, its time to get real right now and give yourself to hard and proper training, give yourself over to proper nutrition, proper supermarket shopping of good nutritious food, proper good eating in the week and ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSES to do well ths time-“this time” it IS going to happen!!!

Life is not easy all the time so lets stop pretending is. But life is not always so hard you havent got time to exercise, its never so hard that you HAVE to eat all the rubbish food because “you were stressed”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life is never THAT hard so lets stop using the same old excuses!!! Good food and good workouts will help you no end and help you reach the pinnacle of health that we are all after!!

Once you take all of the excuses out of your life, we go several miles forward in our aim of achieving the body of our dreams, and great health thrown in too, which is perhaps the most important thing of all!!!!!!

Life should be like that for all of you and im hear to help. Im really not in the mood for posers, you know the type who have all the gear and no idea, in fact most people i know who train well really don’t care for show offs of any kind!!! They are never the fittest of people and are usually far more concerned with their image. We are about hard work on here and making solid honest efforts and being proud of our progress!!!

Im not concerned with ANY shortcuts and false dawns of diet clubs, all im about is good hard and proper training done in the right way and CONSISTENTLY-This is the true secret of being successful, so if you want to get onboard and be the best you can be, then its really time to step up to the plate and get that weight off, get a lean harder body, get more energy in your life and really get fired up about life again, because i know i am and ready to help everyone!!!!!!

Email me with any questions on fitness@kerimckibbin.co.uk

Twitt
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May 17th 2011

Some of you are going through a fresh start at the moment, and that’s always a good thing.

Don’t look back at your failures of the recent past, you can learn from them. They can only be classed as failures IF you don’t learn from them, simple as that. They can be classed as “learning” experiences if you proceed with confidence in the future, knowing you’re not going to go back to the place that caused misery and unhappiness before.

Unfortunately, the process of putting on weight, then taking it off, then piling it back on and this time 5% more again, can be deeply distressing! Some of you have been through it a number of times, and it doesn’t make it any easier of course.

This is an opportunity to put them to rest, and tell yourself you simply won’t accept the faddy diets you used to go on, you won’t fall for buying a faddy piece of exercise equipment again that you never use, you wont accept mediocrity in your training attendance.

For example, how many times have you wondered how you’re putting weight on in a particular month, and if you go back through that month in your head, you would have realised you may have missed a lot of scheduled workouts, the one day a week drinking rule has become a two-three day a week rule, and your stricter eating habits have now become somewhat less than strict, and the one day a week “have what you like” rule has become a three to four day a week rule!!!

So coming back to our point, making a fresh start is exactly that, there is NO GOING BACK this time.

If you are focused on getting your mind and body in top shape, you have to choose which lifestyle you really want. Is it the pain of constant disappointment and regret? Or will you be brave and actually DO IT this time and make it sustainable for the rest of your life? No regrets and no going back, you have to remember that so lets go!!!!

Twitt
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13th May 2011

As we hit friday 13th may, you may be wondering why your programme may not be going as well as it should.

There are lots of reasons maybe, but the main one must surely be just getting the thing done in the first place!!!

You will get a high from exercise and eating well, that is without doubt.

You will get a low from not exercising, because you are not injecting any energy into your life. In fact, a recent study from spain suggests that people who eat the most trans fats are 50% more likely to suffer from depression, than those who eat the most momo and polyunsaturated fats.

To put that in a easy way, if you eat ready meals, processed foods and those foods who have lots of chemicals in them, they are likely to be loaded with trans fats. Fast foods and takeaways for example constantly come out the highest when it comes to trans fats and therefore put you at a much higher risk of heart disease and other life threatening diseases, if eaten on a constant basis.

So whats your choice going to be this weekend? Is it going to be a friday, saturday and sunday of processed rubbish washed down with alcohol? And then be somehow puzzled by the fact that you have put weight on by monday?!!!!

Or are you going to spoil yourself in a different way?

Sometimes its a great treat to go to m & s and get a whole chicken which tends to be very good quality, then get some tomatoes there which can make you love tomatoes again, and some spinach and do a nice quick meal out of these high class ingredients. You can get a rich tasting meal out  of this right there.

The SAME meal can taste very bland out of many other supermarkets, so it does show paying extra can sometimes make a big difference!!!

I am not recommending you shop at marks and spencer all the time of course, that would be silly but once a week take the chance to purchase some really good quality and great tasting fruit and vegetables, as well as some great tasting healthy food across the range.

You may not want to do it of course, but its got to be better than 3 days of gorging yourself on rubbish thats going to keep you on the toilet all weekend, for all the wrong reasons!!!!

Twitt