Keri McKibbin Personal Training
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Lead from the front.
Sustainable results delivered safely.
Provide a positive and motivating training atmosphere.
Deliver nutritional strategies that last for life.
Always over-deliver.
Say absolutely no to drugs.
Be more than just a trainer to our members.
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It’s time to explode some “myths” of training, and answer a range of questions I seem to get at regular intervals from a surprising amount of you.
MYTH NO1 “The best sign of a great workout is how exhausted I am, and how sore I am the next couple of days!”
Many people I meet regard a great workout with being totally exhausted and sore.
When people come down the gym for the first time, they assume that because they didn’t feel “sick”, that they weren’t training hard enough!
I always have to put them right on this straight away because “feeling sick and exhausted totally” is the exact opposite of what we are about.
I always tell clients that making them sick all over the car park would be easy.
I am FAR MORE interested in getting them stronger, more flexible, being more agile and balanced, and dramatically increasing their speed and endurance.
Being sick from training is one of the worst things you can do for your body, causing great internal distress that your body takes a long time to get over.
If you’re measuring your training progress on being exhausted, and you are doing a speed and agility session with me, then you’re quickly forgetting why you are doing the session in the first place.
Teaching people to run properly and move in multi-directions requires the individual to use their brain power, their reaction time, as well as physical effort.
Last of all, there isn’t one scientific paper out there that says you have to be dramatically sore after a workout to get maximum gains from it, not one! You may get sore now and again from changing your training around and using different muscles, and who wants to be sore all the time anyway!
Always remember that anyone can get you tired, but it requires a far more professional approach to get you much faster, stronger and much better conditioned for absolutely anything you want to do.
Already been for my new years day run this morning and it felt pretty good indeed!!! Strangely quiet always on new years day, perhaps because most people were having a heavy one the night before.
Actually, recent polls don’t back that up anymore. According to latest research, 92.5% of people in Wales were spending new years eve at home at 12 o’clock, a dramatic change that started i believe in 2000, when pubs and taxi drivers got very greedy and started charging to get into their pubs, and taxis wanted double and sometimes treble time for their services. That greed has led to most pubs being full to the rafters, to being sad places where you are luck to get 10 people in at your local pub on new years eve. Sad but true down with us anyway.
New years day is the ideal time to get going, not talk about it, just get going!! Actions should be talking louder than words this year for you. Never have the words “just do it” been more important!! You can talk about it all you want, but it all really begins to matter when you get out there and exercise. If you have a hangover or not, then today is the ideal time to get out there and do something worthwhile, burn some body fat and fill your lungs with fresh air.
We will be doing another 12 week challenge this year, and im looking to start it around 17th january. I always think that people are not really ready until then, because it takes that long to get back into routines of work, family etc. In fact, this year studies proved that to be true. People who start their weight loss programmes after 15th january, tend to be more successful in their programmes. People who start on january 1st tend to fade away in late january according to a number of studies, this does not surprise me one bit!!
So try and get in some kind of routine, and kick off lighter activities today, and promise yourself that you’re going to stick it out for the whole of 2011 this time!! Its not a sprint and the tortoise will really beat the hare this time!!!
