Kickstart Nutrition & Personal Training

09/04/2017

Anyone that knows me knows how I love my Tupperware! Great find in this afternoon. So handy for meal prep and office snacks! 👊

21/03/2017

Coffee, bootcamp planning and hummus! 😂 Day job done and with clients until 9.30 tonight! 😊

12/02/2017

Kickstart are now providing personal training and bespoke training programs to help you reach your goals. Affordable packages available for couples and friends training together. Just three months until summer so it's time to step things up! Contact me for more info! 😊

03/02/2017

When you forget your lunch but you work next to sandycove! Their "Hulk" wrap is full of dark leafy greens, avocado and chicken breast! Nomb nomb

02/02/2017

It's a hearty soup kinda day! This is home made red pepper & cauliflower soup, with added chicken breast and some chick peas for added protein! Nomb nomb! Eaten out of Tupperware as it's straight out of my freezer stash!

17/01/2017

Yesterday was blue Monday, but lets face it, many people suffer from the blues throughout the year for a variety of reasons. BUT depression, anxiety and low self esteem can be more prevalent this time of year not just because we’re on a come down after the Christmas season but because depression has a seasonal variation and is much more prevalent in winter when our Vitamin D levels are lower. Summer sunlight has been shown to increase our brain serotonin levels at least twice as much as winter sunlight! So to get us through these darker months make sure you supplement with Vitamin D combined with a balance of good dietary fats. Once we make it through to March the angle of the sun will begin to elevate over Ireland and our bodies will start to make Vit D for itself but in the meantime let's give ourselves a little kickstart 😊

15/01/2017

Great morning for some outside Personal Training with client Chris! Chris is 17 and looking to loose weight to improve his confidence! Great work this morn - who knew a picnic bench could form the perfect piece of gym equipment! 🏃🏃🏃🏃

12/01/2017

Brilliant!! 😂😂

12/01/2017

My husband and wife clients sending me a pic of their weekly shop! Trolley full of goodness right there! 😊😊

12/01/2017

"Will drinking protein make me bulky?" - This is a genuine concern for many females but lets bust some myths! Protein (or weight lifting!) for that matter will not make you "bulky"! Protein is an essential macronutrient for muscle recovery, growth, cell repair and contains essential amino acids which support our immune system and general health. Its basically essential for life! Contact us today for some advice on how to boost and manage your protein intake to support performance, body composition and well being :)

11/01/2017

Some thought provoking messages to get you through the mid day slump...http://on.natgeo.com/2j9jkcV

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10/01/2017

Kickstart Nutrition are not about bombarding you with science and jargon - nutrition should be straightforward and accessible for everyone. Otherwise good nutrition becomes a commodity and this is not good for any of us! So here's a little anecdote which might resonate with some of you! Please LIKE and SHARE to be in with a chance to WIN A FREE 6 WEEK NUTRITION PLAN from Kickstart Nutrition!

Imagine the scenario - a petrol station opens near you promising its customers low cost fuel. You think - "Fantastic - I can go there and fill up my car and save myself money!" So your car goes into the red and you decide, “I’m going to go to that new station and fill up!” You can't believe your luck - your fuel gauge is back up at full and you've saved money. Happy days! Everyone loves a bargain right? You drive to work the next day and notice it took a little bit more fuel than normal - what the hell - it was cheap and hey if I need to fill up again, it’s not costing me much. Next time you're running low you go and fill up again! Then one morning a few weeks later, you go out to start the car. You notice it’s a little bit sluggish to get going and it’s chugging and giving off weird smells from the exhaust. Eventually it just cuts out. You're really angry - your car was running perfectly fine until you put that cheap fuel in it; now look at it - its not running properly, mechanically there's something wrong and its likely to end up costing you money for someone to put it right! All because you went for convenience, didn't think about the quality of the fuel or the impact it would have on your engine. Now imagine that car is your body and that cheap, low cost petrol station is the processed food industry - we're filling up because it’s cheap and convenient every day and not realising the consequences. The old saying “your health is your wealth” is something many of us take for granted until we have the misfortune of something going wrong. It’s so important to remember that you are fuelling your body every day – in a world so focussed on efficiency and sustainability – lets not just adopt these principles for our cars and our homes, lets also think about how we fuel our bodies – the greatest combustion engine of all!