My name is Michelle Heffernan. I am a 52 year old mother of 2 teenagers, living in Kilkenny city, originally from Mullingar.
My love of movement began when I was very young.
I loved to dance, swim, run & cycle, all the usual things kids did growing up in the 80s. I went to college in 1990 & after my 1st year, I had began to put on weight. I wasn’t having it, & just headed to a video store for fitness tapes.
I began to use them & before long my weight was back to normal but I continued anyways as I felt happy doing them.
Soon after I began improvement swimming lessons with a group of girls that I worked with & soon found out that I was a naturally good swimmer, so after the lessons I continued to go on my own & I was swimming 5-6 miles a week shortly afterwards.
Whether you are a complete beginner or want to challenge yourself, I have something for everyone
It was when I got the chance to travel again in 1998 that the weight began to creep on again as I had to work long hours to earn money & by 2001 I had gained a lot of weight.
It took another few years to get my head around this & finally got back to been fit again before my wedding in 2006, which was my motivation at the time.
I got an idea in 2012 (soon after the birth of my son) to work independently & decided to take the chance.
I began with ‘The Biggest Loser’ & ran classes while keeping track of my clients progress. It took off so fast. It lasted & kept getting stronger until i was met with a rather challenging time.
Just as I was coming away from this challenge I got news of a Cancer Diagnosis in 2019 which was followed by Covid .
I wasn’t sure if it would ever come right but things began looking up in 2021 when I started teaching LIVE classes again where my spark returned.