Trainer Spotlight: Seamus Keane
This month we want to feature the staff and director of Clann Health to give our members and potential members a greater insight into where we come from and how we got into the fitness industry.
To kick start this segment Seamus Keane our director kindly went first. Take a read below to get to know Seamus.
What made you get into the fitness industry?
In 2014 I actually moved to New York to work in Finance. When I worked in Finance I had fell into a poor routine where I stopped exercising, put on weight and felt like crap! Then I started back training myself again, eating better, felt like a different person and started to help others in the office who were in a similar position. Shortly after I left my job to become a full time fitness professional and it took off from there ......
How did you start Clann Health?
In March 2020 the gym I worked at closed because of the Pandemic. Out of necessity I began recording live rooftop classes and broadcasting them over Facebook. Parks were shut and going out in public was highly advised against, so it was the only option really. At the beginning I said if one person tunes in and I am helping even one person feel better each day then I will continue to do it. In the space of a few weeks a Community was building where people tuned in from New York to Ireland, UK, Australia, Singapore, Dubai, Iceland, Poland and more. So I decided to call it Clann Health which is the Irish word for Community/Family.
What do you like most about working in the fitness industry?
The feeling you get when you take someone on a journey from not enjoying exercise to really liking it and feeling better from it. Then all the other parts of their lives become better, their relationships, their energy levels, their mood, their sleep and so much more! I get a massive sense of accomplishment from that.
Favourite Quote?
Teddy Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat.”
One piece of advice you would give your younger self?
Find out what your passionate about, what you love doing and do more of it!
Whats your favourite class to teach and why?
Any class that has Denis, Bridget or Kelsey giving it socks in an AMRAP finisher at the end :)
