"It doesn’t matter where we do our work out, get out into nature, get moving"

A personal trainer from Navan who became inspired to help others change after turning her own life around having developed a sugar addiction as she struggled to cope with the birth of premature twin babies who were born at just 29 weeks has launched her second book.

Fuelling my way follows on from My Fitness Journal, the book Aoife Bradley brought out in 2019 that came to fruition after the business owner found her self bed-bound in the Rotunda Hospital for her entire pregnancy due to carrying monoamniotic twins, a condition where identical twins share the same amniotic sac in the womb.

She admits 'living on her wits' and 'becoming trapped in a cycle of binge eating chocolate bars every day’ with the stress of caring for the tiny girls who are now six.

With Aoife’s philosophy that mind body and spirit go hand in hand her second book offers no nonsense practical advice on setting realistic goals, making nutritious simple recipes and tips how to become acquainted with meditation.

The determined author unbelievably finished writing the book whilst recovering in hospital after having a hysterectomy earlier this year.

She said:

“In this new book it is all my tricks and tips that I learned over the last six years, things that are very important to me like my morning and evening routine, my food prep.

“It gives people ideas on all the aspects of well being. We can all go and exercise but we looking at the other boxes?

“I talk about setting micro goals, starting off with two of three daily goals and just tick them off and what you are starting to create your long term habit.

“There is a section on my favourite simple recipes and also a section on meditation.”

With gyms and studios closed everyone needs to look at their ‘why’ in order to be motivated according to Aoife.

“Knowing your reasons will ignite you to want to put everything else into action.

“The situation isn’t going to change but you can change the way you look at the situation and I think that is very powerful, we need to keep saying that to ourselves, it doesn’t matter where we do our work out, get out into nature, get moving.

We can sit and be depressed that the gyms and the studios aren’t it is not going to change the situation but if we can say I can still move and I can still benefit from getting the work out done, where is my plan b."

The Navan mum spent a further period of time this year in hospital undergoing a hysterectomy but now fully recovered she is on a mission to keep people active in lockdown.

“The fibroid that they discovered when I was pregnant with Chloe and Ava had just grown significantly across my womb so I needed to get it removed.

“It was a tough period but I got through it and it gave me some time to finish the book and I’m more determined than ever to help people on their journey.”