Kirsty Godso is sharing a killer workout with her followers – in her workout gear. In a new social media post the fitness trainer flaunts her amazing body in a two-piece exercise set during an intense workout session. “You and who?! Save a friend from a sleep in and get this workout in together!” she captioned the Instagram video. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care and what is the workout? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits and details on how to do the workout yourself.
1. Keto Eating
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Kirsty doesn’t like the word diet. “I talk about food as food and what we eat to fuel our bodies. To me, it's so much more important to be in communication with your body, paying attention to how what you're eating makes you feel. For me, that happens to be a high fat, ketogenic style of eating,” she told Well + Good. “The first time I started eating this way was seven years ago. I was 22 and working with a trainer who put me on a 21-day ketogenic eating plan. For the first four days, I felt so tired and grumpy. Cutting out fruit was really hard for me and I also had a pretty bad obsession with gummy candy. Giving that up was hard. But I stuck with it and a week into my newfound eating plan, I felt a huge shift in my body—I felt amazing. ‘Wow, I am never going back,’ I thought. And I haven't. I'm less strict now—I eat fruit sometimes—but most of the foods I cut out, like rice, I just never added back in because I realized that I not only didn't need them, but I felt so much better without 'em.”
2. Here Is What She Eats in a Day
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Kirsty detailed her diet to Women’s Health.
Breakfast: “To keep me going in the morning, I make a protein shake at home before I fly out the door,” she said, revealing the recipe:
✱ Whey protein isolate
✱ Frozen blueberries
✱ Lucuma powder
✱ Collagen powder
✱ Bee pollen
✱ Ice
✱ Water
Lunch: “My lunch consists of vegetables and protein – either eggs, chicken or ground turkey. Preferably I’ll make my lunch, but if I can’t get home, I have some favourite spots around the city,” she added. Her go-to meal is:
✱ Rocket
✱Avocado
✱ Chicken
✱ Heirloom tomatoes
✱ Beetroot
✱ Chilli
Dinner: “I love to wind down at the end of the day by cooking my own dinner. I’m pretty routine with my eating and interchange between ground turkey, salmon or chicken for my protein, then pair it with an array of vegetables,” she continued, listing the veggies:
✱ Grilled broccoli
✱ Rocket and kale
✱ Avocado
✱ Asparagus
✱ Heirloom tomatoes
✱ Activated pumpkin seeds
✱ Butternut pumpkin if I feel like something a bit more filling
3. Strength Training and HIIT
“The classes I teach are primarily high intensity, but when it comes to training myself, I do a lot of strength training and conditioning with bursts of HIIT,” she told Well + Good about her approach to fitness. There is lots of research backing up the benefits of HIIT workouts, including body fat reduction, improved cardiovascular function, and mental health. It is also time effective.
4. Restorative Exercise
“I also tend to my body with more restorative workouts, like Pilates and yoga. When you're training all day, it can actually feed into imbalances and you can set yourself back. It's super important to focus on alignment, too,” she added to Well + Good. Why is pilates a good workout? According to the Mayo Clinic there are lots of benefits to the workout, as it “strengthens the body's inner core while increasing its flexibility resulting in improved overall health.” It can also promote longer, leaner muscles, injury prevention, relief from stress and back pain, enhanced athletic performance, and heightened mind-body awareness.
5. Her New Workout
Here are the details about Kirsty’s new workout:
10x single bent leg hip thrust (each leg)
10x tricep extension with heel tap to crunch
10x single arm press with opp leg extension (each arm)
10x lateral lunge to clean (each leg)
“Recover 60 seconds,” she says, adding that you should “repeat for 3 rounds total.” After, do the curve treadmill (or regular treadmill) relay with your friend, “30 seconds fast paced run -> switch with your friend & you recover” for a total of 3 rounds, followed by 10 to 20 minutes on the StairMaster. “Please start with a dynamic warmup and activation,” she continued.
