Dermot Bannon opens up on 'life-changing' fitness routine
Dermot Bannon has recently shared details of his ‘life-changing’ fitness regime that has helped him get into shape. The Room to Improve host revealed that it only took a few simple lifestyle changes to improve his fitness levels, after making it one of his major goals over the past couple of years. Dermot has lost around seven kilograms in weight, with walking proving to make a huge difference in his health plan. He told RSVP Magazine: ‘I got fit this year for the first time. I used to say to myself, I need to do 8,000 steps or 10,000 steps today and I’d try to but it takes ages! ‘What I do now is a 15-minute walk in the morning, another 15-minute walk at lunchtime and then I’ll do half an hour in the evening. Then it’s done, it doesn’t take anything out of me and it’s made a massive difference. ‘I’ve lost nearly seven kilos in weight and I’m fitter and healthier. It was all through tiny things, no big diets. It was just 8 to 10k steps a day and I go to the gym two nights of the week to a class. ‘I go to the class because it’s good craic and we have a bit of banter. Lads Lifting it’s called, at the Edge in Clontarf.’ One of the key differences in his recent fitness revolution has been to make his journey a social one. After viewing his goals as something to take pleasure in, he started using them as a pastime. Dermot continued: ‘It has changed my life, because I now go to the gym to meet up with people and do something social and we have a bit of craic. ‘It’s just consistency. That’s the one thing I’ve learned in the last year; if you put in the tiniest little bit of effort and just do it, get up off your backside and do 10 minutes of it, it’s far better off than thinking about all the big walks you need to go on tomorrow, that you won’t do. ‘Do something right now, no matter how tiny. If you can keep doing that and do something consistently, things do change. There’s nothing like the feeling of being down a new belt notch, or the clothes that I bought five years ago fit me again. It might take a couple of months, but it will happen.’
