Fitness & Nutrition in Clonakilty
Fitness For Everyone
Howling Heart Fitness & Nutrition
At Howling Heart Fitness & Nutrition we use functional movement and a habit-based nutrition approach to promote long-term health.
We run coached classes in small groups. All our classes are open to all abilities and fitness levels.
We also believe that something as fundamental as nutrition shouldn't be complicated which is why we focus on a simple habit-based approach.
We know that helping people make health a way of life is just about one way. We use a holistic approach looking at sleep, stress management, support system, exercise, nutrition and lifestyle.
We are located in the middle of Clonakilty and love to welcome new members! We are all about our community (our pack) and having fun while improving your overall wellness. We have a high percentage of members that have been with us from the start, this loyalty and consistency are what we are all about!
We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising
Wellness is the absence of disease and we all want to fit into this category!
We don’t want to visit the doctor regularly because we are always sick, instead, we want to push off sickness and push off the nursing homes as much as we can.
Low muscle mass increases your risk of falls and fractures, reduces your strength and mobility, contributes to metabolic issues like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease and can lead to higher rates of hospitalisation and mortality. It also impairs your ability to perform daily tasks, impacting your independence and quality of life.
By prioritising resistance training and adequate nutrition, individuals can build and maintain muscle mass, preserving strength and independence and reducing the risk of long-term care needs.
Let’s get you stronger, with more lean muscle mass. As your strength & conditioning improves and your body fat % comes down, so do your markers for cardiovascular disease like triglyceride levels, cholesterol, resting heart rate etc.
We would love for you all to have fulfilled, happy, healthy lives. We want you to be an addition to your families when you're 80 and well on into your 90s and not a hindrance where you must be looked after.
Doctors are lifeguards. Trainers are swim coaches. When you need a lifeguard, you need a lifeguard, not a swim coach but if you need a lifeguard, you probably needed a swim coach and didn’t get one.
As trainers in Howling Heart Fitness, we can help you learn to swim so that you hopefully will never need a lifeguard.
What We Offer
Different classes for all ages and fitness levels
Strength & Conditioning
Personal Training
Weightlifting
Nutrition Coaching
The goal is just to get fit,
Make it the best hour of your day,
Stay safe, turn up the music,
High five some people,
and blow off some steam.
So remember that.
Relax. Have fun. Work out.
Experienced Coaches
Our fully trained and qualified coaches will help you reach your fitness goals
Kieran Howlin
Co-Owner / Coach
Eithne Harte
Co-Owner / Coach
Denis Fitzpatrick
Coach
Maura O'Brien
Coach
Micheal O'Sullivan
Coach
What Our Members Say
Highly recommended Howling Heart! Recently trained at Howling Heart during a visit home. Great coaches and a a super friendly/welcoming group of members. Great to even catch up with old Camogie teammate Juanita. Hopefully join you all again next year. If anyone ever finds themselves visiting Perth Australia. Be sure to let me know and I will be sure to help repay the favour of a welcoming gym. Continued success!!
I drop in here from time to time and every time I’m treated like family. If you are in Clonakilty, you need to train here. It’s a fun, professional environment with a great sense of community that you immediately feel a part of.
It's awesome, they push you enough to keep you getting better but also ensure you don't injure yourself! They're really supportive and friendly and try to make sure everyone's enjoying themselves...
Great place, great people. I've loved every bit of my time spent in Howling Heart, so much so that I'm running away with the coach! Ok, so I may be a bit bias, but this place is so welcoming and chilled that I spent more and more time there, just because I wanted to. It has that real community feel that's hard to find in the most established of gyms. I joined at the start of July. I thought I was relatively fit after coming back from London for the summer. Turns out I was wrong...! However embarrassed I might have felt about the state of my fitness, no one batted an eyelid, in fact, it was completely the opposite! Bundles of encouragement to finish the session from all the members and coaches ensured that by the end of my two months, I can honestly say that I'm fitter, more mobile and stronger than ever before. To top it all off I got my first ring muscle up on my last day and a personal best in my snatch. I can honestly say that it was a pleasure to train with you guys. What an asset to the heart of Clonakilty!
Fantastic to be able to drop in to such a great facility and friendly people to train when home. Knowledgeable and encouraging coaches and a supportive atmosphere!! So welcoming for a drop in and would also be fantastic as a full time trainig gym! Thanks guys, will be back!
I was in Clonakilty on holidays and found this awesome place to workout . The equipment was top notch and the Coaches where extremely welcoming and helpful.
I loved every minute of it and would highly recommend this gym to anyone interested in a good workout! HH Fitness it's a great place to start as I saw the coaches taking care of every single person, who's new to this fantastic and safe sport! Lovely people and great community!I wish you all the best for your future!
Thanks a lot!
I would highly recommend Howling Heart fitness to anyone.The coaches are fab and are really supportive.They are highly experienced and are great to get you motivated. The encouragement and the high fives really makes you feel special. I love a challenge and at HowlingHeart you sure get that.Every night you do something different which I like as there is no room for boredom like other exercise classes and gyms.The only person you compete with is your self and it's a great feeling when you out do your self. I love it and I bet if you tried it you would too
Love it here. It's the best coaching anyone can get, I have done this type of training for a while but in only being here a few weeks I have knocked so much off my to achieve list already and it is Purely down to the coaching. Kieran and Ets take the Wax on Wax off approach. Just like in karate kid they take it back to the basics and then in no time you are achieving things you didn't think possible it makes such a difference when the coach's are hands on and take time with u to explain, encourage, and celebrate when u hit so many goals u never thought possible.
Out of any kind of training for years and just lost interest but I've rekindled my love of exhaustion in howlin heart. There is something new everyday and good fun doing it. Ticks all the box's.
I am new to this type of training. I love it. Brilliant gym and top class coaches. They scale everything to your abilities and drive you on when they know you can push on. A1.