The Shape I'm In - Clodagh McKenna

WHEN superfit Clodagh McKenna started spinning classes in a Manhattan high-octane studio she was floored by the speed.

“I thought I’d never do it again,” says the top Irish chef. “I was mortified. I was trying to hide because I couldn’t do it to the tempo. But I kept going back and back and after about six classes I was able to do it.”

She now does high-intensity spinning classes whenever she’s working in New York — “I put my bags in the hotel and go straight to a class” — or London. She has yet to find a class with a similar intense tempo in Dublin, her home city.