The 2004 double Olympic champion has turned her attention to the home-fitness market… when she’s not videoing her alpacas
Dame Kelly Holmes is well qualified – perhaps overly so – to lead online exercise classes. For one thing, she has the energy, as she puts it, of “a Duracell bunny, jumping around like a madwoman”. For another, she is one of Britain’s greatest Olympians, having won gold in the 800m and 1500m at the 2004 Athens games. Holmes, now 50, started offering free sessions on Instagram last year, but has just launched Lunch Date With Kelly on YouTube, 20-minute live workouts at 12.30pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday each week. She lives in Kent, where she has a small herd of alpacas.
What can we expect from Lunch Date With Kelly?
The biggest thing is I just want to energise people in the middle of their day. Lift their spirits: get them moving and feeling good about themselves. And I want people to feel that there are people there for them. There’s a lot of people struggling mentally, because of the environment they’re stuck in, the risk to a job or financial worries or home schooling. There’s so much going on that people can feel bad about. So for me this 20 minutes is: “OK, for just 20 minutes in a day, out of 24 hours, feel good for yourself.”
