What's your Fanshawe story: Kira Currado - Fitness and Health Promotion
At 21 years old, fitness lover Kira Currado is already the success story in many inspirational books that should be passed on to others. It’s not only because she graduated from Fanshawe’s Fitness and Health Promotion program and is currently taking Recreation and Leisure studies or that she lost 102 lbs through a healthy timeline but because her career goals are completely selfless and focus on bettering the lifestyles of others.
Currado reminisces on her teen years when she decided she needed to make a change in her life, a change that has shaped her future in the most positive light.
“At 16 years old, I weighed 240 lbs,” she said. “I was unhappy, unhealthy and on the verge of diabetes. At this point, I chose to take my health into my own hands and lose weight.”
Since then Currado has made her whole life about fitness and helping others. From working at Popeye’s Supplement store, to assisting clients at Just Sweat Fitness studio and even citing her favourite school experience as teaching the program to other students and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Every ounce of work is for bettering someone.
Aside from using her diplomas to further her teaching, Currado has two unique business ideas in the process.
“I plan on creating a company that travels from school to school in the Thames Valley district school board in a truck containing fitness equipment [like skipping ropes and hula hoops],” she said. “As of 10 years ago the obesity of children has tripled and in elementary schools. It is required the teachers give an extra 30 minutes of physical activity a day, which leads the teachers responsible.
“My idea is traveling in this van from school to school and giving kids the exercise they need and vital information they need about nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle. I get paid, teachers are off the hook and most important the kids have a better understanding of help better tomorrow not only by passing the information they have learned along to their parents but providing a brighter future for their children and decreasing the rates of childhood obesity.”
With this idea in the early stages, Currado also plans on helping the less fortunate.
“My second idea is creating an outdoor sports equipment ‘vending machine,’ where kids that can’t afford to purchase high price equipment or don’t have access can purchase equipment and play with it for a certain amount of time before returning it,” she said. “This gives kids who come from an area of low income a chance to have the same accessibility as kids who have access to this equipment at a reasonable cost.”
Currado is set to graduate from Recreation and Leisure Studies in spring of 2016 and is currently taking a placement at Fanshawe’s Athletics department.
Currado reminisces on her teen years when she decided she needed to make a change in her life, a change that has shaped her future in the most positive light.
“At 16 years old, I weighed 240 lbs,” she said. “I was unhappy, unhealthy and on the verge of diabetes. At this point, I chose to take my health into my own hands and lose weight.”
Since then Currado has made her whole life about fitness and helping others. From working at Popeye’s Supplement store, to assisting clients at Just Sweat Fitness studio and even citing her favourite school experience as teaching the program to other students and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Every ounce of work is for bettering someone.
Aside from using her diplomas to further her teaching, Currado has two unique business ideas in the process.
“I plan on creating a company that travels from school to school in the Thames Valley district school board in a truck containing fitness equipment [like skipping ropes and hula hoops],” she said. “As of 10 years ago the obesity of children has tripled and in elementary schools. It is required the teachers give an extra 30 minutes of physical activity a day, which leads the teachers responsible.
“My idea is traveling in this van from school to school and giving kids the exercise they need and vital information they need about nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle. I get paid, teachers are off the hook and most important the kids have a better understanding of help better tomorrow not only by passing the information they have learned along to their parents but providing a brighter future for their children and decreasing the rates of childhood obesity.”
With this idea in the early stages, Currado also plans on helping the less fortunate.
“My second idea is creating an outdoor sports equipment ‘vending machine,’ where kids that can’t afford to purchase high price equipment or don’t have access can purchase equipment and play with it for a certain amount of time before returning it,” she said. “This gives kids who come from an area of low income a chance to have the same accessibility as kids who have access to this equipment at a reasonable cost.”
Currado is set to graduate from Recreation and Leisure Studies in spring of 2016 and is currently taking a placement at Fanshawe’s Athletics department.
