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CrossFit Ireland Podcast

CrossFit Ireland Podcast

By Colm O'Reilly

CrossFit Ireland's official podcast, a chance to talk about the wonderful things that happens here enriching your Fitness, Health, and Happiness.
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Muscles

CrossFit Ireland PodcastNov 28, 2023

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Muscles

Muscles

What makes muscles grow, why you want them, and how to avoid becoming too muscly!
Nov 28, 202310:57
Why so many movements in CrossFit?

Why so many movements in CrossFit?

Why do we do such a variety of movements in CrossFit. And how do we add variety in a “rigid” sport of weightlifting.
Nov 21, 202309:58
Relationships & Health

Relationships & Health

How relationships improve our health
Nov 14, 202310:55
All Core!

All Core!

Your core ain’t just your abs, it’s your full tummy muscles!
Nov 07, 202310:18
Are you SAD about the Team Throwdown

Are you SAD about the Team Throwdown

Reviewing the Team Throwdown.
Nov 01, 202310:20
Lessons from The Nutrition Challenge

Lessons from The Nutrition Challenge

What we learned and what will help you changing your nutrition
Oct 25, 202309:55
Injuries

Injuries

How do reduce the chance of injury, the difference between pain and soreness, and how to come back from injury.
Oct 16, 202309:35
Competition, Pacing & Muscle Failure

Competition, Pacing & Muscle Failure

Weightlifting worries, hassles with handstand and problems with pacing!
Oct 10, 202311:46
How To Approach Maxing Out

How To Approach Maxing Out

Maxing out doesn’t always mean lifetime bests.
Oct 03, 202308:43
Sustainable Nutrition

Sustainable Nutrition

Crash diets can give you quick results but you’ll most likely snap back to old habits. Slow sustainable habits may be boring but they’ll deliver long term fixes.
Sep 26, 202309:53
Mobility & Flexibility

Mobility & Flexibility

Why mobility is so important to your health and performance
Sep 19, 202308:38
Supplements

Supplements

What supplements should you take for optimal health?
Sep 12, 202309:52
Realistic Expectations

Realistic Expectations

How quickly should you see improvement? How many habits should you try change in one go?
Sep 05, 202310:26
The Perfect Plate

The Perfect Plate

In this week’s episode we answer some of your questions about the nutrition challenge. The key aim is to give you guidelines so you can pick one area to improve over the next 6 weeks.
Aug 29, 202310:54
September Nutrition Challenge

September Nutrition Challenge

Changing nutrition is tough, as it’s so habitual. From 4 September we’ll have a 6 week nutrition challenge so you can lean on the group support and sense of competition to help ingrain better long term habits!
Aug 22, 202309:48
Endurance & Efficiency

Endurance & Efficiency

How best to improve your endurance in CrossFit. It boils down to planned sets and rest, and focusing on quality of movement over speed or weight.
Aug 15, 202307:46
The Impact of Alcohol on Training & Body Composition

The Impact of Alcohol on Training & Body Composition

Alcohol can have an impact on your training and body composition goals. Today we discuss how and what you can do to off set the impacts.
Aug 09, 202307:22
Why Training With People Is Better

Why Training With People Is Better

This week we go into the benefits of training with others. What’s your favourite thing about training with others?
Aug 01, 202308:15
Sopot’s Story

Sopot’s Story

In today’s episode we learn of Sopot’s background in Weightlifting, when he started coaching and why he likes it, as well as his first CrossFit experience.
Jul 25, 202309:35
Skills Class

Skills Class

Why do a skills class? If you want to get good at life, just do CrossFit. If you want to get good at CrossFit, you need to practice CrossFit. Skills also build you agility, accuracy, balance and coordination. Class starting 29 July!
Jul 18, 202308:32
How much training is too much?

How much training is too much?

Today we discuss overtraining, how to recognise the early signs and what to do about it.
Jul 11, 202308:41
Why do goal reviews?

Why do goal reviews?

In this week’s podcast we discuss why goal reviews, the benefits of highlighting your progress, setting goals for yourself, accountability, what to do when you’re unsure of your goal or don’t have one.
Jul 03, 202307:50
Internal Self-Care

Internal Self-Care

Why we need an internal self-care as well as physical self-care. What self-care is and isn’t. Being nice Vs being kind. And one quick tip to start taking better care of yourself
Jun 27, 202307:54
Summer Strength & Sweat Class

Summer Strength & Sweat Class

We’re running a beginner friendly 6-week course for those intimidated by CrossFit. Spread the word!
Jun 19, 202305:03
Counting Calories Without Counting

Counting Calories Without Counting

You may find that calorie counting is too long to set up with MyFitnessPal, so Derek & Gera offer some tips on how to eyeball your way to healthy nutrition habits.
Jun 14, 202307:50
Quick Sleep Tips!

Quick Sleep Tips!

Quick tips to improve your sleep quality: consistency; early daylight exposure, limit screen time; and sleep in a cool, dark, quiet room.
Jun 06, 202306:46
Fitness Isn’t Just Getting Out of Breath

Fitness Isn’t Just Getting Out of Breath

Fitness isn’t just breathing heavy and sweating, it’s learning skills and building strength, coordination, agility, balance etc.
May 30, 202307:49
A Very Brief History of CFI

A Very Brief History of CFI

Colm and Derek talk about their paths that led them to partner up and open up “CFI 3.0”
May 23, 202309:31
The Virtuous Circle

The Virtuous Circle

Health is more than working out. We think there’s six factors than go into health: training; nutrition; sleep; internal self-care; relationships; and a meaningful activity.
May 16, 202306:15
Quick Intro To Nutrition

Quick Intro To Nutrition

A quick intro to nutrition. Can you out train a bad diet? And what’s the one quick thing you can do today to start improving your nutrition?
May 08, 202307:12
Rx or Scaled?

Rx or Scaled?

What does Rx mean? What’s the most important thing to consider in a workout?
May 02, 202307:52
Notes On Programming

Notes On Programming

Why program a yearly cycle? What’s in a weekly program?
Apr 24, 202307:52
Fitness. Health. Happiness.

Fitness. Health. Happiness.

Why start a podcast? And what do we mean when we say "Fitness. Health. Happiness."?

Apr 18, 202306:40
19.08 - Introducing Laura

19.08 - Introducing Laura

Allow us to introduce Laura, she'll be taking care of all the "off the floor" stuff to allow our fantastic coaches to take care of you on the floor! 

You may have gotten an email or two from her, and you can get to know her a little better in this podcast

Aug 01, 201911:24
19.07 - Jen: Winner of our May Mobility & Mindfulness Challenge

19.07 - Jen: Winner of our May Mobility & Mindfulness Challenge

During our May Mobility & Mindfulness Challenge Jen never missed a day!

Find out how she set up her routine, the challenges she faced, and what benefits she got from it! 

(Spoiler alert, Jen's family and work place benefited from her practice too!)

Thanks Jen!

Jun 15, 201909:51
19.06 - The Panda Club / CrossFit Kids

19.06 - The Panda Club / CrossFit Kids

Dave and Michelle talk about our kids and teens programs.

  • What are the benefits of CrossFit for kids?
  • Is it dangerous?
  • Who is it for?
  • What they learn beyond fitness...
May 26, 201907:22
Between Two Couches 19.05 - Meet Beata!

Between Two Couches 19.05 - Meet Beata!

Get to know the latest and best smelling member of staff - Beáta Jung!

May 09, 201910:27
Between Two Couches 19.04 - Open Review & Off Season

Between Two Couches 19.04 - Open Review & Off Season

 Positives/Things We’re Proud of

  • Purpose
  • Good Tests
  • Effort
  • Pacing/Strategy

Areas for improvements

  • Warm Ups
  • Base cardio could improve (without loss of skill)
  • Gymnastics
  • Strength not an issue, though we’ll continue to build it as it builds confidence, easier mark of progress, training has to be fun. 

Programming for Off Season

  • More Erg Pieces
  • More structural/long term health work
  • Why we go strict
Apr 04, 201911:29
Panda Cupdate 19.06

Panda Cupdate 19.06

🐼 19.5 Review

🐼 Highlights

  • Captains
  • Emer
  • Laura 
  • Captains 
  • Shell First Pull Up
  • Maggs First C2B

🐼 Scores

4th place - PAJ

3rd - TO

2nd - ICWW

1st - Kobeer

💙Team Vibe

🐼Off Season Tips

  • Recovery
  • Cardio
  • Consistency
Mar 28, 201912:11
Panda Cupdate 19.05

Panda Cupdate 19.05

 19.4 Review

Shout Outs

  • Noreen Pull Up
  • Andrew Pull Up (Skinful pull ups)
  • Tiare Pull Ups
  • Emer Pull Ups
  • Elaine Pull Ups
  • Mark Kenny, Robert Sheridan, Tall Kev Bar Muscle Up

Team scores

Panda’s Always Judging - 21

Trouble Onders - 40

I Can, We Will - 35

Kobeer - 45 (1)

Testimonial points

19.5 Rivalries - Scolard v Sherrard

Battle of the Beautiful Bald Bastards

CrossFit/Weightlifting Comp / CFI LiftOFF

19.5 Predictions

Mar 21, 201910:29
Panda Cupdate 19.02

Panda Cupdate 19.02

19.1 is in the books!

We review the workout, Mark's first Open experience, The Panda Cup standings, The Clonmel Open and we make our 19.2 Predictions! 

Feb 28, 201910:14
Panda Cupdate 19.01

Panda Cupdate 19.01

Welcome to the first episode of The Panda Cupdate 2019!

🐼What is The Panda Cup?

🐼How do you sign up for The Open/The Panda Cup?

🐼 A Look at Teams.

�🐼How Saturday will run during The Open?

🐼 Predictions for The Open.

Feb 21, 201907:40
19.03 - Nutrition Reset 2019

19.03 - Nutrition Reset 2019

In this week's episode Colm and Mark discuss our latest Nutrition Reset.

We challenged our members to live by 4 rules for 4 weeks
🍏 Eat Real Food

🍛 Not Too Much

🥦 Mostly Plants

🛌 Sleep 7+ Hours

We discuss the struggles, the victories, the successes, and the ongoing habits our great members are going to continue!

Feb 15, 201911:37
19.02 - The CrossFit Open/The Panda Cup

19.02 - The CrossFit Open/The Panda Cup

Starting 21 February and for 5 weeks we'll have our annual festival of fitness.

Watch today's video for the reasons you should get involved and why it gives meaning to our training "season"

Thanks!

Feb 08, 201911:23
19.01 - Dave Kane, from Injured and Fat to CrossFit Coach

19.01 - Dave Kane, from Injured and Fat to CrossFit Coach

He's the guy everyone loves, and everyone loves Dave!


Here Dave's story on today's podcast. 

Jan 31, 201907:38
18.30 - Highlights & Lessons

18.30 - Highlights & Lessons

Latest episode of CrossFit Ireland Between Two Couches
Dec 13, 201818:11
18.29 - Meet Mark

18.29 - Meet Mark

In this episode we interview the latest member of the coaching staff - Mark "Extra Mild" Rowan.

Want to know how he got that nickname? Just listen to find out!
Nov 29, 201810:32
28 - Worlds

28 - Worlds

Sean and Colm review Sean's IWF World Championship 2018 Performance.
Nov 16, 201813:07
18.27 - The Filthy Episode

18.27 - The Filthy Episode

This week we're talking through The Filthy 150 2018!

We talk:

-Team Selection
-Team Training
-Performance on the day
-And how Sam beat a CrossFit Games winner 😜😜😜

Enjoy!
Nov 01, 201811:41
18.26 - RX

18.26 - RX

You hear the term "RX" all the time in CrossFit? But what does it mean? And is our aim to always "go Rx" in our training?

RX means “as prescribed”. Glassman felt and feels that CrossFit is a prescription for overall health. Rx simply comes from medicine and meant the dosage required for the intended effect.

Should you go RX? Listen to find out ;)
Oct 18, 201810:21