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.
CrossFit Ireland PodcastMay 17, 2018
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Don’t Limit Your Training
Keep trying stuff you’re not so good at to keep your capacity as broad for as long as possible.
Apr 23, 202411:25
Keep Training In Line With Your Goal
Your goals should dictate how your approach your workouts.
Apr 16, 202412:25
Intensity
How intense should you go and how often?
Apr 09, 202414:03
Person - Athlete - Team
We care about the person first, then the athlete, then as part of the team.
Apr 03, 202415:28
What’s Next?
After The Open, what’s next for programming and training?
Mar 26, 202412:03
Why Range Of Motion Matters
What is Range of Motion, why does it matter for health and for sport?
Feb 27, 202414:17
Panda Cupdate 24.2
The teams are now set for The Panda Cup 2024!
Shout outs to our rookies taking part for the first time.
Feb 21, 202410:29
The Panda Cupdate 24.1
The Panda Cupdate is back. Check out YouTube for our video version!
Feb 13, 202410:19
The CrossFit Open
What is The CrossFit Open and The Panda Cup
Feb 06, 202410:19
What Days Should I Train?
Since CrossFit is so varied, should you pick your days?
Jan 30, 202409:48
How to Strategise
How to strategise a workout. In short move as well as you can and deliberately.
Jan 23, 202411:48
Winter Training Considerations
Tips to help you stay safe and move effectively during the cold months.
Jan 16, 202410:41
Why Goals Fail?
How goals fail and what you need to do to improve your chance of success.
Jan 08, 202411:47
Goals???
The team shares their thoughts on goals ahead of 2024!
Jan 03, 202410:43
Highlights of The Year
A retrospective of 2023 and all the events and people that made it special.
Dec 19, 202312:48
CFI Awards 2023
It’s the time of year to recognise the people that make CFI great!
Dec 11, 202310:35
Self Talk
How to improve your self talk during workouts.
Dec 05, 202312:55
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 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
How relationships improve our health
Nov 14, 202310:55
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
Reviewing the Team Throwdown.
Nov 01, 202310:20
Lessons from The Nutrition Challenge
What we learned and what will help you changing your nutrition
Oct 25, 202309:55
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
Weightlifting worries, hassles with handstand and problems with pacing!
Oct 10, 202311:46
How To Approach Maxing Out
Maxing out doesn’t always mean lifetime bests.
Oct 03, 202308:43
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
Why mobility is so important to your health and performance
Sep 19, 202308:38
Supplements
What supplements should you take for optimal health?
Sep 12, 202309:52
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
Today we discuss overtraining, how to recognise the early signs and what to do about it.
Jul 11, 202308:41
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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?
What does Rx mean? What’s the most important thing to consider in a workout?
May 02, 202307:52
Notes On Programming
Why program a yearly cycle? What’s in a weekly program?
Apr 24, 202307:52
Fitness. Health. Happiness.
Why start a podcast? And what do we mean when we say "Fitness. Health. Happiness."?
Apr 18, 202306:40