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30/11/2025

Injuries happen—but complete rest can cost you hard-earned fitness. The real key is staying active safely so you can keep progressing while you recover.

Here are 8 smart strategies to keep training without making things worse. 💪

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28/11/2025

When you focus on the good, your brain literally rewires itself through a process called neuroplasticity, strengthening neural pathways associated with positive emotions and making it more likely to find good in the future. Repeatedly focusing on positive experiences builds new neural connections, much like physical exercise strengthens muscles, which can change your perspective, emotional pattern, and stress responses over time.

📑Neuroplasticity in Action: Your brain is constantly changing based on your experiences, thoughts and emotions. When you intentionally direct your attention toward what is good, safe or meaningful, you strengthen the neural circuits linked to reward and positive experiences.

📑Strengthening Positive Pathways: By consistently practicing positive habits like gratitude, mindfulness, or positive affirmations, you are building and reinforcing the neural pathways that make it easier to notice and access positive feelings. This can make positive experiences feel more natural and automatic.

📑The Opposite is Also True: If you repeatedly focus on negative thoughts or stress, your brain will strengthen those pathways, making it more efficient in spotting threats and problems.

📑Changing Your Brain’s Default: Over time, this consistent focus on the good can shift your brain’s default setting, making it more likely to see solutions, hope and possibility in your daily life.

📑It’s an Active Process: This isn’t about ignoring negative situations but about actively training your mind to recognize the full picture, including the positive aspects. Consciously choosing where to place your attention is a powerful way to reshape your thoughts, feelings and reactions.

27/11/2025

Studies show that the body can store emotional, physical, and sexual trauma, which can then manifest as physical pain. This happens because the brain doesn’t separate physical and emotional pain, and the nervous system can store trauma, leading to symptoms like chronic pain, headaches, fatigue, and digestive issues, especially in those with PTSD.

▶️How trauma is stored and expressed physically:

📑Embodiment theories: These theories suggest that traumatic experiences are stored in the body’s somatosensory system as implicit memories and can impact physical sensations and responses later in life.
📑Brain and nervous system response: The central nervous system processes emotional and physical pain similarly, and trauma can lead to chronic stress responses.
📑Chronic pain: There is a higher prevalence of chronic pain in survivors of childhood sexual abuse, as well as a link between trauma and conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.
📑Manifestations: The physical pain can be a warning sign that emotional work needs to be done or a result of unresolved trauma in the nervous system.

▶️Examples of physical symptoms: Common physical symptoms include:
Headaches
Muscle pain and stiffness
Gastrointestinal issues
Fatigue
Increased heart rate, sweating, or trembling
Sexual pain or dysfunction

You must release the trauma from your body in order to heal. I will put a few somatic exercises in the comments section for you to try on your own, but more severe cases should seek professional guidance. Your trauma is never your fault, but, unfortunately, healing has become your responsibility. Take great care of yourselves sweet friends.
PMID: 21647882

26/11/2025

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It's NORTH SEMI FINAL weekend!! 💪

This Saturday sees our u21s take on Kiladangan in the Noeth Semi Final

➡️ North u21B Hurling Semi Final
🆚️ Kiladangan
🗓 Saturday November 29th
⏰️ @ 2pm
🎈 Kilcoleman

Having topped the group and receiving a bye and home advantage to the semi final, our u21s will take on a strong Kiladangan team in this Saturdays Semi final!

We want to see all our supporters out in force for this game to get our lads over the line!

Best of luck to the team and management ☘️

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26/11/2025

Scientists confirm $89 tub of neon pixie dust is just Kool-Aid for suckers

You know those BCAAs you've been chugging between sets?

The ones promising "explosive recovery" and "god-mode pumps"?

Yeah... studies say if you're already smashing your daily protein intake, they do absolute jack s**t.

One trial: 5g BCAAs spiked synthesis 22%... but whey crushed it with 50% more. (And whey costs half as much.)

Still sipping that purple potion?

Then see the exact studies + the one $0.10 upgrade that actually builds muscle overnight 👇

26/11/2025

The fountain of youth is strength training 💪💯⛲

A recent study revealed that lifting weights for just 90 minutes a week can slow biological aging by as much as four years. Telomeres, which are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, shorten with each cell division as we age. Shorter telomeres are associated with cellular aging and various age-related diseases. This study and others have found that regular strength training increases telomere length, thereby slowing biological aging.

Additionally, chronic inflammation is a key driver of aging and strength training helps combat it. By reducing inflammation, lifting weights can protect cells and slow down the shortening of telomeres.

Also, increased blood flow, a result of strength training, delivers more oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout the body, promoting cellular health and function.

Strength training also naturally boosts hormones like testosterone and growth hormone, which are crucial for muscle repair, recovery and overall cellular health.

As people age, they naturally lose muscle mass (sarcopenia). Lifting weights helps counteract this loss, maintaining muscle mass and improving metabolism. A higher muscle mass also improves insulin sensitivity and blood sugar regulation. These factors combined also contribute to slowing of biological aging and diseases prevention.

PMID: 39596838

25/11/2025

Final Appointments remaining this week 💪

Thursday 27th @ 4pm, 5pm
Saturday 29th @ 12pm

Please book on-line.

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Many thanks. Niall 💯🙏

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