O Brien Movement Clinic

14/12/2025

Round 3..💪💪

14/12/2025

Round 2 … great coaching in his corner today .

14/12/2025

Another great day for the little man, a trilogy fight with a boxer from St.Brigids Boxing club, who really made some great adjustments & they had a right good battle today. A big thank you to who was just home from her 4th pro fight which she won convincingly & did Jake’s corner.
Another big thank you to for his help in 2025 is a great place for anyone looking to get there child involved in boxing 🥊 in a very safe & enjoyable environment.

05/11/2025

Round 3 … lots of good in & outs ..well done little man .

05/11/2025

Round 2 .. some really good foot work.

05/11/2025

Couldn’t be more proud … thank you for all your help & guidance Jake really enjoyed that tonight .💪💪

05/11/2025

19/01/2025

When do you come second in a race? But still win the 1500m indoor title?🫣🫣

In this race we had a guest runner Neil Speight from the UK, he went out like a rocket & stayed going…running a very impressive 3min 43Sec solo.

He would go on a few weeks later & just get beaten in a photo finish in a sprint to the line against the great Bernard Lagat ..💪💪.

All the Irish boys sat back & thought about the Gold medal 🥇, luckily I had enough in the tank to get it done in a fast last 200m. Great memories & sharing the track with such great athletes I do miss.
PS: I found an old hard Drive recently with lots of Running Stuff.. so could be a few more coming!!😂😂

04/11/2023

I’m delighted to share that I will be available for appointments in the prestigious Physiotherapy Clinic in Kilcock owned by Noel Mallon, in my humble opinion Noel is one of the best physios around the Kildare Area & I’m very excited to work in his practice & learn from one of the best. Online bookings now available 😊😊

13/02/2022

⏺I was sent this photo today, & I love it..

⏺Little Jake ran over & got into the huddle without even asking me!!🤩🤩🤩

⏺We can read all the latest research 🔬do countless amounts of courses..

⏺ But this type of exposure he is getting is priceless. Watching Senior players warm up, doing drills … handling situations on a pitch, unpredictable, chaotic it’s on the ground learning & he just loves it.

⏺ The best part is when we are driving home & he is asking countless questions on why did player X do this? Why did player X do that. That was some ball by player X.

⏺ So much enthusiasm & love for the sport already, I look forward to watching him develop at his own pace & hopefully be able to guide him a little on the way.

21/01/2022

▶️ The reason I got into the game was this . Helping people overcome there ni**les to get back to what they love. 🏊‍♂️🏄🏋️🤼‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️🏌🏾‍♂️🏹🏏⛳️🥅

▶️First session in we chatted for 45mins… yes 45mins about everything , not just his ni**le that had plagued him for many years.
Why such a long a chat? Well it’s the most important part of the of the treatment in the first session in my opinion.

▶️ It was very clear from the story that he had hit every strength marker known to man 👨… what wasn’t I going to give him as part of rehab…?? If you said strength… you have just won 🥇 bullies gold prize..😂😂

▶️ So what’s the missing piece of the puzzle then?? If this was 4 years ago I’d be scratching my head & have a look on my face to say … hmmm maybe we try some more strength…😩😩😩

▶️ Thankfully I went on & completed a mentorship with Dave O’Sullivan at Pro-Sport Accademy, this has taught me so much on how the body moves & what we need to have nice efficient movement.

▶️ So we chased Co-Ordination … timing … hitting the sweet spot, like when you strike a golf ball and it goes 300 yards but you didn’t feel you swung hard at all. Think about it , your foot hits the ground, what do we need to happen? We need all muscles working as a team, better Co-Ordination equals more efficient moving.
Don’t get me wrong, Is it important to be strong 💪?? Hell yes … but it’s only part of the puzzle.

▶️A big thank you to , I can remember our first online call & the fear I had of jumping on board, he did what he teaches on his mentorship, he met me where I was & we planned out the next logical steps & progressions for me as a therapist.

▶️ Tip for all therapists, sometimes the most complex looking cases are the easiest to solve & the easy ones turn out to be hardest, don’t be afraid to wrong, bin the current hypothesis, don’t get attached, move on to the next logical step .
-contractions ,

28/12/2021

▶️ The 800m race is one of the hardest races on the track in my opinion.

▶️ It hurts like no other, your on the brink of blowing up from early on in the race & when you feel the lactic it’s a game of trying to relax & not tighten up as it leads to slowing down.

▶️ In that picture I’m only 24 competing in the world military games in 2007. Training only a few months with very little aerobic conditioning. We travelled over as a 4x400m relay team & were allowed to pick an individual event, I honestly didn’t have a clue what I was at… I said maybe I will do the 800m. All our training was geared towards speed, fast reps on the track over varying distances. Very much sprint training. I managed to make the semi final and running a 1min 53 sec 800m and just missing the final by 1 spot.

▶️ With no coach at this point I was convinced I was a sprinter…😂😂😂 sure I had just ran a huge PB of sprint type training only running a few months.

▶️ When I arrived back after this competition I had made my mind up that running was something I wanted to pursue & needed a coach, that is when I learned I definitely wasn’t a sprinter and was introduced to training by heart rate.

▶️ Training of heart rate is a humbling experience, but if you drop the ego & give it a few months, you certainly see the gains & carry over.

▶️ Next post I will be covering my personal experience with my first lactic test.. (disaster..🙈🙈) what I got from it & more importantly how I used it in my training .