Pádraic Walsh

Final-year physiotherapy student at UCD with experience as a fitness coach at FFS Gym Dundrum and former strength & conditioning coach for the Mayo Senior Ladies football team. Holds a BSc in Sport and Exercise Management. Highly motivated with excellent communication and decision-making skills.

• HSELand Certs including Making Every Contact Count, Communicating, EWS and Infection Prevention
• Safeguarding
• Garda Vetting
• AIMS Clinical Frailty Certificate
• Heartcode BLS Certificate
• Manual Handling
• Lvl 4 PT Cert

• Keen interest in sport.
• Captained my club football county title in 2019 and got to the Connacht final.
• Won senior player of the year for my football club in 2018 and 2019.
• Ran a marathon at home for charity in June 2020, and in Dublin 2023.
• Organise a 7-a-side GAA tournament every year, starting in 2015.
• I enjoy reading, some genres I am interested in are health and wellness, psychology and biographies.

• Fitness Coach & Personal Trainer | FFS Gym, Dublin | 01/2024 – Current

- Deliver high-quality personal training sessions and group classes focused on strength, conditioning, mobility, and overall fitness.

- Provide coaching on technique, form, and safe progression to prevent injury and enhance results.

- Educate clients on training principles, recovery, nutrition basics, and sustainable lifestyle habits.

- Foster a motivating and inclusive training environment, ensuring consistent client engagement and progress tracking.

• Fitness Coach | F45 Sandyford, Dublin | 09/2022 – 10/2023

- Help in the daily running of the studio, keeping it clean and setting up for workouts
- Delivering a variety of different workouts to members.

• Fitness Coach | The Movement Gym, Mayo | 09/2019 – 09/2022

- Set up a new location for the gym and built a strong, trusting rapport with the new members.
- Developed strong interpersonal skills dealing with members daily.
- Improved my ability to think quick on my feet. During class, it is essential I have the ability to alter exercises for members who find an exercise uncomfortable or is injured.
- Showed initiative and motivation preparing and creating interactive online classes for our
members throughout 2019 - 2022.

• Strength & Conditioning and High Performance Coach | Mayo LGFA, Mayo | 09/2019 – 01/2021

- Took leadership of the team during gym sessions and directed and supervised their work.
- Performed testing every 8-12 weeks. Evaluated and identified strengths and weaknesses.
Analysed the results and subsequently made suitable alterations to their gym plans.
- In my second year, assigned more responsibility and appointed as High-Performance

Coach while still acting as Strength and Conditioning Coach.
- Met with the athletes frequently to discuss personal, sporting, and team goals.
- Collaborated with the team physiotherapist regarding injuries and inform the players of the best protocol to return to play as safely as possible.

• Football Coach (Volunteer) | UCD GAA, Dublin. | 09/2017 – 04/2019, 09/2021 - 04/2022

- Volunteered to take charge, manage and coach the ladies football team for two years while studying in UCD.
- Planned weekly training sessions for the ladies that were both enjoyable and progressive.
- Progressed to the league final and the championship semi-final in 2018 and we won the league in 2019.

• Gym Intern | Axsom Sports, Mayo. | 06/2018 – 08/2018

- Performed administrative work, aiding me in further developing my IT skills.
- Worked on the gym floor, communicating and interacting with clients, athletes and teams.
- Designed gym programs for athletes and clients, aimed towards their specific needs and goals.