{"id":436083,"date":"2026-01-27T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436083\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:11","slug":"its-not-about-the-scales-its-about-someone-who-couldnt-do-a-push-up-three-months-ago-and-now-they-can-do-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436083\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not about the scales &#8230;it\u2019s about someone who couldn\u2019t do a push-up three months ago and now they can do 20&#8242;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLucy Rock and Orlaith Curran spent years with the IRFU on the Ireland 7s circuit \u2013 now they\u2019ve created online coaching community Femily to use all that rugby knowledge to connect women interested in improving performance and fitness\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlaith Curran and Lucy Mulhall who run online group Femily.  Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rlaith and Lucy 002.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Orlaith Curran and Lucy Mulhall who run online group Femily.  Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Elite performance, for over a decade of Lucy Rock (ne\u00e9 Mulhall)\u2019s life, meant playing and captaining the Ireland women\u2019s 7s rugby team. For Orlaith Curran, as the 7s\u2019 strength and conditioning coach, her elite performance was ensuring the team were at their best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI loved every minute of it,\u201d says Curran, who has a PhD in talent development environment in female team sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy Rock and Orlaith Curran spent years with the IRFU on the Ireland 7s circuit \u2013 now they\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84,17141,24384,181145,181146],"class_list":{"0":"post-436083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism","14":"tag-shp","15":"tag-signature-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}