This months Spotlight Interview is Gar Benn, owner of of City Gym in the heart of Limerick city.
Gar Benn is a great friend to GPC Ireland and at time of writing this then we are in talks of a mutual cooperation between Gar on holding a GPC competition in the new year. Watch this space!
Spotlight Interview Questions
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| What does your training regime consist of on a weekly basis? | It depends on what part of the year I’m in and what the goal is. Right now it’s mainly heavy singles on the comp style movements to readjust and push on for some comps early next year. |
| What is your approach to food and nutrition? | I typically have 3-4 decent size meals in a day. A large chunk of protein in each meal, a moderate amount of fat and stack carbs more before and after training to help push on and recover from training. |
| Who has been the biggest influence on you in the sport? | Overall probably Mike Tuchscherer or Greg Nuckols. Two amazing people, doing amazing things. |
| What’s your favorite high & low point to date? | My favourite high point would either have been celebrating 10 years with the gym this summer which was huge. It’s amazing to see the crowd that has amassed around the sport and the gym. Or receiving Limericks best kebab from Niall Reddan for City Kebab Limerick. It’s essentially a Michelin Star in Limerick, so I can’t overlook that. In terms of a low point, probably closing the gym to the public for so long during 2020. |
| What was your favorite/best competition to date? | I would have to say competing in the first official comp we ever hosted in CityGym. That was somewhere in late 2016/ early 2017. It was amazing to be with our own crew, inside our own gym, surrounded by a lot of other brilliant lifters. |
| Is there anything you would like to include or see changed within your sport? | Outside of more murals of the great leader Liam Beville, no, the sport is doing amazing and growing at a rapid pace. |
| If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would that be? | Take your time, train hard and enjoy the build. Most people get to where they want to in the sport regardless by working hard over time, you can enjoy it with no need to be a martyr to the work. |
| Plans for the future? | More of the very same. We’re established over 10 years now and still building. So I’d like to keep adding lifters, keep pushing the sport, keep lifting myself, bring my kids into the sport as they get older and continue painting murals of the great Liam Beville. |
| Insert shameless plugs here 🙂 (Gym, business, sponsorship, etc.) | Nothing but love for the CityGym crew. |
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