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Here's your host, Danny Lennon.

Hey everyone and happy new year.

I hope 2015 has started amazingly for you and welcome back to Sigma Nutrition Radio.

Today we're here at episode 41 and to kick off the year, I brought on my buddy Dominic Manelli,

who is a Dublin-based trainer and has competed as a CrossFit athlete as well.

And he's on the show to talk about some issues around CrossFit because it's an issue that is obviously very prevalent in the fitness industry right now, whether people are pro or

anti-crossFit, it's still a huge talking point. And it's something that hasn't directly

been looked at on the show yet. So I said, let's get Dominic on and we'll have a discussion

around it. So what we're going to dive into is we're going to talk about where CrossFit fits into the wider picture of the health and fitness industry.

We're going to look at some of the main criticisms it faces and some of those downfalls of CrossFit itself.

Then we're going to take a turn and talk about some considerations for female trainees, not just crossfitters, but any women that

are doing strength conditioning or Olympic lifting or some powerlifting because I know it's a big

part of the audience right now and I'm always getting questions on it. So hopefully we can dive into

some of that. And then we're going to take a look at some of the differences that you

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