The Gen Pop Podcast
Personal Trainer , Coach and people helper Larry Doyle , joined by colleague Daniel Daly sit down with you each week, sharing tips, insights and real world coaching to help simplify your health & fitness journey.We cut through the nonsense, fillers and BS to give you simple real life tips.
Episodes
83 episodes
#83 Scale Sanity
The scales can ruin a perfectly good morning, and not because you suddenly gained fat overnight. Larry Doyle and Daniel get brutally practical about what your weigh-in is actually showing: body weight, not body fat, and a messy mix of water, di...
#82 - The Real-World Guide To Tracking For Fat Loss
Tracking can feel like a minefield: calories, steps, weigh-ins, sleep scores, heart rate, VO2 max, and a dozen apps all asking for your attention. Daniel and I cut through that noise and get honest about what actually helps real people make pro...
#81 - Alcohol
A few drinks can be grand. The real question is what they quietly do to your week. We sit down to talk alcohol, calories, and the Irish social side of drinking, without the preachy tone and without pretending everyone should live like a monk. I...
#80 - How to Maximise Your Coaching Experience
Most people do not avoid coaching because they hate training. They avoid it because they think they will fail at it. We get that, and we have heard every version of it: “I don’t have time”, “I won’t be perfect”, “I’ll mess up the plan”, “I need...
#79 Eating Out , Fat-Loss Friend or Foe ?
Eating out can feel like the moment your calorie tracking falls apart: no labels, bigger portions, hidden oils, and that split-second “sure I’ll just get whatever” decision. We’re not buying the idea that meals out are automatically out of your...
#78 Training For Busy People
Being “too busy” is not a character flaw, it is a planning problem. Daniel and I get blunt about why so many training plans fail real people with real lives: the coaches who say they train busy people often have no clue what a genuinely packed ...
90 Days To Summer
Summer is 90 days away and the “I’ll start when life calms down” excuse is about to get expensive. We sit down and map a practical 12-week fat loss plan for normal people with jobs, kids, social plans, stress, and a calendar that does not care ...
#76 - Low hanging fruit - Making results easier.
Tired of chasing hacks that never stick? We’re pulling the camera back to show how simple, low-hanging habits quietly drive the biggest wins: steadier energy, calmer cravings, better workouts, and a brain that actually wants to go to bed. This ...
#75 - The Steve Jobs Approach To Health, Fitness, And Daily Routine
What if getting in shape felt easier because you made fewer decisions, not more effort? We unpack a Steve Jobs-style approach to health and fitness that strips away noise and builds calm, repeatable systems. From wearing the same reliable kit t...
#73 The Missing Link - How To Unlock HUGE Results
Ever feel like you’re “doing everything right” yet the scale won’t budge? Larry and Daniel pull apart the quiet habits that erase progress—patchy tracking, shaky measurements, and blind trust in barcode scans—and show how small leaks become big...
#72 The one about supplements.
Tired of buying bottles that promise the world and deliver little more than expensive urine? We went straight to the point: how to choose supplements that actually work, when to take them, and when to keep your wallet shut. No codes, no hype—ju...
#71 The one about Caffeine - Use or Abuse ?
Ever wonder why the 2pm slump hits even on “good” sleep? We pull apart the caffeine loop—from the adenosine blockade that masks true fatigue to the half-life math that keeps stray milligrams humming along when you’re trying to drift off. Larry ...
#70 - The One All About Recovery
We unpack how to judge recovery without letting devices run your training, and why trends across sleep, stress, and workload beat any single score. Practical steps show how to align sessions with your real life, when to deload, and how to retur...
#69 - From All-In Bodybuilding To Balanced Living
What happens when the gym becomes your identity—and what does it take to let that go without losing yourself? Larry and Daniel pull back the curtain on years of training, dieting, bodybuilding prep, and the quiet costs that come with living by ...
#68 - Spotting Good Information & Bullshit Detection
We pull apart health and fitness claims, from testosterone boosters to greens powders, and show how incentives, language, and hidden fine print shape what you’re sold. We share practical checks to spot hype, read labels, and double down on habi...
#67 - Build Your Best Diet
Diets don’t fail because you chose the wrong superfood. They fail because the plan doesn’t fit your life. We unpack a simple framework to build a results-focused diet that you can actually follow: anchor your day with enough protein, load up on...
#66 - How to navigate the rest of 2025
December can feel like a runaway train, but most of the chaos melts away once you map the actual moments that matter. Larry and Daniel break down a simple system to plan the final eight weeks of the year, enjoy the food you love, and protect th...
#65 - The One About Ai - Coaching and Ripping Clients Off.
Ai is everywhere, and the fitness/coaching space is moving at a million miles per hour with it too...Unfortunately you may be getting coached by AI as opposed to your coach who you are paying....In this episode we dive in and expand on ...
#64- The One About Coaching - What makes a good client?
This week we dive into what its like being a client and what makes a great client from our perspective , sharing insights and some behind the scenes into our job and role as your coach. Got questions? simply email or dm us with those qu...
#63 The One About Tracking
Our goal with calorie Tracking ?? Tracking smarter not forever ....In this episode Larry and Daniel dive into tracking, and how you can get the most from it , but also move away from it , and not relying on it as a crutch for ever...
#62 - The One About Ultra Processed Foods.
If you are looking at your social media feed, youtube or anywhere other than living under a rock , you'll have been told that Ultra Processed Foods are going to kill you.... Spoiler alert , they won'tThis weeks episode we dive into UPF'...
#61 - Why Diets Fail.
Ever wonder why your diet has failed you ? In this episode we dive into why, but also how to set your self up for long term success when it comes to shaking the shackles of that unwanted body fat forever. Remain proactive ...
#60 - The One About "All or Nothing"
Daniel and Larry dismantle the harmful "all or nothing" mindset that leads many to abandon their fitness and nutrition goals at the first sign of imperfection.• People apply the all-or-nothing approach selectively to fitness but not oth...