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What Is Celtic Warriors Workouts?
Welcome to the official YouTube channel for WWE Superstar Sheamus AKA The Celtic Warrior. This channel is dedicated to all of my Celtic Warrior Workouts & the people who inspire me to break out of my comfort zone. You can find workouts with some of your favorite WWE Superstars like John Cena, Becky Lynch, Seth Rollins, Charlotte Flair, and more! I do workouts covering abs, legs, chest, arms, back, and anything else you need advice on! Join me on this crazy journey and most importantly… Brave Change!
Celtic Warrior Workouts About Page, June 10, 2022
Sheamus has it covered. He performs the workouts of his guests and not his own. The only other thing that I’ll add is that he’s great at building rapport with the people whom he’s about to exercise with. This gives his audience the chance to learn why these wrestlers got into sports entertainment, their most embarrassing music tastes, how they met Sheamus, and other interests.
Why You Should Subscribe To Celtic Warrior Workouts
Wrestlers are superhuman. I’m baffled at how humans can train their bodies to take dozens of bumps a night. Diamond Dallas Page compared a wrestling match to going through four different car crashes per night. According to wrestling legend Bret Hart, there was a time when wrestlers were on the road for 300 to 320 days per year. He did this for 23 years.
How is that even possible? These wrestlers take high bumps yet I see football players whose knees explode without contact. Wrestlers often don’t sleep in their beds, eat home-cooked meals, nor have sustained relationships with their spouses and kids. They put their bodies through physical torture yet they have limited resources for recovery. I haven’t even talked about how they need to find the time and energy to fit leg day into all of this.
A wrestling career requires a desire for greatness. Apparently, Sheamus has enough time leftover to headline a YouTube channel with nearly one million subscribers. The four-time world champion has created 105 episodes of workouts with various wrestlers and trainers. The Celtic Warrior Workouts channel offers a huge catalog of videos where his viewers can learn from a large variety of topics.
Lesson No. 1: pronounce Celtic with a K. “Kel-tic.”
Relationships / Rapport
The best part of Celtic Warrior Workouts isn’t even as much about the workouts as it is Sheamus interacting with his fellow wrestlers. Each of his videos start with the viewer learning the backstory of his guests. The viewer learns of how the wrestler got to where they are today. Similar to Pat McAfee, Sheamus is great at asking questions and getting responses to help his viewers bond with his fellow wrestlers.
You can tell the admiration that his peers have for him and that he has for them. I know a lot of people hate when wrestlers break kayfabe but he makes it work. Maybe that’s just me because I can distinguish between the real world and the WWE universe. I enjoy seeing the wrestling character and the genuine person playing it.
The preworkout dialogues have taught the viewers the following (but not limited to):
- Sheamus taught Drew McIntyre about the mind-to-muscle technique of working out and eating healthier.
- Mustafa Ali tells us how he can work out and wrestle while he fasts during Ramadan.
- Jeff Hardy talks about how the wrestling rings are much nicer than when he debuted in 1994 as a 16-year-old.
- During a video with Edge, Sheamus admits that he’s a mark. In that same video, Sheamus claims that he offered to buy Edge a pint of Guinness. Edge rejected and bought him one instead.
Content
You don’t need to be a wrestling fan to learn from Celtic Warrior Workouts. The wrestlers share exercises that they’ve learned from working around the globe. Samoa Joe shows the viewers how to do a Japanese pushup.
You can learn about different workouts, exercises, equipment, the personalities and interests of wrestlers, and the amount of work ethic that it takes to reach a level of greatness that these men and women have achieved.
Star Power
Sheamus has connections with many of the biggest names in the wrestling industry. He has done workouts with John Cena, Dave Bautista (Batista), Charlotte Flair, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Daniel Bryan (now in AEW known as Bryan Danielson), Jinder Mahal, and many more. There are workouts with wrestlers who aren’t as high on the card and NXT hopefuls who are trying to make a name for themselves.
WWE has never had a more diverse roster in terms of wrestling styles, nationalities, and personalities. Sheamus takes full advantage of this to create a channel that has something for everyone.
The Character
Sheamus is one of WWE’s most underappreciated talents. It’s true that he doesn’t have as many title reigns as John Cena or as long of ones as Roman Reigns. He doesn’t have the winning streak of a Bill Goldberg. Those feats are more about booking and management decisions. I’m talking about the overall ways that the company can use a wrestler with positive results.
Sheamus stands out because of his Irishman spirit and the versatility that comes from his Brave Change lifestyle. The WWE can trust him whether he’s in the main event or working in the midcard as a champion, part of a tag team, or stablemate and mentor to younger wrestlers. You see a lot of main event talent who drift off into obscurity when they settle back into the midcard.
A strong midcard is critical because it makes the show. The main event makes the highlights and newsreels. A main event with a weak midcard means that I’m watching YouTube for the highlights or that one main event match, not a show that lasts three hours. Sheamus is a rare instance of a wrestler who can excel as that needed midcard sell. He doesn’t need a huge stack of wins for casuals to know his awesomeness.
Sheamus is one of the few current wrestlers who’s a plus as either a face or a heel. Do you want the fans to get behind the stereotypical fun-loving Irishman face? Or do you need the dastardly heel who was the one man who got the crowd behind a good guy Roman Reigns back when the crowd was fiercely rejecting Roman’s push as the big dog of the company?
Sheamus uses his charisma and flexibility on Celtic Warrior Workouts. We see him excel at many exercises that he had never tried before. He even did the impossible task of making Baron Corbin appear sociable before he became Happy Corbin.
Brave Change is his version of “(bleep) fear, drink beer.” It is this open-mindedness that allows him to learn new skills that he uses in his everyday career.
Conclusion
Celtic Warrior Workouts offers a fun experience for personal growth while learning about many people and things. This is a must watch channel for anyone who has a passion for wrestling or exercise.
What I’d Like To See From Celtic Warrior Workouts
The wrestling world got to witness the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin in 2022. The only comeback storyline that can top that is the return of Celtic Warrior Workouts. The channel just kind of went dormant after the last published video on January 31, 2021. Could you imagine a series of videos with the Brawling Brutes or Pat McAfee?
There have been discussions as to why the channel went silent. Some people blamed the pandemic closing gyms while others suggested it had to do with WWE banning third party revenue. Cageside Seats has reported that this ban was lifted in April. Ironically, Asuka‘s KanaChanTV returned on April 28. That was her first upload in about seven months.
Maybe he’s just too busy to do a YouTube channel on top of everything else that he does? That’s easy to understand. Could he have run out of people to collaborate with? He was already doing multiple videos with certain people.
I really hope the Celtic Warrior Workouts channel returns; however, if it doesn’t, then give us some closure.
Celtic Warriors Workouts Profile
- Join Date: September 7, 2017
- Subscribers: 723K
- Channel Views: 86.8M
- Publishing Frequency: Last upload was January 31, 2021
Most Popular Video
John Cena Split Machine (VAN DAMMES!) – 15.3M Views, Published August 7, 2019
John Cena has some of the highest viewed content on this channel. The full version of this video has him rowing 5,000 meters (a little more than three miles) in 20 minutes. That’s how he warms up before he snatches and cleans. Sheamus said this warmup made his entire left side numb. A 5,000 meter row is what I call a hard workout, not a warmup.
This is a 3:29 short video where Cena and Sheamus are stretching on the split machine. It hurts me to watch these guys go that far with it. I’ve never used a split machine but I can start at a 3 of 5 when doing reps on a thigh squeeze machine. Maybe I could stretch it to four? I’m a mere mortal to these two wrestling behemoths.
My Favorite Videos
Athlean-X Jeff Cavaliere | Episode 29 Posterior Chain Workout
Sheamus starts the video with him telling us that Jeff Cavaliere of Athlean-X is one of his fitness heroes. These two collaborated when the Athlean-X channel had about five million subscribers. Today, Athlean-X is close to 13 million. In this video, Cavaliere shows Sheamus how to do different row variations, angels & devils, battle ropes, and a sprinter lunge with a high pull.
I can attest that I’ve spent the last few years watching Athlean-X to help with my gym efforts. At one point I bought some of his preworkout supplement. It was better than most of the stuff on the supermarket (let me take a second to give a blot out to Alani Nu because their products SUCK). I’m always amazed at how he releases a video covering a topic that I’m currently working on. Much like FlemLo Raps, Cavaliere is a big reason for my Truman Show delusion.
Elias Recovery Day | Episode 12 Arms & Core Workout
Elias is a wrestler who you can learn from not only for gym inspiration but for life. He has crafted an incredible body despite spending most of his career as a sideshow comedy gimmick. He could’ve easily went through the motions and gone to waste; instead, he chose to keep working on having one of WWE’s finest physiques. I don’t know why but he wants everyone to know that he’s a huge fan of Norah Jones, “Don’t Know Why.”
What is a recovery day workout? For me, a hard recovery day is like 15 minutes on a rower with some forearm curls and calf raises. A normal recovery day is just staying at home and resting from the previous workouts.
For Elias, this is from the video description:
- Warm Up: Foam Roller, Skips, Scoops, High Kicks, Knee Raises, Stretching
- Set One: 5×5 Deadlifts, Bentover Rows, Cleans, Shoulder Press, Squats
- Set Two: Cable Crunches & Planks
- Set Three: Tricep & Bicep Drop Sets
- Set Four: Bicep Curls Supersets
- Set Five: Tricep Push-Ups, TRX Curls, Dips
A superset with deadlifts, rows, squats, cleans, and presses on a recovery day? I’ll never understand how wrestlers can do these compound exercises while enduring the wear and tear from their road schedules. Did God give you superhuman powers that I’m not aware of?
Edge Mountain Man | Episode 91 Bike & Axe Workout
We see Sheamus and Edge partake in an unconventional workout with mountain biking and axe cutting. Edge introduces the viewers to a Carolina Fatz mountain bike center that gets him ready for his trips. He talks about how “Motion is lotion,” meaning that he has to keep moving or his body will lock up on him. They both agree that Kofi Kingston is a horrible human.
Edge wipes out on his bike at around the 23:24 mark; he was okay. God bless the biker behind him who was able to do a hard stop after going over the hump. Edge says, “People see that and go, ‘why can’t he wrestle?'”
Five months later, Edge returned for his first wrestling appearance in nearly nine years.
How To Support Celtic Warrior Workouts
You can support the channel through the Twitter that’s posted below, Instagram, and Facebook. His Brave Change Swag merchandise page is available at Teespring. He offers clothing, mugs, phone cases, and stickers.
Before writing this blog, I wasn’t aware of the Teespring store because his YouTube about page has a Boston Scally merchandise link that redirects to a 404 Not Found page. Sheamus has promoted the Teespring link on his Twitter so it’s legit. I went ahead and bought a Brave Change ReRack Jack shirt.
