 this weekend on Ireland's fittest family it's back we started last week actually back with the the usual coaches David Fitzgerald and Anna Geary and Donahoe Callahan and also a new coach and Nina Carberry and the the way it works of course families put through the toughest challenges and there's some new locations this year but there's a family from Donegal from the in fact the Gollacher family and Lisa now joins us and we're streaming on YouTube and Facebook as well Lisa good afternoon good afternoon John how are you good good now we're going to see you this weekend as tonight is it on Sunday at six okay thank you pardon uh Sunday night okay now um this is in the heats and uh you're doing this then to get through to the the next round and so on obviously you know you're not allowed to tell us how you got on but you can tell us how top it was oh so you'll see on Sunday night this is heat two so already had heat one and two families have gone through so two out the four families have gone through so yeah we take part in two events and one's called fast and furious which is uh so it'll be the four of us against the other three teams and it's basically an obstacle course and you have to go as fast as you can and uh obviously to win and then the second event is called slingshot which is like a timed event where you have five minutes and you're kind of harnessed up to like a bungee and you have to get across a swamp with a ball and get as many balls into the drums as possible right sounds tricky and tough yeah really hard really hard yeah yeah and and where was your part filmed was it down at down in Wicklow uh we were down in me for the first week for the first you know so they start there and then any families that progress and they go to um Wicklow okay okay and we are prepared for it I mean you know how you know was it kind of as tough as you expected or or worse or different uh I don't know any training you can do can prepare you for what you actually have to do because you don't know what events you're gonna do and then until you arrive and then you'll get the safety walkthrough and that's the first time you get to see the event so you're trying to kind of take it in and kind of then think tactics how are we going to manage this event between us who will go first you know you're kind of trying to weigh it out as a team um and but it like we've all done different types of training but we all kind of agreed that I don't know what you could have done to train for it okay and tell me who's in the team so it's myself and then my daughter Molly she's 23 and then my son James is 19 and then my son Connor who is 18 and I take it they're all sporty they're all sport yeah Molly was like a gymnast and uh the boys are both into the football and Connor uh he he used to box as well so yeah they're very sporty you've always done sports yeah but as you say you know it's hard to know what sort of training or what sort of sport you need to be into uh in order to um be fully prepared for this because just some of the um uh some of what you're put up against um it's it's just it's really really tough and and you in specialist training just just wouldn't be possible no no you kind of know you need to have like um quite good endurance but then you know you need balance you need flexibility I mean I don't know if you saw last week's our events are different to what they did last week but they all want to raft put themselves at raft and it's like you're going to need upper body strength you're going to need balance to stay on the raft you know a lot of the families fell off because obviously how would you know that's coming up to practice so no no you just don't know what you're gonna get and you know all the families all the competitors seem really tough and you know obviously very sporty and they train for it but often it's uh it's the smarts that let people down that they you know it's the tactics the tactics is definitely number one like I know some of the you know read that some of the families have built the courses in their back gardens obstacle courses and ramps and walls and everything like we just carried on with our normal sports like I go up to intensity fitness three times a week so that's my training and I run Molly was doing just the gym the boys were doing gym and stuff but we never done anything extra we just thought you know it's it's teamwork you have to be able to communicate as a family because if you if you can't communicate you're not going to get anywhere hmm absolutely and without giving anything away is all the filming done now right through to the final is it it's all done dusted before the series starts yeah so um what happened is we actually applied last year for the show right and we so like so many families apply you have to do a fitness test and record it and send it all off as as well as you do like you know video interviews so we came 20 out of 16 so we all know we were kind of like reserved last year so they actually emailed me this year and said would you be interested in entering again but my son James he was going he's got was going to America at the time and and I didn't think that we would be able to compete so we kind of didn't know what we were going to do and then because the leaving set was late it kind of opened up a window for us that we could film because the filming was from July until September okay we just knew we had to be available for any of those days that they that they give you um well there's a new element well there's always a new element every series and that they throw in different challenges and they're thrown in a different location this time that uh rat begging lakes uh in in need but uh we can see how uh you get on uh uh all of you on uh sunday night had or sunday evening half past six on rt1 and and who knows Lisa I could be chatting to you again I just have to show that team now uh huh team what oh yeah all right I think it's not jerseys oh brilliant team got her okay well we're going to be rooting for team got her on sunday evening then so and did you get were you wearing that in the show we like this is the jersey wall well that's it okay well it's nothing else you have that as a memento yes and lots of memories okay well that's it we look forward to seeing you on sunday evening Lisa thanks a million thank you have me on thank you john bye bye thanks john