Seamus
Founder and host
Seamus Casey leads the experience with lived perspective, having transformed his own health from 165kg to marathon running before launching the camp.
The team
Experienced coaching, supportive energy and a founder with lived experience.
Core training sessions are led or supervised by a qualified personal trainer, with the wider team supporting the guest experience in a way that keeps the programme safe, effective and encouraging.
Arita
HIITs and circuit training
High-energy sessions built around confidence, movement quality and sustainable progress.
Bernie
Yoga instructor
Mobility, recovery and yoga support help the week feel restorative instead of chaotic.
Daithí
Strength and conditioning
High-energy sessions bring structure and challenge while still keeping guests supported.
Darren
Strength and conditioning
Darren brings strong energy to the training floor, helping guests build momentum, confidence and consistency through coached conditioning work.
Founder story
Built by someone who has lived the change, not just coached it.
About Seamus
Seamus built this retreat from personal experience, not theory.
In late 2019, Seamus Casey hit a serious turning point. He was living with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnoea and a weight of around 165kg, or about 26 stone. After attending a residential bootcamp himself, he lost 13.5kg, just over 2 stone, in his first three weeks, rebuilt his confidence and kept going.
Over time he lost around 65kg, just over 10 stone, moved from walking a single lap of a football pitch to running a full marathon, and created Bootcamp Wild Atlantic Way to give other people the same kind of turning point, support and belief in what is possible.
165kg
26 stone
Starting point at his turning point
13.5kg
2.1 stone
Lost in his first 3 weeks at camp
65kg
10.2 stone
Lost overall through steady change
42km
From one lap to running a marathon
Seamus on film
This is the journey behind the retreat, and the reason Seamus wants to help more people change their lives.
Seamus knows what it feels like to live in a body and a mindset that no longer feel like your own. Bootcamp Wild Atlantic Way was built from that turning point: to help people rebuild belief in themselves, enjoy living healthier and create real results that can be felt both outwardly and inwardly.
His journey was never only about losing weight. It was about reclaiming energy, self-respect and belief in what life could feel like again.
That lived experience shapes the retreat: honest coaching, real empathy and support that helps people change how they think as well as how they look.
The aim is deeper than short-term results. It is to help more people build a healthier body, a clearer mind and lasting confidence inside and out.
Watch Seamus's story
A closer look at Seamus's own transformation, the mindset shift that changed his life and why he built this retreat to help others.