Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life

We have a lovely guest by the name of Sharny Kieser from Australia. She has an amazing history of helping people regain health and fitness, particularly ladies after childbirth looking at pelvic floor problems, looking at stomach problems, and she’s set the world alight with all the things she’s doing. Sharny talks about the various feelings and insecurities that women get after childbirth or from just being a woman, and then what kind of thinking a woman should use to change her mindset and be in a much healthier mental place, viewing their body as beautiful no matter what state it’s in or what it’s gone through.

Sharny’s amazing program 1:14
Coming out the other side thinner and healthier than ever 8:42
5 minute special of her program 19:16
Getting comfortable with self massage 24:57
5 minute fitness section for a busy mom 32:52
Traveling and taking a scale 41:31
Recovering after a baby and helping your kids be comfortable with their body shape 50:46
Helping your children be giving and caring, and creating your best life 60:10
Feeling beautiful 65:33
Get in touch 71:13

“I really want other women to not hide themselves because of what their body’s gone through. Remember, you’re a girl, and then you become a woman, and a woman is beautiful. They’re more experienced with life, they’ve lived life. My husband always says to me ‘Your body tells a story, and that story is wonderful.’” 9:45

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We’re delighted to have on Brian Wood who is a holder of the military cross for various acts of gallantry in the Iraq conflict and who decided on his return to the UK that he wanted to raise money for military veterans who have struggled with life after the forces. Brian’s way of helping with this is to run a lot and regularly, and to run a lot of marathons. This year he has completed 35 marathons in 35 days. We discuss his diet, his training regimen, the people who supported him, and his routine of running and preparation he has followed to get to where he is now.

Why he’s running these marathons 1:29
The first prep wasn’t that great 6:05
Two different start locations and giving back 16:11
Eating and diet 22:33
Fasting now that running is less 33:19
Resilience in the army and working hard 36:25
Get a hold of or follow Brian 40:45
Did the insoles help? 51:55

“I just had to focus and knuckle down, put my music on, and just yeah I rolled out the miles. That’s what it was, I never ever looked at that 35 days…but I took each day as it came and each mile as it came and I didn’t ever look at the sort of challenge as a whole. I just looked at each day, and then took it from there.” 13:44

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We have the pleasure of talking to Jeff Browning today. Jeff grew up around sports in a very sports driven family, always doing stuff outside and just naturally came to love all kinds of sports, such as football, rock climbing, mountain biking, and many others. He always ran on the side and has come to really love running, doing a lot of trail running and triathlons now. Jeff is at a point now where he will do 100 mile runs, which has taken a whole lot of training, but he is now at the point where he is able to handle a lot of abuse from this kind of exercise.

What got Jeff into running 2:17
Jeff’s training 11:45
Different diets 20:40
Predators and close encounters with animals 33:06
Strength training 42:55
Get in contact with Jeff 72:20

“The backpacking trips we had taken would be like 20, 30 mile loops where you’re doing 7-8 miles a day with a giant pack on, and it sucks. You have blisters and you’re sore, and all of the sudden you could put like a couple pounds of water and a few gels in your pack and run that whole loop in a day. So that’s what really attracted me to the sport in the first place is that background in endurance that I already had, kind of putting all those different disciplines together into one sport.” 10:46

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We are delighted to have Richard Pady on the podcast today, who has got the most astonishing background in endurance sports. He’s got a background in skiing, cross country running, and then a very, very high level international, professional tri-athlete. He then moved on to iron mans, ultras, duathlons, and just about anything you can think of that involves a lot of running, swimming, and cycling. Join us today to hear Richard’s story of how he got into endurance athletics and the great things he has learned and experienced.

What got Richard into endurance athletics 1:53
Sports becoming higher end 7:23
Kinesiology 13:05
A snapshot of his training level 18:55
Injuries 21:35
Moving toward coaching 24:29
The mental journey after the accident 27:10
The children’s cancer charity 31:55
Where he’s at now 34:31
What has attributed to his success and long life in sport 44:24
Some advice 49:00

“I had a close friend who was a high level athlete, tell me before my first iron man. He said ‘Enjoy the naiveness of this moment.’ It was literally as I was walking to the start line, and he said ‘You will never feel this naive in an iron man ever again. From this moment forward, you will know exactly how much pain you will be going through.’ And it was so true. You see it in a lot of everyday athletes that they do better in their first one than necessarily in their second one because they put expectations on the second one.” 6:03

Our latest guest today is a gentleman by the name of Tony Green, who coaches in Australia and we discuss how he got into running, his experience as a runner, his advocacy for minimal shoes, and what advice he has for the minimal shoe and how it has affected him and his coaching. He had a lot of issues with getting injured from running, such as a stress fracture, or shin and back alignment problems, so he decided to change his shoes, which he suspected were a culprit to these difficulties.

How Tony got into running and his journey 1:54
What he got out of running 6:08
The type of injuries he was getting and changing shoes 11:15
How his training has changed as he has gotten older 23:51
Rest 29:55
Heart rate 33:58
Helping your kids and not wearing shoes 39:27
Some of his biggest accomplishments 42:38

“What’s an easy run for you?” “Just a pace that I could hold a conversation with someone if I’m running with them. So easy pace, that’s when I’m gonna listen to a podcast if I’m by myself, and probably just 40 minutes to an hour, conversational pace and not too hectic at all.” 30:31

Our guest on this episode is named Rae Reynolds and largely we’re talking about people achieving all sorts of things in endurance athletics, adventuring, and all sorts of different sports and activities. Of course for every one of those people that achieve something in their sport or activity, there’s somebody in the background who’s helping them achieve that, whether it’s a coach or a doctor, or in Rae’s case, massage and shockwave therapy, and other esoteric therapies. Rae puts everybody back into balance and gets people back to normal when life and sports are just throwing them off in the various ways that life and sports do.

What she does 1:14
Her average working day 8:16
Energy work 14:00
Ancient therapies and connecting with yourself 22:53
Listen to your own breath and meditate 29:57

“One of the simplest things that you can do is listen to your own breath. If you can’t get outside, and that’s part of what meditating is is connecting to your own breath. So when you’re walking, when you’re doing whatever, if you can’t get outside because some people I’m sure are in places that they cannot, listen to your own breath. If it’s labored, if it’s shallow, breathe deeper.” 29:58

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In this episode Stuart interviews his co-host Katie Tsuyuki, an Olympic snowboarder for Canada, because they hadn’t met before they did this podcast and she has a great background and story, so they decided to get an insight into what it takes to become an olympian. We wanted to find out how she got there, what she did, the dedication it took, what sacrifices she had to make, what the training schedule looked like, and just a picture of what it was like being in that Olympic village.

Katie’s Olympic journey 1:28
Going to the Olympics and doing well 11:22
Becoming good enough at snowboarding as a kid 15:39
Her family and sports 21:58
Things are still competitive 31:32
How things went in Quebec 36:01
Being at the top of the half pipe and doing well 43:20
Doing the tricks, but not quite high enough 51:31
The silver lining 55:19

“I was in tears, my mom was in tears, my parents were over the moon and same with everyone. I had so much support from Canada and my support staff. Like I said it seems like it’s an individual sport, but you have all of these amazing people with years of experience behind you.” 47:02