Forever Strength

Coach and nutritionist Eve Guzman joins us for a deep dive into nutrition. Eve explains how she lost 150 lbs and broke free from the influence of environment growing up, and how she pivoted into a career in nutrition and education. Eve explains nutrition's role in health, why she focuses on the 80/20 rule in her coaching, and why protein is so important. Hope you enjoy this immersive dive into nutrition. 

Author, gym owner, coach, strength sport athlete, musician, and much more Melody Schoenfeld joins us to talk about how she started in fitness and coaching. She shares how she found a passion for teaching others and sparking joy however she can. We highlight how women thrive when they get involved in strength training. Melody talks about her 3 books, especially the newest with co-author Lee Boyce. 

Strength and nutrition coach Marci Nevin joins us to share her origins: from learning about working out and dieting at a young age, to starting her career. Marci shares all of the positive turns and choices along with all the mistakes along the way that should resonate with your own experience. Marci shares her keys to progress, her thoughts on program lengths, and a lot of mindset advice to help you on your journey. 

Jessica Gunn joins us to share how she went from knowing nothing about fitness and nutrition at 37 and feeling unhealthy and unhappy, to starting a fitness career at 38, to having a thriving business and brand at 42. Jessica shares how she's willing to get uncomfortable, learn new skills, be a healthy role model for her 4 children, and how she's thrived to be asked to public speak. Jessica shares how she went from thinking about the value of the number on the scale, to focusing on feeling strong. She shares her passion and mission to get weights in the hands of more women. 

We discuss the New Years resolution phenomenon and why it's better to get a start early. Get a jump start on your fitness and avoid setting yourself up to fail. This is a great episode to share with the people in your life who are looking at getting active this new year. We also share details and our bonus offer for this latest round of our Forever Strength program. 

Strength Coach and PPSC Master Instructor Tasha Wolf Whelan joins us to share how she got started in the fitness industry and went from endurance running to strength sports across her 20 year career. Tasha shares how she started wanting to build her body to gain confidence. Tasha shares how you can use principles from strongman training to make workouts fun and effective for everyday people. Tasha highlights the importance of approaching strength training as a skill to develop and why warmups are important. She also shares some wisdom about how to deal with "bad" training days. 

Beth Feraco joins as a special guest to share her story of recovery to working out to training others to scaling a business with employees. Beth leaned into a strong social media presence built around no nonsense messaging. Beth shares some of the common challenges her clients face and how she helps to rewire the damage caused by being raised in environments where yoyo dieting was normal for women growing up.

Our industry loves to complain about gym etiquette but are we really teaching people good etiquette or using this as an opportunity to shame people. We cover all the basics of gym etiquette and some nuance for things like phone use and sharing equipment that isn't as black or white as we might think. 

We explain what creatine is, why you could benefit from taking it, dispel the common myths about creatine, and some practical considerations of this highly studied, effective, and safe supplement. 

We dive into what you need to know to optimize muscle growth. We get into the balance and nuance of volume, intensity, progressive overload, mechanical tension, plus recovery, nutrition, and supplements.