Get to Know - with Dallen and Alex

An incredibly important topic, and such, worth introducing our first esteemed guest on the Podcast, Mr. Paul Standell.

Paul is a wealth of resources across all areas of personal training and online coaching but a profound breath of fresh air as it pertains to eating behaviours and psychology in the turbulence of emotion that ensues after a competition or photoshoot prep.

He has written an incredible ebook on this topic which I urge many to go purchase via the link in his instagram bio (https://www.instagram.com/paul_standell/)

We discussed the (flawed) thought processes that lend themselves to these behaviours and by understanding which, we have a better opportunity to deal with them.

As always, we do our best to relay this back to practical behaviours and actions we can put into place to give you a viable roadmap through these times. Not to say it will be without struggle, but inarguably a better solution than sustained eating pathologies and food-related disorders.

The competitive season is underway and many are either on prep, starting or considering it; so we've decided to cover this topic to give insight into the underlying thought processes behind if it's suitable to do so, when and other important considerations which are often over-looked when people jump into a an extensive dieting phase. We've also covered the infamous 'peak week' as well as some anecdote from both of us as coaches and competitors perspectives. As always, we hope you enjoy!

We're back ! Today, Alex and I gave a bit of an insight into our overview of training from both athlete, online and personal-training perspective. What are the things we need to consider and when do we start losing ourselves in the weeds or when it adds value to provide a higher level of detail with training from a physique development standpoint. As our ethos with this podcast, we kept this pretty easy to follow and run through any terminology used to keep you all on board, enjoy!

In this episode, Alex and I discussed nutrition from the more practical perspective. We strongly feel that long-term adherence is the crux of progress, or lack thereof. So we need to be able to set-up our diet and include social occasions and particular foods without any guilt. We've discussed our personal approach and also what we do as coaches to facilitate this.

The Grand Opening - This episode really sets the tone for what we are trying to deliver here from this podcast. Useful information brought to you in a casual and realistic conversation. This went intuitively, but unsurprisingly brought us down the route of psychology and mindset - which highlights it's importance in not just physique development, but your life in general. We really hope you found this episode useful and we look forward to any feedback or suggestions you have! Reach out to us on Instagram @daragh_allen and @therealmrfreshwater