Have you ever asked yourself "how can I become a better personal trainer" or "what can I do to help my clients progress faster and become an athlete?" What if I told you there is one resource that can help all of these scenarios; something that can bring together all the movement competency, coaching education, and health coaching resources necessary for any movement or strength coach?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual welcomes back David Gonzales. David is one of the CrossFit coaches at ikala Strong. As a coach, David has improved his client's physical strength and psychological well-being. For months, he has been working on a program with ikala Strong that promotes exercise and builds a community to fight drug addiction.

They will touch on such topics as:

• Your job as a coach is to help people get started and equip them with the most effective strategies to become an athlete.
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• Learning the methods that can help you qualify as a personal trainer, and use it to improve your students further your abilities to help people change for the better.
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• Learning from your members is one of the best ways to improve your ability and mindset.
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• If you strive to be better as a coach, you will have the opportunity to help your students achieve their goals and show them they can achieve more than they thought possible.
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• Don't be content. Keep working, keep learning, keep growing. Success depends upon continuous improvement.  
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Are you surrounded by people that are going to bring up the rear and drag your business down? Do the people in your inner circle help you become a better version of yourself or not? 

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual goes solo to talk about How the people you surround yourself with will greatly impact on your success or failure. It's important to not just be friends with the people who will have you fall into your comfort zone, but instead surround yourself with friends that make you grow beyond them. 

He will touch on such topics as:

• The biggest influence on how you function in your daily life.
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• While surrounding yourself with positive people can help you to stay motivated in your journey of success, it's also important to realize who may not be as beneficial for you.
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• The people you've interacted with every day either inspire, challenge or help you further understand your own strengths and weaknesses.  
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The pain of back pain is a nightmare and it can be difficult to deal with. Why do you get back pain? Is it due to some physical problem or the situation in which you are in, like sitting all day?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual goes solo to talk about How sitting for longer hours can lead to back problems, and what are the ways to get rid from the back pain while working on your desk all day, minus the pain. He will touch on such topics as:

• How to manage back pain from sitting all day
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• Your posture plays a big role in knowing how to sit-still for long periods of time.
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• Take breaks and move your body
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• Treat your back pain And improve your spinal health 
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Did you know that running is one of the best ways to stay fit, while keeping you in shape and healthy? But how can you be a successful runner when everytime you run, you experience a painful shin splint injury?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual goes solo to talk about The three tips to overcome shin splints and become a successful runner without feeling pain and injuries. He will touch on such topics as:

• When you allow yourself to do the interval running and walking, you can run more efficiently faster and allow yourself to get rest.
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• Run Forward, not Up and Down
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• Slowly improve to increase your cadence. 
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Did you know that being positive is your greatest asset not only in your life, but also in your business? It can feel good to tackle this challenge of boosting positive emotional vibes, but where do you start?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual goes solo to talk about how you can take control of your life and be the best POSITIVE person that you can be!

He will touch on such topics as:

• Are you a Positive or Negative Thinker?
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• What are the ways you can use your Reticular Activating System (RAS) of your brain to stay mindful and aware of your environment?
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• Stop looking for the bad things in life and start focusing on positivity. Get into the habit of thinking positively. Think positive, find positive, and more good will come.
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• You can change your life by being positive in a very small way. 
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Have you ever been through a time in your life where you had to face the fact that you needed to change, or at least improve yourself? Did you know that the path to personal growth is not about running away, but about finding power within yourself?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, David Gonzales will interview Campbell Lillard. Campbell has been working in both the fitness and nonprofit industries since 2018 after serving a ten-year sentence in Texas State Prison. During his incarceration, Campbell realized that there was much about himself he did not like, however training showed him that he could change if he set an intention and applied the work. This realization led him on an obsessive quest to become the best version of himself through subjecting himself to stress and challenge. He believes fitness is the relentless pursuit of growth.

They will touch on such topics as:

• How he uses his unique life experience in hopes to encourage you to find positivity in all aspects of life.
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• If you want to make a positive difference in the world, you need to inspire people to work with you.
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• When you help others, you never know where it can take you. All that matters is that it makes your heart feel good in the end.
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• You have the tools and knowledge to push yourself over the top and climb higher.
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• You can move mountains when you see the best in others.
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• Community is what makes us better, because it encourages us to be more than just ourselves.
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• Leaders are not afraid of responsibility, instead they see it as an opportunity. They don't get disheartened by the situation, they know they have the power to make changes when the situation calls for it.
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• The fulfillment part of being a coach is not just about the dream you help to create, or even the journey to inspire. The fulfillment part is seeing the action being made on your client's side.
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• How did he start bridging the gap in the Crossfit gym?
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• How to change the stagnant situation into one with endless opportunities 
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Instagram: @campbell.lillard 

Website: https://linktr.ee/campbelllillard 

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How do you move forward when you feel as if you are spinning your wheels? How do you change your thoughts and perspective to bring about a positive outcome when it feels as if there's a giant weight on your shoulders, keeping you from moving forward or looking up at the changes around? What do you do to get stronger and make gaining momentum easier through everything that seems to be weighing you down?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual goes solo to talk about how to move forward and find the strength to face the change around you, and use it as your advantage to make sure it is for the best.

They will touch on such topics as:

• Adapting to challenges and change will help you win in ways you never thought possible.
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• Find challenges as an opportunity to expand your skills, learn new things or ways of doing things.
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• Criticism can be hard to hear. But without someone telling you where you went wrong, you'll never know how to improve.
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• Change your words from NEVER to NOT YET.
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• Put yourself in an uncomfortable situation to face and change it. 
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Love pushing your limits? Love testing the limits of your strength? Love getting out of your comfort zone? Love seeing how far you can push yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally? Are you ready to get challenged and be uncomfortable in order to achieve your physical fitness goal?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual interviews Joe Bala. Joe is a Certified Personal Trainer, Spartan SGX Coach L2, Ninja Warrior, Mental Health Warrior, and Former Engineer. He battles depression & anxiety every day, which he has fully embraced as part of him, but will not define or limit him. He engineers people to realize & reach their full potential through fitness. His primary focus is improving and maintaining his clients/students' physical & mental health through functional movement, strength & conditioning training.

They will touch on such topics as:

• What is DEKA? How does DEKA help you in your fitness goal?
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• Brings down the barriers that may be stopping you from reaching your true potential at every level of fitness.
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• The challenge of joining DEKA Strong event as a beginner
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• A journey that's been filled with countless set-backs and mistakes but also with a great amount of growth and humility.
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• How to gain confidence in fitness until it becomes a natural state of being for you.
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• It is about building a strong community where everyone can participate based on their abilities, not the barriers the world has put in front of them.
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• Bringing people together for a common goal, common purpose - just being better versions of themselves.
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• The value of doing something uncomfortable. It teaches you more about yourself than all the comfortable things you do put together. 
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Website: www.joebalafitness.com

Instagram: @joebalafitness | @ninjoeneer 

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People say that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with — but who did those people spend their time with? How can you find the right people who will push your potential, and not those who will drag you down?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual interviews David Gonzales. David is one of the CrossFit coaches at Crossfit of Fremont. As a coach, David has improved his client's physical strength and psychological well-being. For months, he has been working on a program with ikala Strong that promotes exercise and builds a community to fight drug addiction.

They will touch on such topics as:

• Everybody has a fire inside them. It's the reason why they do what they do, why you get out of bed every morning and go to work and don't just give up on life.
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• Building generational wealth is more than just about investing and saving for retirement, it's about ensuring your kids and grandkids won't have to struggle on the same level you did.
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• Some of the best things come from following your heart, not waiting for tomorrow's dream.
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• Clear and meaningful communication creates satisfaction across the board.
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• Spend 15 minutes a day to learn something new from someone who has done it before you.
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• You need your foundation to be strong because if it is, then it will hold up against anything that comes its way.
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• Believe in yourself, and find the people who will believe in you.  
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Crossfit has become the most popular sport globally, with thousands of people signing up to do it every day. But what if it had a secondary purpose? What if we could use CrossFit as a form of combat with one of our greatest enemies — drugs?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual will interview David Gonzales. David is one of the CrossFit coaches at ikala Strong. As a coach, David has improved his client's physical strength and psychological well-being. For months, he has been working on a program with ikala Strong that promotes exercise and builds a community to fight drug addiction.

They will touch on such topics as:

• When it comes to treating addiction, don't limit yourself.
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• You can live with pain, but it is not the only option.
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• Getting out of drug addiction is a process that takes time and effort. Sometimes you need support to stay on the right track - a friend to help you stay motivated or a family member to provide you with guidance and help.
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• Ditch the drugs, and start on the road to recovery.
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• Community is a good thing for many reasons. It's great to share your findings and experiences with others around you. You may learn something new that you hadn't heard before or help someone fix a problem they were having.
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• You cannot do everything, but you can control your mental health through physical fitness. 
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