Normalised Activity

Hannah Brown is a British canoeist and two time  Wildwater Canoeing World Champion. She is now a performance analyst and technical coach in the Paralympic program for British Canoeing. Here she shares her experience of high performance, recovering from injury and transitioning from competing to coaching. She talks about how she started her canoeing career at her local club and the importance of support in the early year.

Get your flow on and release your inner animal. This week we continue in seeking to broaden our horizons with a conversation with Rachel about all things Animal Flow. With a passionate world-wide community, Animal flow uses the fundamentals of movement to strengthen both the body and mind. Rachel teaches us what it is, what the benefits are and how to deploy it as a stand alone modality, but also how to incorporate it in to other ways of training. You’ll absolutely be tempted to give it a go after hearing this one.

Andy started moving with purpose when he joined the army at the age of 16, and 30 years later show no signs of stopping.  Through an impressive military career, through to being an elite strength and conditioning coach, he shares his thoughts on the most beneficial things we can do to be as capable as possible. A knowledge base harnessed from far and wide including Russian massage torture, a network of top coaches from around the world, and an over-arching belief to keep moving.

We all have it in us to be our own Talisman.

Frankie Tinsley recently completed the Talisman Triathlon, and with it became the first person to run, swim, and cycle from Lands’ End to John O’ Groats. Over mountains, across lakes and everything in between, it’s quite simply awe inspiring, as well as benefiting the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) charity. This conversation goes deep into what it takes to undertake such a feat and dives into the reasons and motivations for even considering it in the first place.

Dr John Sykes is a GP, trained in the UK and is currently working in Bath. He’s a trustee and director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and a fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) and a certified nutritionist. In this fantastic conversation, we cover many aspects of health and the practical use of lifestyle medicine.

We had the opportunity to speak to Jeff Martin, one of the founders of Brand X Method. Considered to be the most comprehensive, thoughtful and careful coaching program for kids. Jeff with over 40 years of coaching experience takes through the importance of using movement, outcome and play as the foundations for activity. With the challenge of increased sedentary lifestyles and the earlier intensive single sport specialisation, we discuss that children often miss out on the vital broad aspects of exercise and physical expression. Understanding how this can then feed into injury prevention and physical longevity.

Two and a half hours chatting with Toby Segar? Yeah, I don’t mind if we do. Toby is a parkour athlete, film maker and 1 seventh of parkour team and you tube sensations, STORROR. Known for his ridiculous speed and incredible power, toby takes us deep into the world of parkour and how it’s rapidly becoming more and more popular and visible, how UK Ninja Warrior tried to stop parkour athletes competing, and many tales of incredible feats of human capability he’s undertaken around the world. But especially in Moldova.

In this episode we discuss the benefits of Qigong. With 15 years in fitness industry working in both group and one and one environments. Arron understands the need for a variety of tools. To this end he has incorporated Qigong into his professional and personal training. Understanding the value of both performance and longevity for his clients and himself. 

Join us in exploring this fascinating topic.