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This Friday, as a follow-up to my recent episode with Jim Crowell, I talk about my experiences as a coach, a gym owner, and the manager of a large fitness franchise. For the sake of the fitness professionals listening, I focus on the criteria I used to hire trainers and look into the reasons why some gyms succeed and others don’t. On a more general note, I make the case for a more heart-centered and holistic approach to health and caution against the tendency to confuse facts with truth.

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This show focuses on the way forward for the fitness industry and my guest, Jim Crowell, the former CEO of OPEX Fitness turned independent adviser and business strategist, explains what coaches and gym owners need to do to survive and thrive in the current climate. Prior to his career in the fitness sector, Jim worked as a commodities trader for an energy hedge fund and his business acumen (along with his coaching credentials and experience of running his own gyms) makes him uniquely placed to provide some timely and much-needed advice about adapting and growing your fitness business in these changing times.

 As you’ll hear, Jim favors a proactive and pragmatic approach. He points out that sitting on your hands and just hoping that things will get back to normal isn’t an option. As an eternal optimist, he reminds fitness professionals that there are still opportunities to be had in the fitness industry if they are willing to make the necessary changes. We talk about creating successful strategies to scale both online and bricks and mortar businesses and we explore some of the metrics you’ll need to keep a close eye on to make sure your business is growing each month. Jim also shares details of some of the digital fitness companies he’s currently working with and explains how technology can be used to scale your business and make online coaching easier.

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In this AMA, I’m excited to share details of my daily morning movement and breathing practice and talk you through the exercises in my e-book Breathe Better, Move Better, which you can download for free from the RUNGA website. This workout is a combination of strength and conditioning exercises, Kundalini yoga postures, and powerful breathwork practices that have the potential to improve mobility, reduce chronic pain, and turbo-charge your energy levels. The Breathe Better, Move Better flow unlocks stubborn stiffness and strengthens the connection between the emotional and physical body, facilitating the release of stagnant energy and deeply-stored emotions. I find that starting my mornings with this mindful and energizing practice helps me to make the best of the day ahead and I invite you to try it and see for yourself the positive difference that it can make to your life.

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This week I’m joined by the legendary strength and conditioning coach Dan John. Dan is an All-American discus thrower who has also competed at the highest levels in Olympic Lifting and holds the American record in the Weight Pentathlon. Dan has spent many years training high-school and elite athletes and he has recently created the Workout Generator, an online exercise and coaching program that provides personalized workouts tailored to suit your individual requirements and resources. As well as his accomplishments as a coach and an athlete, Dan has written over forty books including one of my all-time favorites, Easy Strength, which he co-wrote with Pavel Tsatsouline. 

In this conversation, we talk about performance standards for at-home fitness and discuss how a degree of adversity can help us adapt and develop our training programs. Dan looks back over his career as a competitor and talks about his experience of coaching high school athletes and dealing with the expectations of their parents. He tells us how fitness training has changed over the past forty years and even shares details of his old-school 1974 training program. 

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Today I talk about some of the ways our approaches to health and wellbeing have changed over the past year and consider what action we should take to help us cope with the challenges ahead. On a positive note, I’ve noticed that many of us are having our blood tested more regularly to check for potential vitamin and mineral deficiencies and, as a result, we are starting to realize which supplements are most effective in supporting our health. I hope that my latest podcast with Dr. Chris Shade helped to throw some light on this subject and gave you the information you need to figure out which supplements you should use in 2021. Over the past month, I’ve also taken some time to redefine my personal fitness goals and set my intentions for the year ahead. In a rapidly changing world, I believe it’s more important than ever to concentrate on improving our physical and mental strength and focus on working towards optimal health and happiness. 

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In this episode, I sit for a third time with Dr. Chris Shade, founder and CEO of Quicksilver Scientific. As regular listeners to the show will know, Dr. Shade is an expert in detoxification and Quicksilver Scientific is known for its highly bioavailable supplements that deliver the nutrients you need quickly and efficiently to your cells. In previous episodes, Dr. Shade and I discussed free medicine, the role of NAD in the aging process, and how to fight infections and boost your immune system. Today, we talk about detoxification, the absorption and conversion of nutrients, and how to improve your body’s metabolic function so it can start burning more fat for fuel. 

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In this special episode, I share a guided meditation that my wife Emilía recently hosted on The Tribe’s online community platform. Emilía is an amazing yoga and mindfulness teacher and in this offering, she concentrates on helping you to identify your priorities and face the New Year with a renewed sense of focus, courage, and intention. She starts the session with a short guided meditation before inviting you to reflect on a list of questions designed to help get you clear on what’s most important for you in 2021. This exercise is intended to help you stay true to yourself and start living a life that is aligned with your purpose rather than settling for something small and simply conforming to the expectations of others. This is your opportunity to look back on 2020 and define your goals for 2021, so grab your journal and get ready to do some serious self-reflection.

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My first guest of the year is the renowned fitness innovator and movement coach, Mike Fitch. Mike is the founder of Global Bodyweight Training and the creator of Animal Flow, a quadrupedal ground-based movement practice that helps you rediscover your body’s deepest evolutionary patterns. Mike teaches people how to master movements that were once ingrained in their DNA but have now been largely forgotten due to the sedentary nature of our modern lifestyles.

This episode is an absolute must-listen for anyone who works in health and fitness or is interested in exploring new types of movement. We talk about the catalyst that inspired Mike to create the Animal Flow system and we dive deep into the health benefits of quadrupedal movement and bodyweight training. This show covers aspects of topics that I’ve discussed with previous guests such as Dr. Jen Esquer, Perry Nickelston, and Steve Capobianco and it focuses on helping people to build strong, stable, and resilient bodies that will maximize their ability to pursue injury-free health and fitness for the long term.

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Welcome to the first episode of 2021. 2020 was a year that taught us a lot about ourselves and made us realize what really matters. Like many of us, I’ve had a chance to re-assess my priorities and work out where I want to focus my energy and resources in the future. For me, that means spending time with my family and my Tribe and choosing an active and engaged lifestyle that optimizes my health and allows me to be of service to others. My New Year’s resolution is to become a stronger version of myself by training hard, looking after my mental and physical wellbeing, and raising my energetic vibration. I hope that 2021 will be a year when we can start to live more courageously, with more compassion for others, and with a renewed determination to make our bodies and minds strong and ready for the battle ahead. 

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In this episode of the Best of Stacked 2020 series, I delve into the subject of consciousness and my guests discuss everything you need to know about raising your vibration, connecting to your highest self, and encountering the divine.  Amongst other things, we talk about the ability of the soul to survive the physical death of the body and consider the profound effects that psychedelic drugs and plant medicines can have on the brain. Above all, we focus on the persistent search to find meaning, purpose, and happiness in our lives.


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