Side Quest Podcast

In this episode of the podcast, I interview Patrick Umphrey, an online fitness coach out of Minnesota. He also happens to be a part-time magician and a fellow ginger.

Patrick's career in coaching began outside of the gym. He started helping people achieve their goals in the MyFitnessPal forums and later got certified as a personal trainer so he could provide better service to his clients.

For over 14 years he performed close-up magic and in 2007, resigned from his corporate job to pursue magic as a career. Now he coaches clients online as a fitness coach and performs magic for corporate events as well as at the Mall of America in Minneapolis.

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In the bizarro episode of Side Quest Podcast, your host Robbie Farlow, gets interviewed by his wife.

This episode dives deep into what makes Robbie tick, how he met his wife, what Robbie once thought he would do as an adult, and how and why he started his fitness business.

For over a year, you've listened to me interview some of the best guests in the industry but now you get a more personal and indepth look into who Robbie Farlow actually is.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Robbie met his wife
• What Robbie's end game is
• Why and how he got fit
• What drives Robbie
• What his biggest fear is
• Image issues in the fitness industry 
• How he teaches clients to find their inner superhero
• And much much more

In this episode of the podcast, I interview Scott Tate of Game Without Pain. Game Without Pain is the brain child of Scott and Ben Jackson, born in the sweet city of Toronto.

Game Without Pain is working to help the next wave of athletes, those playing e-sports, prevent injuries that keeps them from performing. They are also working to tackle mental health and psychological problems that many professional e-sport athletes have admitted they suffer from.

As a gamer, I have suffered through injuries in my hands, wrists, shoulders, and arms. The next wave of athletes need preventative measures that will help them stay active in the sport for longer and allow it to grow and become more than an internet sensation.

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In this episode of the podcast, I interview Benjamin Burke of Deepfitness.ca. Ben is a personal trainer and manual therapist located in Ottawa, Canada.

A few years ago after becoming complacent and bored with his job, he made the decision to become a personal trainer. Since that time he has received a Masters degree and continues to train clients while applying his knowledge and expertise as a hands-on manual therapist.

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In the February episode of Coaches Corner, Nick Sorrell, Tanner Baze, Matt Dustin, Travis Pollen, and myself discuss programming differences between athletes and general population.

We delve into a lot of considerations when it comes to training like who should and shouldn't overhead press, when to begin to add weight to a movement, the importance of hip hinging, and how things like dancing can make you a better athlete.

As the episode ends, we also dive into the importance of having fun. Many times we all get caught up in the days we are in the gym but forget to factor in the fun days outside of the gym.

Everything from activities like dancing, biking, walking, yoga, martial arts, golf, or recreational sports can help keep us healthy and gives our bodies time to heal from the heavy lifting we do.

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In this episode of the podcast, I interview the hosts of LiveLeanTV Brad and Jessica Gouthro. Brad and Jess are a husband and wife team on a mission to educate, motivate, and inspire men and women from all over the world to Live Lean all year long.

They have both been in the fitness industry for many years. Brad started his YouTube channel and began creating videos on there back in the early days of YouTube. Jess found his videos and reached out to him to see if she could help in any way. Long story short, they met, fell in love and married.

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In this episode of the podcast, I interview Ryan Bergren of The Whitecoat Fitness. Ryan is in the final year of med school but has had a side passion and obsession with health and fitness for about 6 years. 

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In this episode, I interview Shari Alexender of Observe, Connect, Influence. She prides herself on bringing the dark arts of influence into the light. She made it her mission to discover the techniques used masters of communication (CIA operatives, con-artists, interrogators, trial attorneys, etc) and help people apply those techniques to business.

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In the first Coaches Corner episode of 2016, Travis Pollen, Tanner Baze, Nick Sorrell and Robbie Farlow discuss the New Year and how to best help all the new people looking to achieve weight loss in 2016.

We delve into mindset strategies, visual strategies, and why sometimes, yes, you do need to go to an extreme.

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In the first episode of 2016, I interview Amy Dix. Amy is a mom of three, a lover of weight lifting, and a coach working to help women discover the power of lifting. She believes that fitness is a tool that can not only transform your body but your mind and spirit. She went through a great transformation not only physically but mentally, once she was able to step away from the clutches of the scale and instead focus on the power she was gaining in lifts.

Amy is also a self-proclaimed nerd who enjoyed old-school text based computer games and then moved on to World of Warcraft.

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