The BIG fitness podcast with Dave Ballantine and Calumn Duthie

In this weeks episode we chat to the legend that is Andy Watson, The Golf Fitness Coach about training for golf, as well as it's parallels with general population training. How he looks at clients and helps them get to where they want to be. So whether you are a golfer or not, there is a ton of great info in here. 

You can find out more about Andy here:

www.thegolffitnesscoach.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thegolffitnesscoach/

Enjoy the episode.

All becomes clearer during the episode. 

This week we answer a couple of client and listener questions about training intensity and about not overthinking your options. 

We often think that if we aren't broken by the end of our training sessions, then we're not making progress. But in this episode we chat over why that isn't strictly true, and how the answer is a lot more nuanced than that. 

We also chat about how overthinking gets in the way of progress during our answer to "What are other options other than water for drinking?" While the answer is obvious, overthinking gets in the way and holds us back from making a decision. We go over how to get past that roadblock and dstart to make more progress. 

Enjoy the episode!

Dave and Calumn

In this weeks episode I go over 5 tips you can put into place right now to improve your progress and results. You don't need any special equipment, no fancy methods, only the desire to use them and the effort needed to work on them. 

Enjoy the episode, 

Dave

We are built to compare ourselves to others to see where we fit in the hierarchy of things, but when social media started bombarding us with constant images of how awesomely other people are doing, it became a detrimental game of constant comparison and negative self image as we try, unsuccessfully, to compare where we are to carefully curated images of others. 

In today's episode, we go into how this negatively affects us, but we also flip it and look at all the ways we can make comparisons work for us. From giving us the belief that we can achieve a goal, to building a framework to help us get there. 

Enjoy the episode!

Dave

P.s. if you want to get more information about Calumns Launchpad Coaching offer, check out the link below

https://transformation.cdfitness.co.uk/launch-pad

He's back, After a 2 week hiatus (for very good reasons which we chat about in the episode) Mr Duthie is back. And after he shares his bog news, we get stuck into 5 tips to help busy people navigate their fitness, nutrition and health. 

It all gets a bit much now and again, and it's easy to either throw your training and nutrition out the window completely, or feel bad about not being able to give your all to it. 

But there is a middle ground to be had, and in todays episode we go over 5 tips to help. 

Enjoy the episode!

Dave

You can contact us here:

Calumn - Instagram, Website

Dave - Instagram, Website

Your results are the average of your actions over a much longer time than you might think. 

Whether your goal is fat loss, muscle gain, improved fitness os some other change, consistency beats intensity every time. In todays podcast I go into this idea more deeply and give you a couple of examples from my own experiences to help illustrate a bit of a mindset shift that could help you. 

Enjoy the episode,

Dave

In this weeks podcast, Calumn is unavailable, so I took the opportunity to answer a few client questions that I think would be useful to you too!

We go over struggles with motivation, how to fit in more walking, better exercise swaps, how to deal with rest days and more. Not particularly in that order...

If you have any questions you'd like answered, just fire me a message at www.instagram.com/daveballantinepersonaltraining or via the website at www.edinburgh-pt.com/contact

Have an awesome day,

Dave

Protein is probably the most important macronutrient, but it's also the one most likely to be under-consumed by the majority of people. This makes it harder to gain muscle and harder to lose fat. 

In today's episode we chat over why you need it, how much you need, the best sources to pick from, and give you some simple tips to help ensure you get enough. 

Here are the links to the portion size guides mentioned in the episode.

Hand portion sizes 

Men

Women

As always, if you want to get in touch to ask any questions or to give any feedback, you can find us here:

Calumn: 

Website - cdfitness.co.uk 

Instagram - www.instagram.com/calumnduthiecoaching/ 

Facebook - www.facebook.com/calumnduthiecoaching 

And you can find me here:

Website - edinburgh-pt.com 

Instagram - www.instagram.com/daveballantinepersonaltraining

Have a great day,

Dave

This week we bring you 10 tips to help you get into (or back into) the gym. Some of these are obvious, some not so much, all have value!

In this episode, we bring you the first 5 on the list as the recording went on longer than either Calumn or I expected and we thought it made sense to split it in 2. 

Enjoy the episode and look out for part 2, coming soon!

Dave