This week, I touched on the importance of establishing routine and having a good work life balance. With Coronavirus, being out of work or working from home and gyms being closed, we've seen routine being disrupted. Today, I explain how to not allow external factors affect your routine so you can continue to strive through whatever goals you have set for yourself!

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This week, I sat down solo to discuss what I feel is a seriously important message we need to understand before going through any compositional changes. You may have heard the phrase: "We can't fire a cannon from a canoe" - meaning in order to see any good results in term of body compositional changes (fat loss/ building muscle) we first need to lay the foundations for a good baseline level of health. If you're trying to drop body fat or build muscle effectively but you're only getting 5 hours of sleep a night, you're beyond stressed and don't know how to manage it, maybe you've got relatively high blood pressure, your ability to recover is sub par, your relationship with food could be improved or you have a slight injury - It's going to make the process of building muscle/ dropping body fat near impossible.

This week, I was joined once again by Ricky Long. Ricky is a fitness business coach as well as a coach himself. This week, I don't think there could be more variation in topics. From Ricky's Gym Beef to mental health, to my mustache, Ricky's live event, OnlyFans and Fitness Business chats, it was a well rounded chat with a healthy balance of sh*te talk!

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This week I had the absolute honour of speaking speaking with Ross Byrne. Ross is an Online Coach & Personal Trainer based here in Dublin. Ross has come across a lot of attention this week with a letter he wrote, addressed to Stephen Donnelly as to why gyms should be recognized as an essential service. In this podcast, we discuss the letter itself, the effect gyms closures have on the populations physical and mental health whilst looking at both sides of the coin.

Petition to have gym's recognized as an essential service: https://www.change.org/p/irish-government-move-gyms-to-essential-services-for-the-mental-physical-wellbeing-of-the-irish-people?recruiter=false&recruited_by_id=d95fef10-1434-11eb-ab09-9b6aaaaa3c48

This week, I take the podcast solo to discuss 5 key points I've seen people make time and time again when trying to drop body fat. Fat loss is something I feel most people get into having never actually been at the body compositional goals they want, which makes it all the more hard to know what can help and what can't. In this podcast, I highlight 5 key mistakes you should try and avoid and as well as that, how to improve that area to see a more successful fat loss phase!

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This week I got chatting with Brian Ó hÁonghusa from the fit clinic about all things nutrition related. Brian studied Human Nutrition in college and has completed Precision Nutrition levels 1 and 2. In this week's podcast, we look into how we can take small steps with our nutrition to improve our over health and well being. We delved into what health really means and the trade offs that may come with optimizing one area in particular, certain nutrients people are commonly lacking and how to easily add them into your diet, how to approach different forms of binge eating, stressful eating, emotional eating and to be honest, tonnes more.

This week I took to Instagram and Facebook to gather a number of questions for this weeks podcast! 16 total questions and we're flying!

2. Should you go straight from a cut to a lean bulk?

3. Gender differences when approaching training?

6. Differences between training for strength and hypertophy?

7. As a trainer, how do I deal with burnout?

8. Should I work to failure on isolation exercises?

11. Do I prefer clients who question my methods or those who go with it?

12 Positive & Negative effects Covid19 had on my business

13. Do I prefer training people with ballsy people with big goals or smaller goals?

15. Why use a lifting belt?

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This week, I spoke with personal trainer and owner of Donnybrook Performance, David Poff about Exercise and Nutritional considerations when dealing with female clients. In this podcast we discuss whether women should weight train, will weights make women “bulky”, training and nutrition considerations regarding that time of the month and a few other bits you may or may not be aware of.

This podcast is designed for 2 people. First and foremost, for the female audience. Understanding certain things that may give you the edge when it comes to your goals can be solid information to ensure you are progressing at a solid rate. But this podcast is also for the coaches, who aren’t all that competent when it comes to these considerations dealing with female clients. It is well known that it’s a topic coaches are not nearly educated enough on, so if we can help even one coach figure out how to work with his females clientele a little better, then we are happy!

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In this week's episode of the podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Mike Banna. Mike is an NHS GP, co host of the Fitness Unfiltered Podcast and the director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. This week, we discuss lifestyle and behavioral change in relation to health and fitness goals, fat loss in particular.

If you’re here – I’ve probably sent you here because you DM’d me asking about supplements. It’s probably what I’m asked most about so I made a 35 minute podcast giving you all necessary information you need on supplements!