💥BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL EPISODE💥 Coop from Garage Gym Reviews has his finger on the pulse of gym equipment along with the companies who design, manufacture, and sell them. For years now, he has been providing home gym users his opinions, testing data, and reviews to help you understand the pros and cons of gym equipment for the home. He does this through written and video mediums consistently and should be someone you look to before buying your next piece of equipment.

Check out Garage Gym Reviews here:

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https://www.garagegymreviews.com/

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Erika has been a part of the CrossFit community for a long time. She was, at face value, in a perfect position, but with many things in life, they are not what they seem. Erika was stuck and in a place of conflict, and it affected her mental health. She has since realized how to resolve her issues and is helping others do the same.

During this episode, Erika was strikingly honest about chasing the accolades and cheers of others. Though fulfilling at that moment, it made her keep chasing more and more. Ultimately, she found herself chasing things that were not even important to her. Her journey helped her understand how to fix the broken feelings she experienced and realize what is truly worthy of chasing.

Erika's current work focuses on helping clients understand how to create a strong sense of self, monitor and alter thoughts, and frame your perceptions for better outcomes.

Contact info:

Website: thoughtWOD.co

Instagram: @thoughtwod

Email: [email protected]

It's rare to find a CrossFit Games level athlete who is also a Certified CrossFit Coach, aka CFL4, and a CrossFit Seminar Staff member, but that's what you'll find with Austin Malleolo. For more than a decade, Austin has been competing, traveling the world teaching the CrossFit methodology, and coaching athletes in the New England / Boston area.

On this episode, you'll hear how Austin helps coaches understand some advanced coaching concepts, strategies for local throwdowns, and how to break through training plateaus.

How to contact Austin:

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @amalleolo

LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/amalleolo

A six times CrossFit Games competitor, Marcus Filly is merging concepts and philosophies of bodybuilding with functional movements. Appealing to a broad range of fitness enthusiasts, Marcus wants clients to understand that simply adding more volume isn't going to cut it and that application of intensity is earned. His unique perspective on fitness and health run deeper than the gym and carries over to many different aspects of your life.

How to find Marcus: https://revival-strength.com/ Instagram: @marcusfilly

What does the highest form of dedication look when it comes to a sport? It looks like Frank Rhea. Frank is 62 years old and trains at home to be the best bodybuilder he can be. That's why they call him #RippedRhea ! Now close to forty years into the sport, his journey has helped him realize some things and shaped his body and mindset.

How to find Frank: Instagram @ttfrhea #rippedrhea

Garage Gym Life Media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLDxRgvlABHpyJ_LP3XDZA

Heather Breen from Tenacious Health is a mentor of movement and intuitive nutrition. She is a graduate of the Level 1 Precision Nutrition certification course and a CrossFit Level 2 coach who is helping clients understand that fitness should be fun and the way we view nutrition should be from our core values, priorities, and goals.

During the the episode, you'll hear how we connected, why she has coaches, and how she helps facilitate her clients to make better choices when it comes to nutrition.

Heather's Contact Info:

Instagram: @tenacious_heather_b

Instagram: @tenacious_health

Email: [email protected]

Mentioned in the Show:

Garage Gym Life Media YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLDxRgvlABHpyJ_LP3XDZA

Home Gym Home Gym Quarterly: Fall Edition https://issuu.com/garagegymlife/docs/fall_2019

Sometimes producing and hosting a podcast can be difficult, especially when it comes to securing guests and working around schedules and different time zones.

Well, the old saying is that necessity is the mother of new podcast formats. I think that's how that goes. For this episode, I recorded the show live, along with a mic mess up, so the audio isn't the best, but you get the gist.

For this episode, I asked social media to provide questions you wanted answered on the show. Some themes were evident throughout the questions, and they meshed well. It was a fun show to record, and I enjoyed the process so much that I plan on incorporating the style format more often.

Enjoy and shoot me your questions for future episodes to [email protected]

For the past 16 years, Anna Woods has been helping females understand they are strong, worthy, and they are enough. Her mindset first approach helps females permit themselves to be a priority.

As a wife, mother of three children, two with special needs, and a busy businesswoman, the pressures of deadlines and taking care of others could get in the way; but she purposefully sets boundaries and makes training a priority. She does this because she knows when she takes care of herself, its easier to take care of others.

When working with her clients, she helps them erase the feelings of failure by helping them define their personal idea of fitness and helps breed confidence by finding small victories.

How to find Anna:

Website: https://shestrength.com/

Instagram: @Shestrength

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnaWoodsFitness/

Sorry gents, but Landri Deur is probably stronger than you. She is an up-and-coming powerlifter about to enter the scene with a big first meet. Her path to this first meet is almost unimaginable.

Landri comes from a rough upbringing and has intimately experienced the devastating effects of PTSD, depression, addiction, and domestic abuse for those she loves and within herself. Now, she is on the road to a better place through Powerlifting and CrossFit, and she shares her journey in this episode.

Landri is now a chief advocate for helping Veterans understand and recover from PTSD and addiction. Her efforts are grassroots in nature and growing. She is trying to leverage her recent notoriety to spread the message of erasing the stigma of mental illness.

Her road to a better place is brining inspiration across many communities

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Mentioned in the show:

Landri's IG: @Landri_liftsalot

John Turin @John.Turin

Douglas Nostrant @AlphafitnessDoug

Candi nostrant @ Candinostrant

Sam Rakyta, DPT @sam.rakyta.dpt

Team Red White Blue - https://www.teamrwb.org/ or Instagram @teamrwb

VetRec - https://www.usvetrec.org/ - or Instagram @Vet_Rec

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Show Outline:

Random Question Training at Alpha athletics Combining Communities Coaching approach Out of the whom wanting to win Entering the Army and Making Grown Men Cry A hard history Getting out of Georgia Finding CrossFit Den mom efforts Starting her podcast for Veterans - The Fearless The moment of freedom Hearing from the community Recovery work and athlete approach You're killing your Gainz Soapbox moment ___________________

Zach Even-Esh, the Underground Strength Coach, writes books, produces a podcast, and operates two brick and mortar performance centers in New Jersey. He started in his parent's garage and has gone through several iterations and learned a lot along the way. Just like many very successful people, he has found a way to leverage his time to be super productive and still make time to hang out with the family.

With that, he was able to talk for 35 minutes, and we are going to have to have a part two soon as I had a lot more I wanted to pick his brain about much more.

Since he predominately works with youth, I thought this to be a perfect guest for a back to school episode.

Mentioned in the show:

Garage Gym Junkie: https://marketplace.trainheroic.com/#/team/garage-gym-junkie New York Barbells - https://www.newyorkbarbells.com/ Fitness City - https://www.fitnesscitynj.com/

Show Outline:

How did you find a way to add hours to the day?

Slave to the phone and you're letting it.

The only thing you can never get back is time.

Started off in parents garage with a 300lb set from Costco.

Garage gyms have exploded. Started training out of my parents garage.

Find a way to train out of the garage.

Walking into a funeral (commercial gym)

Fitness City - house gym

Many of the great practitioners are a mix of researcher and application in novel ways. For instance your bodyweight bodybuilding system borrowed from powerlifting.

Training athletes to be athletic. Blending old school body building, hand balancing, Athleticism.

For adults, they are training for something, we train them to have more energy and fit.

Leave 10% in the tank. Leave it for your life and family.

Athletes today are way different than the ones I trained in the garage.

Applying for your gym….

How do you educate parents on the value you are providing when working with kids?

Education to move towards influence. It's a lot of behind the scene work.

You're not going to win big without effort.