For the next few weeks we are introducing some shows from our Endurance Coaches Tom Walker and Rob Jones' new show; The Run Strong Podcast to give you the best knowledge from the running world! Enjoy...

Endurance coaches Tom Walker and Rob Jones welcome you to The Run Strong Podcast. A show to discuss topics to educate and inspire runners. From couch-to-5k'rs, triathletes, up to multi-stage ultra runners this podcast will interest you. Each topic show is followed by a Q&A show, making the podcast interactive and relevant to you, the listener. 

This weeks topic stems from the IAAF World Championships and the Women’s marathon. Tom and Rob discuss the drop out rate, start times and after thoughts of the athletes and coaches. 

The question the lads answer this week is based on sweat loss, a common problem faced in hot climates. Got further questions? Send them in for show #002 which will be a show dedicated to answering questions you might have from this one #RunStrong

For those of you that listened to #547 you heard all about Boz heading out to the CrossFit Games and in doing so fulfilling one of her childhood dreams. Well she is now back on home soil and in this show Tom and I catch up with her and talk all about her experience, feelings and future goals.Recently I had Morning Chalk Up founder Justin LoFranco on the show who spoke super openly about the games and what they had printed on their site. It was great in this show to get to hear it from Boz as an athlete.What are your thoughts are fitness enthusiasts? Is the CrossFit games a true test of fitness? Should the events be published in advance and should they follow the same format each year. As Boz told us on this show “the cream always rises to the top” as Tia and Matt won and no one disputes they are the best. This is a topic which I am sure will be debated for years to come!

Do I need a heart rate monitor and GPS watch is a question we are getting increasingly asked. In this show we dive into the various uses of these devices, their pros and also their cons. I talk about a few different models that are on the market and what you should be looking out for if you are going to buy one. Personally I have had a heart rate monitor since Polar launched the Polar Favor when I was about 13. I have used devices from various brands over the years and recently moved over (or back) to Suunto as my device of choice and the Baro 9 with its mind blowing a never before seen 100 hours of GPS time.

Some of you may remember “Project DXB” at the end of 2018 and the start of this year where the InnerFight Endurance team took 12 individuals on a 3 month journey to the 2019 Dubai Standard Chartered Marathon or 10km races.The project is back and in this show we offer up full details of what’s coming for the 2020 version which kicks off in a few weeks. We not only talk about the project but also and as importantly the impact of setting a goal and getting involved in a framework to take you to that goal along with a support network and community to make the process ultimately more enjoyable.This years Project DXB is kindly supported by ON Running, Suunto, Naked Running Band, Secret Training, Runderwear. To find out more or speak to one of the Endurance team about getting involved mail [email protected]

Just what the title says though right? Please action it! Well that is the short intro to this show. The longer one is to ask you to think about how many excuses you make and hear in a single day of your life? Do a quick test for one day please, every time you say something to someone do you make an excuse where actually you do not need to say anything? Why are we doing this though? What are we looking for here? In this short show I try and pack a few ideas on this topic whist giving you reasons to be “cool” with yourself first and creating honesty within, if you get that then I am sure you will make less excuses and tolerate less incoming excuses too.

Enjoy the show

Susie Chan only started running in her early 30’s as she entered a half marathon with her brother. Since then she has completed 5 Marathon Des Sables as well as a number of other ultras, however as she tells us in this show she runs anything from 1 mile to 100 and as you will find out she does it for the love of running and the love of nature.

Still smoking in 2011 Susie has not always been into running and in this show we dig into some of her motivations and have a great discussion about how and why people get into running, what people can expect and all the great things that come with it. Susie has an awesome energy and I am sure that after listening to this show you will be fully pumped to head out for a run.

Enjoy the show.

Connect with Susie here:

Connect with Susie:

https://www.susie-chan.com/

https://www.instagram.com/susie_chan_/?hl=en

For those of you that come to InnerFight you will probably have been coached by “Clarkie”, but for those of you that don’t it is time the world heard from him. Originating from New Zealand Jamie has live in the region for the last 10 years and has a super cool story and relationship with InnerFight as he started as a member, went through our internship program, started handling our on boarding process and now essentially runs the show here!

It is no surprise that a lot of Jamies personality traits are similar to that of his home countries famous rugby team the All Blacks but in this show Jamie shares some of his heritage with us, talks about his upbringing in sport, his “career” in the hospitality industry and one of his rules for life “just be a good person”or better put as “No D**k heads”

Enjoy the show.

Connect with Jamie:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clarkey_jw/

Email [email protected]

Some of you may remember the name "Pete Jacobs” either from episode #468 of the InnerFight podcast back in October last year or from when he won the world Ironman championships in Kona in 2012. When we spoke to Pete in 2018 he talked about coming back to triathlon but only when he was fully healthy. In this show Pete takes us on his journey of what essentially has been a number of years of his body not working optimally, him not feeling great all the time and some quite major struggles.

Pete talks us through various eating methods that he has tried and tested to try and aid his auto immune disease and we spend a good chunk of this shoe on where he is at today with the Carnivore Diet. Listen as Pete talks us through eating up to 2kg of meat a day and nothing else. He is clearly super well read on the subject and gets nice and geeky for us in places.

Possibly the best part of this show is where Pete shares his desire to get back to Kona and from the way he is and has been feeling with his recent adoption of this diet it seems the dream of Kona is very much alive.

The 2020 CrossFit open is just around the corner so who better to sit down with in this weeks show and chat about it than the man himself Riccardo. The great lover of all things CrossFit. Ricci gives us his run down on why you should register for this event, the format of the 2020 seasons, what to expect, how to manage yourself and what to do over the next few weeks to get ready.

The 2020 Open season starts on October 10th and we will be hosting the workouts at InnerFight every Saturday morning. There are once again 5 workouts in the open and this is the qualifying stage for the 2020 CrossFit games. We love the fact that this year CrossFit have brought back the affiliate leader board so we can see different gyms measure up against each other locally and globally.

Bram Connolly knew from a young age that he would serve his country, it’s all he wanted to do. Descending from a “broken home” Bram described himself in his early years as quite a loner and he was happy with that. He walked into the local Australian Army on his 17th birthday and signed up for service perhaps not really knowing that within 2 years he would be in the war zone of Somalia, this was the start of an incredible journey which would later turn in to 2 books that Bram has written about battle and wars. As a teenager and into his 20’s Bram was good at things, he didn’t have to try super hard to get by so didn’t, this all changed when on return from SAS selection in 1994 he was called out by a colleague and exposed in his failure to be recruited to one of the most elite fighting forces in the world, his pledge was to return and to be selected.

Now a family man with an a aiming wife and two children Bram teaches leadership on many levels. He is also the founder of Warrior U and the host of the Warrior U podcast. Bram believes and has demonstrated time and again that positivity is a key to leadership and at the end of this show similar to all of our guests he shares his one piece of advice for life which is simply epic.