Do you want to be healthier?

How would you know if you were healthier?

How would it benefit your life if you were healthier?

In this episode of Unleashing Potentials, I discuss attitudes and approaches to health with Dr Peter Wootton-Beard. 

Peter is Chief Scientific Office with Nudjed, a unique, automated service that measures organisational health and tailors advice on an individual level. Supporting healthier and happier workforces faster and more efficiently.

• Cultivating passion in exercise and health
• Shifting focus and mental patterns
• Self-efficacy theory - developing confidence and competence in a specific task
• Developing positive reinforcement
• A perspective on the personal training industry
• The value of being self-directed and self-corrected
• How to become a runner
• Developing motivation for exercise
• Tips on sticking with an exercise program
• The return on investment of getting in shape
• The difference between passion and obsession

• What stops people from realising and maximising their potentials 
• How to move past the obstacles that block potential
• Understanding what drives people to look good
• Finding your ‘why’  - understanding emotional drivers
• Why diets fail
• Gender differences in uncovering motivations for diet and lifestyle changes
• Tips on structuring your life for success

Do you struggle maintaining a diet, nutritional program and exercise plan? Adam Gilbert and I discuss the psychology of diet, food, weight loss and exercise. Adam shares some useful tips that help his coaching clients stay on point with their diet and exercise programs. 

Dan Shaw is  British Sport Psychologist, his experience includes working alongside an ex-Manchester United Coach with Premiership and international level athletes within an elite gym based in Manchester. 

Dan has worked in professional football with a small number of clubs delivering sport psyhology to academies on a group and one to one basis as a performance psycholologist/trainee sport and exercise psychologist. Dan has also worked with a range of athletes including an International Weightlifter on a one-to-one basis in preparation for  to major competitions.

Dans research specialisms include 'The Integration of Imagery into a Pre-Shot Routine' and more recently 'The Effects of Caffeine and the Suggestion of Caffeine on Mood, Perceived Workload, Physical Performance and Cognition' which is now being reviewed for publication.

In this episode Dan and I discuss academic aspects and approaches that form the basis of  mainstream sport psychology, and how these can be applied to everyday use for those who exercise and train.  

My discussion with Ari covered a variety of different areas including:

Finding inspiration and motivation for training, as well as achieving satisfaction and fulfillment in life can at times seem extremely difficult. The tendency to negatively compare ourselves with others and mentally self-flagellate can dominate our consciousness resulting in plateaus, low mood and stress. In this interview, ESPN’s Dave Stevens share’s his inspirational story of overcoming the disadvantage of being a congenital amuptee, battling drug addiction and finding success in his sporting and media careers and in his personal life. If you are looking for a lift, listen to this interview. 

In this brutally open and honest interview, former endurance athlete and EvidenceMag.com founder, Armi Legge lifts the lid on his difficult experiences with anorexia nervosa and anxiety.   Armi shares his views and perspectives on managing obsessive tendencies both in training and work, and how effectively channeling dedication can facilitate optimum performance.