The Mind Your Body Show

Cliff McDonald is a Darwin-based personal trainer and online fitness coach. He is also one of my very good friends. Cliff is unapologetically opinionated and has very strong views about EVERYTHING. This can rub some people the wrong way but anyone who knows him, knows he will do anything for you! He is honestly one of the best people I know. The night my grandmother passed away, I sent Cliff a text message at 10pm asking if he could run my boot camp group at 5:30 in the morning. He unhesitatingly obliged. Cliff is also a metabolic analyst at the local hospital, drug and alcohol rehabilitation coach, former colleague of mine at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, and co-host with me on Mix104.9's Balls 'n' All radio show.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- The correct squat technique that was stopped being taught years ago but is still common practice in many gyms

- How well Cliff can rant about ... well, anything!

- The pros and cons of using challenges in the fitness industry

- Cliff's take on the challenges society face today and how they can be addressed

- Cliff thoughts about reality TV shows - particularly cooking reality shows

- Why it's not weight you want to lose and how to transform your body for what you want

- The nutrition of weight loss

- Plus, all about ketosis.

Challenges can be done for anything. Business, marketing, learning how to accept no’s, and of course, fitness. They are extremely popular and effective ways to achieve any goal, particularly when those goals are related to your health and fitness.

In this episode you'll learn:

- The value of short deadlines

- How to challenges affect your motivation

- What happens when you go through something together with others

- The perfection curse and how to overcome it

- The difference a good coach can make

- Plus, the importance of fun!

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

Annette Gillanders is a Master Practitioner of both Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Time Line Therapy. Believing as a child that she was dumb, Annette overcame this belief to go on and complete her degree in teaching. Breaking the narrative in her formative years for who she was continued to be a challenge for Annette throughout her life. After failing a 5-hour exam, her husband Doug, asked her why she "chose" to fail. This was a significant question which continued to unravel Annette's personal narrative about who she was. Today, Annette holds qualifications in teaching, marketing, management and training. In 2001, Annette and Doug started their business, Biznorth, and in 2008 Annette won the Telstra Northern Territory Business Woman of the Year. Recognising that so many of their clients were couples in business, Annette and Doug recently wrote a book together titled, 'Couples in Business'

In this episode you'll learn:

- The power of suggestions (particularly in your formative years)

- How what you are told can influence your entire life

- The power of your subconscious mind

- Why Annette "chose" to fail

- How to see the positive out of the negative

- Learning theories

- Time Line Therapy

- How to get the best results from people

- How to integrate all the important things in your life

- Why some people look like they do it so easy

- Plus, how to best schedule your calendar to accommodate your entire family.

We were really open and honest about how we run our lives in this episode. Some of the stuff I shared, I haven't ever shared publicly before. I hope you like this episode with Annette Gillanders.

Losing weight is easy — eat less and move more. Or so they say. If weight loss is so easy, why do so many people struggle with losing weight and keeping it off? At the core of weight loss is certainly a calorie deficiency. That means to consume less calories than you are expending. However, there is much more to it than that.

In this episode you'll learn:

- The difference between food as energy and food as information for the body

- How BMI can be used as a measure of how normal your weight is

- Why measuring weight is only ONE part of the story

- Other measures of tracking progress on a weight-loss journey

- Why it's easier to lose weight in the beginning

- Putting on muscles (and the benefits of that)

- The difference between muscle and fat in the body

- Plus, where to go for free information and advice.

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

As one of Darwin's most experienced Sports Physiotherapists, Josh is highly respected in the Darwin community having built strong relationships with a range of healthcare professionals, sporting organisations, coaches and local businesses. Graduating in 2006 and completing a Masters of Physiotherapy in 2012, Josh has spent time as a physio for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and was the head physio for Northern Territory Football Club (Thunder) in the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). Josh has a special interest in diagnosis and treatment of shoulders, knees and backs.

In this episode you'll learn:

- About Josh's experience as a physio at North Melbourne Football Club

- Josh's take on hip, groin and pelvis injuries

- The difference between training requirements of NRL and AFL athletes

- His thoughts on back squats and deadlifts

- Starting a business

- Soft tissue injuries with particular reference to Essendon Football Club

- The shoulder injuries Josh experienced at North Melbourne Football Club

- The many factors contributing to hamstring injuries

- The psychology of injury

- The common everyday injuries that Josh see's in his practice

- Best practice for post-treatment exercises.

Even thoughts have the power to physically change your brain. Thoughts stimulate the release of neurotransmitters, which are the chemical substances that allow your brain to communicate with itself and your body. Neurotransmitters control a range of biological functions such as the release of hormones. They also control how you feel.

In this episode you'll learn:

- That it's not bad to experience negative emotions

- What your brain does in response to positive thoughts

- How positive thoughts effect your life

- How neural pathways are developed

- How synapses change to send messages quicker

- How one type of thought wins out over another

- Plus, how mirror neurons allow you to "try out" the emotions of someone else.

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

This was a very popular episode!

Adam Martin is an exercise physiologist more commonly known today as "The No Breakfast Guy". He has helped thousands of people rebound from injuries in his 10+ years running TrewExPhys - an exercise physiology clinic in Melbourne, Australia. Inspired to help his mother and sister with their ever-increasing weight loss issues, Adam undertook seven diets in seven weeks and came across intermittent fasting. This changed his life, as well as the life of his family and his clients. Adam is the author of "Start Late Stay Light", a comprehensive book about intermittent fasting. Adam has kindly offered to give a free ebook version of this book to all The Mind Your Body Podcast listeners. Simply email Adam at ​[email protected]

So you've just started exercising again and you want to know what’s happening to your body. You want to know that all that pounding of the pavement or lifting of heavy things is worth it. Well, let me tell you, it is! But what exactly is happening to your body?

In this episode you'll learn:

- What is happening to your body when you first start exercising - literally the moment you start exercising, while you are still exercising.

- What happens to your body later that day after your first session.

- What happens after just one week.

- How difficult it is to sustain it for one month but just how many beneficial changes occur in your body in this time.

- What's going on after six months.

- Plus, all the changes that continue to occur after one year.

This is my 10 minute BlogCast. Every Monday, I'll release a 10 minute or less podcast talking about my blog for the week. You can find the written blog at www.JacobAndreae.com

This is an episode not to be missed!

Loris Bertolacci was a strength and conditioning pioneer in the AFL. One of the first full-time fitness staff with an AFL club, Loris nearly lost his job due to a lack of formal education. Despite travelling around the world to learn his craft in a time well before the Internet, Loris had to reinvent himself multiple times and is now one of the most recognisable and well-respected strength coaches in Australian sport.

Get to know Jacob in this preface of The Mind Your Body Podcast.