The Platform Podcast

This week my guest is Steven Riddle (@riddlestruckfitness), owner of Riddlestruck Fitness in Ontario, Canada & coach of Team Riddlestruck (@team_riddlestruck) and in this episode we get into his athletic background, how Covid has affected his business & training, and some of his tips for new lifters.

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In the third installment of the kettlebell fat blast bonus episodes about my own journey to get in the best shape of my life, I am excited to introduce you to my nutrition coach Samantha Burr (@samantha_burr_nutrition). She is an Nutrition Coaching Institute Level 2 Certified Coach, and we dig into her background and why I felt it was important for me to have my own coach in this journey.

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My guest this week is David Thomas Tao (@davidthomastao), the co-founder and CEO of BarBend.com (@BarBend) the world's largest strength sports website. We discuss his work as a professional voice actor, and the genius of Mark Hamill's voice work as the Joker, as well as the history of BarBend and their recent venture into coverage of kettlebell sport with their profile on Kim Fox, how we can grow kettlebell sport in the US in a similar fashion to the growth USA Weightlifting, and his opinion on the greatest strength sport performance of all time.  

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In this BONUS episode, I debrief on the lessons learned from the 2021 IKO World Championships at the 2021 Cali Open hosted by the Orange Kettlebell Club and sponsored by Kettlebell Kings. It was the 10th anniversary of the Cali open and hosted entirely online and live streamed on Kettlebell Kings YouTube channel. In this episode I talk about the results that the incredible members of my  team were able to achieve this weekend, as well as some of the lessons learned from this unique experience that you can take with you to your next event be it online or in person, say October 9th at the Twin Cities Kettlebell Open here hosted by The Athlete Lab here in the beautiful Twin Cities, MN. 

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It's time to step back on the platform and compete! You're nervous and excited, months of training for this very day. But how do you not let the moment overwhelm you? Have a plan, but "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" as Tyson famously said. So you need to have more than one. I work with my athletes to have plan A,B, and C going in to every competition so we don't panic if we get punched in the face. In this special episode I talk about my framework for pacing and the check in points we use to execute no matter what happens in the moment.

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My guest this week is kettlebell sport royalty, the legend Lorna Kleidman. She is a Master of Sport International Class in snatch and holds multiple world records. In this interview we get into how she was introduced to the sport, her ideas on how we can grow the sport in the United States, her training philosophy, as well as her new venture lornafit.com where she offers coaching and virtual membership specifically designed for the over 40 demographic.

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In the second installment of the kettlebell fat blast bonus episodes about my own journey to get in the best shape of my life, I dig into my history with substances, why I decided to do a dry January, and some of the lessons I learned from my experience to start out 2021. This was an important step as priority 1 of my Commitments for 2021 was to share my story, and my history with self medicating, self destructive, and disordered behaviors is not something I've shared much about publicly and for the reason I came to understand as a thread between all these areas; shame. Inside I share some of my revelations about my triggers and the approaches that helped me complete dry January successfully. 

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My guest this week is Joe Daniels (@swingthiskettlebell), he is the owner & coach at Swing This Kettlebell in Covington, KY (just south of Cincinnati) as well as Think Tank Floatation. He is a master trainer with the IKFF, a CMS in kettlebell sport, an artist, and he specializes in using kettlebells and mobility tools to help people learn to move pain free while getting stronger.  On this episode we dive into the benefits of floating, his background as a competitive bodybuilder, how he transitioned to kettlebells in the late 2000s, and how he applied his body building knowledge to develop muscle building programs using ONLY kettlebells and much more. You can pick up Joe's programs at www.kbmuscle.com or get curated kettlebell  & mobility gear at his website www.thekettlebelllocker.com  If you enjoy the content please leave a 5 star rating & review, share on social media, and support my work by supporting my affiliates: Gaspari Nutrition, use code JWright20 at check out for 20% off your order Kettlebell Kings, use code TCKB to get 10% off Bearfoot Athletics, use code TWINCITIESKETTL to get 10% off Vivo Barefoot, barefoot training shoes

I am excited/nervous to be kicking off these kettlebell fat blast episodes about my own journey to get in the best shape of my life, follow along on my special Instagram profile @kettlebellfatblast. I'm taking action to face my own imposter syndrome, step into leadership, and bringing you along the journey with me. I won't hold back or hide anything and I'll share more about my processes and how they are going.  Here is a quick rundown of some of my 2021 commitments:

Even typing this out makes it a bit more real. I have clarity on what I want to achieve, why, and what it will take and I am making public commitment to document my success or failure achieving the goal. 

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Mike “That Guy” Silverman’s (@thatguythetrainer) career began in 1989 as a firefighter/paramedic and NCAA Division 1 sideline Athletic Trainer at the University of Maryland. He has extensive experience gained as a kinesiologist, medical lecturer, emergency care provider, and Army officer. He has multiple credentials as an evidence based fitness coach and is a wealth of knowledge in many domains both in and out of the fitness realm.

I enjoyed the conversation so much we talked for well over 2 hours and I had to split this conversation into 2 parts. In Part 2, we pickup after Mike's decision to leave the RKC and how he discovered the kettlebell sport community leading to him becoming a master trainer with Kettlebell Kings and how systems thinking allows the integration of principles across various training disciplines.

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