What is consciousness? From where does it arise? The brain? Some of it? All of it? Where does the brain finish and the mind begin? Is there a place where the mushy physical bit intersects with the non-physical bit? And what’s the difference between consciousness and awareness? Can you imagine looking inside someone’s skull (literally), operating on their brain and having a conversation with that person at the same time! Well, that’s a reality for Alex and to me, that shit is truly amazing. Anyway, the good Doc (let’s be accurate... Neurosurgeon) is obsessed with the brain, I’m obsessed with the mind and so this conversation was a conscious collision of obsessions. Enjoy.

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Before you ask, the reason for the title unfolds during the show. Tiff was having a bad day before we pressed record for this episode, so I decided to scrap our original plan and with her permission, continue our pre-episode chat into the show. What resulted was a few laughs, a few stories, a few lightbulbs and a therapy session of sorts. Enjoy.

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Our resident Gym Owner, Exercise Physiologist and Conditioning Coach, Russ Jarrett, is back chatting about all things training, strength, fitness, health and performance. Along the way, we explore training for muscular endurance vs. strength vs. power vs. hypertrophy vs. function, the best bang-for-buck gym equipment, the best cardio options for general fitness goals, fitness testing (why, when, how and for whom), optimal workouts with minimal equipment, the best and worst value for money training equipment, gym etiquette and lots more. Enjoy.
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Our resident Gym Owner, Exercise Physiologist and Conditioning Coach, Russ Jarrett, is back chatting about all things training, strength, fitness, health and performance. Along the way, we explore training for muscular endurance vs. strength vs. power vs. hypertrophy vs. function, the best bang-for-buck gym equipment, the best cardio options for general fitness goals, fitness testing (why, when, how and for whom), optimal workouts with minimal equipment, the best and worst value for money training equipment, gym etiquette and lots more. Enjoy.
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Hard to believe but some people think I can be a little.. er, ‘tough love-ish’. Seems unfair. And by unfair, I mean accurate. So, what is tough love? When and how should it be dispensed? If at all? Does it work for everyone? Can we be compassionate and tough? Is it tough love if it’s truth? What’s the downside of constantly telling people what they want to hear? Making them feel good at all costs? Avoiding hard conversations? Giving people a trophy every time they do something positive? At what point does a cheer squad become an unhealthy addiction? And what about tough love for ourselves? Is that simply self-loathing or perhaps something healthier, like self-awareness and humility? Enjoy.

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Mick Harrington is the bloke with the lawn mowing business, who sings like an angel, made the last three of ‘The Voice’ (2021), fought a six-foot-eight, 150kg Samoan in the boxing ring (for 73 seconds) to earn money for a house deposit and perhaps most impressively, he’s the guy who proposed to his partner live on national telly! Happily for Mick, Bec said “yes” and also happily for Mick, these days the lawn mowing has made way for singing to audiences all over the country. Enjoy.

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For this ep. of TYP, Bobby and I got together to answer some listener questions and what transpired was a deep, vulnerable and authentic conversation around some broadly-relevant human stuff. To be honest, I was in cruise-control and Bobby did all the heavy lifting this time, opening up about some deeply-personal experiences and sharing some fascinating thoughts and insights around trauma, heartbreak, delayed grief, writing our story and habit-creation. Enjoy.
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I’ve spent a lifetime watching people train, lift, run, ride, punch, develop sporting skill, get uncomfortable, compete, win, lose, make excuses, find solutions, learn, unlearn, adapt, perform under pressure, crumble under pressure, optimise potential, waste potential, fall down, get up, triumph, overcome, adapt and quite often, give up. This episode is a freestyle riff about all of it. Enjoy.

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I’m gonna be honest, David Gillespie can be pretty annoying, especially when he turns up to TYP with information, research and dare I say, evidence, that doesn’t suit my version of ‘what is’. How dare he rattle my ideological cage of thought and belief around a particular topic with all his bloody annoying ‘research’. Surely my personal experience, ideas and long-held beliefs over-ride his mountain of evidence? This was an interesting chat about the value (or lack thereof) of adding fibre to our diet, where the fibre story came from, its relationship with various conditions and diseases, who funds the research and of course, we chat about all-things-poo. Enjoy.
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Ben Price pretends to be other people. Well, to be more accurate, he’s an internationally renowned comedian and one of Australia’s best impersonators. He has mastered more than more than 200 voices and written comedy sketches impersonating elite athletes, musicians, politicians and film stars. On any given day he could be Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Owen Wilson, Homer Simpson or Dr Phil. I’ve known Ben for years and it was fun to catch up with him. Enjoy.

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