Technology is advancing at a scary rate with a world of convenience at our fingers. We're making advancements in health and technology that means we will live longer lives than ever before. But are these advancements making us fat? Are the things that are designed to make life more convenient actually making us more sedentary?ts on This week we come to you live from the local conspiracy theory bunker with tinfoil haour heads as we ask the hard questions about whether we are making it harder to be healthy.

FACT: Drastically changing your diet or increasing your exercise overnight is not going to lead to permanent, healthy weight loss. Instead, to successfully improve your health and lose weight you need to make many smaller changes. This week we give too many tips that you can add to your Think Fit tool box to ensure that your health remains a priority and you manage to get your weight under control.

This week we are joined by Brett Robbo. Brett has a history in high performance sport spending a lot of time working with both able bodied and para athletes. Working with people who have faced and overcome extreme obstacles has given Brett insight into how people can manage and overcome adversity. In addition, Brett has had his share of adversity too which saw him completely re-evaluate his approach to life and pursue a career in mental strength and helping others become the best versions of themselves.

The benefits of getting in shape are well documented. But what about the side-effects that you don't expect? What about the changes you start to notice that are completely unexpected and surprisingly awesome! That's what we discus this week. We wanted to share our experiences of the positive changes when we started training and exercising that we noticed that we did not expect. Maybe some of these benefits will surprise you and might even provide that missing piece of motivation to help you get into shape!

This week we discuss the importance of taking care of yourself. What things you can do for your own wellbeing including taking time for yourself, setting limits, learning to see your own value as well as your own limits. We then provide you with tips on how you can do itf. Self-care is incredibly important. It is also incredibly easy to forget about it when you are caught up in the routines of daily life. So do something good for yourself this week and download this episode, get comfortable and enjoy!

This week we discuss our experiences with some of the diets we have tried while trying to lose weight and the how and why of why they didn't work. We then go into the nitty gritty of what we specifically did to our diets to successfully lose weight. We highlight lessons learned through our own success and failure with and what we have learned from previous guests on the show. Fundamentally the take away is that there is no single right way and unfortunately you need to work out what works for you.

We are joined by dietitian and nutritionist, Lyndi Cohen. Lyndi had an unhealthy emotional relationship with food and struggled with her weight until she decided to make a change. Lyndi stopped dieting and focused on normalising her relationship with food and since then has lost over 20kg and has launched the 'Keep it Real' program. We discuss how people form an emotional relationship with food, why people binge or over eat and some strategies to stop it from happening.

So 2018 has been off to a rough start for the boys at Think Fit. Tim found out that a close family member has cancer and Robo, has fallen victim to a calf injury. But that is life and it must go on. So this week we discuss the tips and tricks to manage the curveballs that life throws at you. We focus heavily on the importance of keeping on top of your mental wellbeing, being flexible with your goals or resolutions and even talk about using any negative thoughts or emotions to keep driving you forward.

To celebrate the New Year we wanted to give you some strategies you can use when setting your goals to make sure that you stick to them and even more importantly, achieve them! These are fundamentally simple and are relevant to any sort of goal setting but include things like do research to understand what is required, be aware of the challenges you are likely to face along the way, set both larger and smaller goals and make sure you understand why you want to make the change.

The drama of sport is one of the reasons we find it so compelling and the Iron War is one of the most dramatic. 2 of the fittest men doing battle over a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike and 42.2km run. The 1989 Iron Man World Championships is considered one of the greatest races not only in triathlon but in the history of sport. We go into the background of Mark Allen and Dave Scott, the sport of IronMan and then delve into the drama that unfolded that October day on the Hawaiian island of Kona.