The Storm Force Fitness Show: Recent Episodes
Jon Le Tocq
Jon Le Tocq dives into the topics you need to know about to get the best out of your mind, body and time on this flying spaceball!
Being a woman is a crazy ride at times but if you can be more aware of what's going on with your psychology and personal cycles, you can keep yourself on the path to transformation!
Most women put a lot of energy into thinking about getting in shape without the progress to show for it. Here are ten things to stop doing that will help you stay on track to looking and feeling much better.
You might think you 'just can't lose weight' but what about if you woke up thinking you were dying of a heart attack and weighed 209kg?
Dinarte Fernandes lost 2/3 of his bodyweight over 2 years and has kept it off, going on to completing a rowing fitness challenge.
Listen in to find out the key things he did mentally and physically to change his lifestyle, lose loads of fat and get healthy for his family and busy days at work.
Guest: Matt Luxton (Triathlon Coach)
Completing a triathlon is a goal many people have on their Bucket List but with three events to get ready for and lot's to consider it can seem overwhelming!
Triathlon/ironman coach Matt Luxton joins us on this episode of the Storm Force Fitness Show to discuss the key elements and common mistakes made in preparing for your first triathlon and beyond.
Humans have a twisted perception that adding and accumulating and looking for external answers is the key to moving forward. All it does is create anxiety and frustration at a lack of progress.
This episode looks at five key areas in which you need to figure out what to get rid of before you add more programs, diets and things to squeeze into your already busy day!
The harsh reality of today's fitness industry is that once the before and after photos get immortalised in social media history, most people fall apart and drift back to where they were before.
In this episode we look at why this happens, 'the line' you should never cross and how life is on either side of the line!
Athletes and adventurers needing high levels of fitness miss out on big performance improvements because they take a novice approach to training progression.
Whether you're a fighter, cyclist or footballer, or you want to climb a mountain or complete your first marathon, knowing how to progress your weight training and cardiovascular work over 3-12 months is essential. Your guesswork is likely to end in injury or at best, missing out on your potential.
In this episode, Jon Le Tocq explains how you should be viewing a year of training to get the best out of the time and effort you give to your goal.
A diet can either change your life or ruin it depending on how you approach it. If you don't know certain things about dieting, you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and disappointment.
How to approach it for maximum long term results depends partly on you as an individual and partly on knowing some tricks and tweaks you can make along the way to keep your nutrition on point long enough to get rid of all the body fat you want to shift!
This episode walks you through some powerful methods that most people don't use (which is why they never get anywhere!)
Nutrition has become a game of being fully in or fully out. You're either trying to be sub ten percent like a fitness model or you give up completely and hope to make decisions on the spot that don't make you too fat - but you get too fat.
This episode explores the simple ways to ensure you lose fat without losing your lifestyle as well.
Choosing a diet seems to have become about as easy as winning the lottery. This episode gives you a step-by-step guide to keeping it simple but getting it right!
The majority of people feel stressed and overwhelmed and can never find time to get fit and healthy. This is a backwards way of looking at things because by creating the right space in your life it becomes much easier to be productive, achieve things, make money and so on. This episode explores why overwhelm happens and how to quickly start reducing the stress associated with it.
Lockdown has been a tough time but it really is an opportunity to setup some epic things in your life going forward.
Here's my take on how to leave lockdown like a boss.
Middle-aged people make two mistakes when it comes to staying fit and healthy.
They either allow another year on the calendar to drag their spirits and goals into the gutter or go the other way and fail to listen to the aches and pains and stresses that come with adulting!
This episode looks at the 'must do' actions of any health and fitness plan as you get older.
Do you keep setting goals and failing routinely to even get close?
There is a happy place between feeling judged for not doing things with your life and trying to shoot to high and playing a game you're not ready for.
We've all tried to make things better but over time, most people fall well short of achieving what they said they would.
This episode of the Storm Force Fitness Show explains the three key mindset shifts you need to make things happen...and keep them happening!
Ever wondered how lean you should be? What's healthy? How can you increase my chances of living longer? How can you reduce risk of CV disease?
In this episode we look at the numbers that you should target in three phases of goal achievement to reach 'Peak Living' where you're in great shape, full of beans, motivated and smashing goals out of the park!
More and more fitness business owners are straining to succeed only to realise that they have built what they didn't actually want.
In this episode we take a quick look at how to go about building the right business for you to make sure it not only makes money but also serves the kind of person you are and want to be!
He has conquered drug addiction and six of the seven highest summits in the world, run a CrossFit gym, rowed across the Atlantic and walked across the Gobi desert with his wife.
In this episode, Luke Richmond drops some golden nuggets on life and adventure.
Jon Le Tocq interviews Steve Offenburger who has worked on the medical team at the CrossFit games with Rich Froning and co.
What are the key differences between Top 10 athletes, Top 100 athletes and Joe Public?
Should Olympic Lifting be in mainstream fitness?
Should we go "ass to grass"?
What are the key areas that virtually everyone needs to work on to make training safer and more effective?
Are their certain people who just shouldn't go near CrossFit?
How can we individualise high intensity group training and be better coaches in that field?
From humble beginnings as a trainer, Matt Luxton has developed a rock solid group fitness business, purchasing his own property for the latest development.
He has successfully niched his coaching skills to equestrianism and world-record breaking sheep shearing attempts.
Find out the keys to Matt's development over the years in this episode.
What do I do if people won't fill in their nutrition diary?
Why do they say they want great results and pay money then do precisely nothing?
How do I sell nutrition?
How much do I drop calories each week for clients to keep losing fat?
Where do I start with a new client?
Jon answers all these questions in this episode of the Fit Pro Firepower podcast!
Do you ever get frustrated with people who seem incapable of following your training and nutrition plans even though they said they wanted awesome results?
This episode shows you a way to flip how most trainers approach working with a new client that often gets much better 'buy in' and adherence.
If you have followed bodybuilding for longer than five minutes you will have heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger who built his career at Golds Gym. I interviewed celebrity trainer Mike Ryan who has worked out of Golds for years on how he trains The Rock and what we can take from the bodybuilding industry into our own training.
Gym Jones has become a mythical place in Salt Lake City where some of the top actors and athletes from the NBA, NFL and other sports go to get in crazy shape.
As a closed doors, application only training facility wanted to find out what it was all about and trained there for three weeks.
In this episode you can find out all about what goes on behind the doors.
Dan John is widely recognised as one of the leading strength coaches in the world with an amazing track record in Highland Games and Discus competition and coaching.
Now a key figure in the RKC Kettlebell coaching set up, Dan always brings insights that will save you a lot of time and wasted efforts in getting super strong whatever level you're at.