Ground zero life without limits: Recent Episodes
Andrew Phillips
Luke is a former Royal Marines Commando, having seen 2 combat tours of Afghanistan and was one of the last British troops in Sangin. After 10 years he left the military, and set up Commando Conditioned, a fitness business in Poole, which embraces everything the body is capable of. He is currently also studying Physiotherapy.
Luke has completed an iron distance triathlon and ultramarathons, with a 32 mile tractor tyre drag as his next challenge.
Dr. George Touliatos is a Biopathologist MD specialising in medical prevention of PED use and HRT in men with ASIH. He is an author of four books in Greek and two in English about bodybuilding. Dr. George is a medical contributor in the Anabolics Book 11th Edition and Muscular Development Magazine (USA). A previous contributor for Anabolic.org. He participated in numerous seminars across Greece & Cyprus,TV & radio appearances. Dr. George Touliatos was a competitive bodybuilder himself in ten shows and national champion twice in Greece.
Mental strength and mind set,this episode is all about the mind,and why people are suffering so bad with general life 🙌
Hi, I’m Dean, a qualified personal trainer and coach based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
My purpose in life is to help people thrive in thieirs.
But first, I want to tell you how I came to this realisation and about my personal journey to get to this point in my life.
I’m an ex-British soldier. I joined the army when I was 16 and served for 8 years, in a reconnaissance regiment completing tours of Afghanistan and Iraq. The first year after leaving the army was a challenging and dark time for me, my mental health rapidly declined, and I lost a lot of stability in my life. This sent me into a spiral of self-harm, drugs and alcohol in order to cope & attempted suicide.
Back then, I perfected a smile. I learnt to hide the way I felt. But inside was a different story altogether. Inside, I was struggling.
The illness was slowly ruining my life, but no one around me knew - I had fooled them into thinking I was fine. In 2016 I attempted to take my own life. I couldn’t see a way out, there was no light at the end of my tunnel, and I could no longer cope. After being discharged, and still struggling with depression, I attempted to end my life for a second time. I was really struggling to cope.
Image I was then diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and PTSD.
After the shock of my diagnosis I had to learn, adapt and also come to terms with it so I began to channel my energy into awareness, from social media to public speaking, sharing my story and showing that even people like me - a 6 foot 4 tall ex-army soldier, man - needs help.
Now, the stigma surrounding mental health is something that I am incredibly passionate about and my motivation is to work towards raising awareness.
So, a bit about me. I´ve always loved the outdoors having grown up in the beautiful Cotswolds region of the UK. I grew up hiking with my family, playing sports and generally being outside. I was never a particularly athletic kid at school, and always struggled with my weight. That changed when I reached my later teenage years when I lost around 2 and a half stone or 15kg with a view to better my health. I got into the gym and cleaned up my diet, but I never really found my true passion. In 2008 I lost my dad to prostate cancer, and decided to run my first marathon to raise money for charity. I trained hard, and successfully completed the Dublin Marathon in 3 hours 52 minutes. I had found my calling, and ever since I have been in pursuit of all things adventure. I have now completed 18 marathons, 10 ultra-marathons including 6 races over 100km, Ironman, 5 half Ironmans, SwimRun and competed for GBR age group at the European Half Ironman Championships in Denmark in 2017. You can find a full list of my races and achievement here. I now live in Zurich, Switzerland with my partner Julia, where I work full time in international real estate.
On this episode is me and Pete talking about everything from Diets,running,hormones/steroids,SARMS and blood work !
Owain Thomas ultra runner 🏃♂️ and all round good guy and family man,is in the Royal Navy and is an amazing runner/ultra runner who has been on this journey for 10 plus years which all started with the LONDON Marathon many moons ago which he lost 8st in weight to do ! And after that the rest is history .
Will is a full time coach and has been coaching Triathlon for 21 years now and over this time as both a coach and athlete he has had the good fortune to work with and learn from some legendary coaches. The lessons learnt he has implemented into his coaching guiding over 200 athletes to Great Britain Age Group success with numerous Top 10, podiums and champions across the whole range of ITU World, European, IRONMAN and Challenge Family races along the way.
Will is the Head Coach and Founder of Precision Race Team the current UK and EMEA No. 1 IRONMAN Team. The team was rebranded in 2018 from ONE Triathlon RDS which was also an award winning team at ITU. The team is largely made up of top 1-5% Age Group athletes with well over 100 Great Britain Age Group international athletes as well as several World and European medalists.
Will coaches across the full spectrum of beginner to elite and enjoys the variety of challenges that comes with that.
Over the last two decades Will has also coached and supplied expert knowledge to brands and publications such as HUUB, Speedo, Gordon Ramsay, The Times, The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, 220 Triathlon as well as numerous online publications.
Pete Stables is a Level 4 Advanced REPS Accredited BAWLA Strength & Conditioning Coach, Ultra Distance Athlete, BPU British Record Holder in Powerlifting, ASICS Frontrunner, Author and Fitness Writer, with regular contributions to elitefts.com, asics.com, liftbigeatbig.com and in print for bodybuilding magazine ‘Perfect Body’. He is also the author of two ebooks ‘The Skinny Guys Guide to Building More Muscle’ and ‘The Southpaw Strength Method’, which was spawned off the back of an article for elitefts in 2015 which ranked as the number one viewed (highest traffic) article for the next few years.
As an athlete, Pete has held competition bests of a 250kg raw squat, 150kg bench press and 272.50kg deadlift. He has also completed numerous endurance events including the ‘Oner’ (82 mile trail race over the cliffs of Dorset) and running from London to Paris (450km in 10 days) in 2019, alongside placing in the top ten men at Giants Head Marathon a couple of months later, weighing in at 97kg.
With over 15 years of in person coaching, Pete is uniquely qualified to bring you the very best concurrent training programs available today.
Amber Kitchen now runs Touchgloves Muay Thai gym with her dad Nathan kitchen who is a world class trainer,Ambers mum who was the most successful female in the sports existence 14 x world champion Julie kitchen also dubbed as the queen of muaythai,who made history as britains first ever female WBC world champion alongside winning a world title in Thailand on the kings birthday.Amber takes all this in her stride and I’m sure will pave an amazing career for her self 🙌
Holly Rush is an ex international road marathon runner turned ultra trail runner. She didn’t start running competitively until her late 20’s and started out as a fun runner. So in 2010 when she was selected to represented Great Britain at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona (18th and team Bronze) she couldn’t believe how far she had come. She went on to come 8th at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and has represented GB at the World Mountain Championships twice winning team silver and bronze.
Holly has over 10 years of personal training under her belt, is a qualified sports therapist, level 2 run coach and has a masters degree in sports coaching. She is also the ASICS UK FrontRunner community manager.
Shane’s life story after his failed suicide attempt in Newcastle after a night out ! To moving forward from that night with 3 years back in the uk 🇬🇧 to then going back to Magaluf where he still lives to this day,amazing guy, great story and an inspiration to why suicide isn’t the best way to go.
Juris Skribans is a bodybuilding strength athlete and transformation coach ! Who takes people from the ordinary joe,to super human athletes in there own right.working on there mind,body and soul.
My good friend Wayne Robbins,lays all to bare in this open chat about his career as a TM Meditation Teacher/Guru,Anxiety as a young child,to drug years a teen.Plus all so touching on sexual abuse as young child!
Scott Hackett is a local Rock / Heavy Metal legend 🙌 there’s nothing this guy doesn’t no about all things guitar related and going into mosh pits head first and crowd surfing.Take a listen to his crazy adventures out on the road in his yellow van living the dream all over the world.
Shane fisher went on a lads holiday to Magaluf 20+ years ago and has never looked back ! His story is full of every young lads dreams of working in bars and clubs with some great twist and turns ! With everything coming to a head at 32 years old ! leading to a suicide attempt,this is one of two parts of his life story.
Nathan kitchen is the founding creator of the world famous Touch Gloves Muay Thai gym in U.K Cornwall.check out his life story,the gyms history and his angle on mental health awareness,all on this show.