Pursuit of Performance: Recent Episodes
Siege Fitness
Pursuit of Performance by Siege Fitness. I, James Kirkby, Owner of Siege Fitness and my Coach Zoe Starr from The Zoe Starr Project are strength and conditioning coaches. We aim to produce content that will aid you in your pursuit of performance. Join us and our guests on this journey into delivering the facts, calling the BS and finding innovative new ways to reach a higher level of performance, both physically and mentally.
In this episode we chat to Alignment Coach Fiona Maree!
Today we have conversations around WHY you do what you do in the gym and in your training, childhood conditioning, limiting beliefs, values, masculine and feminine energy and touch on creating your own reality.
A very informative podcast with an incredible coach.
In this episode we welcome back Jacob Weatherley with a whole new perspective on training after recently becoming a father!
We chat around adjusting to being a father and how he has had to be fluid with his approach to training. There have been challenges and Jacob shares his approach to ensuring he is able to retain a level of commitment to his training whilst still being an incredible father and husband.
The legend Coach Court joins us today. We talk all things training, Court's journey to where she is today and also have an awesome conversation around synthetic contraception, menstrual cycle and performance of women in training!
One to definitely give a listen to.
Wow, just wow. Thankyou to the amazing wizard of the mind Tom Clark for joining us.
We chat the big topics of depression and anxiety for this podcast and a potential new approach to stopping these from dominating people's lives. (disclaimer: This is not medical advice) and on top of this talk other incredible topics around mental performance and the mind. This certainly is one to tune into in it's entirety.
On this weeks episode of POP we welcome Chris Southall @southallgainz. Chris is predominantly a powerlifting coach. We talk all things powerlifting from competitions, to training, to light controversy. A super informative podcast and anyone looking to learn more about lifting, technique and powerlifting in general... listen in!
In this episode we chat to Siege member Izzy. Grab a cup of tea and sit down for a nice cruisy, down to earth chat with one of the strong women that train here at Siege. Of course some gold nuggets woven in too!
Kiwi, killer coach and all round legend are just some of the words we'd use to describe Dylan Taylor. Fantastic and very informative podcast today all around weightlifting cues, mindset and it's relationship to to training, programming and periodisation and even a touch on flexible dieting. We only scratched the surface today on Dylan's knowledge and we are looking forward to revisiting some even more controversial subjects together in the future. Thankyou Dylan!
*We apologise for not upholding the usual standards here, a malfunction in the recording device meant that we have not brought you our usual high quality audio in this podcast. However, an incredible chat with our guest and one not to miss!
In this episode we chat to Siege member Marco De La Pena. Marco talks about his challenging upbringing, his career in Rugby League and his experience training at Siege Fitness and how that has compared to his previous training. He also talks about his aspirations of becoming a coach and learning what it's like to teach and coach. Marco is working his way towards becoming a coach here at Siege and is already demonstrating his high standards, his aligned values and also investment in himself to becoming the best coach he possibly can.
In this episode, Zoe and I welcome Rhys from Pale Horse Powerlifting. Rhys is the Australian 140kg Powerlifting record holder with a 1050kg total across his squat, bench and deadlift (he's a weapon). He held nothing back talking openly about performance enhancing drug use, Only Fans, Satanism, his gym and of course powerlifting and his unique approach to coaching his clients for long term results and training enjoyment. Probably don't listen to this one with the kids in the car but such an informative and insightful conversation.
In this episode we are joined by Womens Coach, Grace Weatherley. Grace is the creator of "The Mariposa Effect" a signature program that guides women towards a deeper understanding of themselves which allows them to create an overall better life. We talk self sabotage, masculine and feminine energy and also dig into Grace's learnings about herself after becoming pregnant and how she's needed to adapt her perception of her training and identity.
In this episode we chat to Jacob Weatherley, a High Performance Men's Coach. We cover a lot! From relationships, to Jacob's personal approach to physical and mental performance with his clients, his signature program "The Journey of Strength" and his very own journey to becoming a strong man himself.
The first episode of The Pursuit of Performance with Siege Fitness. On this episode Zoe and I introduce ourselves and give a bit of a background on our training, careers and lives up until we met. A welcome to our listeners and a little more about what to expect in the coming weeks!