2022 - The Ready State: Recent Episodes
2022 - The Ready State
Shane Farmer Finding Grounding Through Sport, The Ability to Suffer, And Why You Should Care About Indoor Rowing Shane Farmer is the founder of Dark Horse Rowing. He’s a rower, a 4X CrossFit Games athlete, former gym owner, Concept2 Master Instructor and has made his career de-mystifying rowing for non-rowers. He’s married with two kids ...Read More
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Lynsey Dyer Extreme Skiing, Experiencing Flow States, and Motherhood as a Professional Athlete Lynsey Dyer is a professional athlete, illustrator, self healing and wildlife advocate. As an athlete, Dyer won the FREESKI overall extreme skiing tour (7 straight wins), was the first female on the cover of FREESKIER Magazine (mid air off a record sized ...Read More
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Lt. Gen. Michael Ferriter Empowering and Supporting Veterans with the National Veterans Memorial and Museum Lieutenant General Ferriter, U.S. Army (Retired), is the founding President and CEO of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM). Not simply a museum, NVMM seeks to honor and positively impact the lives of Veterans by sharing the Veteran experience ...Read More
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Jeff Byers Life After Football, Prioritizing Attitude and Effort, and Democratizing High Performance Jeff Byers is the co-founder and CEO of Momentous — a holistic wellness and nutrition company based in Park City, Utah. Designed by the brightest minds in performance athletics, but available for the everyday wellness enthusiast, Momentous is the first and only ...Read More
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Built To Move Introducing the Vital Signs, a Simple Way to Assess and Ultimately Improve Your Ability to Move Throughout Life We’re back with another bonus episode about our upcoming book, Built To Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully. The book is structured around “Vital Signs” and we ...Read More
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Jill Miller The Evolution of a Fascia Expert, Body Blind Spots, and a Bottom Up Approach to Healing Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT, YA-CEP fascia expert, has 30 years of corrective movement expertise that forges links between the worlds of yoga, massage, athletics, and pain management. Her signature self-care fitness programs, Yoga Tune Up® and The ...Read More
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Built To Move Introducing Our Upcoming Book Detailing The Ten Essential Health Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully In this bonus episode, we sit down and chat about the Starrett’s upcoming book, Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully. We introduce the book, go ...Read More
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Layne Norton Demystifying Nutrition Research, Bone Crushing Consistency, and Why You Should Date Not Marry Your Beliefs A self-proclaimed nerd who lifts heavy things, Layne has completed with honors both a BS in Biochemistry and a PhD in Nutritional Sciences. As an innovator in the fitness industry, Layne helped popularize flexible dieting and online nutrition ...Read More
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Luca Padua Surfing Big Waves, Innovative Training Techniques, and Being the Youngest Person to Surf Mavericks Luca Padua is a big wave surfer and all around stellar athlete. At 13, Luca was the youngest person to ever surf Mavericks, and has never looked back. We got to catch up with Luca about how he got ...Read More
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Kyla Channell Fueling for Performance, Common Misconceptions, and Why Carbs are King Kyla Channell is a Degreed Nutritional Practitioner, specializing in elite athlete fueling for each unique sport and sex differences between athletes. She is the founder of Nutritional Revolution where she works 1:1 with clients providing nutrition plans tailored to each athlete’s specific sport, ...Read More
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Brent Brookbush Transforming Continuing Education, Evidence-Based Practice, and How to Be a Better Consumer of Research Dr. Brent Brookbush has been an impassioned human movement professional since 1998, and an impassioned educator since 2004. As the founder and CEO of the Brookbush Institute, Brent is on a mission to transform education by creating a subscription ...Read More
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David Weck Fitness Innovation, Balance, and the Origin of the Rope Flow David Weck is the inventor of the BOSU® Balance Trainer and founder of WeckMethod. David’s influence reaches millions of people across the globe. From world class athletes to disabled individuals regaining the ability to walk, David has been helping people achieve better functional ...Read More
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Perry Nickelston Reframing Pain, Tiny Little Action Steps, and Why If You’re Human…You’ve Got a Lymphatics Problem Perry Nickelston, DC, NKT, FMS, SFMA, is a Chiropractic Physician with primary focus on Performance Enhancement, Corrective Exercise, and Metabolic Fitness Nutrition and trained from The American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders. He is an expert in ...Read More
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Rory Mckernan Moving from CrossFit HQ to CrossFit Mayhem, Habit Formation, and the Legend of Some Missing Gold Rory Mckernan is the Director of Business Development and Athlete representation at Mayhem Nation. He brings a wealth of industry knowledge to his athletes from his years working as a Media Director and on-camera personality for CrossFit ...Read More
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Kenny Kane From Stand-Up Comedy to Coaching, and the Critical Nature of Context Kenny Kane is a life-long performer and coach who is fueled by improving quality of life for people in principled ways. He bought CrossFit Los Angeles in 2014 with a vision to build a unified coaching team and the business to support ...Read More
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Megan Young Being a Data Driven Performance Coach, Surviving Cancer, and Winning with the Seattle Sounders Megan Young is the Performance Coach for the Seattle Sounders. She is a lifelong learner of optimizing for human performance, health and welfare, strategic integration of sport science, human optimization technology, data systems, and leading cross-functional management to support ...Read More
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Lauren Fisher Moving to Iceland, Joining A Super Team, And a Decade Competing as a CrossFit Games Athlete At 28, Lauren Fisher has been one of the best known names in CrossFit for a long time. Over the years, this CrossFit Games Athlete has collected a Top 10 finish at the Games (2014), a 3rd ...Read More
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Julie Foucher Precision Medicine, The Jump from CrossFit Games Athlete to Family Physician, and How Health Habits are Contagious Julie Foucher is a former four-time CrossFit Games athlete and family physician practicing precision medicine. She launched the Pursuing Health podcast back in 2015 while transitioning from CrossFit competition to being a full-time medical trainee. Based ...Read More
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Diana Kapp Modern-Day Female Role Models, The Climate Crisis, and the Problem with Our Current Rate of Consumption Diana Kapp is a journalist with an MBA from Stanford University. She has criss-crossed this country writing for and about empowered girls… girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. Diana’s first book, Girls Who Run ...Read More
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Jami Tikkanen The Winningest CrossFit Coach, Developing a Framework, and the Importance of a Human-First Approach Jami Tikkanen is the Founder and head coach of The Training Plan, an online program for athletes in functional fitness. Jami’s mission is to teach athletes to train with a purpose, and learn to overcome their obstacles to reach ...Read More
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Stacy Sims Thriving Through Menopause with Science-Backed Strategies and Protocols Dr. Stacy Sims is a forward thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women. She has directed research programs at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance and ...Read More
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Dave Spitz Olympic Weightlifting, Regret vs. Disappointment, and the Transformational Mantra “Never Do Nothing” Dave Spitz is the CEO and Founder of California Strength. He holds recognition as one of the few USA Weightlifting Senior International Coaches in the country and is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. California Strength has dominated the United States ...Read More
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Jonathan Lee Adaptive Training Using AI, Fueling on the Bike, and the Importance of Structure Jonathan Lee is a cyclist, certified coach, and the host of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast presented by TrainerRoad. He is the Communications Director for TrainerRoad where they focus on using AI to make cyclists faster. For more info ...Read More
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Rich Froning Dominating That Fittest Man on Earth Title, Balancing Family & Career, and Building His Business Empire Rich Froning has dominated the title of “Fittest Man on Earth” by winning four consecutive CrossFit Games men’s titles, and five Affiliate Cup Championships. The former firefighter from Cookeville, Tennessee, took up CrossFit in 2009 and made ...Read More
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Jason McCann Flexible Workspaces, Innovation, and Creating Engaged, Impactful Cultures As a founder and the CEO of Vari, Jason McCann’s mission is to help companies create environments that elevate people. A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has more than 30 years of experience building and running successful companies. He learned the importance of putting the customer first ...Read More
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Stuart McMillan Olympic Coaching, Performance Therapy, and Building a Culture of Collaboration Stuart McMillan is the co-owner and CEO of ALTIS. He has been a professional coach for over 28 years, and has worked with professional and amateur athletes in a variety of sports – with the focus being on power and speed development. Stuart ...Read More
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Jim Klopman Balance Training, Micro Muscles, and How This Simple Method Can Improve Your Performance Jim is a lifelong innovator who has always been one of those people who thinks differently. He believes balance training has sharpened his ability to make new neural connections and see the possibilities and pathways that others miss. Originally Jim ...Read More
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Dan Clark Functional Music, Neuromodulation, and How Brain.fm’s Music Can Change Your Life Dan Clark previously worked as a website and app developer. When he switched careers from building an advertising agency, he came across Brain.fm. In his first session, he bought an account and was so excited after a week of use, he decided ...Read More
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