The Elite Step Podcast: Recent Episodes
Reiss Silva
Podcast for everything combat sports. I will be talking to strength coaches, trainers, nutritionist and fighters themselves getting all the insight and views on the best sports in the world.
Matt is a sleep expert but delivers it in a truly unique way! He coaches people to improve their sleep and transform their lives through different techniques including using data like DNA testing!
Brendan is a mentor of mine and someone who’s work I have followed for years. He has an extensive background coaching elite athletes and sold his coaches educational business (SCE) for 7 figures. He now works with coaches to help them scale and helps high performing CEO’s maximise their performance.
Mario’s story is crazy! From suffering an injury which meant he may never walk again, to putting on weight and having depression. During this time, he found his love of fitness and on the road to recovery began the product Nutry Nuts.
Jasmine is founder of Wellthy you and health coach to many. She specialises in gut health and talks about the symptoms, the impact of bad gut health and how you can improve yours. You can follow Jasmines work on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmin-corbett?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Teshi is a client of mine who fights in must Thai. He has a goal of winning a world title on well renowned organisation One championship. As well as this he plans to become a millionaire through his property business.
Jonathan is Owner of Gymfluencers.com and Gymfluencers.agency with a clear mission to provide value to the industry via influencer marketing and editorial content.
Tom is a transformational mindset coach with a career background in mental healthcare and sales leadership. He helps founders, CEOs and leaders to build a mindset of confidence, decision and focus, allowing them to enjoy each step on their journey of growth.
Daniel is a Former broadcast professional, 20 years at the BBC. Now coaching men to define their identity and break free from the shackles of societies expectations having done that for himself. He is also on a journey to sustainable and self sufficient living up in the hills of the Scottish Borders.
Freddie Pullen - Co-Founder of The Healthy EntrepreneurBusiness and marketing strategists who work to make high level practices simple, actionable and measurable. After working in billion pound companies for 5 years I knew I wanted more. I founded a 6 figure business in the wellbeing space and built a health movement up to 400+ members. Then I realised, these entrepreneurs are suffering from the misinformation economy and are struggling to grow, where large businesses find it so clear. My mission became, helping 1,000 people to help 1,000 people through their impactful business.
Desiree Maya (Coach Dez) is the Founder of Born Unbreakable, a keynote speaker, a six-figure earner, and host of the Born Unbreakable Podcast. With two decades of entrepreneurial experience, she successfully challenges and inspires people to take action and believe in themselves as a part of designing a life that they genuinely love. The name Born Unbreakable was inspired from Coach Dez’s own hardships like losing her father at the age of nine, experiencing the pain and heartbreak of divorce, and supporting her mother through a series of health obstacles. She didn’t break in the face of adversity and believes everyone is born with an unbreakable spirit. Coach Dez is enthusiastic about helping people to face their fears, crush their self-limiting beliefs, and be unapologetically the unique humans they are meant to be.
Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, an internationally recognized sex therapist, is the author of Satisfaction Guaranteed : How To Have the Sex You’ve Always Wanted. For nearly 25 years she served as the clinical director of one of the largest sexual health centers in the US. Dr Marcus earned a master’s in public health as well as a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She also holds master’s degrees in social work from Columbia University. In addition she is a certified bariatric counselor. She talks about all things sex on her IG page @DrBAtSheva and on TT @TheDrBatSheva
Hytro have developed and patented the world’s first blood flow restriction (BFR) wearables, making the well-established method of BFR more accessible and convenient to perform for sports teams, athletes, and research institutions.
Hytro work with over 60 professional clubs across the UK, Europe and the US, with over half of the Premier League football clubs using Hytro for its recovery and performance benefits. Hytro also work with academic institutions to conduct research and innovate in the BFR space, with several publications to date.
Hytro’s Founder, Dr Warren Bradley, spent a decade working in professional sports while completing a PhD in Exercise Physiology. He conceived of a way to make BFR accessible and safe to practice at scale, unlocking the wider benefits of BFR for everyone to experience.
Chris Lowe is a performance nutritionist working at the highest level in elite sport. He's founder of the Athlete Coaching Elite programme (ACE) and Fuel The Ride Academy (FTR) where he educates and empowers athletes to reach their highest potential in both sport and life. For more information about Chris and his coaching programmes, find him on Instagram at @chrislowrnutrition (The Athlete Nutrition coach).
Kevin Yates is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Business Leader with Over 25 years of Board-level and senior management experience. He is the Founder of a number of fitness business including TRIB3. Tribe are become on of the leading brands within the fitness space growing to numerous locations around the world.
Danny Speirs is a BSc (Hons) MSc graduate from Leeds Beckett. Since graduating Danny has worked in elite rugby league, cricket, and academy football but decided to go self-employed back in 2017. His journey has been full of ups and downs including a failed gym at the same time as starting his own family. We talk about balancing the business side of life with his family.Danny is now full time with a coaching and consultancy businesses.
The first of a mini series of bite sized segments to gov you the help you need. This week you guys voted for stress management so in this episode I will show you exactly how to manage your stress in the most effective and easy way possible!
Glenn Paradise is a recovering insomniac and Founder & CEO of Dēp Slēpwear. After years of poor sleep took a toll on Glenn’s mental and physical well being, he set out to find sleepwear that would actually help him sleep better. When he couldn’t find it, he invented it. Then he patented it. Now Dēp Slēpwear is helping thousands of people around the world - from pro athletes and executives, to weekend warriors and regular old insomniacs - work, play, and be better every day through better sleep every night.www.depslepwear.com
George is founder of automation for coaches, a business that helps personal trainers grow their own business. George has a team working for him that includes friends, which can be a tricky position to navigate. In this episode we talk about how he goes about being a leader, his journey from pt to business owner and some tricks he implements to create and sustain success.
John Nooan is founder of Nooan performance where he trains athletes and CEO’s to physically and mentally perform at their best. https://instagram.com/johnnoonancoach?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Biography:Barry Bridges is the founder of successfulsleeper, a global, remote sleep recovery coaching platform designed for elite-level athletes, DJs, music producers, and performing artists. He recently developed a sleep performance program that is very unique to the music industry. This 4-week program is designed for artists that suffer from sleep deprivation, insomnia, jet lag, and performance anxiety. Barry, in addition to running his successful sleeper brand, works full-time in corporate as a wellness and sleep specialist. With a background in sports science and two international certifications that specialize in sleep science and sleep recovery, Barry is also the management consultant of an overseas esports academy and consults as a wellness coach for the Esports Federation of South Africa. Social media linksBarry Bridges LinkedInSuccessfulsleeper instagramwww.successfulsleeper.com website
Adam is the owner of Enhanced Sports Performance, a brand that trains some of the elite within the combat sports industry. Adam has years of experience helping prepare his fighters, mentally and physically for big fights.
Dr Scott Robinson is the Founder & Managing Director of The Edge HPL; a company that specialises in high performance nutrition & advanced physiological testing across elite sport, business, entertainment and beyond.
Brett is a high-performance and advanced communication specialist for elite athletes, professional actors and business leaders who want to gain an unfair advantage in a competitive world and increase their impact, influence and income in the process.
Brett has dedicated the last 20 years to mastering the art and science of human behaviour and has worked with a diverse range of people from around the world, from children with complex behavioural issues and serious offenders in prison to criminal defence lawyers, sales teams, Hollywood actors, government officials, elite athletes and multi-millionaire entrepreneurs.
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This episode, we sit down with Geoffrey Chiu from GCP to talk about his Ebook on performance training for the combat sport athlete. We discuss sport specificity including testing, conditioning and how to build a robust fighter.
Quick fire Q&A session where I talk about youth S&C, rest times and how to deal with lack of direction in fighters
A little fun episode this week talking about who the worlds best athlete is. I give my thoughts, your guys thoughts and what actually is the definition of the worlds best athlete.
Episode taken from the Aesthetically Trained Podcast (go subscribe to that) where I sat down with Ross, talking about work life balance, can it be done? What do you have to sacrifice to reach your goals? How much is too much? We both give our thoughts on this.
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A cracking episode looking at a recent research paper into how MMA fighters currently train, what their week is made up of and how the loads are managed. Chris dives into the findings and how this shapes MMA fight camps. Very very interesting and eye opening episode that you can’t afford to miss. We also chat about what else Chris has going on including CBD for fighters and HIIT for MMA. Leave a review if you liked this one!
In this mini pod, you will find out how Elite Step plans out conditioning for their fighters and some of the methods used to get the guys in fighting shape
First part of a mini series looking into the business side of coaching. In this episode you will hear about how Elite Step built into working with the best fighters in the country and what key advice Reiss has for you.
This is a segment taken from Jack’s podcast where we spoke about everything in the last 10 days of camp. What is the Taper? When should you stop sparring? And how do you put yourself in the best position to perform on fight night.
I spoke to sleep expert Barry Bridges, who dives into everything you need to know to get the most out of your training. We all hear sleep is key to performance but do we know why, do we understand what we can do to really utilise sleep. In this episode you will learn loads about your body and how sleep is really individualised.
Strength coach to elite level MMA fighters and boxers, Ricky McFarlane spoke to me about his work with his athletes, the differences between boxing and MMA when it comes to programming, his conditioning protocols and dealing with negativity
In this episode I sit down with Duncan of Dotraining to talk about his experience working with Lawrence Okolie from day 1 to world champion. There is loads to take away on this one.
I sat down with one of my longest serving clients, Levi to talk about his career so far, from small hall show, taking a stoppage defeat, to signing with Dave Allen. He opened up to me on personal stuff behind the scenes, how this effected him and how he dealt with some really tough situations. One of the best podcasts I think I’ve ever listened to.
In this episode I chat with my boy Adam from ESP to talk about the last 12 months of training. Adam works with combat athletes including those in the UFC. We speak about being a coach through covid times and how he went about getting the most out of his athletes plus what you need to be doing as gyms reopen.