Are We Still Here?
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Are We Still Here?
Join coaches, Sacha Lucas @sachalucas_ and Jess Neary @s3lfuk each week for a chat about health, fitness and the stuff you should really care about. When it comes to your health...“the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
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#187 - How to Fail
Why fucking around and finding out might be your best option. We chat around how people who are successful in their fitness endeavours usually aren't...
#186 - 3 Principles We Live By
Fitness principles guide us to create our own methods in coaching. Without them we're throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping some of it sticks. Tod...
#185 - Hybrid, Variety & All Things Fitness
Today we chatted around fitness trends and why putting all your eggs in one basket may not be the best thing to do if the goal is fitness for YOU. The...
#184 - Katie Bambrick: Shifting Your Mindset For Fitness, Business & Beyond
This week’s podcast welcomed Katie Bambrick, business mindset mentor, NLP, EFT, and Hypnotherapy specialist. An all round icon, Katie helps us underst...
#183 - Beyond The Basics 2025
This week’s episode welcomes coaches Danni Bosworth @dannibosworth & Michelle Carroll @michellecarroll1 as we talk about what Beyond the Basics means...
#182 - How to Avoid Injury
Are you injury prone? Do you find yourself overly concerned setting up for your deadlift after a previous twinge? Have you been thinking, surely I sho...
#181 - Is Your Head Holding You Back?
Today we go into one of biggest barriers of all, our brains. Can we do the thing but aren't doing the thing? And if not, why? What is it that causes u...
#180 - Fitness Evolves As You Do
Join Jess and special co-host Danni Bosworth as we talk how fitness evolves as you do. Whether it’s shifting gears from aesthetics to performance, und...
#179 - Exercise Selection & Knowing Your Body Better
From a squat to a dumbbell row, how do I know what’s the best exercise for me? As you’ll expect there’s many ways to approach this topic and it’s one...
#178 - The Alternative Is Worse
Are you worried about muscle and looking a certain way more than you're worried about being weak? One is guaranteed. It's not a maybe, a "what if", it...
#177 - World Class Basics
It's probably slapping you in the face, it's probably the low hanging fruit, it's probably painfully obvious. But, the complexities of the human brain...
#176 - Is It Time For a Change?
How do we know if it's time to crack on and repeat, or time to mix things up? Today we go over strength training principles and why, if you're a begin...
#175 - Setting Performance Goals
There's method in the madness, and if you really care about performing at your chosen event, there's certain things you need to think about. This pod...
#174 - 2024 Wrapped
Achievements, lessons, mistakes, and reflections. 2025 goals, resolutions, and plans. Another year of podding, thank you all for listening!
#173 - When the Quest for Health Becomes Unhealthy
Questioning the motive is very important when it comes to healthful behaviours. Is it coming from a good place? A place of positivity and intention? O...
#172 - Fitness For Life Not Just For January
Today we went into why we often feel like there's pressure to change something this time of year, when in reality we know that if we were working towa...
#171 - In the End it’s all about Adherence
Today we reflected on Friday's summit and the topic of adherence and why it's the only variable that truly matters in the end. "What WILL we stick to?...
#170 - You Can Probably Go Heavier
Today we go into why putting in a graft in the gym will only do you good, and how to make sure when you do – you're getting the most from it you can....
#169 - No Fuel, No Results
Today we discussed the topic of RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport). Although it sounds like something only athletes may struggle with – that...
#168 - Cardio AND Weights
Today we go into the common misconceptions around one or the other – when humans need both to thrive. A lot of these misconceptions come from bodybuil...
#167 - Why Balance is Personal
No two schedules are the same, which is why no two programmes are the same. Today's episode goes into how to find one that works for you, and why comp...
#166 - Stepping Over Pounds to Pick Up Pennies
Quite often the issue is hitting us square in the face. But it's easy to miss the things that matter, because they're often the hardest and require th...
#165 - What’s the Next Hard Thing?
We took inspiration from Craig Massey on this episode and dug a little deeper into finding that sweet spot of challenge which will make or break your...
#164 - Are You Honest About Your “Low Hanging Fruit”?
Sometimes it really is staring us in the face. Don't get us wrong, there is usually digging needed – but that digging usually comes AFTER identificati...
#163 - Has the Fitness Industry Ruined Transformations?
Coaching IS transformative by nature – and today we dive into the language and how it's been a bit butchered by the industry. We walk around the assum...
#162 - Why We Must Define Success
Today we talk about our own definitions of success, why they are so important, and how they help us to keep going. We also ask if those alone are comp...
#161 - Transform Your Training with the Sweet Spot
Today we did a big deep dive into the zone of proximal development, or what some like to call it, the Goldilocks theory. We look into ways of knowing...
#160 - Reverse Engineering Fitness
Today's episode focused on starting where you want to end and filling in the gaps to get there. We spoke on strength, fitness, HYROX, and nutrition –...
#159 - Cardio Hard Truths
It's not the first time we've spoken on this topic, and it won't be the last. Cardio, even in 2024, is still being sold as a quick hit – something to...
#158 - Are You Exercising or Training?
BOTH FINE. We would never demonise either, but depending on your goal, that question could be really important. Today's episode goes into how we separ...
#157 - Goal Setting & Duty of Care
This week’s episode we go into how we can set goals which are not only realistic, but open and honest conversation around where you are and where you...
#156 - New Coaches: Focus On & Forget About
Today we go into the distractions that young coaches often get sucked into (us included). There are so many very easy things to be doing instead of th...
#155 - How Are You Attached To Your Fitness?
This week share some of our own personal stories around attachment styles and how they relate to our health and fitness. From doing things for validat...
#154 - You Get What You Train For
Context and nuance are SO important in fitness, but you also can't beat a little reality check. This week we go into some honesty as concisely as poss...
#153 - How To Train In 30 Minutes
We go over time today, and how biases around how long we should be exercising for impact our potential in fitness. We talk about those with plenty of...
#152 - What Does Progress Really Look Like?
Today we did a deep dive into progress within fitness, and how many try to speed it up whilst leaving important experience behind. From pull ups to ru...
#151 - What's Your Story?
Today we went into our own stories, and explained why truly knowing yourself can lead to much bigger returns when it comes to long term fitness and gr...
#150 - Dr LJ: A Psychologist’s Take - Why We Hold Ourselves Back
Jess & Sach celebrate the milestone of 150 podcast episodes and discussed the importance of empathy, identity, and consistency when it comes to fitnes...
#149 - Mental Gymnastics – When Your Actions Don't Align With Your Goals
We got into a bit of a psychological wormhole on this week's episode, and we were scratching our heads over certain things that we as humans can't see...
#148 - Part 2: When Data Gets in Our Heads
In part 2 we talk about our own history with tracking everything, with Jess sharing her vulnerable story when it comes to productivity. We love a bit...