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Forever Strength
by Andrew Coates
Forever Strength is a fitness and strength training podcast hosted by Bailey Lau and Andrew Coates that breaks down important training concepts and brings on special industry guests.
Episodes
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EP #67 Members Series: To See How Strong I Could Be
Our member Joanne Peters, also a coach herself, joins us sharing how she went from active in sports, to a black belt in karate, to restricted by a knee injury, to strength training, to coaching others. Joanne loves to combat misconceptions women have about strength training and shares the...
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EP #66: Members Series: Train For Life
Welcome to the latest in a series where we interview our members about their experience with strength training. Kayla Grammer shares how she start with fitness, lost it, but rediscovered through CrossFit. Kayla shares her passion and enjoyment for feeling strong and how it turned into becoming a...
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EP #65 Members Series: Take Up Space
Enjoy the newest in our members series. Check out how our member Laura found strength training, how it's enhanced her ability to do her job, and how it's helped her feel more confident in gyms and taking up space.
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EP #64 Lavanya Krishnan: Coaching Older Adults, Coaching Cues, and "Diet" is a Noun, Not a Verb
Lavanya Krishnan joins us to share her personal fitness journey and lessons from her career in personal training and public health. We talk about why it's so important for older adults to stay strong and much more. Lavanya also explains what she means when she says "diet" is a noun not a verb.
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EP #63 Members Series: Outside My Comfort Zone
Our Forever Strength member Tricia joins us to share her experience shifting from always being focused on weight loss to focusing on strength. She shares how this shift allowed for consistency and better progress on all her goals. She highlights how she lost her mother early to a heart attack and...
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EP #62 Members Series: I Love Being Strong
We welcome our client Jalene who shares her experience with fitness as a firefighter and paramedic, doing fire fit, along side struggles with serial dieting and the desire to "be smaller". She shares how she loves being strong and how strength has helped battle some of the conflicting goals and...
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EP #61 Members Series: Be More
Enjoy this special episode and first of a series where we invite one of our program members to tell their story. Mari-Ann Russell has a great story about starting strength training 30 years ago. She's been dedicated to learning and it shows. Join us as she talks about her experience as a nurse…
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EP #60 Glute Training
Join us for the short episode on glute training. We cover basic glute anatomy, function, and exercise selection to grow glute and improve performance. Consider joining our next round of Forever Strength, our 13 week women's strength training program, this round's emphasis is on glute training.
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EP #59 Marissa Roy: Seek To Understand Not To Convince
Nutrition coach, CEO, and cookie enthusiast Marissa Roy joins us to hammer the value of focusing on the basics in your training and your nutrition. Marissa details early negative influences on her fitness and nutrition before finding credible evidence based resources that shaped her career.…
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EP #58 Jacqueline Kasen: Climbing The Mountain
Jacqueline Kasen joins to share wisdom from her career as a group exercise instructor and director along with her passion for mountaineering. Jacqueline differentiates between mountaineering and hiking, and the intense training required. She also shares wisdom about recovery, mental toughness…
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EP #57 Bailey Lau: Lead By Example
We turn the tables on Bailey today and she becomes the guest to tell the story of how she started in strength training, her background in sports, and how she started her career as a personal trainer. Bailey shares the power and importance of the relationship with her clients, how women can start...
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EP #56 Hailey Barragan: Powerlifting, Injury Management, and Exposing Kids to Working Out
Today's episode is a special treat. We have Hailey Barragan, Bailey's coach on to share how she got started working out then coaching, how she became interest in powerlifting, and some injury management considerations for training. Hailey also shares why it's important for her own kid to grow up...
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EP #55 Beth Yarzab: Curious About a Career in Fitness?
Beth Yarzab guests to share how she got started in strength training, and in fitness education. Beth shares how watching her mother's complicated relationship with her weight and dieting let to her own battles, eventually leading to coaching group exercise. This is a great discussion for anyone…
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EP #54 Jaclyn Phillips: All Women Need to Build Muscle
Team Stronggirls head coach Jaclyn Phillips joins us to share why she believes all women need to build muscle. Jaclyn shares why she transitioned from a legal career to coaching. She deep dives into defeating common narratives like women need to put themselves last as caregivers, and women...
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EP #53: Fun With Fitness Jargon
We explain why we avoid most fitness jargon in our media and with our clients. We also explain what a lot of common terms mean, some basic, some complex, and some in between. Some of it important and useful, and some just over complicates the user experience. We have some fun with this topic.…
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EP #52 Stephanie Fusnik: Hormones, Hunger, Menopause, and Metabolism
Stephanie Fusnik joins us to share a masterclass in all things related to women's hormones, metabolism, hunger, menopause, and more. She talks about the impact of chronically elevated cortisol, caffeine, and our addiction to stress. Stephanie shares why women need to put down the baby pink…
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EP #51: Finding Your Why
This is a quick hitter for getting to your deeper emotionally driven motives to want to get healthy and active. Knowing your true why will help to keep you on track on the days you don't feel like working out or eating healthy. We explain how to figure this out and why it really matters.
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EP #50 Erin Phelan: Planning and Accountability
Canadian fitness entrepreneur and journalist Erin Phelan joins us to share how you can find more credible resources for fitness, nutrition, and health information. Erin shares her philosophy behind having not just a plan a, but a plan b and c. Erin shares why she feels accountability is the…
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EP #49 Lauren Rawls: Strength and Body Image
San Diego based strength and online coach Lauren Rawls joins us to talk about her journey from wanting to have a Victoria's Secret model figure to embracing muscle, strength, and her nature physique. Lauren shares how she helps the women she coaches go from prioritizing an image based outcome to…
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EP #48: Program Building For Strength
While it's amazing to have someone else create your programs to free your mental energy to execute on your training, it's a valuable skill to know the basics of program construction so you can setup effective programs. We take you through some of the most important concepts for how to choose and...
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EP #47 Kait Callahan: Showing Up To Do Hard Things
To describe this episode with guest Kait Callahan as an episode about mindset, does a great disservice to the depth of knowledge and perspective Kait shares. Kait deconstructs so much of how our narratives keep us stuck in place. Kait explores developing aspirational identity, giving yourself...
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EP #46: Reps In Reserve(RIR) Updated
We revisit reps in reserve in this episode. We break down why we use RIR in our program and explain how you can use and track it to make better progress.
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EP #45 Protein and Lifting
By request, this episode goes into detail about protein, what it is, how much you need, it's importance while focused on muscle gain or fat loss, and some convenient protein snack options.
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EP #44: Novice Strength Training
We explain why it isn't such a bad thing to be a beginner at strength training, and some essentials worth knowing if you're starting out. This is a good listen and share for someone in your world who wants to start lifting.
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EP #43: Cutting and Bulking
A quick hitter episode about what cutting and bulking actually are, how and why you might use them, and some important things to know about these tactics.
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EP #42 Rachel Henley: Life is Easier When You're Strong
Rachel Henley guests to share how she started in fitness by "doing all the wrong things" but finding her way to evidence based strength training, and how that finally led to results. Rachel shares why she prioritizes strength training with her clients. She shares insight into how she approaches...
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EP #41: How To Use Short Workouts Effectively
All too often people skip workouts because they feel they "don't have enough time". We beg to differ. Here's how to effectively get in workouts if you have a shorter window of time to workout.
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EP #40: Deloads
Bailey explains why you may need to use a deload week, what a deload means, and how and when to use them.
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EP #39: All or Nothing Thinking
Bailey explains all or nothing thinking, why it hinders progress, and how we give ourselves permission to fall off track. She explains some tactics to combat all or nothing behaviour, and ways to get back on track faster.
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EP #38 Brianna Battles: Pregnancy and A Lifetime of Athleticism
Brianna Battles joins us to talk about all things training for pregnancy, postpartum, and athleticism. She expands on the safety of training during pregnancy for most women and a lot of considerations for core and pelvic floor health. We discuss finding the right coach during pregnancy and a lot...
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EP #37 Eve Guzman: Nutrition, Protein, and Digestive Health
Coach and nutritionist Eve Guzman joins us for a deep dive into nutrition. Eve explains how she lost 150 lbs and broke free from the influence of environment growing up, and how she pivoted into a career in nutrition and education. Eve explains nutrition's role in health, why she focuses on the...
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EP #36 Melody Schoenfeld: Spark Joy
Author, gym owner, coach, strength sport athlete, musician, and much more Melody Schoenfeld joins us to talk about how she started in fitness and coaching. She shares how she found a passion for teaching others and sparking joy however she can. We highlight how women thrive when they get involved...
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#35 Marci Nevin: Learn From My Mistakes
Strength and nutrition coach Marci Nevin joins us to share her origins: from learning about working out and dieting at a young age, to starting her career. Marci shares all of the positive turns and choices along with all the mistakes along the way that should resonate with your own experience....
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#34 Jessica Gunn: From the Scale to Strong
Jessica Gunn joins us to share how she went from knowing nothing about fitness and nutrition at 37 and feeling unhealthy and unhappy, to starting a fitness career at 38, to having a thriving business and brand at 42. Jessica shares how she's willing to get uncomfortable, learn new skills, be a...
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EP #33: Start Before The New Year
We discuss the New Years resolution phenomenon and why it's better to get a start early. Get a jump start on your fitness and avoid setting yourself up to fail. This is a great episode to share with the people in your life who are looking at getting active this new year. We also share details and...
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EP #32: Tasha Whelan - Motivation Comes From Taking Action
Strength Coach and PPSC Master Instructor Tasha Wolf Whelan joins us to share how she got started in the fitness industry and went from endurance running to strength sports across her 20 year career. Tasha shares how she started wanting to build her body to gain confidence. Tasha shares how you…
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EP #31 Beth Feraco - No Bullsh!t Nutrition
Beth Feraco joins as a special guest to share her story of recovery to working out to training others to scaling a business with employees. Beth leaned into a strong social media presence built around no nonsense messaging. Beth shares some of the common challenges her clients face and how she...
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EP #30: Gym Etiquette
Our industry loves to complain about gym etiquette but are we really teaching people good etiquette or using this as an opportunity to shame people. We cover all the basics of gym etiquette and some nuance for things like phone use and sharing equipment that isn't as black or white as we might...
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EP #29: Creatine
We explain what creatine is, why you could benefit from taking it, dispel the common myths about creatine, and some practical considerations of this highly studied, effective, and safe supplement.
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EP #28: Optimizing Muscle Growth
We dive into what you need to know to optimize muscle growth. We get into the balance and nuance of volume, intensity, progressive overload, mechanical tension, plus recovery, nutrition, and supplements.
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EP #27: Dr. Susie Spirlock - Squats and Supplements
Dr. Susie Spirlock aka Dr. Susie Squats joins us to share how she got into strength training and how that path led to working in physical therapy. Susie dispels some myths about how physio treatments work and the importance of how we use language around injuries and training. Susie also shares…
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EP #26: When To Switch Up Your Program
People often hop between programs the moment they no longer feel sore. Some people crave constant novelty. But is this actually helping you progress? We explain why it's beneficial to wait a little longer and some tactics for keeping your program from getting stale while optimizing your progress....
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EP #25: Do I Need to Hire a Coach?
We deep dive into the reasons you would benefit from hiring a coach. This isn't a push to suggest that everyone needs one. We also give a lot of detail in how to carefully research and choose the right coach for you.
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EP #24: What's the Best Time of Day to Workout
A common question with a nuanced answer. What's the best time of day to workout? It invariably answers as, the time that best fits into your day so that you'll consistently do it. But we go through some expanded thoughts and the pros and cons of mornings, afternoons, evenings, and our own…
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EP: #23 What Is Being Healthy?
Defining "what is healthy" is a tricky endeavour. We take a walk through factors that affect physical and emotional health, from blood sugar and blood pressure, to environment and access to health care. We can't look at a person and determine how healthy they are, or know whether their…
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EP #22: Strength Training Vs Functional Training
You've probably heard of "functional training". We explain what fitness marketing sells it as, vs what being functional truly means. Bailey explains how strength training is functional in everyday life and as we get older.
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EP #21: Angela Gargano - Pull-up Revolution
Angela Gargano guests to share her knowledge and experience in coaching women how to train for and perform pull-ups. Angela has more than a little authority on pull-ups given her 4 appearances on American Ninja Warrior. Hope you enjoy this one.
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EP #20 Warmups and Cooldowns
We dive into the importance of warmups and cooldowns, what matters, what doesn't, methods for each, and why long warmups aren't helping as much as you might think.
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EP #19: DOMS
We explain what DOMS is, why it happens, why it's not a good indicator of a good workout, and everything else related to muscle soreness.
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EP #18: Strength vs Hypertrophy
We dive into the similarities and differences between training for strength and for hypertrophy. We break down the science and practical implications of training at different rep ranges.
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Forever Strength currently has 67 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Forever Strength about?
Forever Strength is a fitness and strength training podcast hosted by Bailey Lau and Andrew Coates that breaks down important training concepts and brings on special industry guests.
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Forever Strength is created and hosted by Andrew Coates.
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