The PEAK Podcast

Pushing hard a few times is great, but not enough to deliver true results. Instead we need persistence, turning up over and over again.

It’s not enough to set goals, we have to create a strategy for achieving them.

With gyms closed, it’s many people’s mental health that has actually been affected. How we we diversify our mental health training so something like this doesn’t affect us again?

Are we setting ourselves up for failure by focusing so heavily on fat loss, and using that as the only way to measure success with our fitness?

We’re valuing the wrong things in life, and it’s brining us stress and despair. Here are 8 rules (guidelines) to follow to point you to a better life.

There are plenty of training programs and "workouts" which are poor at best. The saying "something is better than nothing" is true, but doesn't mean we do something useless. It's possible even during a pandemic to improve with your training, as long as you focus on this one technique.

Anxiety is worrying about something in our future, something we likely have little to no control over. So how do we indetify the things we do and don’t have control over to reduce our stress and anxiety?

When our results start to slow down, the obvious thought is to push harder, but for many people, they’re focusing on the wrong thing.

Sleep is one of the best and simplest ways to improve your energy, mood and overall health. Here I cover some things you can do to get a better night’s sleep.

Things feel uncomfortable for some people at the moment. But without getting your nuclear bunker setup, how can you better prepare for a situation like this?

We talk about things “going back to the way they were”. But they won’t, because they never do. How can we embrace the new world?

It can be easy to look for hacks or shortcuts to help get through this crazy time in the world, yet there are some pretty basic things you could do today to boost your immune system.

We have access to almost everything we could ever want to know. The downside is filtering everything along the way. It would be better to focus on a few trusted sources of information, and discarding the rest.

Achieving our goals means we have to start some new habits, stop some bad ones, and continue doing the things that work.

Dieting is what you do to lose weight right? But that’s simply a result that’s not even guaranteed. The process provides us with much more information which we can use moving forward.

It’s awesome to be told you “should” train or exercise a certain amount of time or times each week, but what does that mean for you in the context of your life aka the real world?

Adding complexity to our training, nutrition, recovery or anything we do in life is simple and limits our growth. If we can bring things back to the simplest actions we can to get results, then it allows us to measure, experiment and add later bit by bit to improve our results.

Training to physically look good is fine, but long term, the mental benefits of training start to be the most important.

It’s not that you’re being sold lies from this industry, it’s just that we’re not telling you the entire truth.

It can feel hard to eat well on a budget. Here are 5 ways I’ve found you can eat healthy without breaking the bank.

Training can obviously change our physical attributes, but the effect on our mindset can be even more profound.

It’s only natural for complacency to creep into all areas of our lives. Here are 5 ways you can combat it to keep moving forward and get results.

Imagine if you could click your fingers and the results you wanted from training just appeared…not only would you take no satisfaction from them, but you’d likely become complacent and lose them again. The truth is, you have to earn your results to appreciate them.

With the rise of “functional” training, it would appear that machine training will soon die off. The truth though, is that machines can be a great benefit to a well design program.

Adding complexity to our problems is common and easy. The best thing to do to solve the problem and reduce stress is to look for the simplest solution possible.

People invite drama and stress into their life, because this makes them feel important and wanted. The truth however, is that the energy needed to deal with this made up problems takes them away from what they really want in life.

Our sleep habits becoming so poor over such a long time, that we think the way we currently feel is normal. Here are some simple tips to get better sleep so you can actually feel great again.

When the training is aimed at catering for as many people as possible, don’t be surprised when you get results, that often aren’t that good, like everyone else.

Following extreme or unsustainable methods to look good for a photo is fine, but what happens to those results afterwards?

Training with like minded people, in a supportive community is great, until you’re just one of so many that your goals are simply the goals of the majority.

The benefits of training go far beyond “burning calories”, and the positive effect on our mindset, compared to the relatively minimal commitment needed to get results, means that training is the first thing you should do when you want to become healthier.

We’re told that “it’s not a failure, it’s a lesson”. But the truth is that sometimes we will fail despite our efforts. This is always a possible outcome if we choose to pursue difficult things, but it doesn’t mean who we are is a failure. We need to learn to disassociate failing one goal and being a failure.

It’s easy to find the negative things in our life, and sometimes it feels like our life is one fail after another. But that’s never really the case, and to turn around that mindset, you need to look for, and celebrate your wins.

Motivation will surely leave you at some point, but instead of stopping your training, you need to maintain ACTION. To do that, go back to basics and keep it simple.

Look at social media long enough and everyone seems successful; but is that really the truth? And how could this "truth" be affecting your mindset?

Losing fat is one thing. Keeping it off, for the rest of your life, is quite another. What do we do when we've achieved a goal using short term thinking, training and diets, but now have to keep the weight off?

Our assumptions about an activity often cloud our ability to try it and enjoy it. Yet a simple 30 day experiment could give you a taste of the benefits without having to commit for a long time.

As long as you're playing the victim or waiting for someone to save you, nothing is going to change. But once you realise you have the power AND it's your responsibility to do so, then change is inevitable.

Weight loss is hard, but with these 3 tips, you can prepare for what might be a long and often up and down journey.

The PEAK Origins Story and how training can have such a positive impact on our mental health.

With so many "30 Day Shred for Summer" and "14 Day Fat Burning" programs, it's no wonder people want results now.But many people want to keep their results, something most programs or people never take into account.How can we take a longer term view with our own health?

It's easy to get caught up in the latest gym routines or to focus solely on training. It is the fun stuff after all.But the time away from the gym, the nutrition, the recovery...that is where the real wins happen.

So often we're distracted by new goals and shiny objects that take us away from what we truly want to achieve. In this episode I discuss the benefits of long term goal setting for keeping us on track to success.

There are some things in life that will have a bigger effect than others; this is the same for your health. And while nutrition is seen as that thing for your health, implementing a healthy diet takes time and often experimentation.In this episode I discuss how I believe that a consistent training program is actually the key log to your health; that one thing that have have a massive effect, be implemented almost straight away and feel benefits in just a short a time.

Knowing we need environments that bring positivity to our lives, and actually creating them, are two different things. In this episode, I discuss how to actually create the environments that will lead to results.

When we think of environment, we think of nature. But our environments are simply information that we process; information from the physical environment, people, objects. For this reason, we can create to some degree, positive environments to help up live a more positive life.Are the people you interact with positive? Do you enjoy the places you spend the most time? Do you dread your commute to work?If the information we absorb from these are positive, we can develop a positive mindset.

Lack of results can lead to frustration and ultimately quitting training. To ensure this isn’t the case, and to keep things exciting, it’s best to change up our training. In the first part of this 2 part series, I discuss two ways to vary our resistance training: Frequency and Density.

Lack of results can lead to frustration and ultimately quitting training. To ensure this isn’t the case, and to keep things exciting, it’s best to change up our training. In the first part of this 2 part series, I discuss two ways to vary our resistance training: Volume and Tempo.

You might be hoping to notice all the fat losses as soon as you start training, but often it’s not the positive result we notice first. In this podcast I discuss which results you’ll notice first.

We hear the word training, and we think full blown high effort sweat sessions, but that’s called working out. Training is actively pursuing a practice of improvement towards our goals, and that can happen in and out of the gym. It can involve weights or it can involve yoga or stretching or walking. So often often should we actually train?As often as possible, in fact, everyday is a great way to get the consistency needed to achieve those goals.