Coffee, Pods and Wods

Willpowerweightlifting coach Justin Holly explains his beliefs around coaching and getting the best out of athletes. He also delves into his unusual path to coaching and how it has culminated in him finding something he loves doing and does excellently.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Ben Massey, founder of R.A.D Global, drops by to explain everything we need to know about the newest shoe on the CrossFit market and how a subculture within a subculture will lead to great things. R.A.D and Ben are aiming to impact on your training and your style while focusing on minimising their own impact on the environment.  www.rad-global.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepo...

Nathan Bird, from The Gymnastics Course and Birdbox Coaching Development, breaks down Gymnastics' place on the pyramid, it's importance to health and the potential within it as well as delving into some hypothetical scenarios and chatting about gymnastics within the sport of CrossFit. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Rob and Lizzy Carson talk through common misconceptions with conditioning, mistakes seen in coaching and using machines and give some tips on improving form and conditioning in your training.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Mike Molloy of M2Performance Nutrition explains how he started becoming interested in nutrition and experimenting on himself and how he worked his way up to working with some of the best athletes in the sport and every day people like me. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Chase Ingraham and Bill Grundler are back for a review of the year that was. We chat about everything from the Open in February all the way up to Dubai in December and everything in between, finishing off with some 2022 predictions. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Every year around this time,  I release a solo episode. This year I called in a favour from a friend and invited Patrick Cummings from Chasing Excellence to ask me a few things that I might otherwise not think to talk about.  We cover success and failure and what they look like, validation, guilt and even technical failures. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Sean Sweeney talks coffee, contraband, coaching, competing and the Cowboy Way programming. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Shane and Josh Rogers chat about everything from having a bmx track in their backyard growing up to founding RPM together after spotting a gap in the jump rope market. They also delve into the ATOM launch and their plans for the 10k challenge in January.  Try a free 3 months of ATOM at rpmtraining.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Patrick Cummings has helped countless brands in the CrossFit ecosystem to find their identity and use their voice, including me. Having worked with Again Faster from the foundation he has since worked with Ben Bergeron on Chasing Excellence. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

James Townsend talks us through his journey from the Bronx to Madison via college football and the NFL.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Mariah Moore has recovered and finished the 2018 CrossFit Games documentary. We chat about the upcoming film, the 2021 documentary, parenting and creativity.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Pat Sherwood, the man behind Linchpin; one half of Varied Not Random; countless memorable moments in Games commentary and recent father drops by to chat conversation, Marines, programming and Linchpin. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Matt Torres is the Pied Piper of the CrossFit world. Gathering some of the best teenagers and bringing them to Florida to go 'all in' for 2022. We caught up before Rogue to chat about the coaching Dallin, Emma and others and the coaching beliefs that got him to where he is today. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Justin Medeiros, Fittest Man On Earth, drops by on the anniversary of his Filthy150 win to chat about that season which culminated in a trip to the Aromas. We also chat about joining Podium, NoBull and working with Mat Fraser and the pressure to deliver and becoming Fittest On Earth. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Christine is a phenomenal writer and someone I admire a lot creatively in general but especially around CrossFit. She co-wrote both of Ben Bergeron’s books amongst others and forged a career for herself as a writer having left politics behind. We chat about journaling for Dave Castro, writing with Ben, 2020 and 2021 Games and how they differ and story telling and it’s challenges.  Support the show...

Phil Southerland explains how he was diagnosed as diabetic as a baby and told he'd likely be dead or blind by his 20s. Instead, he won the Race Across America on an all diabetic team and lead the charge for continuous glucose monitoring.  Having founded Supersapiens, Phil explains how the hardware and software operates, who it can help and how. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffee...

Pete Williams and Ffion Sagar from CrossFit DeltaFox and The 180 Project explain what the initiative is, who it serves and how it serves them as well as explaining the recent fundraising efforts and plans for the future. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Daniel Chaffey is the International Director for CrossFit. He was country manager for France before that and also owns two CrossFit gyms in France and is the founder of the French Throwdown. We chat about all of this and also his love of coffee, his tour of Europe with Eric Rosa and moving to France for a lady. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

In the final episode of the Compober series I'm joined by Wilson Pak to unpack one of the first semi final events of the 2021 Games season, The Mid Atlantic CrossFit Challenge, and look forward to the affiliate driven MACCFest coming up in November. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Griffin Shaffer talks all things memes from sitting in bed trying to think of ideas to being hired by CrossFit to create for them. We also talk about coffee in Oklahoma, how he met his wife and the pressure to be consistent online. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Matt O'Keefe drops by to preview Wodapalooza and what athletes, attendees and online spectators can expect from the event in January 2022.  We also chat about his first year at the Games without Mat Fraser and his role with NoBull in Madison. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Steve Fawcett explains the importance of community locally and globally for JST, the differences Fitr Training offers as an online coaching platform and the relevance of his experiences as an athlete to coaching the current crop of athletes with Games aspirations. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Christian Toetzke explains his roots in triathalons and doing for cycling what marathons did for running, his work with Ironman (the endurance event, not Tony Stark) and The Hyrox Games - its purpose, its potential and its appeal. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)

Ben Dziwulski chats all things Wodprep from turning his focus to coaching and finding a niche as well as his new podcast with John Wooley, Scale and Bail aimed at the Masters and scaled community in CrossFit. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeepodsnwods)