Fish & A Rice Cake

Here he is, The self proclaimed bigger and better looking half of Business & Banter, But we’ll let you make up your own mind on that... We dragged Mike Harrison into the studio to give us a top rant on, 👉🏻 What’s been done wrong by ‘Business mentors’ in the fitness industry! 👉🏻 The top 3 mistakes coaches make with their business! 👉🏻 And what ‘BuSinEsS AdViCe’ is tanking your own coaching...

If there’s one thing we’re open about , It’s the amount of f*ck ups we’ve made over the years that have held us back! Not least of all with our training ! It’s safe to say we spent YEARS ❌ Doing the wrong stuff. ❌ Missing out on what mattered for muscle growth. ❌ Wasting time in the gym making sessions up as we went along. If we went back now to that first day we stepped foot in the gym, We’d b...

Big, news! It's our 50th episode! But we’ve had some unfortunate timing… We’re celebrating it by chatting to Dan Meek 🤦🏻 I mean we’ve talked about him and Mike enough, So it’s only right we finally got them in to chat! Just a shame it landed on the 50th Ep ey? Anyway, Jakes past coach, turned both our colleague & mentor . Dan founded Biceps & banter with Mike. Helping thousands of n...

We’ve got hundreds of people into photoshoot shape. Between us we’ve helped people lose thousands of kilos. We even teach other coaches how to get results as good as ours. So it’s safe to say by this point, We know what we’re doing. But let’s be honest with you, That doesn’t mean we get a result with everyone we work with. It’s true. And it’s for one simple reason, We can’t do the work for you. Ov...

“You should do this” “You shouldn’t do that” “You should eat this” “You can’t eat that” … Ryan had had enough of it all. He had had enough with youtubing fitness tips, meal plans and training programmes and getting nowhere. He was fed up of training hard, following a plan for months a time, And seeing no progress! He’d look around in the gym and get p*ssed off that other people were making more pr...

This is it, The bottom of the barrel has been well and truly scraped! This could be the worst episode we've ever recorded! It's so bad that we weren't going to even post it! Here's the situation, We had a spare 30 minutes in the studio, We had zero episodes planned, zero notes, Nilch, nada, nuffin'. So we thought, F*ck it, let's just hit record and see what happens......

Doing your first ever photoshoot is one thing. Doing it for your 50th birthday is a whole different kettle of fish! This week Jake (A.k.a big Dave) has traded up! He’s got his client Anis into the studio to chat all about his recent fat loss journey, Getting ready for his first ever photoshoot just before his 50th birthday! And heads up, he’s a Man United fan, but don’t hold that against him… Alth...

All the information you could ever want on nutrition, training and fat loss is out there. So you'd think this would make life easier, right? Wrong. Because amongst all the science, evidence and information, Is an absolute epidemic of nutrition sh*te. Put there by people who either think they know what they're on about or people who are just trying to make a quick quid at your expense! Th...

You wouldn’t hire a skint accountant! So why would you work with a transformation coach that hasn’t done a transformation? 🤷🏼‍♂️ As 2 coaches who have done more photoshoots than Naomi Campbell 😂 We know the impact it can have on: 🔥 Your ability to be a top coach 🔥 Your ability to be a busy coach But now we see coaches that are preaching all the fat loss advice in the world, Expecting their ow...

👀 Would we ever take steroids? 👀 How common even are they within the ‘fitness space’? 👀 And are your favourite movie stars ‘on the juice’? It’s the answers to the questions you’ve been waiting for… It’s the big one! We get asked these pretty often! But… Cards on the table, We put off this episode for a while! We wanted to make sure when we did do it, we did it right and that it was explicitly o...

Who's up for some 6AM warm fish and spinach? Anyone...? No? Yeah, I think it's a hard pass from us on that one too! And we wouldn't blame any of our clients for telling us to go for a long walk off a short plank if we sent them plans like this... But not for some coaches! This week we reveal the latest examples of bad coaching we've been sent by our clients from their previous...

This episode should come with a warning... Probably best not to listen around young kids, unless you want them to learn a new vocabulary... But once it's safe for you to listen, you're in for a good one! Jake A.K.A Dave took on a solo episode of his own this week to sit down with 2 of the daftest coaches around! Sam & Will - The working class coaches are the owners of Trident coachin...

Today's episode was another in which we decided to upgrade Big Dave (recurring theme at the moment isn’t it)  And we replaced him with another client..  To talk through his story and coaching journey to date!  I’d like to introduce you to Seb AKA ‘The Chef’..  We did things a little differently to what would be classed as ‘normal’ in the fitness industry as we sat down with a big bottle of be...

He locked Steven Bartlett out of a party! 😂 With what sounded like a less than enthusiastic response from the man himself…! This is it, We’ve only gone and bagged a podcast extraordinaire this week! Coach, Educator and host of the push pull legs podcast , Mr. Tom Hall! Now we could list 100 reasons why we wanted to get Tom on the podcast, But to be totally honest, The real reason was Jake just wa...

It’s official! Our guest today makes this a doctor approved podcast! And that’s all it takes to sell diet BS nowadays, right? We are buzzing to be joined by our good mate & coach Dr. Rohan Verma! Although he may regret agreeing to doing this! We got Rohan on to chat about he recently swapped a career in dentistry for coaching, how he got started with training and all the f*ck ups he’s made alo...

It's a new year, but it's the same science (A smart fella, 2024). Cast your mind back to late last year, We were both dieting down to be the leanest they've ever been! And after months of effort! We succeeded! Getting into the best shape we've ever been in! Well, you lucky ducks. We sat down this week to tell you exactly how we did it! Or actually, How we didn't! We wanna...

SH*T! "My holiday's in 6 weeks Jake and I need to get in shape, can you get me lean for it?" Erm...this is awkward. Look we've all left it until the last minute to try get in shape, But the fact is that 6 weeks, 8 weeks, is NOT a long time to diet. Why? Well mainly because 6 weeks is never 6 weeks! You forget to account for any nights out, social events, illness, trips, work em...

Today’s episode is a little bit of a different one..  First of all, we have upgraded Jake AKA Big Dave & in true stars in your eyes fashion, we have introduced Big Evan!  Evan has been a client of mine for over a year and has been on a different journey to what we often talk about in fat loss. Evan came to me wanting to gain weight.  He was always the ‘skinny’ guy..  He has always struggled to...

Coming to you live from a David Lloyd cafe...! 😂 No we're not in the studio this week for the first time ever and as Jake is having his bathroom done he jumped on from his local David Lloyd cafe, Or what he calls "his new office", Alright for some, ey? We battled through though to jump on (mainly to check that doing a virtual episode works tbh) to chat through our recent 5,000 calo...

The answers to all your queasy questions! ⚠️ WARNING! ⚠️ Those of a sensitive disposition may want to skip past question 1…😂 No we won't lie to you, We were still in christmas mode when we recorded this, So to save us thinking up a topic, we took the easy way out... And we decided to open it up for a Q&A! ❓ How to deal with horrendous protein farts... ❓ What we would be doing if we wer...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The bar for 'being average' has never been so low... The average person is overweight, unfit and usually, unhappy with how they look. Yeah, we said it. In fact, you're seen as the "strange one" if you bring some pre made 'healthy' meals to work or say no to that 2nd pint at the pub. The fact is, When it comes to nutrition, fitness and fat loss - t...

Brace yourself for our 'rantiest' episode yet! When you go for the cheapest option of anything, you go into it expecting a few things. ❌ Not great quality ❌ Won't last long ❌ Might not do what it says on the tin That's why when your £1 see through bin liners tear open all over your kitchen floor, You can't really get mad. You know what you we're paying for. It&apos...

Drunken exploits in Istanbul, The 'danger' of cashew nuts and what Family guy can teach us about "fitness". It's our first ever guest episode, and we're going straight in at the top! Join us as we rant with Paul Standell about the common photoshoot coaching mistakes, Why steroids are aging young guys faster than ever, And how Jake made Paul's coaching life a nigh...

Hold onto your Santa hat! It's our christmas Special! Which means no fitness talk, no training rants! It's all strictly christmas! And we''re tackling the big christmas questions! Is turkey overrated? Are you a Yay or Nay to sprouts? Should bread sauce a christmas dinner staple? We're giving our festive opinions on it all in the first ever christmas episode! We sit down to...

AI is pretty damn impressive. I think we can all agree on that, right? There isn't much you can't get it to do. Want a full meal plan to hit 2,000 calories a day? Easy. Need a brand new 4 day per week training plan to target your delts? Boom! AI's got ya back. Anything you could need to know, anything you want - at the click of a button. Frankly, It's leaving a lot of online co...