How To Live A Good Life

Standards are important. The care and attention you give to the small things in your life will often show through when it comes to the big decisions and bigger events. If you want to make progress and be better at what you do. You need to start with the little things. If you can take a high standard mindset into the small seemingly insignificant parts of your life, you will see benefits in pretty...

Change is hard. Just by it's very nature, change has to be uncomfortable for it to happen at all. This podcast goes over how to identify your chances to change and how to take them as well. Moment to moment we are always provided with opportunities to change. The raw materials to become our best selves are always there for us. It's just about learning how to take those chances more often. I even h...

Motivation comes and goes and in reality, we spend the majority of time in the space where we have a whole host of things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. When you combine this when the multitude of problems and unresolvable worries life throws up in this day and age, you are fighting an uphill battle to achieve your goals. Have a purpose helps you to stay on track and allows you...

For us to manage our minds and take control of our lives, it is important to develop a level of self awareness where we understand how and why we think and act the way we do. It's the answers to this question which will allow us to get a greater understanding of who we are. It lets us know which aspects we are able to change so we can get out of our own way and grow as an individual. In this podca...

The Coach Pratts Podcast is returning after a 4 week break. This episode outlines why ive chosen to go for a second season and gives an intro of what to expect going forwards. As always thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy.

Training is training. No matter the goal, training is there as a vehicle for improvement. In this podcast I go into detail about the ethos and philosophy behind my own training and the programming I do at Hyre.

This week it’s big training chat with the man Jack Anderson aka Jackptuk! Jack was an olympic lifter turned hybrid athlete doing his first Iron Man early last year. You can check how things went by watching his doc Sweet Suffering on amazon prime! We talk about the difference between a PT and a coach, how we should all be looking at our training and why performance goals beat body goals 10 times o...

In this episode Stef and I discuss the current women's six nations, the reason why sporting role models are so important and the gender bias in women's rugby.

Gyms are back in England and with that is everyones motivation to train, eat right and be healthy. It's like a nationwide 'diet starts Monday'. But how long can this last before the energy disappears and the tedium sets in? The truth is that we will only truely find long term success when we invest into a day to day process that gets us there. This podcast is about the 3 key ingredients of finding...

Wales Women's head coach Warren Abrahams is renowned for his creativity and ability to get players thinking outside the box. He has worked in many elite sporting cultures and is passionate about helping individuals to thrive in the uncertainty. In this podcast we talk about his personal journey, the challenges covid-19 has put on the role of a coach and some insights on how to 'change the lens' an...

Long term success and happiness in your life will come down to your outlook toward stress and your ability to turn it into fuel for growth. One of the most important tools for making this change is to build an anti-fragile mindset. Being anti-fragile, robust, resilient, mentally tough is just a skill and all skills can be built and developed through practice. Once we can build this mindset, we can...

This podcast is a must listen for coaches and avid gym goers alike. For far too long the fitness industry has kept itself tightly restricted in its fat loss or nothing box, closing off people from a whole host of other body & mind boosting benefits. There is so much deeply wrong with the western diet culture that needs to change if we are ever going to truely put peoples mental wellbeing first and...

It's safe to say there's a tonne of information out there and available to us these days. It has its positives but it can also make seeing progress in an area more tricky. We always tend to look for the next best thing to shift our attention towards. We think doing more things will always equal faster progress. When in reality, we are probably doing all the right things already but we just aren't...

In this Ep we talk about Alecs Donovans personal journey into rugby as well as what it was like opening up her yoga studio The Yoga Hub at the start of the pandemic. Please head over on IG and give Alecs a follow at @alecs_donovan1 for some real genuine positivity, and head over to https://www.yogability.fit if you want to try your hand at yogability!

I found an old note I wrote from several years ago and it got me thinking about the obstacles I have faced & the journey I am on. 'I can think of nothing worse than living a life where I let obstacles define me.' I wanted to share my take on it and how you can use the advice in the way I did. There is always an opportunity for growth available to us. We just need to train ourselves on how to see i...

A great chat with one of my all time favourite guys in the industry. Not only does andy walk the walk & talk the talk but his passion for what he believes in is second to none. In this episode we discuss the sacrifices made when opening a gym, Andy's views on the industry and his fight to keep gyms open. A must listen. Enjoy!

We all want to make progress in some area or another. What if I told you it takes the same journey no matter what you are aiming to improve? In this episode I talk though some of the lessons I have learnt through chasing & building various skills. I use my most recent skill (chipping golf balls into a protein shaker) as a reference point to show how the process translates to other skills and life...

Here we go again! So much to cover in this one so I'm going to go for a bulleted list! - Shifting Your Perspective - Utilising The Time - Persuing Your Resolutions - Using Mindfulness To Grow & Get Better This ones for everyone. We have an opportunity now to take this last push and enrich our lives through cultivating a daily practice.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer 2021 is coming and with it is the temptation to do what everyone else is doing and set flimsy new resolutions like you do every year. This year there is an alternative option. To focus on building yourself up and making yourself a stronger...

This is the podcast. What a note to finish the year on. What started as two mates catching up and having a chit chat turned into one of the most insightful and powerful podcasts I have done to date. If you listen to one podcast between now and the end of the year, let it be this one.

Talking with my mum about the internal and external struggles and setbacks faced on my way to becoming the person I am today. Some laughs, lessons and useful insights to take away and apply.

Long term success comes down to finding and refining a personal daily process that takes you closer towards your goals. It requires a tonne of action that will a lot of the time feel either undesirable, tedious or scary. Shifting your mindset towards one where you see everything as an experiment lowers the cost of failure. I lowers the entry point into taking these necessary actions and in turn ge...

So many great insights from Alex Davis as we talk through rugby 7s, his own personal setbacks with injuries and his plans for the future. One thing that keeps reoccurring during this chat is the examples of where lessons learned from sport or fitness crossover into lessons for life. Make sure to follow him at @ajldavis and keep up to date with the #RonaRehab journey!

Talking training volume and how you can manipulate the combinations of sets/reps/load to make your training to work for you. Now, il warn you early theres a fair amount of quick maths in this and the examples are limited to calves and chest, but the examples are universal. It's not about the exercises or weights, but the principles. If you want long term physical changes, you need to make sure you...

We're doing this either way. Nothing will change the fact that we will be going through a challenging lockdown over the net 30 days. Challenging should never mean bad. Challenging means an opportunity for you to grow and get better in so many areas of your life. Focus on the things you are grateful for. Give yourself a positive project to work on. Keep active and build momentum. We have a wonderfu...