Hungry Dog Barbell Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by coach Amy Broccoli CrossFit coach for Iron Athletics Cf and head of Red Panda Strength weightlifting team. We get into her past of being a life long athlete playing soccer growing up all throughout high school before getting a little lost on her journey.  Finding coaching as happenstance in her adult life by coaching her sons basketball team it quickly beca...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs hopped on for a quick chat with some of the CrossFit KOP squad Marissa, Samson and first time podcast guest Dana hazard with a special guest appearance by Aimee Lyons to chat about the CrossFit Open.  Having all just completed the workout we go over how we felt about it and reactions upon first hearing the announcements. We also get into favorite open workouts, mental...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Molonza Hayes, former college basketball player turned competitive CrossFitter and soldier in the US army.  Molonza grew up a country boy just playing ball for the love of the sport and never had major intentions on pursuing it into the next level. A friends parent helped him see a path to play in college before he got into some trouble that changed plans f...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined once again by Melissa Capurro , physical therapist and Active Life coach.  Since we last spoke Melissa has experienced even more growth in her practice and is currently in the process of moving to a bigger gym and better opportunity. We dive into how she’s spent her last few months pushing outside of her comport zone more and more . Melissa also r...

Send us Fan Mail For this weeks episode of the @hungrydogbarbell podcast I’m joined by Missy Finney and Alex Oram two drug & alcohol counselors to talk about a wide range of things. We started off diving into growth and relationship dynamics.  From there we get into what led them into their respective fields and their own battle with mental health and anxiety.  Love this convo ?? Subscribe to...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Adam Kramer , state director of The Green Beret Project based in The state of Delaware. The GBP offers at-risk youth dynamic programming after school and on weekends. During these sessions, adult cadre build rapport and trust, while identifying the future young leaders for the program. There is informal and formal mentorship for youth, to include instructio...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Gavin Young, Partnership and Engagement manager for at The Phoenix. The Phoenix is a organization that partners with local gyms and brands to offer those with 48 hours of sobriety free fitness classes.  Gavin hasn’t always been a leader in the sober community. He struggled with alcohol addiction for most of his teens and 20s. Lots of nights of blacking out...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this weeks guest is Nicole Foley assistant coach at east coast gold weightlifting  and co-owner of Rude Rock strength . Growing up as a dancer she didn’t discover training and Olympic weightlifting until her adult life. However once she did she dove all the way in and developed the obsessive gene. Follow along with her here : Rude Rock Strength www.ruderockstrength.co...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs we’re once again joined by Marissa Oxenford owner of Redemption Physical Therapy. Marissa comes back to talk about adjusting to her new life in sunny Florida, how her training has been going and expanding her reach with Redemption PT. Relaunching in a new state has allowed for much quicker growth than she was used to up north. Besides growing her own injury prevention...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Mallory Tse a former competitive figure skaters that  had been retired as an athlete due to injury for years when she saw two bigger CrossFit athletes trying out for the @usabobsled team but her interest was peaked. Love this convo ?? Subscribe to our show to check out dozens of other inspiring and informative people tell their stories on what...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by CrossFit Lv4 coach, seminar staff member and owner of CrossFit King of Prussia Aimee Lyons! Working under Aimee the past few months I have gotten a first hand view of what it means to pursue and live out your passion. We dive into her life pre CrossFit when fitness was still an important part of her life but not such a major part yet. Then we g...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Sex & love coach Alexa Bowditch.  Alexa and her husband run a network of businesses together that not only consists of personally working with people to know themselves better sexually but also working with other coaches to help them grow their coaching practice. Alexa shared her story with me of getting less than bare minimum of sexual education as a t...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Jeremy Jackson owner of Orlando Strength a weightlifting gym based in Orlando Florida! We get into his journey into high school weightlifting, male athletes and dealing with eating disorders and the trials of owning his own business and USAW club!  https://instagram.com/orlandostrength?utm_medium=copy_link Love this convo ?? Subscribe to our sh...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by my boy CJ Edsall coach/athlete from CrossFit Pottstown as well as fellow podcast host! I’ve had a number of CFP coaches on the show already and CJ comes on to tell his story of overcoming addiction and depression to find some purpose and peace in life. https://open.spotify.com/show/7yP0axwj3u4OUFXQzwbUon?si=R5SZ6BCSSiKhEb7TlCUrCQ https://instag...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Antonio Squillante CSCS and research student  from USC about his journey from growing up in Italy playing American football and studying exercise physiology to moving to the United States as an intern for a collegiate football program to now!  Antonio:  https://instagram.com/antonio_squillantecscs?utm_medium=copy_link Love this convo ?? Subscri...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by former collegiate swimmers turned crossfitters Hannah Mcgee and Sean Finly Fordham university alumni , and Elizabeth Gaspari who swam at Penn State.  We get into how they initially got into swimming with all three of them having much different introductions to the sport. From there we get into their decisions to continue the sport into college and developin...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I have host of the Sixers Talk podcast for NBC sports Philly and one of my fellow coaches at CrossFit King of Prussia Ben Berry.  Ben and I dig into his journey from class clown to professional podcaster!  Ben:  https://instagram.com/imbenberry?utm_medium=copy_link Love this convo ?? Subscribe to our show to check out dozens of other inspiring and informativ...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by the Ryan Samson! Ry is well known in the local CrossFit and collegiate sports community as the man behind the camera from some of our favorite action pictures. Ryan sat down with me to tell more of his story of growing up and always kind of being the quiet underdog. We talk being one of the most OG members at CrossFit King of Prussia (9 years i...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Joe Rinaldi physical therapist, strength coach , podcaster+ blogger and soon to be published author. Joe is a great dude who can speak on a little bit of everything. During the pandemic of 2020 Joe was in his first year working in clinic as a full time physical therapist when it hit him that a regular office job was not for him and he took a le...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Jennifer Spause, high school math teacher , CrossFit and nutrition coach! Jen and I go back to the CrossFit Apex days and it was great to catch up. We dug into her younger years as an athlete and what made her get into the weight room initially. She was in the gym at a young age motivates to experiment with all the machines and eventually made...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Mike Devito co-owner of CrossFit Delco and all around good dude.  Mike and his partner Andrea have been co-owners of Crossfit Delco, home of the barbell club I’m a team member of Delco Barbell, for about two years. We start our convo off diving into their recent trip as spectators to the crossfit games before getting into Mikes fitness journey....

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Leo Totten career weightlifting coach of Totten Training & East Coast Gold. This was an awesome conversation talking weightlifting through the years from a man who taught himself how to lift before middle school. Leo through Totten training runs a coaching mentorship program for coaches looking to take their craft to the next level. To find...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs we back and joined by a 3peat guest Ellia Miller! This time she’s back to talk about even more changes in her life but first we get into her experience at the Crossfit Games working the army warrior fitness booth! From there we get into her recent life change of joining team Grit Performance and planning to move out to Kansas! Over the past year of getting to know Ell...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by Valentz Nicolas aka Patchy of The Oly platform and Snappy  Patchy. He is a man of many talents but this episode is just for vibes . Tune in to see. CBD discount : HUNGRY DOG  Snappy insta : https://instagram.com/snappy_patchy?utm_medium=copy_link The oly Platform:  https://youtube.com/channel/UC_OF7E-yHqN2mBGXzup9XKw VGN:  https://instagram.com...

Send us Fan Mail What up dogs this week I’m joined by two returning guests , Brynna and Octavious from Brutally Effective training. We discussed their 9 year friendship including Oct being Brynna coach. Mostly Brynna shit talking on both of us. Discount code for VGN CBD products : “Hungry Dog” Brynna : https://instagram.com/brynnathegreat?utm_medium=copy_link Oct:  https://instagram.com/dococt?utm...