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Every time I go away and switch off my phone for the weekend, I always return refreshed, rejuvenated, and with renewed clarity.  On these trips, I: Remove myself from my normal environment  Switch my phone off for a set period and minimise other technology  Walk along the beach, swim and/or just generally get out into nature  Spend time alone  Read  Journal  Reflect on where I'm at in my life...

In this episode, I provide some insight into how my training has had to adapt to my everchanging life over the last 9 months or so, including time in Russia and the UAE in fight camp preparations with UFC champion Petr Yan, filming with Discovery channel in India, and returning to Phuket and building my reputation and presence with my professional fighters. Our lives go through different seasons w...

Podcast regular Lizzie Wright reached out to me and asked if we could jump on a call so she could pick my brain and bounce some ideas off me...so we decided to record it to share with our audiences. Lizzie had recently returned to the UK after a long stint in Singapore, and her lifestyle, work-life, social life, schedule, and pretty much every other familiar routine she had built over roughly 8 ye...

I recorded this episode with Mark Rees for one of the projects he was working on, but thought I would also share it with my audience. We cover: My role at Tiger Muay Thai How I ended up at the gym The journey over the last (almost) 5 years that I've been living in Thailand What the future holds Your host - Shaun Kober Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coach_kobes/ Facebook: https://www.fac...

I sat down with Marlon Moraes recently to discuss his decision to base himself out of Tiger Muay Thai for his fight camp preparations ahead of his Co-Main Event fight against Song Yadong at UFC Fight Night: Santos vs Ankalaev on Saturday, March 12th. Marlon is a great guy with plenty of talent, great work ethic and an attitude of doing what's necessary to see him continue growing and developi...

I am honoured to have had the opportunity to talk shop with one of the leaders in the strength and conditioning industry, and someone who I consider as somewhat of a mentor. Phil Daru is a 5x award-winning, World-Renowned Strength and Conditioning Coach and former professional athlete having competed in MMA, Power Lifting, Strong Man, Body Building, as well as playing division 1 football for Alaba...

I sat down and had a great conversation with Kane about his decision to base himself out of Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket, Thailand, for fight camp preparations leading into his Co-Main event at Bellator 275 where he takes on local fighter Peter Queally in Dublin, Ireland on Friday the 25th of February. Topics discussed: What brought him to Tiger Muay Thai How he has dealt with the change in training...

Joel Smith is the founder of Just Fly Sports Performance, and has been training athletes for the last 15 years.   Joel hosts the Just Fly Performance Podcast, has authored several books on athletic performance, and coaches athletes online, and in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.  Joel was formerly a strength coach for 8 years at UC Berkeley, working with the Swim teams and post-graduate professional swi...

The Nutritional Pyramid of Importance is a systematic way of reviewing all things nutrition. From weight loss goals to building muscle mass and strength, improving health markers, decreasing inflammation, identifying nutritional deficiencies, and optimising performance, both in the gym and throughout the rest of your life.  This episode provides a general overview of the tools and information I te...

Will Foden is back! As always, we kick off the conversation with our take on where our beloved industry is at the moment before we dive into some advice for some of his followers that have reached out to him for answers. Topics covered: Where we are at with our current business, and what the plan is moving forward How we would coach someone through the goal-setting process? What advice do we have...

I've had some amazing conversations with people who inspire me and bring value to my life during the course of this podcast. In these "Best Of" editions, I'm bringing those conversations back to life for your listening pleasure. The Swiss 8 team of Adrian Sutter and Anthony Meixner start the conversation with the charity's vision for what they wanted to achieve in the comi...

I've had some amazing conversations with people who inspire me and bring value to my life during the course of this podcast. In these "Best Of" editions, I'm bringing those conversations back to life for your listening pleasure. In this episode, I speak with a number of people whom I consider a mentor in one way or another, and have taught me, or reminded me of many of the prin...

I've had some amazing conversations and breakthroughs with my online clients, and have been lucky enough to have some of them grant me permission to record our conversations to share with listeners of the podcast! In this episode, I speak with three of my online clients about the tools, techniques, and strategies that have been used to help them manage their minds, improve their mental and ph...

Why understanding your values is so important. How to condition yourself to adversity and build mental resilience. The effect your environment has on you. I've had so many great conversations with friends and colleagues about what we see happening in the fitness industry, and thought to myself, "I wish we would have recorded that."  ...So that's exactly what the Coaches Corner...

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -  Blase Pascal We live in a world that is constantly distracting us. And we allow it to. We condition ourselves to fill the silence. We don't know how to be bored anymore. We can't stand being alone with our own thoughts...and that's exactly why we need to cultivate the skill and discipline of cr...

Alexander De Fina is a serial fitness entrepreneur, leading fitness industry consultant, keynote speaker, and multiple award-winning coach and business owner. Having built three hugely successful enterprises in Australia and Hong Kong from the ground up, including Asia’s top BootCamp "Bikini Fit" and Hong Kong’s specialist female-only gym "Pherform," Alex has made quite a name...

So many self-help books and gurus sprout the benefits of saying "YES." Whilst this mindset can certainly be beneficial at times, it can also create more problems because when you say yes to one thing, you're saying no to many others. Sometimes in life, it is more powerful to cultivate the habit of saying "NO!" Saying no at the right time then opens up the time, space, and...

Jamie is an Entrepreneur, Performance Coach, Online Business Strategist, and a Podcaster. He is a friend, a colleague, and an awesome guy with great conversational and communication skills. We were due for a catch-up, so I reached out to him to record an episode. The plan was to record a couple of different conversations over the course of an hour, to drop them as separate episodes. Well, we recor...

I met Rob in 2015 when he was a coach at Unit 27, in Phuket, Thailand, whilst I was on one of my month-long trips training in Thailand prior to a couple of months of annual travel around the world. In this episode, Rob and I discuss his unique circumstances of being caught outside his primary country of residence as the world went into lockdown through the pandemic. Rob was based in Thailand, runn...

Jamie is an Entrepreneur, Performance Coach, Online Business Strategist, and a Podcaster. He is a friend, a colleague, and an awesome guy with great conversational and communication skills. We were due for a catch-up, so I reached out to him to record an episode. The plan was to record a couple of different conversations over the course of an hour, to drop them as separate episodes. Well, we recor...

Leroy Faure is the founder of Fit Dad Lifestyle , a global community supporting men throughout their fatherhood journey, which aims to help dads regain their fitness and confidence through building a worldwide network of dads who are on a mission to be good role models and leaders for their children. Leroy spent six years in the Australian Army before moving to the fitness industry, where he found...

Last weekend, Petr Yan beat Cory Sandhagen via unanimous decision for the UFC interim bantamweight title at UFC 267 in Abu Dhabi, and I had front row seats in his corner. I am extremely grateful to have been involved in the preparations for this fight, and the memories of this experience will be cherished forever! I did record a solo episode trying to sum up the experience...but it was pretty lack...

Join me for this episode as I speak with Lizzie Wright of UFit Singapore. Lizzie has been a guest on the podcast for the Coaches Corner segment.  Lizzie is a personal trainer who has a background in competitive running, competing in 100m, 200m, and 400m races at the national level. Lizzie graduated from university with a degree in Marketing and Branding and was a part of the UFIT marketing team be...

Brad is a friend and online client. We served in the Australian Army together, before separating to embark on our journeys. Brad's journey took him down the path of becoming a police officer for five and a half years, before embarking on a new career path, which now sees him as a firefighter in Melbourne, Victoria. Brad also has an online coaching business that focuses on providing valuable a...

Luke Leaman of Muscle Nerds is back again! I love talking shop with Luke. He is a straight-shooter, and can make complex topics seem relatively simple to understand...which I massively appreciate! Luke is a heavyweight in the fitness industry, and has definitely played a part in my development as a coach. I attended his Muscle Nerds foundations course a couple of years ago in Singapore, and anyone...