Pharos Echo Park

PAC Talk with Pieter Vodden

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Welcome to the PAC Talk where we help you explore your capacity to move better, push further and achieve your limitless potential through fitness, nutrition, recovery, and lifestyle. I’m your host Pieter Vodden, co-owner of PHAROS Athletic Club in Echo Park. Thanks for tuning in and Welcome To The PAC!” Please make sure you subscribe wherever you are listening to this show and if you loved this show please leave us a 5 star review in the iTunes store. It is the currency of podcasts and it really goes along in helping us grow our show. If you are in Los Angeles swing by to our gym at 1316 Glend...

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6 Steps to Achieving Sustainable Health and Fitness in 2020 - Episode 6 30.12.2019 47:38

2019, what a year! We expanded the gym, twice, we had a kid, we started this podcast but more importantly, we've helped members lose a collective of 500lbs of fat and gain nearly 200lbs of muscle through our PAC Limitless Challenge. THE PAC LIMITLESS CHALLENGE isn’t a 5 week “fast fix,”— it’s a system that, when implemented, can transform every corner of your life. We don’t believe in crash diets,...

Train to Avoid Pain with Emylee Covell - Episode 5 23.12.2019 34:54

Feeling pain doesn’t mean your body has failed. In fact, it signals a body doing its job by letting you know something’s up. By heeding its wise (if blunt) counsel, you can effectively identify and deal with the cause. For most of us, the natural response to pain signals is resistance—to push them away or deny that they even exist. Yet ignoring pain only serves to add an extra layer of angst to an...

The Fuel Plan - Adventures at Feeding Time - Episode 4 09.12.2019 29:50

The foods you eat have big effects on your health and quality of life. Eating healthy can be fairly simple, however the rise in popular "diets" and dieting trends has caused confusion. These trends have distracted us from several basic nutrition principles; how many calories do I need a day, how much protein do any today, how much carbs and how much fats relative to that. Today, I am joined by two...

“The Life (and Death) of the Fitness Industry” - Episode 3 25.11.2019 30:02

At Pharos Athletic Club, we believe the value of gym memberships are not tied to the costs, but what value it is offering to its members. Before we opened the doors to our own facility we noticed our friends and family owned multiple memberships around Los Angeles. They would do their yoga at one gym, their cycling at another and their CrossFit on the other side of town. Gym members want to know t...

The 7 Pillars of Pharos Athletic Club - Episode 2 11.11.2019 34:22

The values we choose create the future we will experience. Values, chosen carefully, can empower us to grow and develop when they are directed toward a specific purpose. At Pharos Athletic Club we have 7 Pillars that reflect the values we live by, today and every day: 1 SHOW UP 2 BUILD OTHERS 3 NOTICE THE LITTLE THINGS 4 CHASE KNOWLEDGE  5 ANTICIPATE THE CURRENTS 6 MOVE WITH PURPOSE 7 LEAD WI...

The Genesis of PHAROS - Episode 1 28.10.2019 25:43

What happens when a meathead and a jock start a gym? You end up creating a energetic group environment and programs that undoubtedly motivate and inspire you to reach farther, push harder, and get in the best shape of your life. Pharos Athletic Club is a hybrid center of excellence built on three anchors we believe to be essential to high performance life MECHANICS | STRENGTH | CONDITIONING We sta...

Welcome To The Pharos Fit Podcast 23.10.2019 2:27

Hey, guys, this is Pieter Vodden and I'm one of the co-owners of Pharos Athletic Club in Los Angeles, and I wanted to welcome you to our new podcast, The Pharos Fit Podcast. Our gym exists as a space in which we're trying to cure the fitness industry. My co-founders Jeffrey Scarborough and Emylee Covell and I saw a lot of things wrong with the finished industry. We were frustrated with a lot of th...