Pushing The Limits

Many athletes have the attitude you just have to go hard all the time, they are tough and unbending when it comes to training, they know it sometimes hurts and is hard and you just have to deal with that. Take a teaspoon of concrete and harden up and this attitude has some great benefits with your sporting and fitness ambitions but can also . have great benefits for other areas of your life. You l...

Rachel Grunwell is one of New Zealands' best know health and wellness experts and enthusiastic marathon runner. She is an award-winning journalist and has just released the book Balance: Food, health + Happiness which which features 30 global experts sharing science-backed advice on living healthier and happier.  But Rachel wasn't always a fitness queen. Up until 7 years ago she was a hard hitting...

Ryan Lang is only just turned 22 years old and already his ultra marathon bio reads like that of a very accomplished ultra running 40 plus year old.  With the Moab 240mile race and the Tahoe 200 miler and soon to add the Big Foot 200 miler to the list along with a bunch of 100 milers and 50 milers this young man knows a lot about what it takes to take on big scary goals and to have the self belief...

Josh komen is an incredible young man. At 23-years-old he was set to wear the black singlet, a West Coast athletics star on the rise. However, in a race to the Commonwealth Games the finish line never came as Josh was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Hitting rock bottom Josh thought about taking his own life before finding inner-strength and deciding to battle the illness. He chronicles thi...

Guy Lawrence is a coach, speaker, wellness advocate, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Let It In. A program designed to help people bridge the gap between the life they live and the life they truly want to live. using meditation and the language of neuroscience.  In this conversation Lisa and Guy go deep on meditation, increasing your conciousness, even quantum physics gets a mention. They ta...

We are all very busy these days and the pace of life sometimes seems insane and it can lead us to feeling overwhelmed when the to do list just gets longer. In this session you will learn about time blocking and priortising what really matters first and why your health, mental sanity and training must be the first things you put in your calendar. They talk about working with your energy flow throug...

In today's episode Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff talk about Mental toughness and how to stop those limiting beliefs you picked up somewhere on your journey through life from stopping you achieving those big dreams you have. No matter how scary or daunting they maybe. We have all had things happen to us that make us believe certain stories about ourselves.  Things like you were told as a kid you we...

In this episode Lisa does a deep dive with mindset and business scaling expert Joe Trodden on what it takes to succeed and scale in business and how to overcome entrepreneurial and mental roadblocks. Joe works with entrepreneurial leaders who have got typically been in business 2-5 years, have their product in the marketplace with an operational team, and are now asking themselves 'what's next?'....

Lisa goes on a bit of a rant in this episode sick to death of people putting other people in boxes, imposing their limiting beliefs on others Lisa encourages you find your tribe, your coaches, mentors and friends who will not pull you down and limit your potential but who see the future you and what you can achieve given guidance and support.  To surround yourself with the rescources, people, coac...

Something a little bit different this episode.  On this show Lisa is interviewed by one of the world's leading Human performance and business mastery Specialists Kerwin Rae for his podcast 'UNSTOPPABLE" Kerwin is a man on a mission to empower as many people as he can to push the limits of human potential. He specialises in business development, marketing, sales, human behaviour, entrepreneurial ps...

Lisa talks about the importance of "Working in" sessions doing things like yoga, diaphragmatic breathing, stretching, pilates and how they impact your stress hormones and your waistline. She also talks about menopause and what you can do to help your body transition.  She highly recommends you also listen to this podcast with Dr Lindsey Berkson on menopause, the role of estrogen and much much more...

Ray Zahab is a Canadian Ultra runner/Adventurer/Explorer extraordinaire. He has completed countless unsupported expeditions and crossings across polar regions and desert. Most famous for being a part of the Sahara7500km run - Crossing the entire continent with Charlie Engle and Kevin Lin. But Ray has done so much more. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic society, holds the Meritorious Service c...

Todays episode with Lisa is a coaching session with her athletes many of whom have just completed big races, ultra marathons, marathons and half marathons.  Their build ups were long and hard and now the race has come and gone and they have successfully completed the mission but many are struggling with the blues, not recovering as quick as they thought and aren't sure how to rebuild. In this epis...

Paul Whatuira is best known as a hugely successful NRL Athlete, Kiwi player, 2 x Premiership winner. He has played for the Warriors, Melbourne, Storm, Parramatta Eels,  West Tigers, Huddersfield Gians.  But the high points of his athletic career were matched with lows in his personal life, his mental health. A victim of sexual abuse as a child, he realised he had really never dealt with the trauma...

Hydration is a hot topic right now especially as we head into summer in the Southern Hemisphere. So just how much should you be drinking and why are electrolytes critical to your mission as well. Find out all the stats, the products and the tips Lisa recommends to perform at your best whether you are running an ultramarathon through a desert or just wanting to stay healthy for life   We would like...

In this crazy busy world we often get overwhelmed with the to do list, with the amount of distractions in our lives, with the workload we have to get through and finding time to train and time to priortise family and friends can be tough. If the week or day is running you instead of the other way around then listen in to Lisa talking about how to plan out your week for maximum achievement without...

This is the tale of a 49 year old Australian woman who in the space of few short years went from being a totally unfit, overweight smoker who didn't really even think about running or fitness to having a life defining moment at a doctors one day and changing her life. Losing a huge amount of weight, stopping smoking, starting walking and then running and then running further then running some more...

The number one thing that stops us from taking on massive challenges and chasing our dreams is the fear of failure. The "What if" machine goes into overdrive and we get in our own way, stop our chances of success before we even begin. In this episode Lisa discusses this fear and how to stop it robbing you of your true destiny, from reaching your true potential and achieving your dreams. She also t...

In this episodes Running Hot Coaches Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff discuss the importance of cadence, how you can increase your cadence and why you should care.  What time of your season you should be focusing on your cadence and how hard and fast the 180 steps per min rule is or not. They discuss form drills and technique and why you should have a off season time during the year when you can focu...

  Long slow distance high mileage models vs high quality lower mileage holistic programmes. Lisa discusses the pros and cons. Why the traditional high mileage model works to a point and what adaptations it brings but why it leads to a high incidence of injury. Over 90% of marathon runners are injured every year. She discusses why this model is especially good for young athletes but why it brings a...

Alex Charfen is one of my greatest teachers and mentors, his systems and processes for scaling and growing business are second to none.  Alex is the founder of Charfen.com  a coaching and consulting business that helps takes businesses from start up to to billion dollar enterprises.  He is the author of the "The Entrepreneurial Personality type" https://www.charfen.com/free-ebook/ Podcaster at the...

Stefan Sillner is an extremely successful entrepreneur and business executive in his role with the fitness equipment company giant Hammer AG he has been:  Responsible for building an 8-figure international fitness equipment business from scratch for an established German company with business partnerships in more than 50 countries  Responsible for creating a successful semi- commercial line for...

In this podcast Lisa discusses how to develop a good team culture and how important your state of being, your values and your consistency is in helping the team achieve it's goals. She discusses why setting totally unrealistic goals just demotivates and teaches a team to fail.  Why goals should stretch and challenge a team but be doable.  She discusses the leaders emotional state and how influenti...

World Champion Motorcycle Racer Wayne Gardner has just released a brand new movie "Wayne" about his crazy life and reaching the pinnacle of Motorcycle Racing. The film captures the life and career of the Aussie, who went from owning a $5 motorbike in Wollongong, Australia, to winning the 1987 500cc World Championship with wife Donna Forbes by his side. I had the privilege of being invited to meet...

Lisa answers questions from the Trail Running community. All about her career, her training philosophies and your coaching systems. Tons of tips and advice on long distance running, fitness and health as well advice on developing a strong mindset for success in sport and life We would like to thank our sponsors Running Hot Coaching:  The online training platform run by Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaf...