Sport and Life

Keith has been a Personal Trainer for more than a decade, currently working out of Super Training Gym in Bishops Cleeve. He's a nutritional therapist and has competed in CrossFit events. He's also taken part in body building, boxing and weight lifting. Teddy is employing Keith - who's qualified as an Olympic Lifting Instructor - to hone his technique. For more about Keith - or to book...

Katie Brighton Jones, based in Cheltenham, England, has been a personal trainer for more than 15 years and is also a sports therapist. For more information about Katie: https://www.kbjwellness.co.uk/ Katie is also a triathlete and at the end of June is competing in her first Iron Man in Nice, France. In the event Katie will be raising money for The Little Princess Trust - which provides real hair...

Jack Duncan spent five years in The Royal Marines, including a spell as a sniper, before becoming a Personal Trainer in the Cheltenham area of The UK. Jack uses a nutrition-lead approach with clients. He also has an exercise clothing brand - Front Line Fitwear - which donates a percentage of its profits to help ex military personnel who are suffering from mental health issues: http://www.frontline...

Chat with Padel Shift Founder Jack Chaplin at the company's new courts at Elkstone Studios in Gloucestershire (near Cheltenham). Padel is a hybrid tennis/squash game that's very popular in Spain and Latin America and is starting to generate a following in The UK. For more about Padel Shift: https://www.padelshift.com/ ******************************* For a free mentoring session with Anthon...

Darren Wilson help individuals level up their physique, performance & overall health, unleashing confidence & creating incredible physical & mental shape. boxing coach to Bellator number 8 ranked MMA Fighter Brett Johns. Instagram - darrenwilson_coaching Twitter - @darrenwilson30 Facebook - Darren Wilson coaching ******************************* For a free mentoring session with Anthony...

 Aaron Radin moved to the BBL in December 2022. Before that he held increasingly senior-level positions at a multitude of sports, media and tech organisations such as the NBA, The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal and Meta. I addition to his professional career, Aaron has been significantly involved in his community for over 20 years through volunteering as a basketball coach and helping to lead a...

Emma Jones is a Sports Therapist based at Kingsbridge Health and Sports Therapy centre in Devon. She is trained in Deep Tissue Massage, Swedish Massage, Kinesiology Taping, Touch for Health Kinesiology and Manual Lymphatic Drainage treatments, along with specific knowledge of sporting injuries. In this conversation we focus on Manual Lymphatic Drainage.

Ben Wilkinson was a keen track and field athlete, semi-pro rugby player and yachtsman before training as an Osteopath. In his spare time he's now a competitive rower. With his twin brother, Dan, Ben has set up The Origin Health Clinic in Elkstone, near Cheltenham where they also work with physiotherapists, personal trainers and other health practitioners. Ben is also an official osteopath to Glouc...

Mark Weir was a pioneer of MMA in the UK and won with a 10-second KO on his UFC debut in 2002. He also won titles in Tae Kwon Do and Kickboxing. Weir is now a coach and preparing his fighter - Gloucester's Christian Leroy Duncan, https://www.instagram.com/christianleroyduncan/ - for his UFC debut in London on March 18th 2023.  ******************************* For a free mentoring session with...

Chris Billingham, founder and CEO of MuscleSquad – https://musclesquad.com/ -  an online fitness equipment store and community. Chris left school at 15 and worked his way up as a buyer for large UK  retailers before setting up his own company in 2017 with savings of just  £7k, going on to achieve revenue of £4.5m in 2022.

Max is a GP in North East England. Following testicular cancer and viral meningitis, Max suffered significant and progressive mental and physical challenges, which were eventually connected to low testosterone. Here we talk in depth about testosterone: what is is, what a symptoms manifest from low testosterone and how to get levels checked/adjusted.  ************************** For a free ment...

Mike Nicholson taught secondary school English in The UK for nearly two decades. During this time he worked as a mentor for many troubled boys and young men. These experiences prompted him to launch Progressive Masculinity in 2021: The program is Mike’s  effort to give young men the freedom and confidence to remove a stereotypical masculinity mask and, through open dialogue and practical acti...

Cornelius Carr is a former British Boxing Champion from Middlesbrough. He also won a version of a world title in 1999, claiming the WBF belt. Arguably his most famous night came in a narrow defeat to Steve Collins in a world title fight in Dublin in 1995 - a fight Carr took at short notice. Carr continues to train boxers and members of the public in Swansea. He is a qualified personal trainer. Car...

Dr Mark Draper is GP and Nutritionist specialising in micro nutrition. In this conversation we talk about the function/importance of Vitamin B12 and Magnesium, what symptoms of any deficiency might be be and how to make our levels replete once again. The Vitamin B12 conversation is of particular relevance to vegans and vegetarians.

Mark Hopkins was a pioneer in The UK, and played professionally in The USA for a spell. As well as being as elite Offensive Lineman (he's in the British Gridiron American Football Hall of Fame), Mark worked for four decades as a highly respected bricklayer in his home town of Cheltenham - this after spending his formative years in Singapore.  Mark has written a great book about his story - An...

Lorien Holiday is a health and wellbeing professional who aggregates  the fields of physical and mental coaching to create simple, effective  and sustainable solutions for his clients.  He is passionate about  accessible mental and physical health solutions for all and regularly  shares practical advice through his social media accounts, focusing  primarily on the fie...

Richard Graves is a sports broadcaster and journalist  with more than 25 years experience as a reporter and presenter - across radio, TV and digital. This included a 17-year spell as a reporter for Sky Sports. Since leaving Sky Sports in 2021, he's worked for a raft of outlets including SUTV (Sheffield United), IMG, The NFL Network and has worked as an events host. Richard has reported on Pre...

Dr Mark Draper is a former anaesthetist who's been a General Practitioner for more than 30 years. He's also trained as a nutritionist and has run courses in nutrition with a special focus on micronutrition.  Here we discuss the importance of Vitamin D3 and supplementation in the UK during winter (and possibly all year around) relative to variables like lifestyle, skin pigmentation, amount of...

Charlie is a central defender for Cheltenham Town. His previous clubs: Port Vale, Hinckley United, Nantwich Town, FC United of Manchester, Chesterfield and Oxford United. **** For the free mentoring session with Anthony Astbury of The Wholeman Academy: https:go.one.hub.com/wholemanacademy

Teddy sits down to run through some of the lessons he learned in 2022 from the podcast guests - from health and fitness, to finance, to courage development through BMXing, to digital etiquette and lots more. Thank you for all who appeared on the podcast and to all of you who listened.  Happy New Year. For the free mentoring session with Anthony Astbury of The Wholeman Academy: https:go.one.hu...

Ross Mitchell is an experienced personal trainer, a mentor of personal trainers, fitness educator and jiu jitsu enthusiast. Here we talk about the balance between setting health and fitness goals that bring needed discomfort but seem achievable and how exercise goals have to complement career, family goals etc to be realised. ********** For the free mentoring session with Anthony Astbury of The Wh...

Tim flourished in a journalism, a 25-year career in the national press that saw him (among other things) deputy-edit The Sunday Telegraph and be Sports Editor of The Daily Mail. Tim joined PHA in 2014 – to lead the firm's reputation work. He utilises his unique experiences in the field to advise clients including a Premier League football club (Crystal Palace), and he also works with businesses fa...

Finding 5 seconds of courage. Mike Mullen, former World and UK Halfpipe Champion, shares his passion for freestyle BMX. A life spent finding the courage to go through the fear connected to each BMX trick, helped him to develop a growth mindset which he has found essential to success in life and business. Mike runs BMX Academy which offers school BMX experiences across the UK. School visits designe...

David was appointed York City Manager last week. He has worked in football coaching and talent identification for more than 20 years. He’s worked for Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur, Millwall, Southampton, Bournemouth, Östersunds FK and Huddersfield Town. David has a Master’s in Sports Psychology from St Mary’s University. In this episode, he also recalls how he helped discover Wilfried Zaha. **...

Adam is a former English Champion boxer. He now coaches boxing to children around Gloucestershire and has recently work his manager’s license and is looking to help steer the careers of young fighters.