Strong Ambition Podcast

Are you curious to know the whole plan I used during my bodybuilding prep? It’s actually VERY simple! My bodybuilding prep had about 4 phases. I wanted to give you a full summary of how my prep went from the initial build phase in 2022, all the way to the reverse diet of the summer. However, in Part I, just focus on the first 3 phases, because they were set up with very healthy routines and tactic...

This is a fascinating story. Did you realize that food could be the root of someone's depression? Evan Transue has this experience. Growing up he didn’t have much consideration for his food choices. But eventually, once he started supplementing with better vitamins, he noticed his mental health improved. This led him on his journey to find out as much as he could about how food can help someone ph...

How much do you track when it comes to your health? Wouldn’t you be curious to know what your body needs? Marcell Hanson has studied her own biometrics for over 20 years and has created a system to allow anyone to figure out what their body needs to live optimally. The cool part about Marcell’s story is that she didn’t come from start off with a healthy well-balanced diet. Rather, constantly consu...

Are you curious to hear from someone who outdid me in bodybuilding? Chris did just that! Chris Watson is an engineer by trade, but bodybuilding become a hobby and great passion over the last few years. He initially just started getting into fitness to improve his fitness and overall health in 2021. He saw great success in this, and after getting DEXA scan to find out he was under 10% body fat alre...

One of my favourite episodes to date! This is the 3rd edition of Whiskey and Barbells with my coach, mentor, and friend, AJ Zeglen. AJ was my manager at Focus Fitness over 6 years ago, and he become one of my biggest mentors in strength training and nutrition. Within that time we also formed a great friendship with not only our shared passion for fitness but also our appreciation for good whisky,...

Curious about how a bodybuilding prep coach prepares his clients for the stage? Want to hear how my posing coach felt about my physique? In this episode, we dive into all of that and more. Brett Riffel is a fat loss coach and specializes in helping people prepare their training and nutrition for fitness competitions. He works with both men and women, in many different categories, and everything fr...

I’ve needed to share this with you for far too long! This is a great presentation and discussion Jason Brooks offered my clients during the lockdowns years ago, but I NEED to share this with you. Jason Books is a performance psychologist and he works with high-level performers that what to achieve their best physically and mentally. He works with not just athletes, but also doctors and surgeons th...

I have A LOT to tell you about the bodybuild competition prep! You gotta listen to this episode. In a timeline sense, I am 90% of the way to the competition. But in a mindset sense, it’s really just started getting interesting and really tough. The last update I did was over 2 months ago, and I realized once I set my notes up for this episode I should have done something sooner because I have page...

Imagine meeting someone almost 10 years younger than you, and they have over 3x the experience of in your job. That’s Alex Gamble to me. Alex Gable is an online training and nutrition coach, that specializes in fat loss transformations. When I say specializes, he’s actually helped over 1000 people transform their fitness! When I first met Alex at a gym in Vegas, we were both in town for online coa...

This is a fun discussion! So many topics covered but Ben gives some amazing perspectives on so many ideas. Ben Smith is a fitness and nutrition coach, Army Veteran, and I’ll even say Mindset Coach, as he has his program based on the bedrock of good mindset strategies. Although Ben had a history of being in athletics and looking through the strength and conditioning lens, after years of meeting new...

This is a VERY special podcast! I’ve had the privilege of speaking with so many people on my podcast but Jordan is a special guest for me as an online training and nutrition coach. Jordan Syatt is an online trainer himself and has been doing it for a very long time. Not only did Jordan build up a great following (over 840,000 Instagram followers), but he’s also done high-level powerlifting and juj...

Have you ever heard of breathwork? If you haven’t, this is a great podcast for you. If you have, this is a great podcast for you. Benedict Beaumont is a breathwork coach and educates others to become breathwork coaches. He initially started his path as a musician, then into being a teacher but he felt a bigger calling of being out in the world, and find his true purpose. Within a long journey of t...

5 weeks of cutting and just under 12 weeks to go! This is my 2nd bodybuilding show, and I made many mistakes last time. I have learned SO MUCH in the last 4 years regarding fat loss and training and I’ve been so excited to apply it to this prep. This has been my easiest and most consistent fat loss to date! In this episode, we dive into just that. What were my former mistakes and how did I correct...

Want to hear how Trainers think alike? So Daniel Raz Israeli is also a fellow online trainer and in this episode, we get to dive into how he helps people lose over 30lbs just at home! Daniel started his passion for fitness in university, despite other school colleagues wanting to do physio, he felt the passion to help people with confidence through movement. I was super excited to dive into how he...

This is a cool conversation! Mindfulness is becoming more and more of a buzzword these days, but what does it really mean? Well, Dr. Kraft gives you a much clearer understanding of it and how it can affect every cell in your body. Dr. Reiner Kraft began his career in computer sciences but evolved his career by working with major tech companies, like Yahoo, to improve leadership skills. The major t...

Allan Misner has a fascinating story. When Allan was working in a Fortune 500 company, but not taking good care of his health, he had a life-changing perspective. One day by watching his daughter compete in a CrossFit competition, he realized he wanted to be participating, not just a spectator in her life. Now over the age of 40, this didn’t come easy. But he set on a determined path to losing ove...

It’s been over 50 episodes of great conversations and they are worth looking back! I didn’t want to give every single episode a review but make it very helpful to the typical listener who wants great knowledge to help them in 2023 to get fit! In this episode, I wanted to highlight my favourite episodes that helped me and can help you with behaviour change, especially PREVENT from Yo-Yo dieting. I...

We are at 50 episodes! Wow! That’s 2 years and it goes by quickly! In this very special episode, I wanted to give you something really awesome and different so you get to see a LIVE planning session with me and AJ Zeglen! If you’re not familiar with AJ, he’s my old boss, mentor, and now whiskey-drinking buddy. He’s been a strength coach for nearly 20 years, and he’s done 4 bodybuilding shows himse...

Joe Marcoux is the founder of the SOS Dojo, which is a Sales Objection System mentorship program. He began his journey in fitness, being an aspiring physique competitor, and took over his own business of selling fitness equipment. After selling his own shares in a major company, he later ventured into mentoring others to handle sales conversations, and more specifically the objections that may com...

Dean Cordingly is currently doing his Ph. D. at the University of Manitoba in the Applied Health faculty. Within his experience of doing his Masters, and working as a research associate for so many years, he’s not only familiar with the papers, but also the process of how the research is discovered. I met Dean at Focus Fitness while working as a research associate. Any time I got a chance, I would...

What have I been up to the last couple of months? I’ve been battling Sober October and getting lean for my Halloween costume! This BUT this Sober October Challenge was different. I’ve done sobriety very well, but I wanted to lean into other things I’m possibly too dependent on. So I went after No TV and No Sweeteners (More specifically diet pop and products with suclarose). This was BIG for me! Be...

Nada Hassan is a physical therapist, but also a competitive powerlifter herself. Because of that, she specializes in helping barbell athletes overcome their injuries, and feel strong again. Not only does she have a great experience in powerlifting…she’s actually set a Canadian record in deadlifting! This last August I had Nada reach out to me on Instagram, one day when I was complaining about my k...

Rachelle McCloud is a Mental Health Therapist and Emotional Wellness. Through years of successfully helping clients move their anxiety, depression, and trauma disorders into remission, she has developed a program that empowers people to acquire the skills to health themselves long-term. This is a fascinating discussion, as we dive into how intensely the subconscious mind can throw us into our flig...

Reed Davis is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course with over 4,000 graduates in 50 countriesIn this discussion, we dive into what he’s discovered about food sensitivities with the...

Megan Pomerensky is an athletic therapist with almost 10 years of experience and has a great passion for helping clients recover from injuries and now showing other therapists understand how to help people with skills not talk in the textbook. I met Megan through the Maverick Coaching Academy and we hit it off with our passion for the training industry. Megan even got a strength and conditioning c...