The Amir Fazeli Podcast

A couple of tips I use with my powerlifting and combat sport athletes when they need to regain some mental control going into competitions. As always if you felt this episode was useful please subscribe and share.

Tom is a knowledgeable guy who applies his physiotherapy knowledge alongside actual practical experience he has had over the years in both powerlifting as well as BJJ. We talk about how he dislocated is ankle and how he returned to full exercise after that. he takes me through understanding pain science and being able to distinguish between good pain and bad pain during training using his traffic...

Mackenzie is the host of the Macabolic Podcast and is great at taking nutritional concepts and simplifying it for people to understand and apply. We had a great chat about all things nutrition including how he went 100% online, what he feels are the most important factors people need to grasp when it comes to diets, how to keep making gains as a vegan, why you're eating less but not losing weight,...

Luke joins me on this episode to talk about his elbow dislocation and then achilles rupture and what it takes to come back from injury. We talk about why lots of Crossfit gyms are rebranding and the possible future of Crossfit itself after the stepping down of Mr Glassman, the former CEO. He also delved into what he learned and applied when he was heavily involved in Powerlifting training and comp...

Dr Dan Baker is the president of the Australian Strength & Conditioning Association (ASCA) and hands down one of the biggest OGs in the S&C game in Australia. He has worked with tons of top level athletes and rubbed shoulders with and developed tons of top level coaches. What he and the ASCA do is paramount in driving forward strength and conditioning and the role of coaches in Australia in raisin...

Ryan King is a wealth management specialist who knows specialises in giving advise about how you can plan for future success and financial freedom without making huge sacrifices to your current lifestyle. We talk about COVID’s effect on the world and what he sees for the future. He also gives us some insight into shares and the stock market and we discuss property and some other financial strategi...

Alberto Nuñez needs no introduction. He has been around for ever coaching lifters and bodybuilders. Training, coaching and nutrition is what he knows and he knows well. We delve into heaps of topics some of which included the concept of motivation and how to REALLY find it, how being a natural vs an enhanced lifter influences training programming, what things powerlifters can learn from bodybuilde...

The one and only Dr Mike joins me again as we talk about politics, his upcoming involvement with crazy COVID vaccine experimentations in the name of science and how the media is punking y’all! No but seriously we talk a bit of politics at the start but then go into training talk about volume guidelines for strength vs muscle development. Where is a good place to start with your set numbers and how...

Barry Bridges joins us to talk about sleep science and how to feel better, be more alert and squeeze more performance out of your body and mind with simple sleeping tips. We talk about how it changes things to be a morning or night person, can we condition ourselves to be a morning/night person? How food before sleep effects its quality, do we actually need 8 hours of sleep? What if we can’t get 8...

Will Berkman joins me to talk about the state of the fitness industry after the COVID lockdown. What he learned, changed and added to his services as an online and face to face coach during the lockdown period and after it. The mindset needed to start your own fitness business, survive in the industry and what standards you need to hold yourself to. He had some really good tips on how to structure...

Tareq shares his story of his severe battle with depression, anxiety and contemplating suicide and how he turned that around and used it all as fuel to better his life and launch educAid Au which has gone on to help so many people increase their awareness of mental health - specially those who are religiously inclined. It was amazing to have him on sharing his story. You can follow him on IG: @twe...

Winston came over to Australia from Singapore and started training in BJJ about 2012/2013. He completed his degree in Engineering, was offered a great job however he turned it down to pursue BJJ full time instead. He has gone on to earn his brown belt under the awesome coaches at Garage Jiu Jitsu having competed in top level BJJ competitions and eventually becoming a coach at Garage Jiu Jitsu hims...

I sit down with my friend Paolo Baja from Athletic IQ and we talk about how long it takes to prep for a bodybuilding competition. The evolution of the coaching mind and humility. Research evidence vs anecdotal evidence. Breaking discipline. Main mistakes people who want to build muscle and look good make with their training and nutrition. Recommended resources and his top productivity tips. Make s...

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Chad and I go through Seneca's fourth letter which is all about death but not always in the literal sense...at least in some aspects. As always thank you for listening, please rate the podcast and let us know what you would like to hear more.

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Big Chad joins me in this episode as we break down Seneca's second letter and discuss single minded focus and bad habit of jumping from one thing to another and how that hinders your progress. Please share and subscribe.

The first Zoom meeting I did that involved our members at Adonis Athletics aswell as members of the public introducing them to Stoic philosophy and how you can use it to bring so much clarity to your life, reduce anxiety and have an ability to make decisions. Listen to where Stoicism came from and my first lesson that makes you get your mind set for the right direction.

Working hard is the cornerstone of achieving anything big and significant. No doubt about it. but at what point does "working hard" become "spinning your wheels"? I delve into this and explore burnout and what working hard really is, or at least should be. I also touch on the magic of the 80/20 rule and how it should be utilised for maximizing efficiency.

Our brain wants to protect us and keep us in comfort, but the seeking of too much comfort and too much luxury get you out of touch with reality and put you out of practice and out of preparation for when the real world comes. It can make one thing to chase bigger things harder. Seeking too much comfort, being too entitled, seeking luxuries too often all can play a part in your own dismantling at s...

How individualised does your training really need to be? What does individualisation really even mean and to what degree does it apply to people's programs? Does every single person's program need to be drastically different because they are an individual? Can 2 programs be almost exactly the same and still yield great results? If so does it make it a good idea to do so? I'm going to explore all o...

Watching the recent UFC fight between Conor and Cowboy it was clear that Conor is back. Not just the fighting skills but the focus and the drive. I followed all major interviews in the lead up to the fight and the post fight press conference after the fight and there was something Conor himself talked about that put it all together very neatly and that was his perception of the role of commitment....

The opposite of fear is not courage it's something else that every single one of us can do and has the full potential to execute on. In this episode I go through a conversation I had with a close friend about getting the things we want in life and not letting fear stop us. as usual I want to know what you guys think and how you actually put the lessons in the podcast to real life use. Thank you fo...

What is your purpose in life? How do you find the answer to this huge and super loaded question? Tune in on the first episode of my new segment - The Winner's Mindset where every week I'll be talking about what it means to be a winner and squeeeeeeze more juice out of life no matter where you are currently in your life. Hey, I want YOU to give me feedback on what you think of this episode and what...