The Better With Brock Podcast

I met Leah Simmons last week at Hermés Fit and had to get her on the podcast. Our chat goes so beyond the physical and discusses if fitness is heading in the right direction and how we can use purpose and pain to achieve our goals. Leah's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamleahsimmons/ If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training, check ou...

My amazing client Erin is a busy mum that has taken my Built By Brock Program and absolutely ran with it! She has lost 32 pounds in 22 weeks and is fitting into her old clothes like never before. She's not afraid of hard work and used to run a lot and play sport.   The difference is now, she's finally getting a return on her work and hasn't felt better. In this interview we break down how she has...

Being a personal trainer in the gym for over 5 years had its perks... Not only did I see what to do and coach people down that path but I also saw a lot of what not to do in the gym. What stuffs people up. What trips them up and makes them put in a lot of work with little reward. This is what I unpack in this solo podcast. If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and o...

This episode was an absolute pleasure to have Jordan Syatt on the podcast. He's been an inspiration to even begin online coaching and we broke down what it's like being an online coach, where beginners should start in order to make progress and the release of his new book "Eat it!". Jordans socials: @Jordan Syatt Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training t...

Miharo Gregory has been one of my best mates since I was in high school but now he is in the biggest band in New Zealand right now, L.A.B. He shares what it's like to be in such a killer band and write incredible songs. Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambro...

Hayley Jensen is a New Zealand Cricketer for the White Ferns! Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambrockashby.com/ . Join the Built By Brock 8 Week Challenge: https://teambrockashby.com/built-by-brock Get the 16 Week Male Transformation Guide: https://teambroc...

Thern is the winner of the Built By Brock Members Only 8 Week Challenge and killed his transformation while eating apples pies. What a legend! Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambrockashby.com/ . Join the Built By Brock 8 Week Challenge: https://teambrockash...

Tony Boutagy has been one of my biggest influences to become a personal trainer. I did his courses in 2017 and haven't looked back since. He's a wealth of knowledge and this chat was an insightful one as we unpacked the current state of the fitness industry and muscle building strategies.   Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness...

Tyler Murphy is a client of mine and we have achieved a crazy body transformation that I've posted before on instagram. In this conversation we chat about progressive overload and really the deep down value it represents outside of the gym, which is always trying to improve. Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get th...

As an ex-dancer at Disneyland, Nicholas has an incredible story of having gratitude for his body and a client of mine has achieved an amazing bod transformation. Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambrockashby.com/ . Join the Built By Brock 8 Week Challenge: h...

Jordan Holston has been a personal training client of mine for just about 2 years and has completely changed his body, mindset and life. This is an insight as to how we achieved success for him and what obstacles he had to overcome to get there. Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want!...

Regner Ramos is a client of mine and has now officially dropped 70lbs and continues to make progress in bettering himself. In this chat we talk about how he lost the weight, whilst also overcoming his busy lifestyle and old habits. Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: htt...

Ricardo is a client of mine who has dropped over 50lbs, kept it off and stacked muscle on his physique. This is how he achieved it and everything in between! Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambrockashby.com/. Join the Built By Brock 8 Week Challenge: https:...

The 5 biggest fat loss mistakes you are making! Join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training to achieve your fitness goals and get the physique and life you want! Check out: https://teambrockashby.com/ . Join the Built By Brock 8 Week Challenge: https://teambrockashby.com/built-by-brock Get the 16 Week Male Transformation Guide: https://teambrockashby.com/the...

Gus Worland is an Australian Legend and a previous Built By Brock member who founded Gotcha4Life . A foundation that strives for zero suicide and having the 'hard chats' that need to be had when checking in with your mates and family. Check out the foundation here: https://www.gotcha4life.org/ If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training and ac...

I'm Team New Year Resolutions and in this podcast I explain why and give you my spin on SMART goals... SMAAT goals. If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training and achieve your fitness goals, check out https://teambrockashby.com/ . Let's go!

With the holiday season literally starting tomorrow, managing your nutrition can seem overwhelming. Here are 8 tips to help you navigate this celebratory end to the year. This is not a podcast about how to get shredded through Christmas but how to enjoy it as much as possible and feel your best. Merry Christmas! If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online perso...

Katie Gilchrist has survived a brain tumour (acoustic neuroma) and has had to teach herself how to walk again and regain her balance and control of her facial muscles. She was one of my face to face clients back when I was doing face to face personal training and was an absolute delight to train. She focused on being strong, kicked alcohol to the curb and got some impressive deadlift personal best...

The Lakes Physio, Butch Redoblado, and I chat about injury prevention and management. Getting injured is part of the process of pushing your body to the limits but this doesn't mean you have to stop training. We chat about training around the injury, not through the injury and overcoming lower back pain, acute and overuse injuries and considerations for training as you age. I'm a big fan of his 'h...

Time to answer the most asked question, can you build muscle and lose fat at the same time? On social media, it's hard to answer such a complex question in captions or short video clips, so here's a full breakdown of how to do it, if you should do it or if you should focus your energy somewhere else.   If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal traini...

Brad Bujaki is an ex sleep researcher and now currently a Polysomnographic Technologist. In this episode, we dive deep into how to get to sleep faster and also how to increase the quality of sleep to improve mental health and overall quality of life. Give Brad a follow on Instagram here: @bradbujaki If you want to join Team Brock Ashby for body transformation coaching and online personal training,...

In this podcast episode, Anjuli and I chat about all the mistakes we made with our diets when we first started out from starving ourselves, to detox teas to taking useless supplements. We also discuss what it was like for her to compete in several bikini comps, what a grind that really is and why she decided to only coach women. Just two kiwis having a chat about fitness really!   You can find Anj...

This is my personal body transformation story, where I went from 69kg to 92kg. I dive into my diet history and learn from all the mistakes I made as a young teenager interested in fitness, over-restricting my nutrition and over-training my workouts.