The Daniel Yores Podcast

Jim Hallinan ( @jimmynutrition ) is a nutrition coach and co-host of The Other Side Lifestyle podcast . He’s also a father, a teacher, and a wealth of knowledge when it comes to nutrition and healthy living. Fun fact: he also owns a driving school!? An educator of all kinds!  Jimmy and I see eye-to-eye on a lot of concepts regarding health and fitness. We both believe that health should be the def...

Aram Grigorian ( @4weeks2thebeach ) is a nutrition coach and co-host of The Other Side Lifestyle Podcast . He’s a straight shooter and tells it like it is, and I think that’s why we got along so well so quickly. His honest and blunt approach to delivering fitness and nutrition information is much needed in a world full of lies, deception, and coddling.  We recorded this episode just before Canada...

Jackson Lohr ( @lohrsportsperformance ) is a personal trainer and sports performance coach who works with people from all walks of life. A former competitive athlete himself, Jackson had to learn how to train to keep up in sport, and to battle through and heal from several injuries. Now, he gives back everything he’s learned, training client both online and in person in Stuarts Draft, Virginia.  W...

Daniel Raz ( @DanielRaz_Fit ) is an online fitness coach who specializes in helping men lose weight without going to the gym. Born in Israel, grew up in China, and now living in Canada, Daniel has a ton of experience with different fitness cultures and building his own confidence through fitness.  “Without going to the gym” is not to be mistaken for “no exercise”. There are tons of totally valid r...

Summer 2023 Q&A Episode coming at ya. I do these roughly quarterly, but feel free to ask me questions any time via IG or through the contact form on my website .  Here’s what we got into in this episode:  What level and type of pain should I push through in the gym?  With summer coming there will be lots of social events and that also means drinking. What are your best tips for staying on trac...

Stephen Campolo ( @stephencampolo ) is an author and online fitness coach specializing in fat loss. He lost over 100lbs himself, and has since been coaching others to do the same.  Stephen is a good friend of mine and he’s an incredible source of knowledge, insight and experience when it comes to fat loss. We got really in the weeds discussing the psychology of fat loss, which is arguably the most...

Derek Mendoza ( @findyourprime ) is the Founder of Find Your Prime, co-host of the Raise the Bar Fitness & Business Conference, Former S&C Coach of the Seattle Mariners, and an all around incredible person. Get in touch via IG , or click here to download his free 5 Step Framework on how to create your first or next course, program or workshop.  I met Derek at the Raise the Bar Event, (I hi...

Miles Suing ( @milesstrength ) is a personal trainer and online fitness coach from Toronto, Canada. Miles has gone through all of the phases of evolution of a fitness lover, and understands how to use fitness as a tool to enhance your life. Miles also runs a free Facebook group providing community and support for busy people to make fitness a consistent part of their lives. You can join the group...

In this episode is everything you need to know about how to get in shape for summer (or any time of year) in a short period of time. I went through the full list of things you need to be doing, in detail in this episode.  An important note: I honestly do not recommend you do this. You should be taking care of your health and fitness all year round and “preparing” for next summer, right now. Howeve...

Bryan Fitzsimmons ( @coach_fitzz ) is an online fat loss coach who specializes in working with mom’s over 40, and host of the Fit40 Podcast . Bryan and I met at an event in Dallas where we connected with many other amazing coaches and thought to keep it rolling with this discussion! Since Bryan specializes in coaching women, we spoke about many of the most common myths that women have surrounding...

DJ Fox ( @dee_jay_fox ) is an ultra endurance athlete, coach, and the 2022 World’s Toughest Mudder Champion. He was also invited to compete in the 2023 GORUCK Games, and is constantly seeking new athletic and performance challenges to conquer.  DJ left his home and job in New York to move to the mountains in Colorado full time to pursue the life of a professional endurance athlete. And since then,...

Kyle Smith ( @dapperdudekyle ) is a professional life changer and host of The Limitless Life Podcast . Kyle uses fitness and health to change men’s lives through his Dapper Dude Fitlosophy Strategy.  Kyle and I are both lovers of philosophy and fitness and all the parallels between the two. This conversation is building off our previous conversation on Kyle’s podcast, which you can watch here . In...

Leo Alves ( @leoalvespt ) is an online weight loss coach and host of The Leo Alves Podcast . Born in the UK and currently living in Portugal, Leo has lived (and trained) all over the world and brings a wealth of experience in the effects of culture and environment on health and fitness.  Leo and I went on a journey through his travels and examined the various places he’s lived. We explored the cul...

In this special edition of the podcast, I collaborated with my friend, John Martirosyan ( @jmartfit ) and we recorded an episode via his podcast, The State of Health and decided to post it to both feeds. In this episode John and I each went through our personal fitness goals for the year, how we're approaching them, why we have those goals, and bounced some ideas off of each other. The goal of...

Jeff Dalzell ( @jeffdalzellfitness ) is a personal trainer specializing in coaching parents with young kids to be lean and confident again. Jeff also hosts The Dependable Dad Podcast and has a free Facebook Community for parents to connect and offer guidance on how to feel strong and lean again so they have more energy to play with their families. In this episode we discussed a ton of training con...

Back with the first Q&A Episode of 2023! Thanks to all those who submitted questions. Reminder, please feel free to submit questions for the podcast or your own personal fitness journey at any time. The best place to message me is on IG @danielyores Questions in this episode:  -  I have joint pain, should I take collagen? - I can't deadlift/hip thrust 135, how do I deadlift when the plates...

A few weeks ago I attended the Raise the Bar Fitness & Business Conference, and learned a TON. Also had an amazing time, met so many incredible people and made so many amazing connections. As the overarching theme of the podcast being to connect fitness lessons to the rest of life suggests, I thought it fitting to summarize some of the big takeaways from the conference, and “translate” them in...

Angela Gargano ( @angela_gargano ) is a fierce athlete, coach, international fitness model, and speaker. She’s competed 4x (soon to be 5!) on American Ninja Warrior, won the title of Miss Fitness America in 2016, and has coached over 500 women to conquer pull-ups with her Pull-Up Revolution online program.  Angela is basically the Oprah of pullups “you get a pullup! You get a pullup! Everyone gets...

Dr. Joe Baker ( @bakerjyorku ) is the author of The Tyranny of Talent and a professor at York University in Toronto, Canada.  Dr. Baker was one of my professors from my undergraduate degree, and while I may not remember all of the course material, I have always held a few lessons from his courses very close to me.  We discussed what talent is, how we might define it, and what some of the implicati...

Dr. Kevin Marryshow ( @drkev_hybrid ) is a licensed chiropractor and medical acupuncturist at Myodetox , a movement health clinic operating 13 locations across Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Toronto. As a Myodetox founding team member since 2015, Kevin's passion for holistic health and his in-depth understanding of the body have earned him notoriety within the physical health industry, allowing h...

Rick Olderman is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist with more than 25 years’ experience that specializes in helping people with chronic pain experience a pain-free life. Over years of experience and exploration Rick has managed become an expert in dealing with chronic pain - those injuries or pains that just don’t seem to go away. It’s not magic; it’s actually in learning to use your body...

Jeff Byers is the Co-Founder and CEO of Momentous . A company that provides world-class performance and health solutions for high-performance seekers at all levels. They’ve partnered with leading experts across the board in health and science to provide some of the highest quality supplements and products to the masses. To name a few: Andrew Huberman, Louisa Nicole, Kelly Starrett, Andy Galpin… an...

Matt Ode ( @matty_ode ) is a personal trainer, public speaker, health advocate, and cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with stage 3C testicular cancer at the age of 24. After chemotherapy, surgery, and the myriad of complications that followed, Matt’s goal now is to share what he’s learned, to help individuals transform their mind, body, and spirit.  The complications from Matt’s recovery left him...

Do you ever have those days in the gym where you “just don’t have it”? Wouldn’t it be great to have less of those? That’s what I covered in this episode.  Of course, you cannot control every variable and even if you optimize everything you will still have bad days. But these should be few and far between. There are some straightforward things you can and should be doing to make it so.  Better work...

Dr. Phil Wagner ( @DrPhilWagner ) is the CEO and Founder of Sparta Science, a Movement Health Intelligence company dedicated to helping the world move better.  Sparta Science is taking a macro-level approach to assessing movement and designing targeted training programs to make improvements. Using force plate technology and tests that cannot be gamed, they are able to gather WAY more data than the...