The Female Performance Project

I had a catch up with my friend and past training buddy the absolute TANK Marlene Andersson! Marlene is a previous CrossFit Games athlete, the National Champion of Sweden, coach, and now a mighty mother! We had an amazing conversation about the reality of managing training expectations as a high level athlete, the shift in identity from training full time to becoming a mother, and how Marlene feel...

Join two competitive bodybuilders as we discuss relationship with food and body image! Olivia Oneid and myself had a great conversation about how we have both worked on our relationship with food through the lens of bodybuilding, and how our sport may have impacted the way we view our bodies as we go through different phases. Olivia is also a wellness competitor and a female coach, and she gives s...

This is an UNMISSABLE episode as I had the pleasure of chatting with the amazing Dr Dean St Mart , pharmacologist and product formulator at Supplement Needs . We took a deep dive into female physiology and how this can impact blood test results, our supplementation, and how to make educated choices around our lifestyle based on symptoms and what our hormones are telling us! Get ready for all the k...

You can get everything else right, but unless you're getting the amount and quality of sleep that you need, you are only going to progress so far. Our sleep will dictate our energy levels, our hunger signals, our recovery, our body composition, our cognitive function... but it can be so easily overlooked! I'm joined by The Sleep Geek , James Wilson, a sleep coach who has worked with a wide...

I had a catch up with the lovely Wioletta, otherwise known as Coach Vee, who is an online coach who supports women in reaching their goals without restrictive diets and living a balanced lifestyle. Wioletta studied in psychodietetics and so is a great person to chat to on understanding the psychology behind our nutrition. Wioletta and I discuss most importantly the problems of getting so hung up o...

In this episode, I spoke to Registered Nutritionist and CrossFit coach Nelly Koenig , who helps girls to eat more food to fuel their training and work on their relationship with food. In a very open and honest episode, Nelly talks about how her experience with disordered eating habits and trying to chase a certain amount of leanness while also trying to perform in her sport made her lose the love...

Today I am solo-casting and I am here to chat with you about how I lost my menstrual cycle for over 4 years and how I managed to get it back! I will discuss the reasons I believe I lost my cycle, the mindset behind these, how it impacted my life and the action points which I took to bring it back. Hopefully some of the action points discussed in here may help you if you are feeling alone in this,...

Karima Adi ( @caffeinated_curves ) is here today to share her story, of how being diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 30 reshaped her narrative and forced her to think about her life, her body, and her self talk differently. In this episode we talk about how to forge a strong mind, how to reshape our existence by changing the stories we tell ourselves about how we live our lives, and how t...

I chat to Tom McClure, a sports nutritionist and endurance athlete who has taken on so many incredible feats such as running 13 marathons in 13 days! We talk about how getting out of your comfort zone can help you achieve some amazing things, how important a strong mindset is for life as well as training, and how to make sure you're eating enough for your long endurance efforts! You can find T...

Another episode you don't want to miss where I spoke to Irene Clark, a sports educator working with Athletics Ireland who is an expert in all things peri and post menopause. Check her out here @menopause_coach_irene and menopausecoach.ie We had a great chat about the pressure to 'do it all', how we can be more at risk of over training, whether we should train fasted, how we should prio...

I had a chat with my favourite weightlifting girl Harriet Renkin @theweightliftingnutritionist (you can check out her website here too!) about how she makes sure her weightlifters are fuelled at their best to smash their training and make weight for competitions. Harriet tells us about how she has used her injury to come back stronger this year, her plans to compete and how her training is going....

I caught up with the epic Florence Wong ( @sweatyflo ) to chat about how she's been getting on with her training and how her mindset has changed to make her a stronger athlete! We chat about the pressure of progressing in her sport, the way she has transformed from a self proclaimed 'cardio bunny' to a champion weightlifter and how participating in the BBC's SAS: Who Dares Wins tau...

Are you worried about going out for meals or social events, and these occasions disrupting any progress you've made in your fitness journey? I'll be talking about why we may feel worried about events, and how we can take action in order to feel our best when we're out and about. How should you structure your food the rest of the day and what should you choose when you go out for meals...

I am joined on this podcast by the amazing Grace Webster, otherwise known as Coach Grace @trainwithcoachgrace , the owner of @elevated.trainingctr Grace is such an inspiration, running a wonderful training facility where the focus is becoming strong, while also working full time as an accountant and being a competitive powerlifter at the same time! We talk body image in sport, how being an athlete...

One of the biggest dilemmas I see girls face is that they know they need to get more food in, whether this is due to getting injured, not recovering properly, or losing their menstrual cycle... but they struggle to allow themselves to eat more! This could be from a fear of weight gain or disrupting progress... so let's start small! In this episode I cover my 5 tips on adding in food at a slow...

In this episode, I cover my background on how I came to create the Female Performance Project and why. I cover my own past in struggling with under eating and over training, feeling pressure on the need to look a certain way, how I lost my menstrual cycle and where I am now as an IFBB pro bodybuilder. For more information on the Female Performance Project, head over to: @femaleperformanceproject w...

Join me, Chloe Salter, for a quick overview on what the Female Performance Project is all about! Want more info on the FPP? Come check us out... @femaleperformanceproject www.femaleperformanceproject.com