The Flex Success Podcast

The Flex Success Podcast episode #21 - The Invasiveness Disruption Scale with Dean and Lizzy In their first solo episode together, Co-Directors and coaches, Dean and Lizzy discuss ways to minimise the disruption and invasiveness of a diet on your lifestyle. How can you diet for fat loss with the least amount of disruption to your lifestyle and how does that compare to someone in a contest prep? So...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #20 - The changing landscape of Crossfit with The Mind Muscle Project - Lachlan Rowstan and Raph Freedman Owners of Creature Fitness & hosts of The Mind Muscle Project podcast Lachy & Raph join us for a discussion on the changing landscape of CrossFit, the importance of letting go when things no longer serve your purpose and so much more Something worth sha...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #16 - Carbohydrates and Steroids with The Evil Genius, Broderick Chavez. If you want to manipulate your physique or performance, understand the fundamentals first Drugssssss. This topic is taboo and rarely spoken about outside of whispers in the locker room but we are raising the volume and bringing it to your lounge room. Broderick Chavez aka 'The Evil Genius' is...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #18 - The Mindset of an Elite Powerlifter with Matthew Bartholomew Knowing your limitations for pain. When is going hard too hard? Matty Bartholomew is an elite level Australian powerlifter competing under the Powerlifting Australia banner. In this episode, Matt talks about the mindset of his earlier years as a high school rowing athlete and how the 'pain is succes...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #16 - Weight neutral approaches: should fat loss always be the goal? With Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro,CISSN,CHC and Flex Success coach Shannon Beer. HAES, IE, mindful eating, informed eating. These are all alternatives to a traditional 'diet' and through this episode, we aim to improve the dialogue around these alternatives. Traditional diet strategies are commonly discu...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #15 - Diet breaks, Refeeds and their impact metabolic adaptation and performance with Jackson Peos. Do intermittent energy restriction protocols such as diet breaks attenuate metabolic adaptation? Currently completing his PHD out of the University of Western Australia, Jackson Peos is an exercise and sports science graduate who is currently leading research into th...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #12 - You Don’t Know Sh*t About Your Gut!  With Dr Gabby Fundaro CISSN, CHC. We call her the poo master and boy did she deliver. We score this episode a bristol stool of 3-4, right in the perfect zone! In this episode with Dr Gabby Fundaro, Gabby breaks down what a 'healthy gut' is, or if such a thing even exists, discusses candida overgrowth and why we cant m...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #11 - Which should we be relying on more.... habits or willpower?  With Flex Success Coach Shannon Beer. Coach Shannon strikes again, this time joining us for a discussion on the importance of habit formation, formally known as context-dependent repetition. We discuss food selection, nutrition approaches while out of routine (like holidays), lapse vs relapse,...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #10 - Comp prep, a perspective of a WBFF pro athlete  with WPFF Pro, Ella Martyn What does being a pro physique athlete really mean? WBFF pro, Ella Martyn talks us through the costs & considerations of competing and turning pro Fan of the show? If you find value in the Flex Success Podcast, we’d love if you could show your support by leaving a review on iT...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #8 - A practitioners take on injuries & niggles with Dr Nick Papastamatis Some physical pains are unproblematic and are no cause for a check-up, like sore muscles from a workout. But other seemingly innocent injuries, like a sprained ankle, can snowball into many bigger issues up the chain. In this episode, we discuss this with Dr Nick Papas, as well as his new...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #7 - Can you SEE a woman's health? with Alicia Fistonich The fitness industry presents a fairly narrow image of what a 'fit' and 'healthy' woman looks like. It also sets up a social norm of hypersexuality that is somehow connected to being 'fit' or being a 'fitpro'. In this episode, guest Alicia Fistonich and your co-hosts Dean & Lizzy discuss an alternative to...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #6 - Transitioning from bodybuilding to powerlifting; Common mistakes and misunderstandings with William Crozier of Nexus Performance In this episode, Australia's all-time record holder in powerlifting, and Nexus Performance Coach, Will Cozier, chats about transitioning from bodybuilding to powerlifting. We aim to help bodybuilders think outside of muscle groups an...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #5 - The journey of a Flex client  with Flex Success Client Samantha Johnson The journey of a Flex client, breaking free of yoyo dieting, a clients perspective. In this episode, long-time Flex client Samantha opens up about her relationship with food and battle with chronic yoyo dieting before she began as a client, and how this has shifted. Through this discu...

The Flex Success Podcast episode #4 - Understanding Pain with Dr Nathan Kelly Intuatively we think of pain as damage, and the extent of the pain is directly relative to the extent of the damage. In this episode, Dr. Nathan Kelly explains that this is not always the case. SOMETHING WORTH SHARING Explain Pain - The NOI Group https://amzn.to/2QvJV7i Fan of the show? If you find value in the Flex Succ...

The Flex Success Podcast Episode #2- Life After Dieting with Shannon Beer In this episode, Flex Coach Shannon and your hosts, Coach Dean and Coach Lizzy discussed weight maintenance, what it is, and why it's a very important phase to get right. We discussed this in the context of the 'Life After Dieting' book and how this can serve as a guide to understanding and properly facilitating the weight m...