The InnerFight Podcast

Just what the title says though right? Please action it! Well that is the short intro to this show. The longer one is to ask you to think about how many excuses you make and hear in a single day of your life? Do a quick test for one day please, every time you say something to someone do you make an excuse where actually you do not need to say anything? Why are we doing this though? What are we loo...

Susie Chan only started running in her early 30’s as she entered a half marathon with her brother. Since then she has completed 5 Marathon Des Sables as well as a number of other ultras, however as she tells us in this show she runs anything from 1 mile to 100 and as you will find out she does it for the love of running and the love of nature. Still smoking in 2011 Susie has not always been into r...

For those of you that come to InnerFight you will probably have been coached by “Clarkie”, but for those of you that don’t it is time the world heard from him. Originating from New Zealand Jamie has live in the region for the last 10 years and has a super cool story and relationship with InnerFight as he started as a member, went through our internship program, started handling our on boarding pro...

Some of you may remember the name "Pete Jacobs” either from episode #468 of the InnerFight podcast back in October last year or from when he won the world Ironman championships in Kona in 2012. When we spoke to Pete in 2018 he talked about coming back to triathlon but only when he was fully healthy. In this show Pete takes us on his journey of what essentially has been a number of years of his bod...

The 2020 CrossFit open is just around the corner so who better to sit down with in this weeks show and chat about it than the man himself Riccardo. The great lover of all things CrossFit. Ricci gives us his run down on why you should register for this event, the format of the 2020 seasons, what to expect, how to manage yourself and what to do over the next few weeks to get ready. The 2020 Open sea...

Bram Connolly knew from a young age that he would serve his country, it’s all he wanted to do. Descending from a “broken home” Bram described himself in his early years as quite a loner and he was happy with that. He walked into the local Australian Army on his 17th birthday and signed up for service perhaps not really knowing that within 2 years he would be in the war zone of Somalia, this was th...

Welcome to the new Jan we could or should say here. Yes September is as big a month in the fitness world as Jan is. People are returning from their summer holidays and many have done some serious damage to the fitness goals they had set for the year and realized that they actually only have 4 months left of the year so the emergency chord is being fully yanked. I see it every year and I can’t figh...

April spent her early years outside so it’s no surprise that she has an amazing love for nature. In 2006 she moved to LA and achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design having being the top of her class and graduating with honors. She was also the winner of the Art Institute’s annual fashion show and got to show her collection at LA Fashion Week, which is a pretty big deal. In this show April t...

Rules, rules, rules you may say and I will say yes. We need a set of rules for life if we are going to perform optimal and live the very best life we can. Right now the world seems like it is constantly out to distract us, feed us things that seems nice but we do not really need to be eating, give us a number of reasons (excuses) not to go and workout but to do something else, even if that somethi...

Justin LoFranco is the founder of morning chalk up a company that he started just over 3 years ago with the goal of sharing news from around the world with the CrossFit community and a company that he left his “career job” to pursue. No one would have thought that just 3 years later Justin and his team would be announcing the huge changes to CrossFit and the 2019 CrossFit Season. They have become...

We all travel a lot more than we used to and it is epic. However along with our increased travel is the increased dilemma of what to eat and what training to do when you are traveling. Then of course you have a meltdown on what to pack, how many sets of running kit and so the list goes on. This year I have been on half a dozen trips to various countries ranging from the French Alps to the beauty t...

This show is full of simple advice that you can action right away in your life. Keph knows about hard work but the way he talks makes you believe you can achieve pretty much anything. Here are some of the call out topics we discussed in the show: -Being competitive since chilhood -A desire to get better everyday -Getting out there and enjoying yourself -If it means something you will find a way

This years CrossFit games came to an end last Sunday after 4 days of what can only be described as brutal competition. The format of the 2019 season was new which saw 150 individual males and the same number of females from around the world toe the start line at this the most sought after event on the CrossFit calendar. There was no room for errors as the field starts to get cut from event 1 and c...

"Mental strength" is a phrase that we hear more now than ever when it not only comes to sports but also to various aspects of life. We often hear of people “mentally” breaking down or not being tough enough even though physically they have the capacity to keep going in no matter what it is they are trying to achieve. It is no surprise therefore that the question on the tip of everyones tongue is “...

Dr Cameron Nichol has been on the InnerFight podcast 3 times now and each and every time delivers amazing things. In today's show we are throwing it back to when he appeared on the show in just our 203rd episode way back in 2016. We chatted about: -Making the Great Britain Olympic team -Enjoying what you do -Getting better at rowing in CrossFit -His best single piece of advice for life

Edson was just 3 years old when he lost his father and 16 when his mother passed away from tuberculosis but that is not unusual for the people of Malawi where life is hard, disease is rife and life expectancy is low. Being dealt the cards he was Edsons life could have turned out very different if it were not for his amazing personality and attitude. He has an incredible energy about him and a very...

We spoke to Boz back in March in show 514 just after she had qualified for The Games. That seems so far back now as in just a few days time she will take the competition floor at the top of her sport, quite an achievement in itself. In this show we catch up with Boz to hear all about her preparation for the games that she has gone through over the last 3 months, how she has changed her life, her s...

A lot of people talk about losing fitness, for some it is a fad, for others an excuses, for many it is real. But what does it really mean and how do we measure it. These questions and a load more were posed to us by a listener which in reflection we thought were super interesting questions and could be questions that a load of people have and therefore we have dedicated a whole show to address thi...

In this show we get to know all sides of Rob and what he can bring to the table to help you become better at life as we talk: -A change in direction -Getting into running -What's coming up -Things to talk about

It’s been a while since we have done a listener Q&A and looking back over the number of questions that people send through to us on various platforms it only made sense to make this weeks show a listener Q&A. We also go through a number of updates at the gym as we have various events going on, new coaches making it happen and classes that you should know about.

Believe or not being at some sort of altitude somehow brings some great clarity to thinking, not all the time but when you are not totally oxygen deprived and you sit and take a minute to look around. I was recently in Chamonix on a training weekend and spent a lot of time thinking as you generally do when you are out running for 6 hours at a time. I then got back to Dubai and as my “coach the coa...

Mark Whittle is the host of the Take Flight podcast and as the name suggests he is all about taking action and taking flight. A super positive guy with some real knowledge to share. However Mark did not always have this outlook on life, in fact he has been through some quite challenging times which makes what he is doing now even more impressive. In this show we talk about what drove Mark to start...

In this show we talk about: -Doing the hard work -Know it may take time -Appreciate small gains -Stay focused

This show is full of energy from Abeer, she is a great person and we are super excited for what the future holds for her and the females she motivates. Some call outs from the show: -The stereotypical Emirati Female -Differing cultures -It’s sport not nightclubs! -Acceptance from her dad

The first step of figuring it out is so important as it lays the foundation of motivation for the journey you are about to embark on and this is why it deserves your time and effort to go about it in the right way. Here are some of the highlight points from this show: -Measuring things -Why do you want to get better -We are all different -You first need to "figure it out"