THE PROCESS PODCAST

In this episode, Ed with Patrick James to talk to catch up on life. Since our last episode together, Patrick has followed his heart, moved countries and joined a new company. Paddy’s last 6 months of life included many challenges that coaches face: from finding a job, ongoing education, finding and speaking to your audience and surrendering the outcome.   Sponsors: The Process Programming: We...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Tamarind Robinson to discuss the acronym H.A.I.L. This conversation was based on the Ted Talk “How To Speak To People Who Want To Listen” By Julian Treasure. We share our thoughts, stories and experiences on Honesty, Authenticity, Integrity and Love, and roles they play in our lives.     Sponsors: The Process Programming: Website: www.theprocessprogramm...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Ant Haynes to reflect on how life has been since returning from 6 months abroad. In the conversation, we discuss realisation and learnings from last season, redefining his priorities, upcoming competitions, coaching at The Process, and prepping for HYROX.       Sponsors: The Process Programming: Website: www.theprocessprogramming.com Instagram: @th...

In this episode, Ed and Liam take on some cracking listener Q&A’s. Thank you to everyone who submitted a question! If you’d like to submit a question, please send us a message on IG @theprocessprogramming.  1. How are you preparing for Hyrox? 2. What age did you actually start to think about mental health and how it effected you day to day 3. The importance of cool-downs? 4. Is it necessary t...

In this episode, Ed catches up with Leigh Coates to talk about the 2021/2022 CrossFit Season, which concluded with her taking 2nd place in her age category in her rookie season. In this conversation, we explore Leigh’s training history and what took her from body pump classes to joining COASTAL in 2017. Leigh reflects on her season, which took her to Dubai shortly after the CrossFit Open. Little d...

In this episode, Ed goes solo to share his thoughts after travelling being on the road for 3 weeks travelling around Bali. These 10 reflections include thoughts on training, nutrition, routines, relationships, social media, wearing masks and the power of community and team.     Sponsors: The Process Programming: Website: www.theprocessprogramming.com Instagram: @theprocessprogramming

In this episode, Ed sits down with Jamie Lau, a Personal Trainer living in London, who was a part of the Coastal Fitness coaching team from 2013-2015. In this episode, we take a trip down memory lane. It begins with our story and how we first met, the early days of Coastal Fitness shortly after opening our first gym. Jamie then asks Ed about his days as a Rugby player, his experiences, dealing wit...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Tammi to talk about CrossFit’s definition of “Fitness in 100 words”. This was something that we both learnt about when doing the CrossFit Level 1 certification, and it recently made an appearance on @crossfittraining’s instagram page. On the day, Ed shared some thoughts on what he thought about the definition, and the goal of this episode was to share more though...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Brandon Hasick, who is the owner and founder of Body by Brando, a gym business with 3 locations in Sydney Australia. Brandon is also the founder of a coaching mentorship programme, and a business mentorship programme, and is a part owner of several different businesses.   In this conversation, Brandon shares his origin story, burnout, the successes and failu...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Isabell Wolfe to talk about the recent restructuring of COASTAL and THE PROCESS. After reading the comments and questions from the article Ed wrote for The Morning Chalk Up, we wanted to share our story in more detail. It begins with the story of Coastal Fitness, why we needed to make a change, the new mission and vision for the business, how we calculated the sa...

In this episode, Ed sits down Ollie Marchon, the owner and founder of MARCHON, who have two strength and conditioning facilities, and one of the biggest online training memberships in the United Kingdom. In this episode, we start by digging into Ollie’s origin story. Like Ed, Ollie began his journey as a professional rugby player, before transitioning into coaching and building his business. There...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Alex Younger to reflect on his journey in CrossFit. It all began as a 16 year old with the goal of making it to the top of the sport, to coaching in his university garage, landing his first professional coaching gig in Kuwait shortly after university, to eventually parting was with ‘Alex the athlete’ and finding a more sustainable way to live.     Spons...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Ant Haynes to reflect on his 2022 CrossFit Games Season. It has been a rollercoaster of a year for Ant, which all began with a last minute decision to get on a flight and relocate to Dubai in order to continue his season. Little did he know that it would be more than half a year before he’d eventually return to his home in Hong Kong.     Unfortunately A...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Lotte to talk about her journey with ‘body image’. From striving to be as small and petite as possible in her teenage years, to now prioritising her health, and the way she feels and functions. Many men and women will resonate with Lotte’s journey, from the social pressures thinking we need ‘look a certain way’, dealing with the comments from others, gym culture,...

In this episode, Ed and Liam take on some cracking listener Q&A’s. Thank you to everyone who submitted a question! If you’d like to submit a question, please send us a message on IG @theprocessprogramming.   1. How do you programme for someone who doesn’t have any specific performance goals? 2. How do you progress aerobic work 3. Best training split for beginners 4. I feel my strength numbers...

In this 2 part series, Ed sits down with Liam Carmichael, Tamarind Robinson and Lotte Thompson to talk about the 6 lifestyle essentials: Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, Hydration, Stress Management, Movement and Food Hygiene. In this episode, we dive into the second 3. For each of the 6 lifestyle essentials, we discuss our definition, share various tools and strategies, as well as sharing our own wins, s...

In this 2 part series, Ed sits down with Liam Carmichael, Tamarind Robinson and Lotte Thompson to talk about the 6 lifestyle essentials: Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, Hydration, Stress Management, Movement and Food Hygiene. In this episode, we dive into the first 3. For each of the 6 lifestyle essentials, we discuss our definition, share various tools and strategies, as well as sharing our own wins, st...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Isabell Wolfe, General Manager of Coastal and The Process. They begin by sharing some of the major changes happening at HQ. They talk about the new Mission and Vision of Coastal and The Process, and how they’ve had to change the way that they pay their coaches in order to achieve them. The conversation then goes down a the rabbit hole of ‘past jobs’, what they di...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Coastal and Process coach Liam Carmichael to talk about his life story…and what an epic story it is. From being told that he and his family will be moving from Scotland to France in 3 weeks time as a 15 year old; Having to learn a new language; letting go and finding a new identity; Flying across the world as a flight attendant; CrossFit burnout; Finding Function...

In this episode, Ed goes solo to talk about writing and designing training programmes. He starts by sharing his journey writing group programmes at Coastal, including all the mistakes and lessons along the way. He then provides a framework for how we now design our group programme training cycles, and uses examples from the most recent LIVE, PERFORM and COMPETE training cycle. To all you fitness a...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Liam and Lotte to talk about de-loading. What is it, why do we do it, and our past and present relationships with de-loading. We also share some simply awareness tools which you can incorporate into your own training, which can help you to more effectively self regulate.   Sponsors: The Process Programming: Website: www.theprocessprogramming.com Instagram: &...

In this episode, Ed sits down with repeat guest, Olivia Park. Olivia is a female Health and Performance Coach and is the founder of Grit and Grace. Her goal is to help active women stop second-guessing themselves and train with purpose. This conversation has it all. The main theme of the conversation revolves around Olivia’s struggles with fertility as she and her husband began trying for their fi...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Stretch Rayner, Founder of Protect The Asset. Ed and Stretch first met during a Poliquin Coaching Certification Programme 12 years ago, and have followed each others journey from a distance. They both share very similar coaching and athlete stories - Injuries, burnout, frustration with others, lack of growth, misalignment of values, and health related issues. Str...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Jack Thomas, Founder and CEO of Base Fitness in Bangkok. Jack shares his story from working for a Bank in England, making the decision to move to South East Asia, how we started selling clothes from a local market on eBay, to eventually founding and running Base Fitness, which was voted as the ‘Best Gym In Asia’ in 2019 and 2020. Along the journey, there are many...

In this episode, Ed sits down with Process Programming coaches Schalk, Lotte and Karan for a “Coaches Roundtable” discussion. Today’s conversation revolves around the question.”Why do you train”? We start by sharing our stories of when we first started training and why, and conclude by sharing why we now train. Hope you enjoy the conversation!   Sponsors: The Process Programming: Website: www...