THE PROCESS PODCAST

Process Programming Coaches Meg and Karan join Ed to talk about their early coaching career and how they’ve grown from them. Behind every great coach is a noob, wet behind the ears, full of potential and nerves! Meg, Karan, and Ed all have unique coaching backgrounds and share their rookie mistakes. With the help of good mentors, a passion for their craft, and The Process Individual Coaching Cours...

Today, we speak with clinical psychologist Dr. Kaili Chen about how mindset affects our every action, and how we can manage it to achieve. Years of research has shown that there are two main inner critical voices that speak to us: Punitive and Demanding. Where the Punitive Critic will repeat negative judgments about your self worth and value to say things like “You are not good enough, why are you...

Today, we sit down with Tammi, who’s going to catch us up on how her training goals have shifted this year: doing her first Half Ironman! As a longtime elite-level CrossFitter, Tammi has taken the last few years to adjust her daily training, dial in a healthier and happier approach to nutrition, and try new fitness challenges like HYROX. And this year, her training, nutrition, and fitness is comin...

Today we welcome Pau and Ange from Our Process Programming Affiliate, All Out Fitness in Manila, Philippines! As the owner of All Out Fitness, Pau shares his story of opening his first gym, closing it, realizing the community it made, and opening All Out Fitness. As a coach, Ange shares her journey from member to coach within that community, and how coaching has transformed her career path, person...

Today, we introduce our newest Process Programming coach, Mark McDermott, who among other things, is strong as F*CK. If you can find the video of your very first barbell snatch, chances are you are watching it in complete embarrassment. The lack of coordination. The struggle to squat low. The bar swinging above your head. Well, for Mark, his first snatch session ended with 90kg! He owes this natur...

Please meet Megan McDermott, one of our newest coaches at Process HQ Affiliate Coastal Fitness. Meg just wrapped up her 2023 CrossFit season in a way that she didn’t expect: competing at the Asia Semifinal on a team. As an individual athlete who competed in the Africa Semifinal in the past, Meg is continuously evolving through her athletic journey. Let’s meet Meg, the swimmer – turned yogi, – turn...

The Open workouts are the standard at which the global CrossFit community compares themselves to their performance from last year, as well as to each other on a worldwide leaderboard. So the question we have to ask is: Was this a good combination of tests to make an accurate assessment on these points? Here are our thoughts; would you agree? THIS PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PROCESS PROGRAMMIN...

Camille Cheng is a two-time Olympian for the Hong Kong Swim Team and Co-Founder of Mind The Waves, a charity focused on serving the mental wellbeing of local youth. In less than two months, Camille Cheng will step onto the starting blocks of her third Olympic Games. With the special honor of proudly waving the Hong Kong flag, as well as the chance to compete in her mother’s home country, expectati...

Welcome to the 2024 CrossFit Games Semifinals! This year, The Process Programming represented 19 athletes that competed at the Far East Throwdown to earn a spot to the CrossFit Games. With this big a stage and this much on the line, what was it like to share the floor with your competitors? Ant the Individual athlete, Karan and Chris the Team athletes, and Ed the coach share this experience for yo...

We Bring in The Process Head Programmer for HYROX, Tamarind Robinson, to help explain how to make your next HYROX race your best. Tammi is leading our Asia-based athletes to have fun and perform well at the upcoming HYROX race in Taiwan. How does she know? Because long before the June race, she and The Process team mapped out the ideal training plan for athletes to come to this race in peak physic...

Meet Schalk Viljoen, in-house coach at Coastal Fitness and writer of The Process Programmig’s Train For Life programme! Long before he became a great coach, Schalk wasn’t really sure what he was going to do in his life. Between a brief modeling stint, gap year, and attempt at computer programming, he couldn’t find a career that spoke to him. But through a natural curiosity for training, he found h...

Today, we revisit Ed’s stem cell treatments for a 9-month progress check! In May of 2023, Ed had finally decided to give stem cells a chance. After years of research and consultations, Ed flew to Medellín, Colombia to meet the team at BioXcellerator, a leading stem cell treatment facility to treat his ailing right knee. After multiple surgeries and rehab exercises to treat a history of ligament an...

OUR LISTENER SURVEY IS LIVE! TAKE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN FREE PROCESS GEAR! Take the survey here: https://forms.gle/mkTFFNr6stXvVcDk8 The 2024 CrossFit Quarterfinals have just wrapped up, and we have THOUGHTS. Today, we sit with Process Programming Director of Programming Ed Haynes, CrossFit Games athlete Ant Haynes, CrossFit Semifinals hopeful Adele Quinton-Page, and Process Programming Community...

OUR LISTENER SURVEY IS LIVE! TAKE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN FREE PROCESS GEAR! Take the survey here: https://forms.gle/mkTFFNr6stXvVcDk8 Matt Patterson is the founder of Minisport, an introductory sports program for children in Hong Kong to be physically and mentally well-rounded. Before he was a business owner, Matt was Ed’s primary school classmate. Like old mates trading pints at the pub, Matt and...

Dr. Kaili Chen is a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping adolescents and adults process issues such as trauma, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Kaili is a longterm member of The Process Programming’s original Affiliate, Coastal Fitness, and we asked her to bring her expertise into the world of competitive CrossFit. We believe that one of the biggest, but often overlooked se...

Isabell Wolfe, General Manager for The Process Programming and Lead Affiliate Coastal Fitness, outlines the mistakes that prevent gyms from being a successful business. Every gym needs coaches, but that’s not all they need. Who maintains member payments? Who makes sure the equipment works? Who shoots and edits content for the gym’s social media? If you work at a gym and the answer to these questio...

Meet Mark McDermott, who, along with his wife Meg, are our two newest coaches at The Process Programming HQ Affiliate, Coastal Fitness! Mark is a veteran coach of 14 years, taking him from his home in the UK to Kuwait, Dubai, and ultimately to our Hong Kong doorstep. Today, we want you to get to know about our newest coach and his journey. We’ll learn about his gymnastics childhood, lifting 85kg o...

That’s it for the 2024 CrossFit Open. What does this mean for the rest of the Games season, and about the sport of CrossFit? Today, we bring in a roundtable of different CrossFit athletes to reflect on their Open experience. Karan, the up-and-coming competitor. Ed, the Masters Athlete. Ant, the Games Athlete. We talk about our opinions of these three Open workouts, assess our strategy and executio...

Meet Jason Dembski, architect and co-founder of local art collective HKWALLS, an annual gathering and public exhibition of street art taking place in Hong Kong this March 23-31. In the world of street art, the canvas is the city. If this is the case, there is perhaps no better canvas than Hong Kong. HKWALLS is an organization that has worked tirelessly to elevate the local street art scene with it...

Today, Ed helps Tammi reflect on the last few months of her life, where he battled injury, illness, and the lows of bipolar disorder. Tammi is our in-house Nutrition Specialist, HYROX Director of Programming, and BUILD member of The Process Programming. This is all to say that she is a busy, busy person with a lot to take care of in a single day. She and Tammi talk about her struggles this last fe...

Today, Ed breaks down the different training phases an athlete undergoes when preparing for, approaching, and participating in a competition. Are competitive athletes elite because they’re at their best performance all the time? Quite the opposite! In order for an athlete to be capable of their best, they need to prioritise when to peak. As for how, follow Ed and Karan as they discuss the differen...

Today, we slow things down for a moment of reflection between Ed and our in-house Content Creator, Alex. If you don’t know it yet, “We’re Not Really Strangers” is a card game you HAVE to know. We are in no way sponsored by them, but we just love it that much. The is game is simple: randomly pick a card, read the question out loud, and answer with an honest, open mind. The questions for Ed dive int...

Alison Scudds is a professional CrossFit athlete with multiple Semifinals appearances. Today we talk about her goal to qualify for the 2024 CrossFit Games. If you’re a fan of CrossFit, the CrossFit Open, and of course, Crossfit memes, you definitely know Alison Scudds. As the 2024 CrossFit Open kicks off this weekend, Chris talks to Alison about how she went from competitive cheerleading and Biome...

Today, we sit down with Process Programming Coach Karan Sanjeev on what it took for him to build his growth mindset and how that’s transformed him today. Regardless of how you see yourself as an athlete, champion or spectator, serious athlete or weekend warrior, one thing is true for all: you’re a person first. This means that you have a past that shaped who you are, a future that you have the abi...

Josh Smith is a nutrition and lifestyle professional who also mentors other coaches, using the unique lens of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to create long-term habits. If you’ve ever failed to meet or maintain your lifestyle or nutrition goals, you’re not alone. But instead of repeating the same mistakes and getting the same results, Josh is using the research of CBT to identify problems and re-fr...