THE PROCESS PODCAST

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...

The biggest time of the year for CrossFit is coming: The 2024 CrossFit Open. Are you ready? Is 2024 going to be your first CrossFit Open? Or is this the year you make it to The CrossFit Games? Whatever your goal is, we have tips for you! Chris and Ed share 17 years of CrossFit Open experience to share what their goals are, how to best prepare for the workouts, and why, after all this time, they st...

The Process Programming heads to Cebu to answer the question: What does it take to create the right workouts for a CrossFit competition? Our Affiliate gym CrossFit Subtero in Cebu, Philippines, recently hosted an in-person CrossFit competition and asked The Process Programming to write all the workouts for the single-day event. With nearly 100 participants across different ability levels, strength...

If you haven’t heard of HYROX by now, you definitely will in 2024, because this sport is only getting bigger! Run one thousand meters. Then, do a physical challenge. Repeat eight times. You think you can do it? A lot of competitions say anyone can join, and HYROX will say the same. Today, APAC Event Director for HYROX, Richard Cowley, makes the case for why “ The Fitness Competition for Every Body...

Leigh Coates is a two-time CrossFit Games Masters athlete in the Women’s 55-59 Division. Today we talk about her preparation for the upcoming 2024 CrossFit Games season. You would think that a two-time Games competitor would consider themselves an athlete. But for Leigh Coates, she’s just barely coming to grips with the idea of calling herself one. Today, she and Chris, a two-time CrossFit Masters...

Have you set a big goal for New Year’s Resolutions? That might be a problem. Why, and what can we do about it? Welcome to 2024! It’s natural for us to look at the big year ahead with ambitious goals, but are our goals realistic? Even more, do our goals actually resonate with who we are? Today, we take the question to a roundtable with Process Coaches and Athletes Storm, Tammi, Andrew, and Chris, w...

As the Founder and Managing Director of The Process Programming, just what kind of leader is Ed Haynes? This is an episode about how one person learned – the hard way – on what it takes to be a good leader, and what kind of leader you’re meant to be. For Ed, this meant figuring himself out as a human being first. This meant unlearning the aggressive, brash approach as the captain of his rugby team...

We are coming to you from the 2023 Dubai Fitness Championship where CrossFit Games Competitor and The Process Coach Ant Haynes takes on the elite field! It takes a lot to step onto the highest levels of CrossFit competition, and The Dubai Fitness Championship is no different. We want to dive into how the body and mind holds up after three intense days of high-octane events, so Ed and Ant sit down...

Today, we say farewell to Coach Liam Carmichael as he leaves Hong Kong and The Process team to return to his family in the UK. We had ChatGPT write the final questions to ask before he leaves. It is never an easy day to say goodbye to a colleague and friend, and today is no different. Liam has been an integral piece of The Process Programming, professional development in HQ, skyrocketing BUILD to...

Is CrossFit for everyone? Do we really need to learn how to walk on our hands and snatch a barbell? Is CrossFit a cult? Today, we talk about common myths and misunderstandings about the sport of CrossFit. The Process Programming Head Coach Ed Haynes sits down with our in-house Content Creator, Alex Matthews to answer the most asked questions about CrossFit. Alex has decided he will sign up for his...

André Houdet is a three-time CrossFit Games athlete, 2023 Fittest Man in Denmark, and founder of NoShortcuts Training Actually, scratch that. André is first and foremost a dad, fiancé, brother, and son. And earlier this year, he proved this point by retiring from the sport of CrossFit, just months after his NoShortcuts team finished fifth in the 2023 CrossFit Games. And André will be the first to...

Sofie is a professional rugby player with roots in China, Germany, and the US, finding ways to support other young women caught in the middle of cultures, expectations, and definitions of beauty and strength. Sophie has been proud to call Hong Kong’s Coastal Fitness – the headquarters of The Process – for the last three years. She is relocating to join a professional rugby team in Dubai, but we co...

Brandon Wakeling is an in-person and online weightlifting coach, representing Australia in the 73kg mens category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Most people would happily assume that reaching the Olympics is the pinnacle of sport. Brandon, however, can hardly remember it. For him, the most important part was the process that led him to that exclusive stage. This is the mindset and habit that he is in...

At long last, welcome the The Process Programming Individual Coaching Course. After more than two years of filming, writing, reshoots, and additions to the team, we are now ready to release our professional coaching course to the world! Between the two of them, Ed and Liam have been professional individual coaches, coaching mentors, and leaders for over 20 years. One day, it finally hit them: why...

Mike Lee is a personal trainer based in England and founder of Fire & Ice, a company that makes custom luxury ice baths and saunas. For today’s conversation, we talk to him about his work as a gym designer, notably for Cheslea and Al Nassr Football Clubs. When Mike and his LIFTD Design earned the contract to put together the training facilities for Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr Football Club, they had j...

Harry Loasby is a professional runner and coach who holds the Hong Kong record for the 3000m event. He is also the founder of Buffalo Running Company, a local running club for enthusiasts of all ages and levels. Hideo Harry Loasby sits down with us about how a simple passion for running can grow into a mission, a community, and even a culture. After setting junior national records in Hong Kong in...