THE WOD POD

In episode 12, I spoke with Georgina Harris about her 18 year gymnastics career taking her from county level at age 7 through to the top NCAA level in America at age 22. She opens up about the tough selection process, the reality of top level training on young gymnasts and her future career plans after leaving the sport of gymnastics.

In this weeks episode I am joined by Jesi Moyano a presenter for Honda Racing in the British Superbike championship. As well as Jesi being big in to her motorsport, she has also secured a position racing in the Formula women’s nations cup early next year. Being a fitness based podcast, Jesi wanted to speak about being a beginner to the CrossFit world and how it has diverted her fitness journey for...

Episode 10 is a big one, mainly because he's a 6 foot 5 ex sprinter, ex England basketballer who's now playing rugby for Rotherham Titans! In this episode I sat down with John Okafor to discuss his rugby career so far, the reality about pro & semi pro rugby & his time on the ITV show 'Ready to Mingle'

I met Cam at the Northern Champs last year and been following his CrossFit journey since. 6 years in the CrossFit game and he’s crushing it. Cam jumped on the pod after day 1 at WOD on the Loch, so we had a peach WOD fuel in the hot tub and discussed his experience at Scotlands first licensed CrossFit event & his fitness journey to date.

After Joe ran the Melmerby 10km in 32 minutes (17 minutes faster than me) and securing the win, I had to invite him on the pod to pick his brains about how he got so good at running and any tips for longer distance running. As I am running a marathon in September, it was a slightly selfish episode asking Joe running tips to help me out - but I’m sure there are some listeners on here that are in to...

In this episode I went over to Crossfit Rotherham 3 days after the Crossfit semi finals in Berlin to sit down with Georgia Davenport to discuss her recent success qualifiying for the Crossfit Games with Team CFR. Georgia has clearly always had the required mindset & dedication to make it as a professional athlete whether that's in gymnastics, diving or crossfit. I am looking forward to watchin...

In episode 6 I jumped on to the pod with Coach & cardio machine Ollie Clarke. I discussed his thoughts on intensity vs volume when it comes to training.. and also touched on mental health in the Crossfit industry. With Ollie once failing a long distance run, he is going again for a 60 mile ultra in memory of his uncle. Great to hear about his plans for this challenge and of course I’ve got him...

In this episode I went over to Goole, East Yorkshire to visit The Northman Crossfit gym and speak to Ellis Acaster about his experience in the British Army, a life threating accident and his reasons for leaving the army to set up his own Crossfit box!

In this episode I managed to meet up with Olympian Axel Brown who happened to be over in Harrogate before heading back to continue his bobsleigh training. Axel has a fascinating story and how he ended up taking Trinidad and Tobago to the winter Olympics is truly inspiring. I'm already looking forward to seeing him at the 2026 Olympic games!

In this episode with Adam Hindley I dive in to Adam's transition in to becoming a vegan and why and how he adopted the plant based diet. I found out how being vegan has benefited his lifestyle and training. Since becoming a vegan and then launching his business last year he's currently the strongest, fittest & happiest he's ever been!

Dan Tai has been a good friend of mine since 2018, way before he had instagram or his bar muscle ups. Over the recent years he has erupted on to the Crossfit scene and this year he finished 3rd in the UK in the Crossfit Open. In this episode we find out Dan's perspective on what it takes to become a top level athlete and his other business ventures he has going on in his life.

Joseph Thomas-Greaves has recently exploded on to the Crossfit scene after discovering it only 4 years ago. He has gone from playing water polo to becoming a primary school teacher and has his sights set on the Crossfit Games next year. After recently launching an online coaching business called Brick by Brick Programming which was originally a hobby he has now 20 plus athletes and counting.