The Women's Footy Podcast: Fitness Tips for the Female Footballer

Cherise Ann Beardsley is an International Business Consultant and Founder of WHY Coaching & Consulting. She’s a world traveler, proud foodie, and business strategist who helps businesses across the globe launch and level up for maximum potential. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, her career endeavors have molded her approach to consulting.  From international recruitment and partnership d...

Why Small Health & Fitness Businesses Fail Myken proudly wears the midwestern badge of honour, while loudly cheering on the Wisconsin Packers and Badger teams! Having gained her degree in Marketing, her actual true knowledge and love of running businesses have come from her real-world, hands-on health and fitness experience of 12 years. Starting at the bottom cleaning toilets, washing down equ...

Lisa Kuecker is a serial entrepreneur, military spouse, and mother of 2, who built her multi-7 figure boutique fitness studios across the United States. In 2016, she accepted a multi-million dollar buyout and began sharing the processes, systems, and strategies that enabled her to grow in this 42 billion dollar a year industry. Now leading a team of 40, she works across 34 countries and can be fou...

Professor Alan Pearce is a neuroscientist with an interest in understanding the physiology of the brain following mild brain injury. He has been focussed on this area since 2008 and has received international recognition for his work both in academic circles and wider community.  Alan was the first to present data on long-term brain injury in Australian football players in 2014 and in Rugby L...

Adam, aka The PHD (previously heavy dude), hit a rock bottom moment in his life where he weighed 327lbs (148kg). He then went on his own 100lb (45kg) weight loss journey, and as he was on this journey, he started to inspire people in his home town to join him. He started a gym and a bootcamp program and helped his home town lose over 35,000lbs in five years.   Adam’s the host of the...

To say this diet has taken the health and fitness industry by storm is an understatement. There have been many diets that have been promoted as the best diet EVER over my fifteen years in the industry — Mediterranean and Paleo come to mind, but I don’t think any of them have had as much pervasiveness through the industry as this one. In this episode, you'll learn: - What ketosis is - The challenge...

The first thing any true Paleo follower will say is, “it’s not a diet… it’s a lifestyle”. And fair enough. For many people, Paleo is much more than the food you eat. It is the lifestyle you live. Many true Paleoers will grow their own organic fruits and vegetables, have their own free-range chickens to provide them with fresh homegrown eggs, and often workout in a Paleo kind-of-way. In this episod...

The Mediterranean diet is probably the world’s most famous and healthy diet. Research shows over and over again that the Mediterranean diet is good for you. Full of fresh fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish, whole grains, legumes, and olive oil, the Mediterranean diet even allows you to drink a couple of glasses of wine. How good is that! In this episode, you'll learn: - How the Mediterranean diet h...

Could your DNA actually determine what type of foods you should and shouldn’t eat? Could it be that your genes make it harder for you to lose weight, even though you’re doing everything right and eating healthy? The new field of nutrigenomics could show that it does. And the DNA diet might just have the scientific research that the Blood Type Diet lacks. In this episode you'll learn: - How you can...

Are we designed to eat certain foods based on our blood type? Could eating food based on your blood type actually help you to reduce your body fat percentage? Peter J. D’Adamo believes so. He’s the naturopath who created the blood type diet. In this episode you'll learn: - Where the blood type diet comes from - What foods to eat for your blood type - What foods to avoid for your blood type - How t...

I always thought intermittent fasting was just another nutrition gimmick hitting the health and fitness industry. I was wrong. In this episode, you'll learn about the following intermittent fasting methods: * The 16/8 Method * The 24-Hour Fast * Alternate Day Fasting *

With Christmas coming up you probably have heaps of parties to attend. But what if you’ve been working on eating healthy and exercising regularly? And doing a good job of it too! How do you attend those parties, still enjoy yourself, and stick to your health goals? In this episode you'll learn: - What to do before your night out - How to handle the canapés - The best method for choosing your main...

In the fourth of this 4-part series on Men's Health for Movember 2017, I spoke with mentor, teacher and coach, Michael Maclean. Michael grew up in Darwin and moved to Melbourne in his teenage years to play professional basketball with the Melbourne Tigers. After moving back to Darwin, Michael pursued his other sporting love -- rugby league. He eventually made the inevitable transition from playing...

In this third of a 4-part series on Men’s Health for Movember 2017, I’m writing about a topic that many men might consider but not talk about, or not know how to talk about - how to save their relationship when it’s on the rocks. In this episode you'll learn: - How my relationship ended up on the rocks - The 8 things that I unwittingly did to save it - The biggest things I believe anyone should do...

In the third of this 4-part series on Men's Health for Movember 2017, I spoke with Livin' ambassador, Alistair Mitchell. Alistair's family have long owned caravan parks and resorts across the country and he has just sold his park here in Darwin, the FreeSpirit Resort. Honestly, the food in that place is remarkable! Alistair grew up in country Victoria and lived a typical country life playing footy...

You already have one. Would you believe me if I said that? Everyone has a 6 pack. Just for some people it’s visible and for others it’s not. In fact, some of the people I train who are heavily overweight have bigger 6 pack muscles than people who are lean and skinny. In this episode you'll learn: - The muscles of the abdominals - The function of each of the abdominal muscles - How you get that "pa...

In the second of this 4 part series on Men's Health for Movember 2017, I chatted with mental health advocate, Jackson Clark. I taught Jackson in grade 8 and 9 and have watched his career in sports journalism flourish from his first writings back in those days as a fourteen year old kid. When Jackson used the laws of attraction to manifest his own show on Mix 104.9, he asked me to come on board as...

Movember started as a concept developed by Adam Garone, his brother Trav, and Luke Slattery fourteen years ago. It was founded out of a conversation to have men grow real moustaches and have real conversations about what’s going on in their life. In this episode you'll discover what my motivations are for doing Movember 2017. If you want someone to talk to, or as I mention in the episode, to pract...

Jacob Brady-Walker is an award-winning chiropractor who has helped literally thousands of clients improve their lives. Having sold his own clinic in Darwin to move home to Ballarat, Jacob has revived and created multiple clinics for others. I met Jacob in my Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner course and was immediately drawn to his gentle nature, holistic attitude to health and deep k...

“Oh, Rebecca watched my Instagram story! But hey, she didn’t watch them all. Why not?” :-( LOL This is the self-talk that is all too common in today’s world. It might sound funny and we can all probably admit to being a little disappointed when someone sees our message but didn’t reply, or didn’t like our photo, or watch all our videos. But what effect does social media really have on our health?...

Bryce is an Australian Health Practitioner that has advised and treated players that have competed on the National & International stage in Golf, Swimming and Athletics amongst others. In addition to this he was an early adopter in using smart technology to assist his patients both in the creation of self management apps to his advisory role at Smart Technology company IKKOS. If you cannot fin...

The order that you either eat or exercise is a common question that many people have. That question often leads to many other points of confusion around the topic of eating in relation to exercise. How long should I wait to exercise after eating? What foods are best to eat before and after exercise? Here’s some clarity around the topic. In this episode you'll learn: - The major factors in what to...

Catie Kirke is a life coach and founder of the highly acclaimed ART Your Life and Miss ART programs. The ART Your Life program is a comprehensive coaching and training 7-week intensive program for women designed to help create change from the inside out. Catie previously ran a successful fitness business for 10 years, in which time she was a recipient of the NT Telstra Business Women’s Award and N...

You may have heard of BMI, or Body Mass Index. The BMI measurement was first derived in the early to mid-1800s by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. So far in modern history, the BMI has been seen as the only number that “if not fully satisfactory, [the BMI] is at least as good as any other relative weight index as an indicator of relative obesity”...

Cliff McDonald is a Darwin-based personal trainer and online fitness coach. He is also one of my very good friends. Cliff is unapologetically opinionated and has very strong views about EVERYTHING. This can rub some people the wrong way but anyone who knows him, knows he will do anything for you! He is honestly one of the best people I know. The night my grandmother passed away, I sent Cliff a tex...