Lift Free And Diet Hard with Andrew Coates

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EP 7 Tony Gentilcore: Fundamentals Never Go Out Of Style Sep 15, 2020

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Tony Gentilcore returns to share various career lessons from his 18 years of coaching, writing, speaking, and why he doesn't have his own podcast. We jam on how his focus and priorities have shifted across his career, why he's so focused on teaching the fundamentals instead of a creative and curated social media brand, and the importance of building rapport and personal relationships. We also delve into how his speaking engagements began and how this launched into the brand that is today Tony Gentilcore.

EP 6 Gareth Sapstead: What Can You Do For Someone Else? Sep 08, 2020

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My charismatic friend Gareth Sapstead joins me from across the pond to talk about creating connections and making friends in the industry. We detail the importance of finding out "what can you do or someone else?" instead of approaching people with what they can do for you. Gareth shares how to get started in writing, expanding your trainer toolbox, where his creative ideas come from, understanding body dysmorphia, and variety vs consistency in programming. We also discuss the pros and cons of showing a more ripped aesthetic physique on social media and the classic discussion around whether trainers need to be fit(nuance warning).

EP 5 Jordan Syatt: Career and Life Endgame Sep 01, 2020

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Where does Jordan Syatt want to take his career and life going forward? Gain some insight as he shares how life changed starting a serious relationship. He shares his upcoming plans, plus we discuss: Should you be looking to leave the fitness industry now, what type of content should you be focused on, are industry leaders annoyed if you share and tag their work, resources to be a better writer, and more.

EP 4 Matthew Ibrahim: Getting To The Top Of The Mountain Aug 25, 2020

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Matthew Ibrahim is a breakout emerging star of the fitness industry and prolific content creator and educator. He joins me for an engaging discussion about training philosophy, active listening, communication skills, creating behaviour change, and how he approaches his career and media. Matthew explains how he approaches everything as a problem solver. This entire episode is a showcase of Matthew's skill in engaging and communicating.

EP 3 Jonathan Goodman: 4 Pillars: Family, Health/Fitness, Sleep, Business Aug 18, 2020

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Jonathan Goodman returns to discuss the current and future direction of his work with The PTDC and Online Trainer Academy, why he doesn’t plan to write any more books(at least for a while), and the importance of taking care of yourself first before you’re able to support others around you. Jonathan breaks down the 4 important aspects of his professional and personal life and how you can’t make great progress in all 4 simultaneously.

We also explore why fit pros don’t want business advice and how to instead help by leading by example. Jonathan also details why he doesn’t love Instagram.

EP 2 Mike Israetel: Success in RP Company Culture and Social Media Aug 11, 2020

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Welcome to Episode #2 of the rebranded Lift Free and Diet Hard Podcast with host Andrew Coates. Dr. Mike Israetel joins to share how Renaissance Periodization developed a successful brand and culture. We discuss RP and Mike’s individual approaches to social media engagement, should trainers touch politics on their media, and pitfalls of isolated research like the now famous, dubious, and possibly fraudulent squats vs hip thrusts study.

EP 1 Sohee Lee: Content Consistency and Saying No Aug 04, 2020

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Welcome to the 1st episode of the revamped podcast. After 150 episodes of The Fitness Devil Podcast, life and work are taking Dean onto other project focus, leaving Andrew Coates to host The Lift Free And Diet Hard Podcast solo. Sohee Lee jump starts the rebrand with a discussion about her recent life travelling with boyfriend Ben, a shift in her social media and experiencing new engagement, the value in consistency within your content creation, scaling to educate a larger audience, building a team of coaches in her business, and the importance of saying no to preserve your time and emotional energy.

Alex Viada EP 150: Out With The Old Guard Jul 16, 2020

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EP 150

Sam Pogue EP 149: Know What You Bring To The Table Jul 09, 2020

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EP 149

Rog Law EP 148: Law Of The Rings Jul 02, 2020

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EP 148