Kendra literally booked a flight to Boulder to come to record this podcast and we had never met in person. We developed an amazing friendship out of this weekend. It saddens me that it took me this long to publish this episode especially.    Follow her on IG at @KendraSato

FBR $55 Kendra Sato

This was recorded in 2019. Due to life and work, I am extremely late to publish but Teddy is a great person.   Follow Teddy on Instagram:  @StrengthCoachTherapy

FBR #54 Dr. Teddy Willsey @StrengthCoachTherapy

This was recorded in 2019 so some of the information might be dated but Marcus' story is very inspirational.    Check out Marcus on Instagram at:  @kettlebellexercises @living.fit    

FBR #53 Marcus Martinez @kettlebellexercises

Jim Ferris is a Philadelphia based trainer whose clientele includes professional athletes, local teams, everyday fitness enthusiasts, and maybe a celebrity or two depending on who is in town. Jim is known for his work in the basketball community from training with the Philadelphia 76ers for many years and training several NBA players that live their offseason in the Philadelphia area. Jim’s expertise in the training field, along with his dynamic and creative training style keeps players, coaches and clients coming back year after year. - Instagram - @gymferris Twitter - @GYM_Ferris - Latest Article - https://www.google.com/amp/s/simplifaster.com/articles/professional-strength-conditioning-coach/amp/     - TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want to manage more clients in less time. 25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co - Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom

FBR #52: Jim Ferris

Clifton Harski is the Chief Operations Officer and Fitness Director for Fitwall, a functional strength training studio with 7 locations across the United States. At Fitwall, the Pain-Free Performance Training System is a cornerstone of their industry-leading preventative fitness programming. Since 2011, Clif has taught over 300 workshops, courses and certifications in multiple disciplines and education systems including, MovNat, CK-FMS, Spartan Racing, Animal Flow, and Kettlebell Athletics and the Pain-Free Performance Specialist Certification, where he serves as a master level instructor. He also holds advanced certifications from ACE, NSCA, NASM, StrongFirst, CrossFit, DVRT, FMS, Animal Flow, KBA, Spartan and FRC.  TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want to manage more clients in less time.  25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom

FBR #51: Clifton Harski

After spending 20 years in the advertising and design industry, sitting at desk and overweight enough to make climbing a flight of stairs tiring, Andrew said to himself one day, "I'm tired of being tired."   Armed with some graph paper, a love of table-top gaming and some odd ideas on how to make fitness "fun", Andrew started Nerdstrong in his garage in 2013. Since then, Nerdstrong has gone on to develop and deploy hundreds of gameplay-inspired workouts for thousands of fit nerds around the world.  Instagram: @nerdstronggym  facebook.com/nerdstrong podcast: https://wearenerdstrong.podbean.com/      TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want to manage more clients in less time. 25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom

FBR #50: Andrew Deutsch, NerdStrong Gym

"Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, athletics and pain management. She is known as the Teacher’s Teacher and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally. She has crafted original programs for 24 Hour Fitness, Equinox, YogaWorks, and numerous professional sports teams. She and her team of 500+ trainers help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics and recovery.  She has presented case studies at the Fascia Research Congress and International Association of Yoga Therapy conferences. She has the rare ability to translate complex physiological and biomechanical information into accessible, relevant moves that help her students transform pain, dysfunction and injury into robust fitness. Jill is the anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine and has been featured in Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show and Good Morning America. Jill is regularly featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is the creator of dozens of DVD’s including Treat While You Train with Kelly Starrett DPT and is the author of the internationally bestselling book The Roll Model: A Step by Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility and Live Better in your Body. Based in Los Angeles, CA, she is a wife and mother of two small children and is currently writing her second book.”                                               www.tuneupfitness.com   INSTAGRAM: @yogatuneup @tuneupfitness   FACEBOOK:                                       https://www.facebook.com/TuneUpFitness/                                      https://www.facebook.com/jillmillerfaust/                                        TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want manage more clients in less time. 25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom

FBR 49: Jill Miller C-IAYT, ERYT

Dr. Mark Cheng is one of the most challenging folks to talk about because of the breadth of his background. Born in the US to Chinese immigrant parents, his life would continually reflect the struggle to integrate the East & West into a fluid, coherent, productive, and harmonious way of life. Unimaginably fortunate in his attempts to train and study under the some of the world’s greatest in their particular fields of expertise across a wide domain of endeavors, Cheng would continuously search for the common threads of logic in these fields and their masters. As a medical, movement, & martial professional, Dr. Cheng’s life work revolves around distilling that knowledge down in ways that help everyone from the professional athlete to the injured or elderly move, live, and perform better.  As a traditionally trained martial artist, Cheng received his earliest introduction to Tai Chi from his father. As the years went on and he relocated to the Los Angeles area for college, Cheng went on to study different arts from a variety of masters, some of whom also pushed the impressionable young man to study the healing arts. The areas of Cheng’s investigation ranged from close quarter counter-terrorism methods to esoteric energetic practices, acupuncture, and intensive meditations. Eventually, he would formalize his studies with Masters and Doctorate degrees in Chinese medicine and Acupuncture as well as California state licensure.  Having the opportunity to practice and serve many martial artists allowed Cheng the chance to quickly become familiar with what worked and what didn’t in both mainstream and “alternative” sports medicine. Legendary Bruce Lee disciple, Dan Inosanto, became one of his regular patients. It was through Inosanto that Cheng met his strength and conditioning mentor, Pavel Tsatsouline, a former Spetznaz (Soviet special operations) instructor. Tsatsouline almost singlehandedly is responsible for the popularity of the kettlebell, having brought the Russian weightlifting tool out of obscurity and into gyms and living rooms across the world through a worldwide network of instructors that he personally trained and certified. Cheng had the good fortune to train intensively with Tsatsouline on a private and semi-private basis until being awarded Senior Instructor status under the Russian icon.  Tsatsouline, who founded the Russian Kettlebell Challenge (RKC) and later StrongFirst (SF) organizations, introduced Cheng to world-class physical therapist and movement savant, Gray Cook. Cook took everything Cheng learned and turned it on its ear. Giving him a diagnostic lens through which to better guide his clinical efforts and a guidance system that would give Cheng a dramatic edge over his colleagues in the strength and conditioning field. Because of his work with Tsatsouline and Cook, Cheng would spend years touring the world as an instructor for both of their organizations. During those years, Dr. Cheng would be actively

FBR #48: Dr. Mark Cheng

Jason and Lauren co-founded Achieve Fitness, a gym in Somerville, MA with a mission to bring inclusivity and positive vibes to the fitness space. Alongside their incredible team, they've built a facility where the emphasis is on making people feel welcome, comfortable, and supported by the coaches and the community.   In the last year, Lauren and Jason had a baby, and founded two more companies, AchieveMentors and AchieveOnline. AchieveMentors is a mentorship platform for up and coming personal trainers who are looking for guidance, support, and opportunities for growth in the health and fitness field. AchieveOnline is a platform for online workout programs, where folks from all over the world have access to either pre-set or individualized workout programs written by the Achieve Fitness program design team!   Links:  Achieve Fitness  Achieve Mentors  Achieve Online  Instagram          TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want manage more clients in less time. 25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom        

FBR #47: Achieve Fitness

Jonathan Goodman is the creator of the largest collaborative blog for personal trainers, the Personal Trainer Development Center (thePTDC) and the founder of the world's first certification for online trainers, the Online Trainer Academy. He’s the author of 7 books including Ignite the Fire, Viralnomics, and the seminal textbook on online personal training. Jon has been featured in Men's Health, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and many more. Originally from Toronto, Jon spends his winters traveling the world with his wife and baby boy. • www.theptdc.com/ota • TrueCoach: #1 App for Personal Trainers who want manage more clients in less time. 25% off your first month 14 Day Trial, NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY Promo Code: Fitness Break Room www.truecoach.co • Onnit: Total Human Optimization 10% off your purchase Promo Code: FitnessBreakRoom www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom  

FBR #46 Jonathan Goodman: Should be that I knew so little about why I shouldn’t be doing them.

Welcome back to the Fitness Break Room!  We are so sorry for going MIA. Sam took a new job, and Jessica moved across the country.   In the spirit of kicking things off, we are going to give you guys the story behind John Wolf and Shane Heins the Co-Developers of the Onnit Academy Education System.  Sam and Jessica met through John and Shane, so this episode is going to be special.  Check out:  @CoachJohnWolf @ShaneHeins @OnnitAcademy   Free 2-Week Trial to TrueCoach  Use Promo Code Fitness Break Room for 25% off your first month. Save 10% at Onnit: www.onnit.com/fitnessbreakroom

ONNIT ACADEMY: The Stories behind John Wolf and Shane Heins

This week in the Fitness Break Room, we interview our friend Ashleigh VanHouten who's the host of the Paleo Magazine Podcast, a writer for Paleo Magazine, and a health coach extraordinaire. This is one strong, funny woman who loves her game meats!  Ashleigh loves to eat, move, and learn, and has channeled these passions into a career. Follow us as she takes us through how she turned her passions into a career of a lifetime.  Enjoy! Sam & Jess P.S. Big news.  We have a new free course for any of you who are looking to make your fitness business a viable vocation. If you want to take your fitness business from idea to first launch in the real world, this course is for you . . . and it's free so no excuses. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com/course to enroll now. 

Ashleigh VanHouten: Eating, Moving, and Learning for a Living

Alex is the Founder of Good Joo Joo, an Austin-based marketing agency specializing in multi-channel digital advertising and automation for people who sell (awesome) stuff online. They're experts at helping brands implement & scale advertising as well as automating marketing into a well-oiled machine. Some clients include Onnit, Animal Flow, 10th Planet Austin, Black Swan Yoga, Innovative Results Gym, and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Enjoy the show! Sam & Jess

Alex Hart: Creating a Business with Good Joo Joo

Today, we interview our friend Mike Fitch, the Founder of the Bodyweight Athlete and Founder of Animal Flow. He discusses he merged artistic expression with training which ultimately birthed a super beautiful and innovative fitness program that combines a wide range of exercises and ground-based movement combinations with animal swagger. Enjoy the show! Sam & Jess

Mike Fitch: Finding My Flow

Today, we interview our friend Onnit Battleropes Master Coach, Aaron Guyett. He's a Marine Corps combat instructor, a combat veteran, currently a Staff Sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserves, former gym owner, Founder of Leaders of Leaders. Wow - he does a lot.  Not only is Aaron a rockstar in the fitness industry, he's a wonderful dad and husband which he says is and always will be his primary gig.  Enjoy the show! Sam & Jess

Aaron Guyett: Exploring All the Fitness Industry Has to Offer

Today, we're sitting down in Austin Texas with our friend Bret Gornick founder of Live Better as well as the co-host of the Live Better Podcast. He's a retreat-throwing extraordinaire, Nike Master Trainer, coach, personal trainer, Barry's Bootcamp instructor, yoga instructor, Chicago native . . . he does a lot. Bret and his team are on the pursuit of the best day ever, every single day. He aims to achieve this goal by inspiring and motivating his communities through fitness and retreats. Check out the video version here. Or on Youtube here.   Enjoy the show! Sam and Jess

Bret Gornik: The Best Day Ever, Every Single Day

Chad Landers is a 1991 graduate of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and in 2007 became the first American to graduate with a Diploma in Sports Nutrition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Chad has been a personal trainer in Los Angeles for 25 years, and has owned his gym, Push Private Fitness, for more than 15 years. He is the former CA State co-chair of USA Powerlifting (USAPL), and is a USAPL Masters Athlete, Coach and State Referee. Chad lives in Studio City, CA and is married to two-time Oscar-winning Sound Editor, Karen Baker Landers. Enjoy the show, Sam and Jess

Chad Landers: 20+ Years in the Fitness Industry in the Land of Movie Stars

Today we interview, Amanda Edell, Devon Moretti, and Kat Nardizzi - 3 top ladies in the fitness industry. We discuss:  What opportunities there are in fitness Where you can take your career What it's really like to be a strong female entrepreneur in the fitness industry  Enjoy the show! Sam & Jess

3 Journeys of Female Fitness Pros

Mike Salemi's journey in strength & conditioning started at the age of 15 as a competitive Powerlifter. At 19, Mike became a WABDL World Champion in the Bench Press and Deadlift. While working as a D1 collegiate strength & conditioning coach, Mike was introduced to the power of the kettlebell, and the work of respected Holistic Health Practitioner Paul Chek. Both have had large influences on Mike's development as a more well-rounded athlete and person in the years that followed. Currently, as an avid Kettlebell Sport competitor, Mike has achieved the ranking of Master of Sport (Long Cycle & Biathlon), and became the 2017 WAKSC World Champion in Long Cycle. Through his unique approach, Mike has been able to integrate a high-performance form of athletic training using a holistic model. His dream is to continue creating educational materials and programs that support a more balanced athlete. Enjoy the show, Sam and Jess

Mike Salemi: Building Balanced Athletes

Jennifer Vogelgesang is a personal trainer and strength coach at her home-away-from-home, The Movement Minneapolis. She is also a certified USA Powerlifting club coach and RKCII kettlebell coach, and for years has trained clients both in person and online. Her clients range in age from their mid-twenties to mid-sixties. They are complete gym newbies and they are veteran iron slingers. Enjoy this great show with our special guest who's strong in mind, body, and soul.  Enjoy! Sam & Jess

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