From 18 months of training to surviving a boat capsize and coming face to face with a whale, this episode was one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever heard. You cannot miss this one!
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For this one, I just pressed record and talked about of my experience running 250km self-sufficient through the Sahara Desert the week before last. I go briefly into everything I did with my training, food and mindset before the event and then all the ridiculous and life-changing moments during and after my time in the Sahara. This episode goes through the highs and the lows. I’ve talked everything from avoiding snakes and scorpions on the long day (86 km), seeing people hooked up to IV’s and puking blood to cutting away the steel poles holding our tent to try and survive a sandstorm (side note: I’ll never take having a roof and four walls for granted ever again!). I hope you enjoy this one. This episode is dedicated to my MDS tent mates Simon, Johnny, Paddy, Hugh, Fergal and Pete who all played a huge role in helping me get to the finish line.
Dave and Steve are identical twins, better known as The Happy Pear. On top of running an incredibly successful health food vegan business; they are also best-selling authors who live and embrace an incredible lifestyle of health, wellness and happiness in general.
This podcast is amazing! We talk everything from their semi-pro background in rugby and travelling the world as hippies (their words, not mine) and how opening up a small vegetable shop started it all. We also delve into everything from vegan lifestyle, mediation, and wellness to morning rituals (swim rising) and handstand workouts! I hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it.
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On today's Q&A Brian answers:
Can you get visible abs with just diet alone? 00:44
Do you think cutting can make you look bigger? 07:35
How do I encourage my partner and/or loved one to develop their own healthy mindset by consuming content such as yours or other well-regarded sources? I know for a fact it would help them out as it has helped me but their cynicism of stoicism and "self-help" books gets in the way. I'd appreciate it if you kept this question anonymous. 11:27
I feel so lost in life, Have you any tips to help someone find their way or their purpose? 21:58
Any tips for pulling birds way out of my league? 35:41
Resources mentioned:
The Fitness Mindset – Amazon Best Seller
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
Becca is a personal trainer and online nutrition coach. After spending time in London as a nurse, she moved into the fitness industry and now helps serve clients from all walks of life with her unique training and nutritional approach. Becca gave so much value here; from her training and nutrition mistakes to going from cardio bunny to glute expert. I hope you enjoy this one.
Rapid fire Questions
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1) How can I build the mindset to make healthier food choices? I think I know what foods are good and bad but I just can’t seem to stick to eating healthier, any tips would be great? 01:15
2) What are your thoughts on ‘twice a day’ training? 12:26
3) What are your thoughts on visualization and meditation? 23:53
4) Hi Brian, can you do a podcast about how to cope with a partner who isn't supportive of your fitness journey? When I married my partner, we were so unfit (drinking and smoking and eating crap) but now I'm on my fitness journey my other half feels left behind. He is jealous, suspicious and (whether subconscious or unconscious) tries to sabotage my attempts at improving my lifestyle and body. How do I cope? 38:37
Resources mentioned:
The Fitness Mindset – Amazon Best Seller
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
How can I avoid eating junk food? I feel like I’m always craving it. 02:21
Do you ever hit a wall midday from getting up so early in the morning? I get up at 5 am (like you every morning) but always feel drained by 11 am and need a nap. It takes me so long to get going after the nap though and it takes a big chunk of my day? Any help would be great? 14:29
I’ve heard you mention crossfit a few times, what’s your opinion on it? I’ve been doing it a while now and I love it but not as happy with my body composition than when I was doing normal weight training? What are your thoughts? 28:37
Is there anything you can do to help me deal with a break-up? I broke up with my ex-girlfriend and think I made a big mistake. She doesn’t want to get back together. What should I do 37:14
Resources mentioned:
The Fitness Mindset – Amazon Best Seller
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
1) I started paying attention to my food & health relatively recently. But my girlfriend still doesn’t. How would you recommend to handle this kind of situation, she doesn’t really want to change but I think it would be better for her? 01:38
2) What’s the best way to grow my legs? 11:39
3) Will running fasted with BCAA’s in the morning help me burn more fat? 19:46
4) I’m 29, all my friends are on about settling down and getting houses, I want to travel though, what should I do? 27:28
5) Do you think it’s better to follow logical reasoning or go with your heart when making big decisions? 35:45
I was lit up after this episode. Marcus is a Dubai entrepreneur, an ultra-marathon runner, ultra cyclist and a motivational speaker who has zero filter on everything he says. If you need motivation today, this is the episode to listen to!
At the end of this episode, DM me or Marcus on Instagram – what is your Everest?
Rapid fire Questions
Marcus’s Social Media Links
The Health and Fitness Podcast by Inner Fight:
Marcus’s Book Recommendations
LOSING MY VIRGINITY & FINDING MY VIRGINITY
1) What do you eat before working out on the morning? 00:44
2) I've seen a lot of bulk and cut plans contain carbs before bed. Can you explain the reason and effect this has on the body? 09:21
3) This summer I will be doing a lot of travelling (interrailing/America) for 6 weeks. Any tips on training and eating on a low budget when travelling? 17:38
4) I feel a bit tired during my workouts and looking for something to give me that little bit of push to get lifting heavier weights. Is there anything I should be taking a pre-workout maybe?30:44
6) I’m really struggling with negative friends, every time I talk to them about my goals and dreams, they slag me off- what should I do? 45:28
Resources mentioned:
The Fitness Mindset – Amazon Best Seller
Killer resources:
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
Resources mentioned:
The Fitness Mindset – Amazon Best Seller
Killer resources:
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
Best selling author of ‘The Warrior Diet’ Ori talks through everything from his new book on stress and how ‘controlled stressors’ such as intermittent fasting and the right eating pattern can make you leaner, fitter and stronger alongside how it can slow down the ageing process whilst ramping up your sex drive.
Introduction:
Ori Hofmekler is a modern renaissance man whose formative military experience prompted a life interest in survival science. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received a degree in Human Science, he is a world-renowned artist whose political satire artwork has been featured in books and magazines worldwide.
As editor-in-chief of Mind and Muscle Power magazine, Hofmekler introduced his diet approach to the public to immediate acclaim from readers and professionals. He is the best selling author of The Warrior Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat/ the secret science behind physical transformation, the anti-estrogenic diet and unlocking your muscle gene/trigger the biological mechanism that transforms your body and extends your life (which a lot of you who follow my Snapchat and Instagram will regularly hear me mention).
His newest book The 7 Principles of Stress: Extend Life, Stay Fit, and Ward Off Fat--What You Didn't Know about How Stress Can Reboot Your Mind, Energy, and Sex Life is now available on Amazon and all well-known bookstores.
Ori’s Social Media Links
Amazon links to Ori’s Books:
Siobhan’s story is incredible. She talks through how she went from being overweight (and strong) to lean and fit and how keeping herself accountable on social media started it all! We talked everything in this episode from 9-5 jobs to travel to physical transformations and avoiding fad diets.
I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did recording.
Siobhan's Social Media Links
Website: http://ohfitness.ie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohfitness_ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiobhanOHFitness/
The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
by Prof Steve Peters
Link: http://amzn.eu/7fWB3Je
Resources mentioned:
Killer resources:
FREE 14 Days of Fat Loss – an email a day to help you lose fat faster!
https://briankeanefitness.com/
How can I build muscle training at home? 01:13
What are your top 3 diet tips? 07:04
What pre workout do you recommend to people? 17:18
My knee hurts when I run on the road, what can I do? 24:21
Is the organic white chocolate you eat healthier than the ‘normal’ chocolate? 30:21
I have pain in the front of my shoulders when I do presses, how can I fix it? 33:22
How can I get over fear, you know I want to do something but get afraid, please keep this anonymous as I don’t want my friends to see? 38:49
Today is a pretty heavy hitting mindset episode, I talk about some things in my own life that I haven’t spoken about previously to try and give context to how these stories showed up in my life and the life triggers that sparked them. I feel like this would have been a treasure map for me five years so I hope it helps as it’s something I needed to hear not too long ago.
Story 1: IT’S JUST NOT THE RIGHT TIME 00:05:12:22
Watch out for fear disguised as practicality
Story 2: I’M DOING SOMETHING SO THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH 00:15:31:13
Do not confuse movement with progress!
Story 3: I CAN’T DO THAT! 00:24:42:00
If you tell yourself you cant, your mind will close off immediately. Remember, if your goals don’t scare you they aren’t big enough!
Story 4: WAIT, BUT THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! 00:30:10:22
All your limitations are self created and impossible is a big word thrown around by small people. Try telling Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb) or The Wright Brothers (inventors of the airplane) that their ideas were impossible! (Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Richard Branson are the modern day examples)
Story 5: I'LL LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES! 00:32:57:02
This one needs more context. It’s incredibly important to learn from mistakes but nobody said they had to be your mistakes. Reframing this one single story has changed everything in my life in over the last five years.
1) What do you think of juice diets?
2) Do you track fruit or should as carbs?
3) Do you have good quotes or advice for athletes (and life in general)?
4) What would you recommend for severe bloating? I find it terrible after eating pulses and green veg, it's quite painful?
5) You always talk about glute activation, this might be a stupid question but how do you know if they’re activating?
6) What do I do if I have a small penis?
FULL SHOW NOTES ON BRIANKEANEFITNESS.COM
Q+A
1: How to get back into training after the being sick?
2: How many days a week should you train, is between 5-7 days good?
3: Can you go over your investing/spending/ wasting time and money thing from Snapchat, please?
4: What’s more important to lose body - eating a calorie deficit or keeping protein high?
5: Should I do cardio before or after weights?
6: I use to have a thing with my housemate but he put a stop to it. Now every time I get drunk I get really upset or do something stupid. I don’t want it to be awkward in the house because we’re really good friends but we can’t enjoy going out together anymore.
What do I do?
Q+A
Learn how you can balance your nutrition, training, supplements to shift the Xmas pounds and set yourself up for attaining your goals for 2018!
I’ve probably learnt more in this last year than I had in the previous five combined. I hope this episode helps as much as it helped me re-listening to it.
“Be yourself because everyone else is taken” – Oscar Wilde
“If you can't be happy on the journey, how are you going to be happy at the destination?” – Buddha
“ Perfection isn’t when there’s nothing left to add, its when there’s nothing left to take away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knowledge is just filling the gaps between what you don’t know you don’t know AND it can be learned! Everything you don’t know, you can look up, it’s the things you ‘don’t know you know’ that will kill you. Books,