Pushing The Limits

Ryan Lang is only just turned 22 years old and already his ultra marathon bio reads like that of a very accomplished ultra running 40 plus year old.  With the Moab 240mile race and the Tahoe 200 miler and soon to add the Big Foot 200 miler to the list along with a bunch of 100 milers and 50 milers this young man knows a lot about what it takes to take on big scary goals and to have the self belief and mental strength to see these c... Read more

Josh komen is an incredible young man. At 23-years-old he was set to wear the black singlet, a West Coast athletics star on the rise. However, in a race to the Commonwealth Games the finish line never came as Josh was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Hitting rock bottom Josh thought about taking his own life before finding inner-strength and deciding to battle the illness. He chronicles this heartbreaking and painfu... Read more

In this episode Run Coaches Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff look at the structure of a good run training system.  The many elements of a holistic program - run sessions, skills and drills, mobility and flexibility work, strength work, sleep and recovery, nutrition and supplementation and mindset. They look at the benefits of video analysis and when to build in technique and drill work and when and how to build in strength training th... Read more

Guy Lawrence is a coach, speaker, wellness advocate, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Let It In. A program designed to help people bridge the gap between the life they live and the life they truly want to live. using meditation and the language of neuroscience.  In this conversation Lisa and Guy go deep on meditation, increasing your conciousness, even quantum physics gets a mention. They talk about  altered states of conscio... Read more

We are all very busy these days and the pace of life sometimes seems insane and it can lead us to feeling overwhelmed when the to do list just gets longer. In this session you will learn about time blocking and priortising what really matters first and why your health, mental sanity and training must be the first things you put in your calendar. They talk about working with your energy flow throughout the day and learning to read w... Read more

In today's episode Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff talk about Mental toughness and how to stop those limiting beliefs you picked up somewhere on your journey through life from stopping you achieving those big dreams you have. No matter how scary or daunting they maybe. We have all had things happen to us that make us believe certain stories about ourselves.  Things like you were told as a kid you were useless at sport, that you were ... Read more

In this episode Lisa does a deep dive with mindset and business scaling expert Joe Trodden on what it takes to succeed and scale in business and how to overcome entrepreneurial and mental roadblocks. Joe works with entrepreneurial leaders who have got typically been in business 2-5 years, have their product in the marketplace with an operational team, and are now asking themselves ‘what’s next?’. His comprehensive programmes enable... Read more

Fear can be debilitating. It's natural that we all experience fear and it's part of being human but if we don't want to be limited in our potential by fear, if we want to push outside our existing boundaries and expand our horizons and if we want to to be high performance and to bring our best when it counts then it pays to learn the strategies you need to control your physiology better and how to reframe the stories running in you... Read more

  Chris Dorris is a Master Mental Toughness coach who has work with thousands of athletes over the past three decades and also many hugely successful business people and corporations. His hard hitting, no BS, tough talk approach really gets results and his insights are mindblowing quite literally. He is the author of a number of internationally published books and a sought after speaker. One of his mantras is Success = Clarity + Co... Read more

Lisa goes on a bit of a rant in this episode sick to death of people putting other people in boxes, imposing their limiting beliefs on others Lisa encourages you find your tribe, your coaches, mentors and friends who will not pull you down and limit your potential but who see the future you and what you can achieve given guidance and support.  To surround yourself with the rescources, people, coaches, books and courses that will ge... Read more

We have all done it.. set out all excited on a new training regime or nutrition plan then become derailed by something, lost our way, fell off the proverbial bandwagon.  In this episode Ultra Endurance Athlete Lisa and Exercise Scientist Neil Wagstaff give their greatest tips for staying motivated, changing the stories running in your head, getting past limiting beliefs and changing your moods and emotions so you can stay focussed ... Read more

This week Lisa speaks to the amazing Kim Morrison a woman who wears so many hats its hard to put her in any one box. A world record holding Ultramarathon runner, Author of 5 books, Essential Oils and Aromatherapist, Founder of the chemical free skin care and organic essential oil company Twenty8.com. Podcaster, wife to famous Cricket player Danny Morrison and all round incredible woman Kim shares her life story in this show and giv... Read more

BRODIE SHARPE is a Melbourne based physiotherapist who specialises in training and treating runners.  He has an incredible knowledge base on all thing running and how to build strength to avoid the most common injuries, how to recover if you are injured and much more  You can find Brodie's podcast on all your favourite podcast apps, his show is titled "Everyday Running Legends" and his website  www. breakthroughrunning.com.au   We ... Read more

Something a little bit different this episode.  On this show Lisa is interviewed by one of the world's leading Human performance and business mastery Specialists Kerwin Rae for his podcast 'UNSTOPPABLE" Kerwin is a man on a mission to empower as many people as he can to push the limits of human potential. He specialises in business development, marketing, sales, human behaviour, entrepreneurial psychology and human performance from... Read more

Lisa talks about the importance of "Working in" sessions doing things like yoga, diaphragmatic breathing, stretching, pilates and how they impact your stress hormones and your waistline. She also talks about menopause and what you can do to help your body transition.  She highly recommends you also listen to this podcast with Dr Lindsey Berkson on menopause, the role of estrogen and much much more. Dr Lindsey is a previous guest on... Read more

Ray Zahab is a Canadian Ultra runner/Adventurer/Explorer extraordinaire. He has completed countless unsupported expeditions and crossings across polar regions and desert. Most famous for being a part of the Sahara7500km run - Crossing the entire continent with Charlie Engle and Kevin Lin. But Ray has done so much more. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic society, holds the Meritorious Service cross of Canadian and is the founder... Read more

Todays episode with Lisa is a coaching session with her athletes many of whom have just completed big races, ultra marathons, marathons and half marathons.  Their build ups were long and hard and now the race has come and gone and they have successfully completed the mission but many are struggling with the blues, not recovering as quick as they thought and aren't sure how to rebuild. In this episode Lisa shares her insights into w... Read more

This week Lisa shares her best tips for running trail races.  Tips on running uphill, tip for the downhill, hydration and electrolytes, nutrition.  Getting the best shoes, blister prevention, mental tactics and more  A must listen to episode if you want to shortcut your path for running success.  We would like to thank our sponsors Pushing the Limits - Ultimate Body Transformation programme. If you want to transform your body, tran... Read more

Paul Whatuira is best known as a hugely successful NRL Athlete, Kiwi player, 2 x Premiership winner. He has played for the Warriors, Melbourne, Storm, Parramatta Eels,  West Tigers, Huddersfield Gians.  But the high points of his athletic career were matched with lows in his personal life, his mental health. A victim of sexual abuse as a child, he realised he had really never dealt with the trauma and when his wife became pregnant ... Read more