Lionhearted

This week, with Thanksgiving only a few days away, I sat down with our Coach Cody, who is not only our Head Coach at Croga Fitness, but also one of our awesome Croga Nutrition Coaches to run through our top tips and tricks for surviving Thanksgiving Day.

These tips and tricks just so happen to be useful at ALL holidays and throughout the year at different get togethers that revolve around food, so if you didn’t catch this episode be...

This week I sat down with our Croga Nutrition Coaching Staff (Cody, Meghan and Stephanie) to answer a bunch of questions form our newest set of clients and some frequently asked questions we’ve been asked over and over during our first year of nutrition coaching.

The questions were very well rounded, including, how to weigh and measure food properly, how to get more protein, how much water to drink daily, carbs versus net carbs and ...

This week I sat down with our awesome Croga Nutrition Coach, Meghan, for the second time.

This time I wanted to chat with her about her experience DURING her journey and if/how life has been different since reaching her goal weight and body composition

I loved having this conversation because it opened my eyes to some things I would have never even thought about from a new athletes perspective, as well as, what it’s like to lose a bu...

This week I sat down with one of our long time coaches from Croga CrossFit who also happens to be, hands down, the most knowledgable member of the Croga Nutrition Staff

Preston has been coaching at Croga for six and a half years now and although he doesn’t spend as much time at the gym in person because he’s got a busy work and extra curricular schedule, he is a pillar of our community.

He’s smart, kind, thoughtful and reverent and i...

This week I sat down with the Croga CrossFit 2019 Member of the Year and one of our Croga Nutrition Coaches, Meghan Pierce for a chat.

Meghan had one hell of a successful year of self improvement that included about 60 lbs of weight loss, tons of athletic improvement and a complete shift in mindset.

She attributes a lot of her success to establishing new habits and changing her internal monologue about the way she perceives or respon...

This week I sat down with the CEO and Founder of Working Against Gravity, Adee Cazayoux.

We started off by having some fun chatting about kids because she is 24 weeks pregnant, which is super exciting.

Then, since Croga is a WAG nutrition Affiliate and the last time I interviewed her their Affiliate Program was still in the works, we talked about the whole process of building that program out, getting it to the world and how it’s goi...

This week Dave sat down for the second time with Croga’s favorite canadian, Joy Sobel, (sorry Kal) to continue our conversation about fitness and coaching.

If you didn’t listen to our last episode, I suggest you go back and check out episode 46 to catch the first part of this interview, but this one should be good either way.

Joy has a very different background and unique view on the world of fitness compared to mine, so I really enj...

This week Dave sat down with a man who has one hell of a resume as a veteran of the Air Force, an owner of a highly successful CrossFit affiliate, member of the CrossFit seminar staff, and CrossFit Games athlete.

And even better, he’s a wonderful husband and father.

His name is Wes Piatt and he’s the owner of Coast Range CrossFit in Gilroy, California.

And as you’ll gather in this interview, Wes is a man of many talents.

He’s a guy tha...

This week Dave sat down with one of our honorary Croga members who lives in Toronto, Canada and is a jack of all trades fitness coac

Her name is Joy Sobel and our paths crossed when she was visiting her brother, Kal, who is a member at Croga.

From about 30 seconds into our first interaction I knew that Joy and I were going to get along because she’s an absolute fireball of energy, positivity, inspiration, and enthusiasm.

She’s one of ...

This week Dave sat down with one of his former coaches at Croga CrossFit, Nick Ralston, to follow up on his half-ironman in Boulder, Colorado and half-marathon up the side of PIke’s Peak in Colorado Springs, Colorado

If you haven’t listened to my first interview with Nick about Self Identity and Using Fitness to Experience the World, go check out episode 42 and then come back to this one as a follow up.

In Episode 42 Nick mentioned t...

This week the boys sat down for a chat about General Physical Preparedness and how when you elect to use this methodology as the anchor for your programming your clientele will be pushed physically and mentally, which will help them improve, but may also push their buttons.

With that in mind, from a coaching perspective, it is of utmost importance that we give each member a win each day that they come and do the workout.

And if you’r...

This week the boys sat down for a chat about consistency. More specifically: consistently moving well, consistently eating well, consistently sleeping enough, consistently doing the work required to advance your career, consistently learning, and many more things that can’t be done here and there if you want to be successful at them.

Consistency is a word that you’ve probably heard us use hundreds of times in our first 42 episodes, ...

This week Dave sat down with one of his former coaches at Croga CrossFit, Nick Ralston to chat about self identity and how changing the way he sees himself has allowed him to use fitness to experience the world.

On the outside, Nick is a big, strong, athletic looking dude that is ex-military, but in this podcast you’ll come to learn that he’s also an intellectual who is well smart, well spoken and loves to explore ideas and experien...

This week the boys sat down for a chat about when enough is enough and you just need to dial back the intensity or maybe take a good ole fashioned rest day, rest week or rest weeks. We’ve experienced overtraining and lack of recovery as athletes and we see it all too often on the faces and in the performance of our clients, so we thought it’d be a great subject to shed some light on.

When should you take a rest day?

When should you h...

This week the boys sat down with our friend, Andrea Cecil. If you didn’t hear her join us to chat about CrossFit’s effect on the Female Aesthetic in Episode 37, go back and give it a listen. Andrea is the former assistant managing editor & head writer of The CrossFit Journal. When we were discussing subjects before Episode 37, we paired it down to two options. The second of which is what you’re going to hear today. This is a st...

This week the boys sat down for a chat about Coaching and a little bit about being on the receiving end of coaching. The conversation was sparked by a blog post titled “If you see something, say something” written by Janet Navarette on Pat & Taz Barbers programming website, Warmup and Workout. As coaches and coaches of coaches and even as athletes, this is an idea that Danny and I have thought about, talked about, and experienc...

This week the boys sat down for another chat about Nutrition. Since this is a topic where there is constantly new information and Danny and Dave are constantly reading, learning and experimenting it only seemed fitting that they have another chat on the subject with some updates for 2019. Additionally, Dave just launched in-house nutrition services at Croga CrossFit through the Working Against Gravity Affiliate Program and he’s sup...

This week the boys sat down sat down with the lovely, Andrea Cecil. She’s the former assistant managing editor & head writer of The CrossFit Journal. Andrea and Dave crossed paths about 6 years ago when she moved to town for a job at CrossFit HQ. A couple months ago her husband, Tony, and her popped in to one of Dave’s Oly classes to throw some weight around and they got to chatting about having her on The Lionhearted Podcast. ...

This week the boys sat down for a chat about the 2019 Open. More specifically, some lessons we’ve learned over the previous 8 years of The Open, including how to perform your best during the workouts, how to motivate yourself even though you’re not going to The CrossFit Games, how to stay safe and healthy through the five week long competition and how to enjoy the hell out of this yearly test and celebration of fitness.

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