The 33Fuel Podcast

33Fuel ambassador Damian is a record breaking ultra runner with credits to his name including a Top 5 finish at UTMB and many podium finishes at the world’s biggest races. But it’s his Fastest Known Time (FKT) records which really set him apart. He holds the FKT for the Paddy Buckley Round, the Cape Wrath trail and recently set a blistering record time on the Pennine Way, on which he covered the 268 miles (and 11,000m ascent) in ju...

We’re delighted to welcome Brian Keane onto this week’s podcast. Brian is a man of many talents - he’s a strength and conditioning coach with a highly successful business and has an unmatched depth of knowledge in a range of sports through personal experience. He played Gaelic football to an elite level, has competed in CrossFit and placed in the Top 10 at the world fitness modelling championships.

He’s now made the shift to ultra ...

In this week’s episode of the 33Fuel podcast, we talk all things gut health, kombucha, fermented food and Team GB bobsledding with Ross Austen.

A former bobsleigh athlete on the GB development team, Ross is a gut health expert. After a long career in sports science and elite performance, Ross started brewing his own kombucha in order to forward the fight for better gut health and performance.

In this conversation, we explore the me...

Personal trainer to professional and amateur athletes, Grant Breese is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. Grant has worked in the industry for 20+ years and has developed a particular skill of helping his clients achieve their weight goals, whether that’s weight loss, maintenance or gain.

Grant does this by using a surprisingly unique method. Rather than “beasting” clients with HIIT sessions and massive diet changes resulting...

Grant Sheldon has bagged a Top 5 on the World Triathlon Series, multiple World Cup podiums and represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. He’s also 100% plant-based.

You won’t believe the catalyst that turned Grant to a plant-based diet (hint: it involved a horrific bike crash!) and why he’s never looked back. You’ll hear how he fuels his training, meets his energy demands, recovers quick enough to train three times a day and ...

Sports and eating disorder dietician Renee McGregor is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. Renee has over 20 years’ experience working in a range of capacities, from NHS clinics to Olympic athletes within a range of sports.

Within her unmatched depth of nutrition, one of Renee’s particular areas of expertise is the subject of RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome). RED-S is ultimately caused by a combination of overtraini...

Running journalist Kieran Alger is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. Alongside his own extensive personal running experience - 40+ marathons and plenty of ultras too - Kieran is one of the UK’s top running product testers.

For 10 years Kieran has tested every piece of running gear under the sun. Whether it’s the latest pair of super shoes, wearable tech, apparel, nutrition product or new data gathering device, he’s put it th...

Gillian Killiner, founder of 121 Dietician, and one of the UK’s top dieticians is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast.

It was a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s - a thyroid disease that wrought havoc on her health – that changed Gillian’s life. The diagnosis and use of nutrition to treat and ultimately reverse the disease is what started Gillian on her journey to becoming one of the UK’s top dieticians.

In this conversation, we talk ab...

Tim Etherington-Judge spent years in the drinks industry promoting the world’s biggest brands, but his seemingly perfect lifestyle wasn’t all it seemed. Deeply unhappy, he reached the pit of his darkness in an Athens hotel room with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a handful of pills in the other.

But that wasn’t the end of the story. Tim is a courageous, creative and hugely inspiring individual who’s having a positive impact on...

Identifying junk food seems simple on the surface: fast foods, soft drinks and sweets probably spring to mind. You might think that’s the end of it, but there’s another culprit hiding in many of our daily diets: ultra-processed foods.

In this episode of the 33Fuel Vlog, Warren explores what junk food is and delves into a new system of classifying foods into one of four categories based on their degree of processing. Learn the diffe...

British Triathlon Level 3 coach Mark Ryan is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. With a swathe of other qualifications to his name, Mark also heads up the coaching at Oxford Triathlon Club.

In this conversation, you’ll hear:

• How to fit training into a busy schedule

• Why the ‘guilty zone’ is crucial for fitness

• How to understand different training zones

• Useful tools to aid development (links in show notes)

• How enjoymen...

Founder of Eat Clean Run Dirty – a beautifully present trail running magazine - Jess Vandenbush is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. Jess is an accomplished trail and ultra runner and doesn’t do things in half measures. She goes all-in, as you’ll hear, having transitioned from 5km to 100-mile in just 18 months!

Bus Jess isn’t one for quick fixes and she doesn’t take the easy route, whether that’s her approach to running or l...

This week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast is Harley Street Nutritional Therapist Phoebe Liebling. In this interview, Phoebe explains the nutritional strategies she uses to help her clients achieve their goals. She explains why intermittent fasting isn’t for everyone, how CBD impacts stress levels and delves into which supplements really work (and which don’t).

If you’re looking for easy-to-action nutrition advice, you’re in the right...

Biomechanics expert, running coach and best-selling author Shane Benzie is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel podcast. Over multiple trips to Kenya and Ethiopia, Shane has accumulated more time than most observing the running form of the world’s best runners. These trips – alongside his extensive coaching experience – make him one of the most qualified run technique experts on the planet.

In this episode, we explore the role of fascia...

Grant Sheldon has bagged a Top 5 on the World Triathlon Series, multiple World Cup podiums and represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. He’s also 100% plant-based.

You won’t believe the catalyst that turned Grant to a plant-based diet (hint: it involved a horrific bike crash!) and why he’s never looked back. You’ll hear how he fuels his training, meets his energy demands, recovers quick enough to train three times a day and ...

We’re thrilled to welcome financial planner, business guru and Ironman triathlete Charlie Reading onto the 33Fuel podcast. Charlie is a rare breed: immensely successful on both the business and athletic front, there’s many lessons in this conversation to take your performances to the next level.

While so much content shares what sport can teach us about business and everyday life, this conversation explores the opposite: you’ll hea...

Clinical psychologist of 30 years and founder of The Appetite Doctor Helen McCarthy is this week’s guest on the 33Fuel Vlog. Helen specialises in the psychology of weight loss by utilising science-based psychological research to direct her practice. Ultimately, she gives you the tools the change habits.

In this episode, you’ll hear some of Helen’s most successful and effective strategies for helping clients lose weight. We all know...

Running 100 miles is a serious undertaking and surely only for elite athletes, right? Not so. Graham Carter blows these preconceptions out the water - a self-proclaimed ‘ordinary man’, he ran not one but four 100-mile races within just five months. In this show Graham dives into how his running took him further than he ever thought possible and how the lessons learned in those miles helped him battle through the Covid challenges of...

You’re in for a treat this week! This episode of the 33Fuel podcast features our good pals Scott and Don, founders of the wildly popular Trail Runner Nation (TRN). TRN began 9 years ago and has since released nearly 500 episodes with an unmatched range of trail running content. They’ve interviewed the world’s top trail and ultra runners, coaches, nutritionists, influencers, personalities and between them discuss everything current ...