Fitness Break Room Podcast

Hey, you. Today, you can start to live your own myth and create your destiny. Rog and Amanda did it - you can too. Rog drove from Michigan to Boston to hand in a resume for an unpaid internship. Amanda was a music teacher but realized she wanted to teach others how to be comfortable in their own skin, not to play music. Today, they are both expert trainers at the wacky world of Mark Fisher Fitness - perhaps the happiest, most magical place any coach could ever hope to work. How did they create their own destiny from ground zero? Find out by listening to the show :) Enjoy! Sam & Jess * * * * *  P.S. We're almost ready with our free online fitness business course with our partner the Toolkit Agency for those of you who are looking to take your fitness business idea to launch. Stay tuned for this great free resource - we're happy to do what we can to help you and the industry elevate!

This is a great show for any young athletes who are looking to take their talents beyond the sport. Our Guest Jeremy Hills is the director of sports performance for ONNIT Sports Performance and former running back for the Texas Longhorns. He discusses his journey from growing up in project housing to now training some of the best athletes in the nation. At just 28-years-old, he has a lot of wisdom to share - far beyond his years. Definitely a great show for football fans everywhere. Jeremy is on the inside of the complexities of the NFL Combine and has some great insight into what makes remarkable athletes different from the rest of us. Enjoy the show! Sam & Jess   * * * * *  P.S. We get a ton of questions from people who are looking to start their fitness business. In response, we just finished recording a free online fitness business course with our partner the Toolkit Agency for those of you who are looking to take your fitness business idea to launch. Stay tuned for this great free resource - we're ha

This is a great show for any trainers and PTs looking to train elite level athletes and are looking to make a positive impact in their lives. This week on the Fitness Break Room Podcast, we interview Donnie Maib, the Head Coach for Olympic Sports and the Assistant Athletics Director for Athletic Performance at the University of Texas at Austin. He's also the author of "Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork" and a keynote speaker who touches on some pretty important topics:  The 8 Laws of Motivation – Keys to Unlocking Greatness  Transitions – Navigating Changes in Your Career Path and Life  The Culture Code – Building and Sustaining a Championship Culture  Combatting Complacency – Our Greatest Threat to Success  Unstuck – Fresh Traction for Common Struggles   Enjoy listening and learning from this OG in the industry! Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. THIS is your LAST chance to win April 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at KNOW Foods. We're giving you guys a few more days to win.T

This is a great show for any trainers and PTs looking to train professional athletes and/or create an online fitness empire.  This week on the Fitness Break Room Podcast, we interview our friend Dr. John Rusin, the expert in pain-free performance training on his journey from schooling, to living in a Days Inn with a doctorate, to being a go-to resource in the fitness industry through writing articles, shooting videos, coaching, treating, training, and much more. Dr. John is a great example of a man with grit - someone who has the passion and perseverance to accomplish a long-term goal. Don't miss our next Break Down where we explain how you can improve your grit too. Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your LAST chance to win April 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at KNOW Foods. They're giving one of you an assortment of their grain-free treats. We're talking about care package filled with grain-free donuts, cookies, bread, muffins, waffles *drool. Visit www.fitnessbreak

This is a great show for any trainers or aspiring fitness professionals who are looking to build their own online business.  This week on the Fitness Break Room Podcast, we interview our friends Missy Bunch and Ryan Steenrod, founders of Death of the Desk - the go-to resource to stop common sitting-related/office-life problems before they start.  On this show, we discuss how they created Death of the Desk to be the online resource to fight the effects of work environments and their journey throughout the fitness industry to get them where they are today. Lots of great information for people who are looking to make a big move in their life. Click here to watch the video version. Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win April 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at KNOW Foods. They're giving one of you an assortment of their grain-free treats. We're talking about care package filled with grain-free donuts, cookies, bread, muffins, waffles *drool. Visit www.fitnes

This is a great show for anyone that's looking to start their own podcast or is curious as to how one would build a fitness empire.  This week on the Fitness Break Room Podcast, we interview our great friend, the magical, mystical, Mike Bledsoe - the co-founder of #1 rated fitness show Barbell Shrugged, Barbell Business, and host of his current podcast The Bledsoe Show.  He discusses his unique journey in the industry starting with actually studying training for 2 years before every lifting weights which made for a really interesting reverence for doing fitness right to co-creating a fitness empire with a bunch of his best friends in a fairly short amount of time. Today, he's traveling the world with his beautiful wife Ashley holding workshops and seminars for truth seekers everywhere. Definitely, don't miss this show. Lots of wise words from a man who isn't afraid to experiment with life itself.  Click here to watch the video version.  Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win April 20

In this 4th episode of the Forged in Fire Break Down series, we're discussing affirmations: How they reprogram your subconscious mind How some of the most successful people in the world are committed to their affirmations The 2 types of affirmations you should do How you can go about building this powerful ritual into your life Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win April 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at KNOW Foods. They're giving one of you an assortment of their grain-free treats. We're talking about care package filled with grain-free donuts, cookies, bread, muffins, waffles *drool. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 5/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

This is a great show for any athlete or trainer looking to understand the inner workings of a professional athlete.  This week on the Fitness Break Room Podcast, we interview Tommy La Stella of the Chicago Cubs. What an honor it was to sit down with this determined and talented athlete. He discusses the ride of losing his passion, finding himself, and what it's really like to be a professional American athlete. This is so fitting as it's right in line with our Break Down theme of forging strength through fire.  Click here to watch the video version.  Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win April 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at KNOW Foods. They're giving one of you an assortment of their grain-free treats. We're talking about care package filled with grain-free donuts, cookies, bread, muffins, waffles *drool. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 5/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

For this episode, Jessica and our guest co-host Brian are going to be discussing the reality of perception: We’ll explore how you perceive everyday life and how that impacts the way life happens to you 2 basic mindsets that shape our realities: fixed mindset vs growth mindset The ritual you can do to every month to release feelings and beliefs that are holding you back from creating new awesome things and experiences in your life For more details on the topics discussed in this show, check out our show notes here.  Enjoy! - Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your last chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;)   

This is a great show for any gym owner or aspiring gym owner.  Our last stop in Orange County is in San Clemente with our friend Markus Gerszi, CMO of Gymwright. Markus specializes in creating 5-star gym experiences and has worked with hundreds of affiliates to level up their businesses. He's spent all of his adult life honing his craft of enhancing the user's experience in a diverse range of jobs and projects, now combining everything he's learned into this unique vocation of helping affiliated gyms thrive.  Click here to watch the video version.  Enjoy, Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your last chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

Coach Brian Paquette joins Jessica in the basement studio for a great show on the 6 character strengths that you can elevate which will help you see successes in every area of your life – in finding your purpose, increasing your prosperity, and leveling up your relationships. For a full list of these character strengths, visit our show notes here.  Don’t miss it! - Sam and Jess * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;) 

This is a great show for all of you physical therapists and aspiring PTs. We've traveled down to Orange County from LA to visit with our friend Dr. Quinn Henoch to discuss bringing the PT and strength/performance world together. He has a great website that should be a massive catalyst for helping athletes find the right physical therapist in their area.  He's a great guy with a ton of knowledge and he was a total pleasure to talk with. Definitely a "don't-miss" kind of show. Huge thanks to Dr. Quinn for giving us his time and knowledge.  Click here to watch the video version.  * * * * *  P.S. This is your chance to win March 2018's Fitness Industry Night Giveaway sponsored by our friends at ONNIT (again) love those guys. They're giving one of you a 40# Iron Man Kettlebell. Visit www.fitnessbreakroom.com before 4/1/18 to enter to win. Good luck, friends. ;)   

We're back with Break Down Series 2: Forged in Fire. It’s all about elevating your passion, resilience, determination, and focus. We’re going to figure out what allows a person to maintain the discipline and optimism to persevere in their goals even in the face of discomfort, rejection, and a lack of visible progress for weeks, years, or even decades. It’s a tough love series. Character strengths and weaknesses. Fixed mindset vs growth mindset The reality of perception. Explore how you perceive everyday life and how that impacts the way life happens to you. Affirmations. Learn the 2 types of affirmations that you can use to change your state instantly and for the long term.  Deliberate practice. How can you systematically elevate a strength or level up a weakness?  Grit. Measure your personal character strength of perseverance and learn how you can improve it. Embrace the suck. Learn ways to forge grit through certain types of intentional discomfort. This is going to be a fun one >:) Craft your story. An exe

This is a great show for anyone who's looking to start a smaller boutique style gym or studio. Smaller community = bigger impact.  This is also an awesome show for people who have experienced challenges and are finding their way again. This week, we start our LA tour kicking it off with this inspirational interview with Cody Story. Cody is the owner of Storey Fitness, a boutique style gym in Los Angeles. In this show, he discusses how he got to his current state of helping others free themselves on an inner personal level and liberating themselves from the current limitations of their bodies. Cody isn't your typical gym owner. His story is one in a million and he's truly a one in a million man. From being on top as one of the top snowboarders in the world, to hitting rock bottom living on the streets, to completely reinventing himself, to finding his way and enjoying life's more subtle pleasures as he contributes to the health and happiness of his community. . . You're not going to want to miss this show. He

This is a great show for anyone in the fitness industry. Seriously. Dr. Andy Galpin is our special guest for this episode of Fitness Break Room and we couldn't be more stoked to be able to co-create this awesome conversation about the industry and how to get where you want to go in your career. Dr. Andy is a tenured Professor in the Center for Sport Performance at CSU Fullerton, an author, a regular guest on the Barbell Shrugged podcast, and also offers a ton of other free and valuable content for us to learn from on his website and other podcasts in the industry. On this show, he and Sam discuss: How not to get the attention of an industry leader Several things you should consider before you decide you want to work with top-level athletes How opening your eyes and staying endlessly curious throughout your life will bring your opportunities you could never have architected yourself In addition to being a brilliant human, Dr. Andy is an amazing storyteller. If you're into learning massive amounts of helpful

OPEX is home to arguably some of the US’ most consistently great coaches. This week, on Fitness Break Room we interview Jim Crowell and Michael Bann who are a few of the men who run that operation. They go into detail on how great coaches and trainers are born and how they themselves became leaders of this movement. Click here to enter to win our monthly Fitness Industry Night Giveaway. This month (Feb 2018), you have a chance to win a pair of 35# Captain America Barbell Plates from our friends at ONNIT. Enjoy the show, Sam and Jess

Watch the video version of this VIP interview with Eric Dannenberg from EXOS on our website here.  Want to know how the coaching experts at EXOS help top-tier performers execute at their very best for as long as possible? This is a great show for trainers who would like to know their ingredients EXOS prescribes to help the best of the best perform at a high-level day after day. This week, we interview Eric Dannenberg, the Performance Manager for EXOS who ensures that everything that comes through their doors (methodologies, partnerships, products) are ready to be executed at a high level. "We do the simple things savagely well." That's their mantra. If you haven't heard about this business, you're definitely familiar with the athletes, teams, business and military organizations they help operate at their very best. Don't miss this powerful insider insight into an organization that's making big things happen in our industry from our brilliant and humble friend Eric Dannenberg. Click here to enter to win our mo

"Strength is for everyone." This week we're blessed to have Sam Johnson founder of StrengthFarm and Betina Gozo Nike Master Trainer and Women's Health Magazine's Next Fitness Star (2017) as special guests on the Fitness Break Room. They believe true strength is the emotional or mental qualities necessary in dealing with situations or events that are distressing or difficult. And they're people who've experienced a lot of life in a fairly short amount of time. Get your ego in check, people! These two are humble, powerful, and so empowering. We all have a lot to learn. To see the video version, visit: www.fitnessbreakroom.com/strengthfarm Please subscribe if you're enjoying the show. Even better, leave us a review! And don't forget to enter to win our Fitness Industry Night Giveaway. You could win for Feb 2018: Captain America Shield Barbell Plates 35# by ONNIT. Enter your name and email at fitnessbreakroom.com Enjoy the show, Sam and Jess

This is a great show for people who're looking to work with professional golfers, pro baseball players, or even the occasional WWE wrestler. Dr. Jimmy Yuan has a pretty awesome job. He's a chiropractor who's built his practice to allow him to play around with all kinds of healing modalities which are sought after by professional athletes and grandma Bettys alike. On this show, he discusses his journey from confused-about-the-future young adult to where he is today and the guiding themes that have helped him make the right choices when "luck" brought opportunity his way.  For more show notes, visit our website here.  Enter to win our monthly Fitness Industry Night Giveaway here.  If you're enjoying the Fitness Break Room, please leave us a written review on iTunes. Good ratings and reviews help us keep the Break Room lit. Enjoy the show!

Enjoying the journey is easier said than done. Even enjoying the completion of a goal or project can be a little underwhelming after the weeks or months of work and ramp up. On this show, Sam and Jess realize while recording, they could really improve in this department. How do you celebrate your accomplishments? What have you done for yourself to say "thank you" for a job well done?  Tag @fitnessbreakroom on IG with a photo of your style of celebrating to give recovering workaholic Sam some ideas on how he can gift himself for years of grind. The winner will get a free Passion Planner (Jessica's favorite task management tool). Get our favorite reflection questions here to be more mindful of how your month went to celebrate the wins you might have a difficult time recalling.  Don't forget to enter into our monthly fitness industry night giveaway here. This month's sponsor - LIFEAID!