The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

This week, Scott and Barbara Oakley talk about how you can learn how to learn, why our learning ability tends to decline as we grow older, and some learning hacks you can to do learn more effectively. FFF 130: 

This week, Scott and Dr. Jennifer Guttman talk about the six principles to achieving sustainable life satisfaction, including closing, decision-making, facing fears, reducing people-pleasing behaviors, avoiding assumptions, and active self-reinforcement. Learn how you can apply each of them into your life! FFF 129: 

This week, Scott and Dave Cottrell talk about his recent A Life a Day project. Learn what mindset really is and how it can shape your daily life including relationships and experiences, and what effects social media has on it. Should you be more ruthless in unfriending and unfollowing people? Let's find out! FFF 128: 

This week, Scott and Emma Derbyshire talk about nutrition around pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding. Learn about what food you should eat, supplements you need, what to avoid, weight loss while breastfeeding, and some myths around these topics debunked. FFF 127: 

An author and speaker, James is known for talking about habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. Featured on New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time Magazine, and lots of TV appearances, his website gets millions of visitors each month. He regularly speaks to Fortune 500 companies and has worked with NFL, NBA, and NLB sporting professionals and teams. In this episode, James shares some great strategies for creating habits you can stick to and get rid of the things you know you shouldn't be doing through sensible and evidence-based ways. FFF 126: 

Food waste is a global problem. In fact, we waste around 1/3 of the food we produce globally. This week, Scott and Tristram Stuart talk about the scale of the problem and what you can do to minimize this, as well as some of the regulations and what supermarkets are doing to combat this global scandal. Tristam is one of the UK's leading figures on promoting food waste reduction. He has written books on this and campaigned across the world. He's making a difference and constantly meeting with supermarkets to address this. FFF 125: 

This week, Scott and Mike Matthews talk about what’s wrong with the fitness industry today, some diet fads (do they even work?), and the truth about dodgy marketing. Mike Matthews is primarily a writer, best known for his books, which sold about a million copies over the last six years. Among his books include Bigger, Leaner, Stronger (for men); Thinner, Leaner, Stronger (for women); and The Shredded Chef, a flexible, dieting cookbook for both men and women. FFF 124: 

This week, Scott and Ben Mudge talk about cystic fibrosis and its impact on one’s health. Having such condition, Ben shares about what cystic fibrosis is, its symptoms, and what he does in terms of training and nutrition. Additionally, he gives us a glimpse of his experience with Game of Thrones before entering the fitness industry and why he stopped competing in bodybuilding FFF 123: 

This week, Scott and Tim Brownson talk about what a life coach is and what they do. If you're struggling to achieve certain goals, a life coach may just help you get back on track. Or if this is some career path you want to take, find out more about what you can do to get started. FFF 122: 

In this epsiode we're chatting all about type II diabetes. What is it, what are the symptoms, how can it be managed, how important is diet to mitigate the onset. FFF 121: 

This week, Scott and best selling author - Michael Heppell - talk about how to be brilliant. Do you need accountability? Do you feel you lack the willpower to do the things you need to do? Listen in to discover ways to keep yourself on track and be brilliant each day! FFF 120: 

In this episode, Scott and Steve Kemp talk about the effect alcohol has on your body and your waistline. They specifically tackle how alcohol affects your food cravings during hangover, how to structure your training after a nights booze, and some things you can do to mitigate the effects of alcohol to help you quickly get back on track. FFF 119: 

In this episode, Scott and Tom Hamilton talk about how you can get stronger. Tom shares things you can do to improve your deadlift, squat, and bench press. Discover how you can create a better and more focused training structure, rather than just following freestyle or random programs. FFF 118: 

In this episode we're chatting about how to stop your NEAT dropping (one of the main reasons why people experience a fat loss plateau) and why measuring your body fat levels is a waste of time. FFF 117: 

Does it matter what time of day you exercise and can you minimise the harmful effect of shift work on your circadian rhythm? FFF 116: 

This week we're chatting with Brian Keane who's just completed The Marathon De Sables - a multiday ultra-endurance foot race in the Sahara Desert. The 6 day event requires athletes to cover around 254 km with individual stages varying in length with the longest day around 91 km. Aside from the extreme temperatures which can range from ~50°C in the day to ~5°C at night, a further challenge is that competitors are required to be largely self-sufficient and must carry all their own food and equipment for the event. FFF 115: 

This week we're chatting with Ben Smith who ran an epic 401 marathons in 401 days. Why 401? What prompted Ben to take on such a challenge when he’d only really just started out running fairly recently? Ben shares how running helped transform his life and provided a way for him to find happiness and greatly improve not only his physical but his mental health too. We’ll chat about some of the hardest parts of the challenge, the annoying injuries, his secret rice and chicken post-race fuel, the people he met and the lessons he learned. FFF 114: 

Jackson's main area of research is on a subject called concurrent training. You might not have heard of concurrent training but it's something you are probably doing….without being aware of it. It is when you do some form endurance training and strength training in your training routine. If you lift weights and run or you class yourself as a runner who occasionally lifts weights, that's a form of concurrent training. There are a lot of myths about doing the two. We discussed if cardio will ruin your gains and if you do strength training, will it make you run slower or get too bulky? We talked about the benefits of doing both, if we should do them in the same session, if we should do one before the other. FFF 113: 

This week we are chatting about eating disorders, body image and fitspiration with Rhiannon Lambert. She is a nutritionist with a clinic in Harley Street and often works with people who have various eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. In this episode we looked at the definition of disordered eating, why ‘cheat meals’ and the restrict/binge cycle isn’t healthy, the problem with food labeling, tracking macros vs intuitive eating and the influences of social media on eating habits and body image. FFF 112: 

You might remember Ross from Episode 85 when he came to chat about 30 marathons in 30 days along with various other crazy challenges that he's done. Ross is a bit of an adventurer and he likes to see how he can push the human body to its absolute limits. In this episode, we chatted about his new book (The World's Fittest Book: How To Train For Anything & Everything, Anywhere & Everywhere) which he talks about how he does training and all the things that he's learned from interviewing industry pioneers and various world champions. He also talked about hybrid training; how can you train for an endurance sport whilst getting stronger or how can you get faster but build muscle at the same time. It is an interesting episode because you'll learn how Ross managed to train for these crazy events that he swam for four hours non-stop once yet he looks like a powerlifter. FFF 111: