Optimised Self

Personal trainer and Online coach-Ruben shares his story with bodyweight, fitness and training. From being 300pounds in college to taking his health into his own hands and turning his life around with fitness and lifestyle change. 

Kenny is a BJJ black belt that competes at a high level on a regular basis. He teaches BJJ and has an inspiring life journey that will give any man the motivation to continue to fight. 

Anthony shares his story with body image and being over 130kg to losing arounf 50kg. He discusses his MMA and BJJ life, injuries and role models.

Personal Trainer, online coach and father of 3 young men. Phillip shares his story with training weight loss and being a father. 

In todays episode Cam tells his story from breaking his back to being 160kg overweight and dealing with pain medication abuse. 

Chris shares is own experience with body image. He gives some great tips on how men can focus on other things rather than obsessing about body image or certain parts of the body. 

John Clayton has a background in psychology and performance management. We had a great discussion about be ing a father while trying to stick to a busy schedule. We also talked about training, body image and lifestyle. 

Daven is a young athlete who has a passion for football and BJJ. We had a discussion about BJJ, injuries, training and the love for keeping active. 

Matt Piga has a great story of achieving a high level of athletics and soccer to dealing with injuries and mental health. He shares a great story and gives awesome advice for young men and people dealing with mental health issues.  Find him on Instagram @art_by_pigasso 

The power of mentors and how they have helped me over the last year. 

Coach Charlie is a young trainer and coach living in Brisbane Queensland. He shares his story from being bullied as a skinny teenager to packing on muscle and smashing it in training and business.  

A quick Solo podcast on whats included in the Optimised Man program. 

An Australian abstract visual artist, A Holistic health and lifestyle coach, Jack has always loved to create. Finding resin was the missing piece. ‘Never in my wildest dream would I have thought to be calling myself an artist.’Combined with his passion and love for health and wellness. Jack feels like he has ‘cracked the code’ to life, in many ways. https://jackmay.com.au/about-me

A quick rant on why action is so important when wanting to get things done and achieve your goals. 

Georgie Gorman is a holistic strength coach and owner of the awesome gym Holistic Sister in West Melbourne. She has a lifetime of experience in the fitness industry from working overseas to empowering women to be the best versions of themselves. Check out https://www.holisticsister.com.au/  and https://www.instagram.com/theholisticsister/

Dan is a holistic chef, health coach and mental health ambassador. He has worked overseas from Italy to London and also working alongside people like Jamie Oliver and also running retreats in Portugal. He currently lives and works in Byron Bay where you can find him teaching, running workshops and retreats and enjoying the wonderful fruits of the area. You can find him @beenourishedbyronbay on instagram and also under the same name on Facebook. 

In this episode of the Optimised Self podcast I talk about my experience with body image issues and some of the thought patterns and things I did to try and combat these insecurities.

Peter Gallagher was born with congenital heart disease, he had his first open heart surgery at age 13. Peter has undergone a total of 5 open heart surgeries and shares his amazing journey in this episode. 

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