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Ep. 83: Start Your New Year’s Resolution Now!

New Year's resolutions are cliche. In this episode, we talk about why you should start before the calendar flips over to build momentum through the holidays. Regarding fitness, there is no better time to start than now.

 

We cover a lot of fun topics that you can put into practice, including intermittent fasting, strength training, and how to add cardio. Whether your goal is longevity or looking better in your underpants, we give you tips that work for our training clients and us.

 

If you are tired of feeling tired then give a listen and get started down a lifetime path of fitness.

 

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Show Notes:

 

Fitness & Training Podcasts:

• Ep. 82: Winston's Body Transformation
• Ep. 81: Minimalist Training for Long Distance Hiking 
• Ep. 78: Dealing with Life’s Aches and Pains 
• Ep. 74: Fitness Q&A: Weight Loss & Home Gym
• Ep. 73: Fitness Q&A 
• Ep. 72: Winter Training for Summer Adventures
• Ep. 71: Building a Home Gym
• Ep. 68: Longevity Series: Better Living Through Chemistry
• Ep. 67: Longevity Series - Fasting, Diet and Weight Loss 
• Ep. 66: Longevity Series - Exercise 
• Ep. 63: Fat Loss Tips That Actually Work
• Ep. 61: Body Transformation for Performance, Health and Mental Well Being- Catharine Gerhard’s Journey
• Ep. 58: Fitness for Mtn Biking 
• Ep. 56: Fitness Game Changers 
• Ep. 53: Kettlebell Training For the Outdoor Athlete
• Ep. 34: How to Feel Better with Allison Gaudet
• Ep. 32: Quarantine Fitness  
• Ep. 20: Injury Prevention and Rehab with Allison Gaudet 
• Ep. 7: Barbells and Backpacks 

Training / Fitness Articles:

• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo-Charge Your Progress
• Training Secrets for the Outdoor Athlete
• Great Lakes Girya Kettlebell Review
• 9 Reasons Kettlebell Training is Optimal for Outdoor Athletes  
• Does Hiking Build Glutes
• Kettlebell Training for Hikers and Backpackers   
• Ruck Marching for Hiking Fitness and Fat Loss  
• #TrekTipTuesday - Ruck Marching For Hiking Fitness  
• Training for Outdoors, Simplified 

 

Ep. 72: Winter Training for Summer Adventures

If you want to be at your best for your warm-weather adventures then you better start training now. Winston and Catharine discuss how to structure your fitness program in phases so you are ready for a summer of mountain biking, hiking, and rock climbing.

 

Many people want to train but aren't sure how to put together a program with strength, conditioning, mobility, and skills. Give a listen to find out how the LiveWild Radio crew plan out their season to be in good shape year-round with peak fitness for their trips.

 

PROMO ALERT! Great Lakes Girya (Canadian website: https://www.greatlakesgirya.com) or (US website: https://us.greatlakesgirya.com/ ) fitness equipment and use Coupon Code "LIVEWILD" to save 5% on any purchase meanwhile also supporting us. 

 

Show Notes:

Looking to dive deep in LiveWild Radio's rabbit hole of fitness and training? 

• Ep. 71: Building a Home Gym
• Ep. 66: Longevity Series - Exercise
• Ep. 63: Fat Loss Tips That Actually Work
• Ep. 61: Body Transformation for Performance, Health and Mental Well Being- Catharine Gerhard’s Journey
• Ep. 58: Fitness for Mountain Biking 
• Ep. 56: Fitness Game Changers 
• Ep. 53: Kettlebell Training For the Outdoor Athlete
• Ep. 32: Quarantine Fitness  
• Ep. 20: Injury Prevention and Rehab with Allison Gaudet
• LiveWild Radio's Favorite Exercises, (Hip Hinge, Squat, Pull, Press and Weighted Carries) 
• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo-Charge Your Progress 
• Training Secrets for the Outdoor Athlete
• Training for Outdoors, Simplified  
• Great Lakes Girya Kettlebell Review
• 9 Reasons Kettlebell Training is Optimal for Outdoor Athletes  
• Does Hiking Build Glutes
• Kettlebell Training for Hikers and Backpackers   
• Ruck Marching for Hiking Fitness and Fat Loss  

Ep. 64: Surviving A Skydiver‘s Worst Nightmare with Kris Konway

What do you do when both your main and reserve parachutes don't deploy properly? We have a chat with one of Catharine's friends from high school about his adventures and how adventure has changed his life. 

 

Our guest, Kris Konway, is one of the few skydivers in the world to have a double malfunction and live to tell the tale. He tells the tale of how training and luck allowed him to walk away from what is every skydiver's nightmare.

 

From why he began sky diving to how adventure has been a driving force in his life, Kris gives his take on how to live as big as possible. Give a listen and see that hitting middle-age doesn't mean you have to slow down.

 

Discount Alert! Looking for fitness equipment and a discount? Check out Great Lakes Girya (Canadian website) or (US website) fitness equipment and use Coupon Code "LIVEWILD" to save 5% on any purchase meanwhile also supporting us. 

Ep. 61 - Body Transformation for Performance, Health, and Mental Wellbeing - Catharine's Journey

Catharine pilots this episode with the story of her five-year journey from obesity to fitness. Spurred by the end of her marriage and the deterioration of her knees, she needed to make a change if she wanted to be able to live the life she desired.

 

With kids she wanted to be able to play with and activities she yearned to do, the motivation to start was easy. Like most people, she ran into challenges of maintaining that motivation but learned how discipline and baby steps lead to amazing results.

 

In that time she lost nearly 60 pounds and went from being unable to walk down the stairs without support to climbing mountains and shedding on her mountain bike. The damage to her knees is still present but by becoming stronger and lighter she has made it a problem to manage rather than one that defines her capabilities.

 

Learn how she completely changed her lifestyle to make her physical transformation inevitable. Training, nutrition, and a change in mental outlook all work together to slowly but surely achieve the results she was after.

 

Since Winston has been her training partner and coach for the whole period he chimes in with the technical details of how the lifestyle changes were enacted and why.

 

Show Notes:

 

Here's some other LiveWild Radio resources on the topic. 

Podcasts:

• Ep. 58 - Fitness for Mountain Biking 
• Ep. 56 - Fitness Game Changers 
• Ep. 53: Kettlebell Training for the Outdoor Athlete

• Ep. 34: How to Feel Better with Allison Gaudet

• Ep. 32: Quarantine Fitness

• Ep. 20: Injury Prevention and Rehab with Allison Gaudet

• Ep. 7: Barbells and Backpacks

Blogs:

• 9 Reasons Kettlebell Training is Optimal for Outdoor Athletes

• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo Charge Your Progress 
• Does Hiking Build Glutes

• Ruck Marching for Hiking Fitness and Fat Loss

• Training for Outdoors, Simplified

• LiveWild Radio's Favourite Exercises
• Training Secrets for the Outdoor Athlete
• Great Lakes Girya Kettlebell Review

• Kettlebell Training for Hikers and Backpackers

• 9 Reasons Kettlebell Training is Optimal for the Outdoor Athlete

Ep. 60: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons - A Kid's COVID Perspective

Adventure is the act of heading into the unknown, which is a great way to describe the last year and a half. We've already done a number of episodes talking about how we've been dealing with the changes that COVID has dropped on us but this time we talk with the kids about their experiences. Hudson and Amanda have weathered the storm and built new skills.

 

From learning from home to social isolation, hear how two junior adventurers have adapted to the new landscape that they were forced into. And it turns out when you put kids on the microphone you get an unexpected comedy that is worth the price of admission.

 

This is a story of making lemonade from the lemons life throws your way.

 

For more about kids and the outdoors, also give Podcast Ep. 37: Backcountry with Kids a listen.

 

Ep. 55: Becoming Human with Wil Nelson

Podcaster Wil Nelson joins us to talk about how adventure and sport help us become better people. Wil is a climber, jujitsu instructor and dad who strives to find ways to be a better human being. Along the way we meander into his upbringing, how he started a podcast and the difference between 
Canada and the United States. We discuss ideas of how the stories we tell ourselves help shape how we see the world.

Check out Wil's podcast at www.becominghumanpodcast.com

 

PS- Looking for fitness equipment and a discount? Check out Great Lakes Girya fitness equipment and use Coupon Code "LIVEWILD" to save 5% on any purchase meanwhile also supporting us. 

Ep. 52: Tessa Jennison - Adventure Racing for Humanity

We often pursue sports to fulfill some inner drive and goals.  Very rarely does our individual pursuit extend beyond our own personal satisfaction. The world doesn't change because we set a personal record.

But when you take your passion for testing yourself and mate it with a cause, you can make a difference. Tessa Jennison joins us to talk about her adventure racing endeavors and how that lead to her current passion - community based endurance events that benefit the community.

From local adventure races to the televised Eco-Challenge in Fiji, Tessa has constantly pushed herself to find out what her limits were.

This led her to have the idea of a 1-day 65km trek across the whole of Waterloo region in the winter to bring attention to the plight of the homeless who have to live in those conditions. A one-off personal test, led to creating an annual event that merges physical challenge with activism. The Waterloo Region Crossing was born and now anyone can join to test themselves, as well help raise money and awareness for The Working Centre  in Kitchener, Ontario.

 

Give a listen to get ideas on how you be part even if you don't live in our area.

 

Show Notes:

- World's Toughest Race - Eco-Challenge

- Wanna adventure race? Check out Canadian Adventure Racing Association or USA Adventure Racing Association

- Waterloo Region Crossing - Trekking 65km in 24hrs to raise awareness about homelessness. Fundraising to support The Working Centre 

- Check out the Waterloo Region Crossing film and one trekker's take on the event in her blog - "Be Stronger Than Any Excuse You Sell Yourself"  by Tina Cassidy

- Follow Waterloo Region Crossing on Facebook @WRCrossingTrek  or Instagram @wrcrossingtrek

Ep. 51: Dean Douglas - Intentional Living

Covid has given a lot time to consider our lives. Are we living intentionally or are we on autopilot?

 

In this episode we are joined by fellow podcaster, Dean Douglas of the self named show. We explore the ideas of engineering a more fulfilling life and facing the fears that come with change. 

 

In the last year, Dean has moved across the country, started his own marketing company, became a rock climber, and pursued an acting career. All this while in the midst of the pandemic and faced with becoming a first time father.

 

Dean presents his idea of creating a vision for your life based on your values and how to bring this vision to life. 

 

We have a great chat with takeaways that people can put in action.

 

Show Notes:

Dean Douglas lives in Penticton, BC and started his own business, Douglas Marketing Inc during the pandemic. Offering web design and marketing support for businesses of all sizes, his focus is to bring forth the best in companies by strategically sharing valuable, genuine content by being transparent and authentic.

Dean’s podcast, The Dean Douglas Show, began in Dec 2018 and features various guests each episode. Conversations worth sharing is the tagline/slogan of the podcast and each episode is different covering topics such as entrepreneurship, travel, food, tech, history, science, space, adventure and more. 

Also, Dean started acting and hopes to land his first speaking role soon. Lastly, he mountain bikes, rock climbs, hikes and is loving the new BC lifestyle with his wife and dog. 

Ep. 50 - Goal Setting in 2021

Even though the last year has been a chaotic mess for most people it doesn't mean we shouldn't still be trying to exert some control over the things we can. In this episode we talk about our goals for this year and some tips on goal setting. Rather than being tossed around aimlessly, goal setting gives you direction and purpose that will help keep you on track.

Unless you life is exactly what you want, learning how to set and accomplish goals will help you make it closer to your ideal existence. Along the way you will learn new things about yourself that will fine tune that direction. Come along on the journey with us as we all try to navigate the world and try to build a life worth living.

Ep. 49: Ethan Salvo - Obsessed with the Rock (Canada's Rising Boulderer)

Ethan Salvo has become one of the strongest rock climbers in Canada before he even finished high school. His determination to do the hardest boulder problems in Niagara Glen, Canada brought him to the attention of the climbing media including stories in Gripped Magazine. Now he has the distinction of putting up the hardest boulder problem in Ontario (Rite of Passage Low V14) which he did in the midst of the Covid pandemic.

We talk about his background, how he got into climbing, what it takes to climb at this level and some of his future goals. His approach to training and laser focus sets him apart from people who just enjoy climbing. A handful of moves on a school bus sized rock that are so hard not even a handful of people each year can do them. Going back to the same spot repeatedly, failing over and over but each time gaining a bit of skill and knowledge until he finally succeeded. If you want to learn what it takes to do superhuman things you will learn a lot from Ethan.

Download at Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes or where ever you get your podcasts or view on YouTube at LiveWild Radio.

 

Show Notes:

• Follow Ethan Salvo on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ethan.salvo.9 
• Who Is Ontario’s Ethan Salvo? V13 in Under Three Years – Gripped Magazine September 20, 2022 https://gripped.com/profiles/who-is-ontarios-ethan-salvo-v13-in-under-three-years/
• Ethan Salvo and Ontario’s Hardest Boulder Problem? – Gripped Magazine – October 6, 2022 https://gripped.com/profiles/ethan-salvo-and-ontarios-hardest-boulder-problem/
• Ethan Salvo’s Major Send of Ontario’s Stairwell Project – Gripped Magazine – March 6, 2020 https://gripped.com/profiles/ethan-salvos-mega-send-of-ontarios-stairwell-project/
• Ethan Salvo Sends Ontario Crucifix Project - https://gripped.com/news/ethan-salvo-sends-ontario-crucifix-project-at-v12/
• Check out other similar podcasts about some of Ontario's finest climbing personalities:
  • Ep. 45: Next Level Adventure - Erupting Volcanoes - Frederick Schuett https://www.livewildradio.com/podcast-1/episode/3bc0c7e2/ep-45-next-level-adventure-erupting-volcanoes-frederick-schuett 
  • Ep. 40: Ontario Climber Reg Smart, How Passions Finds a Way https://www.livewildradio.com/podcast-1/episode/41917496/ep-40-ontario-climber-reg-smart-how-passion-finds-a-way 
  • Ep. 24: Gus Alexandropoulos, Ontario Climbing - The History and Politics Of Rock Climbing in Ontario https://www.livewildradio.com/podcast-1/episode/945a47e5/ep-24-gus-alexandropoulos-ontario-climbing-the-history-and-politics-of-rock-climbing-in-ontario