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Ep. 79: Dealing With Depression Sans Medication

Winston recorded a solo episode answering a listener's question about how he manages depression without prescription medication. He has been dealing with depression since his teenage years. It might have something to do with all the concussions he's had but either way, he hated how he felt on anti-depressants. It was going from being immensely sad all the time to feeling nothing and having no sex drive which is depressing on its own.  

 

Being the nerd that he is, much study went into formulating a plan of how to not get dragged down into the abyss of blandness that came from the drugs while not succumbing to the darkness that is depression. 

 

With much experimentation, he came up with a system that worked for him. It included exercise, mindfulness practice, journaling, nutrition, and supplementation along with talk therapy. We make no claims that what works for Winston will work for you, but it gives an outline of how one person was able to cope with a malfunctioning brain without drugs.

 

 

 

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Ep. 69: Stress & Sleep (Longevity Series)

Do you know that your daily life is killing you? The stress you feel in your mind changes the chemistry in your body. This will slowly turn your health in the wrong direction. But it doesn't have to be that way. We have control over how our body reacts to daily stresses.

 

Add to this is the crappy sleep that most people get. Poor sleep will age you more quickly and give you the blood values of a pre-diabetic. And for you guys, be aware that poor sleep will lower your testosterone production to that of an 80-year-old.

 

In this episode, we delve deep into the effects of stress and sleep on your health and longevity. By decreasing your stress and increasing the amount of sleep you get you will directly improve the markers of health. 

 

By being conscious of the way you manage stress and sleep will be one of the simplest hacks you can do to make your body work better. Give a listen and start acting on it today.

 

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Show Notes:

Stay tuned! We'll be offering a free download of this episode's takeaways and our recommended training programs. Check it out in our Adventure Library.

• James Nestor on Breathwork Techniques 
• Matthew Walker the Sleep Expert 

Training and Fitness Podcast Episodes: 

• 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 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 

Related Blogs:

• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo-Charge Your Progress
• LiveWild Radio’s Favourite Exercises 
• 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  
• LiveWild Radio’s 10 Commandments of Training

Ep. 67: Longevity Series: Fasting, Diet & Weight Loss

It's Part 2 of our Longevity Series and we continue our discussion of how getting lighter and leaner will help you live longer and feel better. The stats show that the majority of people in Canada and the US are either overweight or obese, which long term will negatively affect your heart and your joints.

 

Both Catharine and Winston are in the process of optimizing their weight and body fat levels using exercise, fasting, and healthier nutrition. In addition to being an effective way of losing weight, fasting has a lot of other health benefits including improving insulin sensitivity, increasing autophagy, and decreasing your appetite. Give a listen learn what autophagy is and why you want to kick start that process.

 

If want to live a long healthy life then tune in for all of the science behind longevity and practical ways to incorporate them into your lifestyle. 

 

Just like Mr. Spock said, "Live Long and Prosper".

 

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Show Notes:

Stay tuned! We'll be offering a free download of this episode's takeaways and our recommended training programs. Check it out in our Adventure Library.

 

Training and Fitness Podcast Episodes: 

• 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. 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 

Related Blogs:

• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo-Charge Your Progress
• LiveWild Radio’s Favourite Exercises 
• 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  
• LiveWild Radio’s 10 Commandments of Training

Ep. 66: Longevity Series: Exercise

Everyone wants to live a long and fulfilling life, but not everyone knows the best practices to do it. In the first episode of our Longevity series, we delve into the negative effects of aging, a simple physical test that indicates your risk of mortality, and practical reasons why we are focused now on improving health for the future. 

 

Our goal in this episode is to show how to hold the downward slide in physical performance at bay with exercise and weight loss. Getting stronger and building new physical skills is good for the body and mind while building endurance is good for the cardiovascular system. Both types of training help improve insulin sensitivity, which is a huge problem with modern foods and lack of movement. If you want a better quality of life now and in the future, give a listen and put the lessons into practice.

 

PROMO 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. 

Show Notes:

Stay tuned! We'll be offering a free download of this episode's takeaways and our recommended training programs. Check it out in our Adventure Library.

 

For more on training podcast episodes: 

• 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. 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 

Related Blogs:

• 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo-Charge Your Progress
• LiveWild Radio’s Favourite Exercises 
• 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  
• LiveWild Radio’s 10 Commandments of Training

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. 63: Fat Loss Tips That Actually Work

Excuse the clickbait title but we want those eyeballs. After our episode about Catharine's weight loss and fitness transformation, we received questions about the details of how she accomplished it. 

 

It isn't news to anyone that the majority of people in North America are overweight and the rate of obesity is rising. This comes with increased health risks and makes a lot of athletic activities like rock climbing and hiking mountains harder than they need to be. Imagine how much easier things would be if you were lighter and how much better your joints would feel.

 

We go in-depth about how to train, eat and change your lifestyle to achieve lasting fat loss for better health and athletic performance. It doesn't hurt that losing fat and building some muscle also make you look better in your underpants.

 

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

 

Show Notes:

• Coach Dan John - http://danjohn.net/
• Our blog, LiveWild Radio's Favorite Exercises, go over in detail the 5 key movements (Hip Hinge, Squat, Pull, Press and Carries)  
• Our blog, 13 Fitness Game Changers to Turbo Charge Your Progress has most of the concepts we talked about in this blog

For more podcast episodes on fitness and training: 

• 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. 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 

Related Blogs:

• 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  
• LiveWild Radio’s 10 Commandments of Training

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

 

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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