This week David is joined by Steve Hall, founder and owner of Revive Stronger, a UK based online personal training business. Revive Stronger is one of the leading and fastest growing personal training companies in the UK. Steve is also the host of the successful "Macros, Bodybuilding & Powerlifting Podcast."

David and Steve discussed:

Topic 1: Online coaching as a business idea.

Q1. What attracted Steve yto working solely as an online coach rather than a traditional gym based PT.

Q3. What level of people respond best to online training? How important has client screening been to Steve?

Q4. What level of service can we give to our clients online? How do we keep the “personal” element in online PT?

Q5. What advice would Steve give to someone who wishes to begin an online coaching business? What in hindsight would you (Steve) say were the biggest mistakes you made when starting the business?

Q6. What are the best tools Steve would recommend for increasing efficiency in your personal training business?

Q7. How does Steve decide when it’s time to expand the business? What attributes does Steve look for in a prospective coach?

Q8. How difficult does Steve find it to delegate?  

Topic 2: Evidence-based practice.

Q9. What does evidence-based practice mean to Steve?

All show notes and links can be found at: www.hpascience.com/episode35

In this episode David is joined by Professor Martin Gibala of MacMaster University. 

Professor Gibala's research examines the regulation of skeletal muscle energy provision and he is particularly interested in the potential for exercise and/or nutrition to induce metabolic adaptations at the molecular and cellular levels in humans. In addition to basic, mechanistic studies, he also conducts applied research that examines the impact of exercise training and dietary manipulation on sport performance. Recently the work in his laboratory has focused on two main areas:

(1) Metabolic adaptations to low-volume, high-intensity interval training, with an emphasis on the regulation of oxidative energy provision.

(2) The potential for alterations in nutrient availability to impact the acute or chronic adaptations to exercise training.

David and Professor Gibala discuss the following:

This week David had the pleasure of being joined by Omar Isuf.

Omar is a successful fitness entrepreneur who transitioned from a personal trainer to a full-time YouTuber, with a current following of approximately 600,000 subscribers. Omar provides evidence-based content for his followers and regularly collaborates with world-leading experts. Omar used his influence to launch his own apparel company, Raskol apparel. 

David and Omar discuss:

In this episode David is joined by Dr. Llion Roberts. Llion began his research training at John Moores University, Liverpool, UK; before moving to The University of Queensland in 2011 to undertake his PhD in sports physiology. He specifically examined the physiological, mechanistic and applied effects of cold water immersion after strength exercise; and the acute Vs chronic implications of its use.

His research interests lie with understanding the basic physiological and mechanistic responses to exercise bouts, and how they can be manipulated to maximize training adaptation per se, and in athletes. After his PhD, Llion has continued this line of research, examining the mechanistic, physiological and applied aspects of recovery and intervention therapies including heat, nutraceutical supplementation; and more recently, blood flow restricted exercise.

David & Llion discuss:

For full show-notes see:  www.hpascience.com/episode32

This week David has the pleasure of being joined by Molly Galbraith, strength coach & co-founder of Girls Gone Strong, a global movement that provides a common voice of body-positive, evidence-based information about strength training, nutrition, having a fit pregnancy, women’s health, physical therapy and injury prevention, fat loss, mindset, and much more.

Molly has a wealth of experience, having competed in figure shows, powerlifting and through her own personal struggles which she talks openly about. 

In this show David and Molly discuss: