The Built For Coaches Podcast

In today's episode, Mark & Jen are joined by their newest addition to The Built For Life team. Head of High Performance, Mr Ruaridh McCall. With a degree in Sports & Exercise science and a similar approach to peoples transformative process, Ru has quickly become at home within The Built For Life community with his personality, knowledge, charisma & outlook. In this episode, the trio discussed their views around values, peak performance & explored more of their own backgrounds and journey's on the road to high performance.

Over the past few months Mark & Jen have had several people reach out with questions. Some of which, are questions they've experienced throughout their coaching careers multiple times which are often misunderstood. Due to poor information and cultural beliefs around the complexities of someones transformation journey, Mark & Jen wanted to set straight the answers to some unanswered or poorly interpreted questions.

Within The Built For Life programme we believe that if you live your life by a set of principles, they can be your guiding light during extremely difficult circumstances. Life principles allow you to apply high performing standards to everything you do regardless of the size of the challenge that stands before you. In today's episode Mark & Jen discuss some of the principles they help their clients develop within The Built For Life programme. It gives you a key insight into how they work and how they can help.

Very often people look at the problem on the surface instead of the source. They try and improve their relationship with food without improving the relationship they have with themselves. They don't make the relevant changes to their lives and they fail to recognise the impact their surroundings have on them., including the language they often use towards themselves. Having both struggled with eating disorders/disordered eating, Mark & Jen discuss their own journeys through the recovery process & share some valuable insights. Note: If you are struggling with any form of eating disorder, please seek professional help from qualified experts in this field.

In today's episode Mark & Jen discuss the issues that people battle with on their transformation journeys in adulthood. Many people reflect on a time that was much simpler, where they had more time, energy, freedom & resources to place into their health and fitness. They romanticise about what they were able to achieve previously which often stops them from figuring out a strategy for how to make it work today, with more responsibilities & stress to consider.

We've both been in and around this industry for over a decade & have both had our fair share of bad experiences. We know that many of you may have experienced the same. In today's episode Mark & Jen speak about the biggest red flags when hiring someone on your journey of growth and transformation.

Most people don't realise that the biggest thing holding them back is their beliefs. What starts as an assumption can quickly grow into a belief that creates conscious and subconscious behaviours. These behaviours can either work in your favour or they can cripple you. They can lead to a life of fulfilment and freedom or they can lead to a life of limitations. In today's episode Mark & Jen discuss the process of assumptions and how you can create new evidence to change your beliefs to become a winner.

Let's be serious, people will do stupid shit to achieve results. When we're so emotionally invested in what we do, we will often crawl across broken glass to make it happen. But, without taking the lessons from some of these failures along the way we can often leave ourselves paralysed and caught in the same cycle looking for the next best thing. Mark & Jen talk about the importance of failure in any journey to create the best possible future outcomes.

The never ending cycle can be defined in many ways. But quite simply, think about the cycle you're always caught in when you're trying to achieve your results in any transformation or process of high performance. The cycle that makes you feel like the results are unachievable. The cycle that makes you feel like you're different from everyone else. The cycle that causes you to beat yourself up and put yourself down. Today, Mark & Jen discuss this never ending cycle and what you can do to break it.

It's no secret that what it takes to get into great shape is simple when it's in black and white. Although, there's far greater issues at play that often stop you from being able to adhere to living a healthier, growth minded, high performance life. In today's episode Mark & Jen explore the common things that hold people back from getting the best out of themselves to show you a wider perspective of what can be impacting your ability to optimise the results you want to achieve in your life.

In today's episode Mark & Jen explore what "not being in the right headspace" actually means when it comes to people wanting to work towards goals in their lives but put them off due to what's going on in between the ears.

In today's episode Mark & Jen give you an insight into what your life can be like when you become Built For Life. The challenges you can overcome, the discipline and resilience you can showcase, the type of person you transform into and what sort of problems you can overcome from building yourself as an individual.

Expectations can often be the difference between success and failure. When trying to achieve any goal, you need learn that challenge & unforeseen circumstances will arise. Most people don't. As a result, the whirlwind of emotions that creep up afterwards often blow them way off course. So much so that people can often tend to give up. In today's episode Mark & Jen discuss why it's important to be realistic and manage your expectations.

In today's episode Mark & Jen look at some of the biggest fitness myths in the fitness industry that have caused failure in a lot of fitness journeys and offer a clear understanding on why these things are not true.

In today's episode Mark & Jen talk about how minor decisions that often seem completely irrelevant and underwhelming in the moment, can cascade to major outcomes in your life.

In today's episode we welcome you to the new Built For Life podcast & give you more an insight to our vision & mission so that you can start to live a life of control and success.