Fitness and Thinking

Mila Smith is a certified relationship and dating coach with more than 25 years' experience in relationship management, helping people understand themselves, choose better partners and build healthier, lasting...

Trey Farmer is an architect and sustainability practitioner exploring how the places we inhabit shape our health, behaviour and relationship with the natural world.We tend to think of buildings as things we put up...

What if the thing you're experiencing isn't the thing you think it is? I've been reading Master of Change, thinking about the Greek concept of aporia, and noticing how often we turn a signal into a story before we've...

Can you build a stronger body without trying to become your younger or non-parent self?This week, Singapore-based, metabolic health coach Amanda Lim and I explore what really changes during midlife – from hormones and...

Grahame Connolly spent 17 years as headteacher of Glade Hill Primary School in Bestwood, Nottingham, a school at the heart of a deprived but remarkably strong community. We talk about what it means to build a culture...

You don't need to watch 60 episodes of Fitness & Thinking to realise that the questions we've been asking about fitness have rarely stayed inside the six neat pillars. Conversations about training became conversations...

The perfect routine. The perfect plan. The perfect moment to begin.Life doesn't work like that.In this solo episode of Fitness & Thinking, I reflect on a failed attempt to record this week's podcast, what boxing taught...

What happens when changing your body becomes the project? Zlattie Dimitrova is a competitive bikini bodybuilder and head coach at Everlast. From the outside, bodybuilding can look like an extreme pursuit of discipline...

This week I'm joined by Elle Mace – eating disorder practitioner, speaker, author of Food Freedom, and mother of three – for one of F&T's most thoughtful conversations yet on the psychology behind eating, body image and...

Steve Bennett is a serial entrepreneur and wellness educator. I asked him: why are we getting heavier and sicker despite knowing more about nutrition than ever before? We explore insulin resistance, Type 2 diabetes...

For over a year, Fitness & Thinking has asked experts, practitioners and interesting people what it means to live well.This week, I wanted to ask the same question of two fictional characters.Tom King's Mister Miracle...

Jason Smith is the founder of Fit In Midlife and proof that reinvention doesn't come with an expiry date. After years of drifting through work, stress, poor habits and low energy, Jason made a decision that changed...

In Episode 54 of Fitness & Thinking, I'm joined by business owner, mum and keen gymgoer, Lottie, for a conversation about motherhood, identity, pregnancy, fitness and the strange guilt that can come with actually liking...

Your idols were clueless, some of them might still be. Welcome to Fitness & Thinking 51 from the secret garden, somewhere in the middle of England. This week, we delve into six-ish lessons I've learned since our last...

50 episodes. I didn’t know a year ago how I was going to make it to three! Over the last year 50 weeks of Fitness & Thinking, I’ve sat down with researchers, athletes, therapists, doctors, coaches, founders, artists and...