Loading…
Hosted by The Adaptive Athlete · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 74 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast is dedicated to sharing the stories of athletes in the Crossfit space and beyond who have pushed past the limits doctors or others gave them. In these conversations, you'll hear stories of resiliency, adaptation, grit, and determination. You'll also hear about the ways the adaptive space is growing. Whether you are an adaptive athlete, a coach, or you know someone who would benefit from adaptive athletics and adaptive fitness, this podcast is the place to hear stories and build connections. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
The Adaptive Athlete hosts The Adaptive Athlete Podcast, a health show with 74 episodes published.
Courtnei Lopez was in a car accident a week before the 2026 Adaptive CrossFit Open. Six months later, she stood on the Adaptive CrossFit Games podium in third after securing the spot in the very last workout. Mat Hotho t
Sue Jordaan qualified for her rookie season and then made the call not to go because a $4,000 flight from South Africa deserves the fittest version of herself. Mat Hotho talks with Sue about a 2013 car accident that brok
Emma Hood walked off a roof (literally) and landed on both feet, shattering her ankles and heels. Months later she was back in the gym, and this year she's a rookie at the Adaptive CrossFit Games in the Vision division.
Mat Hotho talks with Tori Clinch , a rookie competing in the Seated Two division heading to the 2026 CrossFit Games in San Jose. Tori's year has been anything but expected—she got back into CrossFit in January purely for
Mat Hotho sits down with Noah Cook , a 25-year-old vision athlete gearing up for his first CrossFit Adaptive Games appearance after going completely blind by age 18. Noah lost his sight to glaucoma-related injuries, neve
Mat Hotho sits down with McKenzie Kravetsky , a rookie Lower Minor athlete heading to her first CrossFit Games. In 2013, a head-on collision left McKenzie with injuries that reconstructed nearly everything — including a
Mat Hotho sits down with Roman Cameron , a rookie heading into his first CrossFit Adaptive Games in one of the sport's toughest divisions, Seated with Hip Function. Roman shares how a vitamin B12 deficiency at 17 led to
Mat Hotho sits down with Kristee Irby , a Houston-based adaptive CrossFit athlete competing with a left limb difference. Kristee didn't even know adaptive CrossFit existed when she first walked into her gym, Bellhouse Cr
Mat Hotho sits down with Oscar Jessup , a 17-year-old adaptive CrossFit athlete from Australia who placed third at last year's Adaptive Games in Las Vegas, complete with his now-famous bow-and-arrow celebration. Oscar's
Mat Hotho sits down with Brian Knight . Brian was born with a brachial plexus injury. He won a silver medal at the 2025 CrossFit Games, and he's one of the OGs of adaptive CrossFit content. Brian grew up fully integrated
Mat Hotho sits down with Kieran Healey-Ryder , a Glasgow-based adaptive athlete navigating a rare, progressive skeletal disease that's slowly taking the use of his left leg. Kieran shares the story of a camping trip disc
Mat Hotho takes the mic solo for the first installment of a new format: personal episodes between the interviews, where Mat tackles the ideas and conversations he keeps having about adaptive fitness off the show. After a
Mat Hotho sits down with Bruce Williams , the photographer and videographer behind Dope Content and the person responsible for most of the imagery you've seen coming out of the CrossFit Adaptive Games. Bruce has been doc
Mat Hotho sits down with Lauren Taylor , gold medalist in the Neuromuscular Moderate division at the 2025 CrossFit Adaptive Games. Lauren walks through the long road — a broken collarbone in high school that snowballed i
Mat Hotho sits down with Sam Fishman , the founder of AnyBody & EveryBody and a full-time adaptive CrossFit coach based out of CrossFit Palace in Ithaca, New York. Sam's path here runs through speech pathology, special e
Mat Hotho sits down with Christina Mazzullo . Christina is a CrossFit Games adaptive champion, affiliate owner of CrossFit Tar Heel in North Carolina, and newly minted Registered Dietitian . Tina is an upper extremity ad
Mat Hotho sits down with Nigel Barber . Nigel is a UK-based adaptive CrossFit athlete and founder of Wodaptive . We have an honest conversation about building a life and a competition community after a spinal injury at 1
Mat Hotho sits down with Leo Merle for a conversation that covers the full arc of what it means to build a life around the things you love. Leo competed at the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the T38 class in the 1500 meters,
Mat Hotho sits down with Adam Billany , a British adaptive athlete competing in both parasailing and CrossFit. Adam was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at around age two; it affects both legs while leaving his upper body c
In this episode the Adaptive Athlete Podcast, Mat Hotho sits down with Natalie South-Law , a UK-based adaptive athlete with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy who has competed at a serious level across many parasports. The
Bruce Williams
Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager · Williams Consulting
1 appearance on this show
Lauren Taylor
Assistant Professor in the Division of Healthcare Delivery Sciences and the Division of Medical Ethics · NYU Grossman School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Tucker
Senior Audit Manager · Uncharted Adaptive Fitness
1 appearance on this show
Tom Woodham
CrossFit 2444
1 appearance on this show
Sam Fishman
AnyBody & EveryBody
1 appearance on this show
Christina Mazzullo
CrossFit Tar Heel
1 appearance on this show
Nigel Barber
Wodaptive
1 appearance on this show
Jacob Peterson
USAPL
1 appearance on this show
Detected from recent episode content. Sponsor presence is a real signal of listener purchasing power and show monetisation.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
To pitch The Adaptive Athlete Podcast, visit https://www.instagram.com/theadaptiveathletepod/ for contact information, then craft a tight one-paragraph hook that ties your expertise to a gap in their recent health coverage.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast is hosted by The Adaptive Athlete. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 74 episodes.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast has published 74 episodes.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast regularly covers health, fitness. It sits in the health category, with a fitness focus.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast is accessible for guests with genuine health expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of The Adaptive Athlete Podcast average 42 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates The Adaptive Athlete Podcast's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 3 days ago.