The Daniel Yores Podcast

Matthew Bousson (@boussy.vision) is my good friend, mentor and fellow coach. He’s worked with elite athletes in the UFC, NFL, Rugby and more. His experience in the world of academia and coaching both high level athletes and regular folks is extremely rare, and that’s why he’s one of the best. And now, he’s moving to Colorado to get full time back into coaching elite athletes. One note: we had some tech issues towards the end of the podcast - apologies for that but it is what it is.We are fighting a losing battle. More good content, information, and coaches than ever and yet… the world is getting fatter and sicker. How? I’m not exactly sure but we spoke about this at length in the episode and gave some thoughts on how we might be able to turn this around. At the core it’s about building community and giving people the encouragement/resources to become a healthy person. Health and fitness isn’t a 30 day challenge, it’s a way of life. And until you adopt this way of life, it will almost always be something that you struggle with. A truly fit and healthy person doesn’t need reminders to be doing all of the basic stuff, it’s just what they do. If you can begin to cultivate this, you will get there too. To keep up with everything Matt has going on, and if you’re in the south Denver area, reach out to him on IG. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Grab my FREE Protein Cheat Sheet here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people.  Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on X @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Paul Campbell (@coach.paulie_inc) is a coach and CEO/owner of The Bar in Montana City, Montana. Paulie has been in the fitness game for a long time as a coach. He recently ended his bodybuilding career as well, and is now focused on coaching, growing the gym, helping others, and engaging in a range of other fitness activities. Training for a sport and training for regular life are not the same thing. While they do share all of the basic principles, there are some notable differences. The important thing to understand is that you don’t need to be doing what a professional athlete is doing to be strong, fit and healthy. Paulie and I discuss some of these differences and how to include fitness as a regular part of your life, without being disruptive. It looks simple to someone who has all day to train. But you have a job, maybe kids, lots of other things going on, and other priorities. This is ok, and you are not doomed. But, it does mean that you’ve got to be smart and efficient about how you approach your fitness. You want to maximize your time and effort in the gym. This is largely what this podcast episode is about, and Paulie does a great job of breaking it all down. To keep up with and learn more from Paul, follow him on IG, and if you live in the Montana City area, definitely check out his gym, The Bar. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on X @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

June 9, 2014 I went in for knee surgery after years of injuries that would change my life. It’s been 10 years since and I took a look back in time at what happened, and what I learned about movement, fitness and health overall. All of these things are at the center of why I am a coach, why I care so deeply about fitness, and why I do what I do. I say this changed my life because of all the downstream and profound effects it had on me. It was a pretty rough recovery as I explain in the episode, and the culmination of pretty much the previous 10 years of injuries and setbacks. I didn’t think I would get emotional in this, but it almost got me right near the end. Expect to get the details of what happened, learn about some ways to navigate injuries and setbacks, some things I would do differently, decisions made during that were good, and some that weren’t. As well as what things look like now as far as training and regular maintenance of this injury. If there’s one take home message it is this: be extremely grateful for your ability to move your body, and cherish it every day. The best reason to move, is because you can. Thank you for being here. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Lauren Tomlin (@alivewithlaureneliz) is a body, mind and soul coach. She pulls from all of her experience and education, navigating her own journey in health, healing and happiness to deliver phenomenal results for her online coaching clients. The internet is so often combatively dichotomous that we sometimes forget that two seemingly opposite things can actually exist simultaneously - and even compliment each other. While science based training and nutrition is all the rage in some circles, moon cycles, manifestation and crystals are all the rage in others. Why can’t these co-exist? This is largely what this conversation is about. She’s been through all of it on both ends and found a really happy middle ground to be able to take the best of both worlds and blend them together in a practical and useful way. And that’s the most important. It’s not helpful to be able to recite scientific studies if you don’t actually get in the gym and put in work. And just as well, it’s not helpful to wish upon a star if you’re not willing to actually take any action in your life. Everything has its place. Lauren does an amazing job of helping you navigate that, and figure out how to put all of the puzzle pieces together for your ultimate life transformation. Get in touch with Lauren by following her on IG, and stay tuned for her upcoming podcast release! The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify. It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Shawn Rivers (@growthbyshawn) is a fat loss and transformation coach, and host of the Growth by Shawn Podcast. Shawn works with clients to develop sustainable healthy habits in order to deliver lasting results. Shawn and I share many things in common, but one of the biggest is our promotion of structure and accountability. Shawn talks a lot about how he uses his calendar to ensure he gets everything done that he needs to. And not only that, but how he builds in accountability to help keep the promises he’s made to himself. This is something we all struggle with. More or less we “know” what to do, just can’t seem to do it consistently. Shawn talks about how to structure your life, and change the story that you tell yourself about yourself in order to become the person that you are trying to be. It was a fun chat with a lot of really simple takeaways that you can implement immediately, and I hope you do. Give Shawn a follow on IG, and be sure to subscribe to the Growth by Shawn Podcast as well. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

The world doesn’t have a weight loss or fat loss problem. There are thousands, perhaps millions of before an after photos online of real people who have lost tremendous amounts of weight. And yet, obesity is at an all time high and getting worse. Why? We are very good at losing weight, we are not very good at maintaining it. It’s one thing to go on a diet and lose a bunch of weight. How about the diet after the diet? What happens after? If you simply go back to old habits, you’ll go back to your old body. In this episode I discuss that very thing, with a concept I like to call “maingaining”. I didn’t invent this term, but I can’t remember where I first heard it. Essentially, it’s how you treat weight maintenance so that you have training goals, stay on point, continue to build muscle and strength slowly, basically forever. The good news is that technically this is very easy, except for the part where it lasts quite literally, forever. Which is difficult because, life. Well in this episode I discuss the tactics and strategies to employ to be able to keep your hard-earned progress forever. This is really where most of the fun happens as well. Training is fun, and you truly become a new person. Enjoy! The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Download my FREE Protein Cheat Sheet here. Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Carmie Hawkins (@carmhawk_getsfit) is a fitness and nutrition coach, and a badass mermaid goddess wife and mother of 2. After going through her own rocky road of a health and fitness journey Carmie has become a coach herself to speak to the women who are going through the same things she did. To help women become healthy, strong and confident and ultimately break the cycle of negativity for the next generation. Carmie has been through the ringer of crazy diets, unreasonable workout programs, pills & potions, MLM’s and all the rest - so she gets it. Her message to you is that there is another way, a better way. A more effective way to become the strongest, healthiest and happiest version of yourself that will last a lifetime and then some, by passing these habits along to your kids. We discussed her journey through fitness, and how she eventually arrived at the balanced place she’s at now and put herself in a position to give back. She gave a ton of insight into how these scams and predatory practices operate, and some really actionable tips that you can start to implement today to begin to break free. I’m grateful for people like Carmie. These experiences that she’s had are very real and far too common. I personally don’t have any experience with them so these words hold a ton more weight coming from someone who’s been through it. There is a better way, and there are lots of people willing and able to help. To get in touch with Carmie and stay tuned for some big things coming up, follow her on IG.The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Summer is fast approaching and despite your best efforts to stay lean year round, I’m almost certain you’d like to get just a little leaner for summer. Last summer I did an episode about how to get shredded as fast as possible for summer. It wasn’t super practical, and I don’t advise doing it - but it does work. It’s episode 117 and you can listen to it here. This episode however is a much more practical approach. In this episode I share 5 strategies that I use for myself and for my clients that make a significant difference when trying to lose body fat, and are especially useful around summer time with the unique challenges and opportunities that often come up. Let me be extremely clear here: there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to get lean for summer. A little bit of vanity is ok. However, doing extreme things without knowing what you’re doing that are a possible detriment to your health and wellbeing is absolutely not advised. This should be obvious, but there is a fine line between tightening up a little bit, and doing things that are stupid to drop large amounts of fat in a short amount of time. The tips in this episode are simple to implement, and have a proven track record of being effective - without taking over your life. Let’s get you in your best shape ever this summer. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Download my FREE Protein Cheat Sheet here. Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Troy Taylor (@strengthsciencetroy) is the Senior Director of Performance Innovation at Tonal. He is an internationally renowned human performance leader, having worked with world class  Olympic athletes in the UK, Canada and the USA. He now brings all of that knowledge and experience to Tonal, the world’s smartest home gym machine. People like Troy are always a rare treat to hear from. He’s worked with some of the biggest names on the biggest stages for the highest stakes, but out of the limelight. No interviews or media coverage can unveil what really goes into building world class athletes as well as someone like Troy, who was there doing the thing. Bringing all of that to the general population and regular lifters like you and I is immensely valuable. Troy and I discuss how he blends his experience with the reality of the fitness needs of every day people, and how this is all completely built into Tonal. It allows people to get great results with advanced training methods (which are possible due to the hardware technology of Tonal) without being overwhelming or needing to hire an Olympic level coach or training facility. I am not often impressed by “fitness technology”. Usually I find them gimmicky and a neat marketing ploy at best that doesn’t actually do anything new, unique, or useful. Tonal seems different. The innovative hardware and software combination that they’ve built seems to be very impressive and practical in a way that over time could fundamentally change the way gyms are built and everyone trains. In the meantime, if you’re someone who likes to workout from home but maybe doesn’t have space for a full home gym, or don’t want to fumble around with equipment and figuring out your workouts, I’d highly recommend checking out Tonal. For what it’s worth, I get nothing for saying that - I just genuinely think it’s very useful, practical and probably a great solution for a lot of people. Be sure to follow Troy on IG for more training knowledge and insights on how he uses his Tonal. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss

Mark & Sarah (@mobilityduo) are a husband and wife team who are health professionals, snowboarders, and lovers of all things outdoors. Mark is a physical therapist, snowboard instructor, and personal trainer and Sarah is a massage therapist, yoga teacher, and personal trainer. Putting their brains, hearts, talents and expertise together, they are Mobility Duo. They offer a number of courses and programs as well as individual coaching to help prevent injuries, assist with rehabilitation of injuries, and keep snowboarders and outdoor enthusiasts active until 70+!Since I picked up snowboarding 2 winters ago I’ve completely fallen in love with it. First of all, it’s awesome (although, I probably don’t look that cool doing it… yet!). Second, it’s a completely new physical challenge to figure out and overcome. If you’re a longtime listener of the podcast you know that I’ve struggled with injuries my entire life, so naturally as I took up snowboarding I automatically went into injury prevention mode. This is how I found Mark & Sarah. This episode is filled with practical tips to add to your training during the off-season or even in season to keep you riding better, more comfortably, and for longer. The same principals in this discussion really apply to any sport or physical activity you do. Naturally as things tend to around here, the conversation morphs into something bigger than fitness. Yes all of the training stuff is super important to keep you riding, playing and doing the things you love. But we all inherently know it’s about so much more than that. When you fully embrace this, everything starts to make more sense with training, and everything will become more effective. It was an absolute pleasure to have Mark & Sarah on the podcast, I learned a ton and I’m sure you will too. If you snowboard, or play any sports or outdoor activities you absolutely should be following them. And please check out their website for some of their programs just as Snoga (yoga for snowboarders), core workouts, knee and warmup programs, concussion foundations and more. The best way to support the podcast is to share the episode with a friend. You can support yourself and the podcast by applying for 1:1 online coaching here.Share this episode with a friend who would enjoy or benefit from it! Comments, questions, and feedback are greatly appreciated. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes or rating on Spotify.  It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Website danielyores.comConnect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss