

Future of Fitness
Eric Malzone
We are putting a shoulder into the fitness industry and pushing it forward into the modern digital age. Eric Malzone, a 14-year industry veteran, entrepreneur, advisor, and coach, interviews the brightest movers and shakers in the fitness and health industries. Interviewing some of the industry's top executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders, topics will vary covering cutting edge technology, entrepreneurship, hot industry trends, and so much more. If you're in or around the industry, this is how you keep your edge sharp.
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Jun 1, 2021 • 39min
Justin Marston: Tribe Fitness & Building Community Digitally
Justin Marston is a serial entrepreneur, having built two enterprise software companies and a marketplace. Now he's focused on e-fitness with Tribe - a platform empowering local and grassroots fitness creators to do interactive workouts with their members and fans. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinmarston/ https://www.tribe.fitness/ Connect with us: www.futureoffitness.co

May 25, 2021 • 45min
Rick Mayo - Finding Your Place In The New Wellness Ecosystem
Rick Mayo is an accomplished fitness business entrepreneur and founder and CEO of the Alloy Personal Training Franchise system. Rick’s business journey began with his original personal training studio which opened in 1992 and is still going strong, having delivered exceptional fitness experiences to tens of thousands of clients in the Roswell, Georgia area. In 2010, as a result of his success, Rick started Alloy, a personal training business platform. As a result of Alloy’s combination of customized client programs, business systems, and technology tools, some of the leading health club and gym brands adopted the Alloy model and it rapidly grew to serve over 1,000 licensed fitness facilities worldwide. With years of experience deploying the Alloy systems under their belt Mayo and his team took the next logical step by launching the Alloy Personal Training franchise in 2019 to deliver a turnkey franchise opportunity encompassing the entire personal training business model from build-out design, through equipment, business systems, technology platforms. marketing, and more. By providing with the right tools and knowledge, Rick Mayo and the Alloy Team have helped countless people unleash their potential, paving the way towards both personal and professional success. www.futureofftitness.com

May 19, 2021 • 42min
FitTech Summit Edition: The Future of Home Fitness - Sami Asikainen with Natalia Karbasova
In this episode, we’re still with Natalia Karbasova, founder of FitTech Summit and with Sami Asikainen A serial entrepreneur. Deep experience managing cross-functional teams, Go-to-Market, building complex products, scaling and innovation. He’d built, exited and helped grow multiple companies in tech and health ranging from startups to post series A. Tune in as we discussed Carbon Trainer, fitness technology and the future of the gym. www.futureoffitness.co https://www.carbontrainer.com/ https://www.fittechcompany.com/

May 18, 2021 • 42min
Joel Jamieson & Natalia Karbasova: FitTech Summit Edition - The Future of Data Driven Coaching
This episode is the second part of three series for FitTech Summit, and again, I am with Natalia Karbasova, founder of FitTech Summit and we are both excited to dive into Joel's wealth of knowledge when it comes to the area of recovery and regeneration. Joel Jamieson is widely considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on strength and conditioning for combat sports, having trained many of the sports best athletes since 2004. He is the author of the bestselling book Ultimate MMA Conditioning and is a contributing writer to several top magazines and a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars all over the world. https://www.fittechcompany.com/

May 17, 2021 • 37min
Andreas Gall & Natalia Karbasova FitTech Summit Series - The Future of Audio Fitness
This episode is the first of three part series for the Future of Fitness, just about the FitTech Summit and all the fascinating interesting things that are happening right now, as far as fitness technology and to give a little background on what the FitTech Summit is. In this episode, we have Natalia Karbasova, founder of FitTech Summit and Andreas Gall. Andreas Gall is a media expert with 30 years of experience. He is a trained radio, television and sound engineer and held various leading positions at radio stations. He joined Red Bull Media House in 2007. Worked there as Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Technology Officer. What all his stations have in common: He always experimented with his fascination for audio. So it's no coincidence that his latest projects also revolve around this topic. This year he founded his own company: Human-Centric-Innovators to enhance human uniqueness – with the help of symbiotic technology tools and solutions. Links: https://www.fittechcompany.com/ Connect with Natalia Connect with Andy

May 11, 2021 • 55min
Brandon Cullen - MADabolic - Boutique is Back!
Brandon brings an edgy fitness approach to the valuable experience he’s earned as a professional athlete, personal trainer, gym owner and now Co-Founder and Chief Concept Officer of MADabolic. Convinced that strength & conditioning was essential to his hockey career, he immersed himself in the fundamental elements of Power Lifting, Interval Weight Training (IWT) and Plyometrics. He has also practiced the unusual movement patterns of Muay Thai, Boxing, Aikido and Foundation Training. With MADabolic, Brandon has merged his formal and informal fitness education to co-create a uniquely distinct and effective product. While his various certifications and hands-on experience are markers of his expert qualifications, his enthusiastic approach to living and spreading the MADlifestyle speaks just as loudly about his passion for fitness.

May 4, 2021 • 47min
Growson Edwards: Cipio.AI & Solving Fitness Business Problems with Data
Growson Edwards is the Founder & CEO at CIPIO.ai. He is a technical expert and a true professional. He has a unique sense of business objectives and the latest technology and knows how to blend both. Growson is a highly trusted resource and advisor when it comes to leveraging technology to achieve strategic business objectives. Connect with him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/growsonedwards/ https://cipio.ai/ Connect with us: www.futureoffitness.co

Apr 27, 2021 • 42min
Eamon Lloyd: Modern Approaches to Corporate Health & Wellbeing
Eamon Lloyd is the Senior Director - Head of Partnerships UK, Ireland & Netherlands at Gympass. They are on a mission to make Wellbeing Universal, and with it forge long-term operator partnerships, which see true mutual benefits. They are the UK leaders in corporate fitness sales, uniting employees from their corporate partners with a curated network of fitness facilities. He works side by side with our operator partners to achieve outstanding results. Every partnership is bespoke and all marketing and attention is focused on the inactive employee so rather than taking from the existing pool we attract new members to facilities. Like his colleagues at Gympass, he is extremely passionate about getting more inactive people to exercise and believe we have the best solution on the market to positively impact the membership penetration rate. Links: https://site.gympass.com/us/corporate Connect with Eamon Connect with us: https://www.futureoffitness.co/

Apr 20, 2021 • 43min
Jonathan Puskas: Exos & An Appetite For Innovation
Jonathan Puskas is a former World Record holder (cycling) and accomplished Operations and Human Resources executive with two decades of experience in Human Performance supporting organizations ranging from non-profit start-ups to Fortune 100 companies including Intel, Microsoft, Nike, adidas, Google, and the U.S. Navy. Connect with us: www.futureoffitness.com

Apr 13, 2021 • 39min
David Freeman: Layering The Digital Experience
David Freeman is a health and fitness professional that has been in the fitness industry for 15 years. He is the National Digital Performer Brand Manager| LT Inclusion Council Director with Life Time The Healthy Way of Life Company. He has been featured on the cover of Experience Life Magazine as an innovator within the health and fitness industry, and was featured in Men’s Health and Men’s Journal, as the subject matter expert in helping change lives around the world and grow Life Time’s performance brand, Alpha. David attended the University of Richmond where he played football, and went on to play professionally overseas where he first found his calling and purpose as a fitness professional Connect with us: www.futureoffitness.co