Transformation Talks
Sam Forget is an online nutrition coach who specializes in making drastic transformations realistic for regular people. Transformation Talks dives deep into the how-to’s for achieving this with the help of highly knowledgeable expert guests.
Transformation Talks
Rewriting Your Story & Strength Training For Life with Andrew Coates
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Season 1
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Episode 22
On today’s episode of Transformation Talks, we’re joined by Andrew Coates, a trainer, presenter, and writer for T-Nation, Generation Iron, and several other publications.
Here’s what we got into in the interview:
- Andrew’s backstory (02:09)
- How health and fitness goals evolve with age (06:27)
- How exercise can be therapeutic and “spill over” into life (10:18)
- How to audit your information sources (12:39)
- The value of taking action when you don’t feel like it (22:34)
- Challenging the stories you tell yourself and getting comfortable in a gym (24:07)
- How we rationalize action AND inaction (30:27)
- How I challenged my OWN stories and became a “new person” through improv (37:41)
- The impacts of strength training on life as a whole (40:01)
- Andrew’s Fast Five answers (45:07)
Here are the books he recommended:
- The Advice Trap by Michael Bungay Stanier
- The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
Here’s where you can connect more deeply with Andrew:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewcoatesfitness/
Website: https://andrewcoatesfitness.com/
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