Body Reset w/ Olly Wood

You can absolutely succeed in your health, your career and your business by beating yourself up along the way. Many people do. But you can get to the exact same place while actually enjoying the journey and having a much better internal dialogue along the way. In this video, Olly shares three important shifts in how to think about self criticism, pulled straight from a recent Body Reset health retreat. The goal is not to lower your standards. It is to show you how to hold a high bar for yourself while being significantly kinder along the way. Because in health especially, where there is no finish line and you will always be learning and adjusting, the way you talk to yourself is either quietly helping or quietly holding you back._______________________________________________________________________

Most people think they just need to be more consistent. But after years of working with clients, the pattern is clear, the ones who make the biggest breakthroughs aren't the ones who push harder, they're the ones who build a deeper awareness of what their body actually needs. In this episode, Olly breaks down the three levels across weight training, aerobic fitness and nutrition. From basic consistency all the way through to the nuanced details that separate people who plateau from people who keep progressing. Whether you're in month one or year three of your health journey, there's something in here that will shift how you look at what you're doing. ______________________________________________________________________

You've done the diets. You've done the 6am classes. You've taken the supplements, followed the meal plan to the letter, and you probably know more about health than your parents did in their entire lifetime. And yet you still feel frustrated, stuck, and like there's something you're still missing. In this video, Olly walks through the key steps he has used with thousands of clients to go from constantly falling on and off a plan to building something that genuinely lasts. No more starting again on Monday. Just a clear framework that gives you the confidence to fuel and move your body well, and the trust that you are going to be okay.______________________________________________________________________

What problem are you actually trying to solve? After more than a decade of coaching, Olly has become obsessed with one question: what really makes people motivated, focused and able to create lasting change? And the answer almost never involves doing more. In this video, he breaks down why most people are trying to optimise the wrong things, what the real problem is for the vast majority of people who've noticed a shift in their body, hormones and energy after 40, and why the path back to confidence, strength and feeling incredible in your own skin looks different for everyone. If you've been piling on more effort and still not getting there, this one reframes everything. ______________________________________________________________________

If you're a busy professional fasting every day and still feeling drained, it's not because fasting is bad. It's because of how you're using it. After working with thousands of clients to get their body and energy back on track, the question Olly gets more than almost any other is: what do you actually think about fasting? His answer is always the same. Everybody fasts, it's just a matter of how long is useful and when it starts to work against you. In this video, Olly breaks down exactly when he recommends fasting, when he doesn't, and a simple three part framework to work out what approach is right for you right now.______________________________________________________________________

When should you follow the guidelines and when should you trust your own intuition? Fresh from another packed workshop in Dunedin — part of a nationwide series — Olly shares one of the biggest themes that keeps coming up with people who've been following Body Reset for two, three, even six years. The goal has never been to give you a rigid set of rules where every alternative is wrong. It's to help you think for yourself and build a plan you'll actually stick to long term. But there's a catch — experimenting before you know what good looks like isn't intuition, it's just guessing. In this episode, Olly breaks down exactly when to follow the framework and when you've earned the right to adapt it. ______________________________________________________________________

You're exercising regularly but the results are going backwards. Sound familiar? It was the most common theme that came up at the recent Body Reset workshop in Auckland — people already putting in the work, but gaining body fat, losing training momentum, or just unable to shift weight no matter how closely they watched what they ate. In this video, Olly breaks down exactly what was uncovered in that room: almost everyone was chasing heart rate and nobody was focused on muscle contraction. If you want to understand why that distinction matters and what to do instead, this is the video that changes how you train.______________________________________________________________________

Moving house, changing jobs, kids heading to high school or uni, a new season — every major life shift is actually an opportunity to reshuffle where you allocate your time and review the habits that are helping and hurting you. In this episode, Olly and Mandy share their own recent experiences of moving in opposite directions — one from rural to town, one from town to rural — and what that revealed about their own routines, cravings, exercise habits and energy. More importantly, they break down how to use any change in environment or season as a chance to raise your standards rather than slowly slip back into feeling sluggish, lethargic and stuck. _______________________________________________________________________

Millions of people are wearing a device on their wrist to track their health — but if you don't understand HRV, one of the most important metrics it measures, you're likely making the wrong calls on when to push and when to recover. In this video, Olly breaks down exactly what Heart Rate Variability means, why it matters for fitness, fat loss and long term performance, and the exact framework to use so you can look at that number, know what it's telling you and know what to do about it. If you want to train smarter and stop guessing, this one is essential._______________________________________________________________________

If you're driving home from work thinking about 20 things that needed to be done yesterday, waking up at 3am with your brain still running, and never quite as present as you'd like to be — that's a nervous system stuck in high arousal. And it's quietly driving your blood sugar, cholesterol, digestion and immune function in the wrong direction. In this video, Olly and Mandy share the stress management strategies that are actually working right now across hundreds of active clients — practical, tangible steps that go well beyond "just stress less." Because if you're in a high demand role, being told to stress less just creates more stress. This is the conversation that actually helps. _______________________________________________________________________

Never in the history of being told to calm down has anyone actually calmed down. After nearly a decade as a clinical nutritionist and coach, Mandy knows two things to be true — stress has a far bigger impact on your physical health than most people want to admit, and simply telling someone to stress less doesn't work. In this video, she breaks down the two approaches that actually make a real difference in managing the unavoidable nature of stress and reducing its impact on your body, your health markers and your results. If stress keeps coming up as the thing getting in the way, this one is worth your time._______________________________________________________________________

One of the most common things Olly hears from smart, capable people is that they should be able to figure this out on their own. In this episode, Olly and Mandy get personal — sharing their own examples of challenges they chewed on for way too long before finally getting some outside perspective. In hindsight, would they do it differently? Absolutely. If you keep coming back to the same problem thinking more knowledge is the answer, this one is worth your time. Sometimes the thing keeping you stuck isn't a lack of information — it's the belief that you should already have it figured out. _______________________________________________________________________

If you're on Ozempic, Wegovy or any other GLP-1 medication, this video is essential viewing. This isn't a debate about whether these medications are good or bad, if you've made the decision to take them, Olly walks through the crucial non-negotiables that Body Reset recommends for their own members on these medications. Too many people are seeing the scale move for the first time and have no idea what's happening to the quality of that weight loss underneath. Without these changes in place, you may be setting yourself up for serious long term consequences. What you do alongside the medication matters just as much as the medication itself._______________________________________________________________________

Aging doesn't create your problems — it exposes them. In this video, Olly walks through four of the most common patterns he sees with people who used to have it together: staying in shape, sleeping well, feeling like their body was doing what it was supposed to. Then their 40s, 50s or 60s hit, and at some point something shifted. The body stopped responding the way it used to and nobody told them why. If at least one of these four patterns isn't relevant to you right now, Olly would be very surprised. More importantly, he walks through exactly what to do about each one. _______________________________________________________________________

You're eating well, exercising, cutting back on fats and salt — doing everything you've been told to do. And yet your blood pressure and cholesterol keep creeping up. In this video, Mandy breaks down why these two markers, while they look like separate problems, are actually two symptoms of the same underlying issue — and it's tied far more closely to blood sugar than the fats you're eating or the salt you're avoiding. If you've been left confused by your results or feel like you're just being handed more medication with no real answers, this one will give you a much clearer picture of what's actually going on and where to focus instead._______________________________________________________________________

This one's a little different. In this solo episode, Olly shares an honest update on what's been happening in his life and business over the last four to five weeks — the stress, the overwhelm, the juggle of fitting it all in. But more than just a life update, there's a really useful reminder in here for anyone running at full capacity: if you're always trying to give 100% but you've only got 30% to give, you're only giving 30%. Olly talks through protecting your inputs, being intentional about what you say yes to, and why every yes is also a no to something else — and why that matters for your health, your work and the people you care about. _______________________________________________________________________

Most people assume heart attacks come down to genetics and years of poor eating — and while that plays a role, there's a specific four hour window every morning that increases your risk by 40%. This isn't a random outlier. It's one of the most well documented patterns in cardiology, and almost nobody talks about it in the context of daily habits. In this video, Olly walks through a few simple morning routine changes that do more than just boost energy, mental clarity and digestion — they actively lower your risk in a very real and meaningful way._______________________________________________________________________

Here's a realisation that keeps coming up since Body Reset moved into in-person events — the people who've been listening for years aren't stuck because they're missing some big secret. They're stuck because they're obsessing over steps 11, 12 and 13 before they've nailed steps one, two and three. In this episode, Olly breaks down the real risk of consuming too much health content, why podcasts can accidentally pull you toward the shiny and new instead of the simple and effective, and how to use information as a reinforcer rather than a distraction. If you've been listening, learning and still not moving forward — this one is specifically for you. 

If you're over 40 and eating less protein than you did in your 30s, you're not playing it safe — you're accelerating health decline. In this video, Olly breaks down what anabolic resistance actually is, why your body needs more protein as you age not less, the common patterns he sees with clients who are unknowingly under-fuelling, and the simple tweaks to get your protein up without overhauling your entire diet. He also walks through exactly what he eats in a day to make it straightforward and sustainable. If you want to hold onto your muscle, your energy and your strength into your 50s and beyond, this one is essential viewing.

Olly tackles the top exercise questions from inside the Body Reset gut, menopause and workout reset programs. Whether you're currently exercising and not seeing results, trying to get started, or what you've been doing just isn't working anymore — this Q&A covers the five questions that keep coming up most. Chances are at least one of them is exactly what you've been wondering. Drop any additional questions in the comments and Olly will do his best to get back to you.

You've been feeling off. Weight creeping up, gut not right, energy nowhere to be found. You go to the doctor, get blood tests done, and come back with the most frustrating answer possible — everything is normal. In this video, Mandy breaks down why "normal" on a standard blood test isn't the same as optimal, and how looking deeper at the right blood markers and biomarkers is exactly how Body Reset builds personalised plans that get outstanding results. If you've been dismissed by the system but know something isn't right, this one is for you.