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Strength is a term we use every day in our industry and it is defined as the ability to exert enough force in order to overcome resistance. In this episode we are going to completely uncover the full force of strength training, what it means to be strong and how we can help our clients achieve strength that is more specific to them. We are joined by Stu Gatherum who has a keen interest as well as tons of professional and personal experience working in the area of Strength and Conditioning with both athletes and with a PT client base. Stu Gatherum has worked in the fitness industry for over 20 years, he has been a full time PT, a Strength and Conditioning coach for a range of professional athletes in different sports and is a fitness educator both in the U.K and Internationally, running two businesses centred around educational delivery in T2 Fitness, and content creation in T2 Awards. One of his primary passions in fitness is the area of S&C, and he has a unique perspective on its application within sports, as well as with a PT client base.
For Episode 5 of the Steal Your Weights podcast, we went to South Fayette to visit Anna Tobias - nee Tunnicliffe - at T2 CrossFit.Anna is an Olympic gold medalist and one of the top CrossFit athletes in western Pa., having made it to the CrossFit Games five times as an individual athlete from 2013-17 and logging two top-10 finishes along the way. And after she moved into the masters 35-39 category, she dominated, finishing first at the Games in 2018 and 2019. Through it all, she and her husband, Brad Tobias, have been coaching. They opened T2 CrossFit in 2016 and recently branched out with T2 Fitness, a multi-program facility at a separate location. After a rough workout of burpees and snatches, we sat down with Anna to talk about the Olympics, coaching, scaling workouts, surviving the pandemic and a lot more. If you enjoy the Steal Your Weights podcast, rate and review and tell a friend. And if you know of a gym we should check out, let us know. Thanks for listening.
In 2014, Hamilton Perkins founded Hamilton Perkins Collection, an independent brand, designing and producing unique and award-winning bags and accessories from recycled materials. Hamilton Perkins Collection exists to create timeless limited edition bags made from recycled plastic water bottles, pineapple leaf fiber, and billboard vinyl. The result is that no two bags are ever the same. Our first design, the Earth Bag Premium, was created so that our customers would not only carry a bag that was stylish but carry a bag they could be proud of. We surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to obtain their thoughts and feedback for each component of the Earth Bag Premium, which soon became one of our most popular designs. Perkins was the winner of the Virginia Velocity Tour hosted by the Governor of Virginia, and the recipient of a HUD Community Development Block Grant. The non-profit B Lab honored Hamilton Perkins Collection as a "Best for the World Overall" B Corporation in 2017. Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Money Magazine, and The Washington Post. The brand is currently offered in nearly 100 leading department stores and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
On this episode of our Behind the Grind interview series, we sit down with Tasha Turnbull - Author, Fitness Studio Owner, Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Group Fitness Instructor, Motivational Speaker, 100lb Weight Loss Winner! She's doing all the things! Find Tasha on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/t2_fitness/ Tasha started as a personal trainer in 2009 and opened T2 Fitness Studios in 2011 after she realized her calling of impacting lives through her own personal testimony - successfully losing 100 pounds on her own. T2 Fitness has been the motivation behind over 6000 men and women in Hampton Roads making health and fitness a priority in their own lives via their personal training, fitness bootcamps, motivational speaking talks across the country, and the annual fitness events Tasha’s company puts on in the Coastal Virginia area of the state. Tasha has been featured on several weight loss blogs, local, regional, and national radio and television news segments, national fitness social media campaigns, and fitness-related news publications including Sister Circle TV, Shape Magazine, Xo Necole, Black Girls Run, The American Council on Exercise, Fox Baltimore, and BlackDoctor.Org, etc. She was featured this year as a Women To Watch in STRONG Fitness Magazine’s print magazine for their April/May 2019 Issue. Tasha was on tour with Black Girls Run’s in 2018 for their Sweat With Your Sole 10-city tour stop across the country. The nutrition workshops Tasha lead, had a profound impact on participants from Seattle, Washington to Washington, D.C., giving them insight into her previous negative relationship with food. Tasha lead participants on a journey revealing how to improve their relationship with food while empowering themselves to create a stronger foundation of self in order to improve their relationship with food.. Tasha is the author of The Last 10lbs: How the Last 10 Helped Me To Lose 100lbs!and is an extension of her commitment to finding unique and effective ways to motivate people to reach their fitness goals and live your healthiest life possible, despite leading a busy lifestyle.!Tasha offers insight in to her own pitfalls and setbacks, with regard to food and emotional eating. In!The Last 10lbs, Tasha explains page-by-page, how she lost 100 lbs and what you can do to finally live your best life. In June of this year, she received an Author of The Year Award for The Last 10lbs, from the Indie Author Legacy Awards Gala. In 2018, Tasha created the T2 Ultimate Nutrition Starter Plan as a way for individuals across the country to learn the tools needed to create a strong foundation for staying consistent along their health journey with regard to healthy eating and weight loss. This fall, Tasha created the Well Body Series, a fitness program designed to not only take care of their physical health, but also to empower them to take care of their emotional health as well. Lastly, in September 2019, Tasha was the keynote speaker of the American Diabetes Association’s Victory Over Diabetes event, held in Smithfield, Va. She discussed her journey towards weight loss, while being on a fixed income and inspired the crowd, with tips on how they can improve their lifestyle; no matter their busy schedule, income, or past failures.
This week on Beauty, Brains, & Business Tasha Turnbull joins Dr. Carey Yazeed in the studio to discuss how she turned her weight loss journey into a business. Tasha is the author of the Last 10 Pounds and the owner of T2 Fitness in Virginia Beach, Virginia. To learn more about Tasha visit http://www.myt2fitness.com Don't forget to check out the new Beauty, Brains, & Business Virtual Directory and the phenomenal female entrepreneurs who are showcased. Visit https://www.thebeautybrainsandbusiness.com
Clayton Tarrant is a freelance PT who runs Define Personal Training. He was one of the earliest T2 Fitness grads and has been going from strength to strength ever since.
Anthony Lynch is a longtime PT and business owner who is now the CEO of Edufit. He's a close friend of T2 Fitness and has some awesome insight into the fitness industry
Adam Bentley is a former Marine who has since transitioned to working in the fitness industry. He trained with us at T2 Fitness and now owns CrossFit Devizes
Claire is a good friend of T2 Fitness. She is a high-level Sports Therapist specialising in functional rehabilitation. She also competed for Team GB in Duathlon.
Danny Day, tutor at T2 Fitness and successful Personal trainer sits down to chat about his journey in the fitness industry.
In this episode T2 Fitness founder Stu Gatherum talks about his history in the fitness industry and how T2 Fitness was created
Danny comes back for round 2 in his series of podcasts with us. He is a successful PT and one of the tutor team at T2 Fitness.