#360fit: Top 10 fitness podcasts

Sport360 staff 17:30 19/04/2015
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  • The best fitness podcasts out there.

    The internet is awash with health and fitness podcasts; here, Sport360 selects 10 of the best with a little help from our friends at podcast experts Acast. www.acast.com

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    Paleo Diet  

    The Paleo Diet is one of the most popular forms of dieting in recent years, but other than not eating Chinese takeaway every night of the week, most of us wouldn’t know where to begin. Paleo Diet Magazine provides listeners with the inspiration and motivation they need to get started, backed up with easy-to-digest information that’ll keep them on the right track – what’s not to like?

    The Virgin Diet Lifestyle Show

    Instead of taking spurious diet advice from your friends and trying a different fad each week, turn to JJ Virgin. As a celebrity nutrition and fitness expert, and New York Times bestselling author (she’s written ‘The Virgin Diet’ and ‘The Virgin Diet Cookbook’), JJ will change your life with her simple, effective strategies for losing fat.

    Fat Burning Man

    Want to look like a lean, mean, caveman machine? Abel James answers your questions and interviews leaders in the paleo, primal, evolutionary and ancestral fields to share secrets about losing fat, building muscle and improving your health. Combine this with the Paleo Diet podcast and you’ll be fit enough to fight a mammoth in no time.

    Ben Greenfield

    Health and fitness advice? Check. Multi-sport research? Check. Engaging interviews with exercise and medicine professionals? Check. Leading personal trainer and wellness coach Ben Greenfield will help you exercise, eat, swim, bike, run and live better. What more could you want?

    PODRUNNER: Workout Music

    This is the perfect podcast to listen to while you’re actually working out. More than just a trance megamix, PODRUNNER is a high-energy one-hour playlist full of interval exercise mixes and a fixed tempo that makes it the perfect accompaniment to every tempo-based exercise from running to aerobics.

    The Model Health Show

    Not your average health and fitness podcast, experienced nutritionist Shawn Stevenson aims to connect his listeners with their real reason for wanting to get fit and the motivation they need to start living the life they want. Don’t let that fool you though as this is far from complex. Shawn breaks down seemingly-difficult problems into solutions and ideas that even the most tired mind can understand.

    Good job, brain!

    Of course, fitness isn’t just about giving the body a workout (the biggest muscle is the brain after all) and whilst an early morning cycle will deliver a healthy dose of endorphins, it isn’t doing much for your knowledge bank. Described by its hosts as ‘the ultimate mental nutrition’, Good job, brain! will feed the minds of anyone addicted to pub quiz trivia and unusual news – when you’re wheezing your way past the 10 (or 2) mile mark, this podcast will be just the distraction you need.

    Headspace

    The Big Daddy of Mindfulness, Andy Puddicombe’s tonal wizardry is the perfect tonic to an over-active post-workout brain. When the endorphins are sending your mind into overdrive and you just can’t sleep, this is the podcast to calm you down again and help you drift off. The perfect relay between modern life and the deepest of slumbers.

    Joe DeFranco’s Industrial Strength Show

    This recently launched podcast comes to you from Joe DeFranco, the internationally respected strength and conditioning coach who has worked with everyone from rugby union star Alex Corbisiero to WWE legend Triple H. Whether you’re looking to bulk up or simply be less of a couch potato, Joe covers everything from the importance of goals to the benefits of training with thick-handle dumbbells. Not to be missed.

    The Chalene Show

    If it’s inspiration you’re after, you could do worse than motivational speaker, New York Times Best Selling author, and self-described ‘fitness celebrity’ Chalene Johnson. With a new podcast every few days, The Chalene show features everything from interviews with fitness entrepreneurs to tips on ‘how to lose weight and kick the diet addiction’.

    Acast , the free-to-use podcasting platform, is available from the App Store and Google Play

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