Outside & Active

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By: Dominic Brown

Be Inspired: The Outside & Active Podcast features guests across the world of health and fitness, aiming to inspire, educate and entertain and audience of engaged outdoor enthusiasts. Hear from amazing guests:From household names such as Dame Kelly Holmes, Ben Fogle and Paula Radcliffe, to industry heroes such as Laura Lou Crane, Katie Ormerod and Scott Jurek, to expert nutritionists, physiotherapists and life coaches, there is something for everyone on the Outside & Active Podcast. Perfect for your commute:Episodes are released every Tuesday and are the perfect length for your run, walk or commute. You can listen to the Outside & Acti...

Andy Baddeley - How to set a Parkrun world record
#6
03/06/2024

Co-Founder of the Running Channel

Running has been part of Andy's life since joining the cross-country team at primary school. 30 years later and he's still running, despite having fallen out of love and then back in love with it again a couple of times. 

Andy is a former professional athlete as well as a qualified Athletics Coach. He compete in two Olympic Games over 1500m, making the final in Beijing in 2008 and also finished the same year ranked number one in the world over a mile (3.49.48). But what most people prefer to talk to talk to...


Simon Teagle - If you plan to climb everest do it sooner rather than later
#5
02/27/2024

Simon has been in and out of running his whole life. He was always the kid who got bored walking so ran instead, if that’s from the bus to home after school, to competing in track and cross country.

Then in 2019 Simon was diagnosed with Relapse Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, a condition that his mother has also lived with for 40 years, and since then he has leaned into words that she received during her diagnosis – ‘if you planned to climb Everest, do it sooner rather than later’. 

Simon has used this sentence and his diagnosis as inspiration...


Tasha Thompson - Black Girls Do Run
#4
02/20/2024

Paving the way for a community

Tasha is the founder of Black Girls Do Run UK

In 2019 to celebrate 20 years of running, she decided to give back to the sport she loves and created Black Girls Do Run UK; a community to inspire, encourage and motivate regular black women to run. 

The group was founded based on her experiences throughout her years of running and noticing that there was a lack of diversity in races and running in general. Therefore she decided to try and do something about it. The initial aim of th...


Richard Whitehead MBE - "I want every runner to smile more"
#3
02/14/2024

Smile more!

Born and raised in Nottingham in the UK with a double through- knee congenital amputation, Richard developed a passion for sport at an early age.

Richard won his first world title at the World Championships New Zealand, a title that was quickly followed by European and Paralympic gold in 2012.

In 2013 he embarked on a charity expedition, which saw him run 40 marathons in 40 days. In doing so, Richard became the first double leg amputee to run the length of the country.

Alongside winning numerous medals at World Championships and paralympic Gam...


Adrienne Adhami - Giving you the belief that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things
#2
02/06/2024

Meet Adrienne


Adrienne is a performance wellbeing coach, podcast host & author. From a running point of view, she is an endurance runner and has completed more than 20 endurance races around the world.


Adrienne is a brand advisor specialising in wellbeing and health technology. Earlier this year she was named one of the 'Top 25 Black Entrepreneurs to Watch' by HSBC & UKBBS.


Adrienne's weekly podcast 'Power Hour' has over 4 million downloads and is rated 5* on iTunes. Previous guests include Trevor Nelson, Fearne Cotton, James Clear & Dame Kelly Holmes.


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Emma Campbell - This is why we all have limitless potential
#1
01/30/2024

Find your limitless potential

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Emma Campbell is an author, speaker and host of the podcast, Open.`


She’s known on social media as @limitless_em – a handle she adopted after her third cancer diagnosis in 2019 to serve as a daily reminder to herself and others that we all have limitless potential, despite the challenges we may face.`


It was around this time that Emma found a new love for running and it very quickly became an incredible way of her emotionally managing yet another challenging time and also, a positiv...


Season 13 - The Season of Running!
01/25/2024

Get ready for season 13 of the Outside & Active Podcast. The theme... running!

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Helen Wragg - How Pilates can help YOU with your running
#10
01/16/2024

Pilates supporting your running


Helen is a self confessed pilates geek with a high anatomical knowledge. Her aim is to help you to implement change that is impactful on your life and ensures you achieve your goals.


No matter what your goals are, or, where you are starting from, Helen can support, guide and ensure you progress every step of the way.


Helen in also the founder of MoveFlo, who use equipment to help people reach their goals in sports, fitness or everyday life.


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Mark White - Learning how to run grateful
#9
01/09/2024

Grateful Running


"One day it will feel like walking…."


The words of Mark's friend after he explained he had been running for a few months but concluded it wasn’t for him. After hearing these words, "one day it will feel like walking", something shifted, his whole relationship with movement changed in an instant and he was on his way.


In 2002 Mark found himself in rehab for drug addiction. As a part of his rehabilitation he was introduced to gratitude work. Very quickly, he realised being grateful was a pow...


John Myatt - How I have run every day for 30 years
#8
01/03/2024

One day 30 years ago John made one decision, that was to run every single day no matter what obstacles are put in front of him. Come rain, shine, Christmas or injury - John gets out and runs. Nearly 30 years later, John says that running is just like walking for him.


In this episode John tells Dom a bit more about the motivation behind this challenge.


John also talks about his book Lakeland Fell Running For Mortals. This book is aimed at parkrunners and club runners who run mainly on the roads but who wo...