RedPill Training Podcast

Culture in Sport

Different sports display different cultural characteristics.

Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey explore their experience of different sports to highlight the varying cultures in each one.…

Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey discuss strength training. This is for coaches and athletes struggling to increase their numbers even though they are putting in the work and time during strength trai…

Talk the Torque

I would like to help people get through the apparent misunderstandings of torque and understand it from a scientific point of view.

Why is it important to understand, what is its role f…

2:30

How do you get to understand your athlete? How much is too much? how much is not enough? Both In terms of weekly volume, level of fatigue, optimal performance for the athlete.

2:40

Acute / Chronic …

Insights into the differences between coaching at Weightlifting and CrossFit competitions.
2:34
You have some cool experiences over the last year or so, that have opened your eyes to different approach…

A conversation, Skill vs Threshold.

The way oxygen works and moves around the body and how we strategize different energy systems…I’m purposely avoiding the word ‘aerobic’ because there is a skill ele…

Phil Mansfield sits down with Sam to discuss what makes her tick. What does it take to be a professional CrossFit athlete? Who does she look up to? Who is in her fantasy CrossFit team? Get to know Sa…

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Jowsey, Phil and Jemma discuss the consequences of the CrossFit season changes. Looking at who will benefit from the introduction of CrossFit sanctional events and who may be unintentionally,…

1:40
Ash Grossman’s question:

In terms of programming how do you trade off the repetition required for progressive overload against practicing the randomness of competition in a CrossFit setting?

5:32
Pa…

Back in the day Phil Mansfield was a professional rugby player. He invited an old contemporary of his, Simon Whitnall to sit down and discuss coaching styles and methodologies. Their discussion visit…

Jowsey, Jemma and Phil explain the Functional Continuum. - knowing where you are on the exercise continuum and why.

“I’m not getting good at golf by playing cricket”

For years we (RedPill) have thought knees coming over toes as not an issue but we still deal with people who see this as dangerous.

Where does this theory come from? Jowsey, Phil and Jemma discuss why…

Phil interviews Jowsey about his experience in CrossFit and how he became known as ‘the fixer’.

I started out fixing people and patching people up. I gained the reputation of ‘fixing people in one ses…