Fitness Ebbs and Flows

Welcome to the Performance Driven Athlete Podcast, where you can join us as we talk about subjects that wil help you unlock your personal human and athletic potential. Our aim is to educate you the listener on everything from living healhty to landing personal bests in the sport of your choice and everything in between. We discuss how to reduce stress, to improving movement quality, to setting PR's to what it takes to look better naked. We have years and years of health and fitness knowledge through personal experience of reaching and changing lives on a daily basis. We broadcast every Thursday from Thunder Valley Fitness in East Tennessee, look us up, come check us out and send us topics and ideas that you would like us to share!

On today's episode Ben and Matt discuss the upcoming 2022 Crossfit Open, including their least  and most favorite workouts. Enjoy the episode!

This week Ben and Matt discuss the Hierarchy of Development, particularly sports, and how important it is to fitness. Enjoy the episode!

This week Ben and Matt discuss the Ebbs and Flows of fitness, how to stay consistent, and whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Enjoy the episode!

This week Ben and Matt discuss the importance of setting fitness goals and finding motivation for success. If you enjoyed the episode please drop a rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts!Thanks, and enjoy the episode!

This week Ben and Matt discuss their journeys as coaches. They reflect on some of their influences that go into their coaching methods, and how to become a better coach. Enjoy the Episode

Ben and Matt discuss the importance of the GPP workout. They talk about improving your athletic ability and increasing your overall strength. Enjoy the episode!

On today's episode, Ben and Matt talk gymnastics in its most simple form, which is "moving your body". They discuss gymnastics as it relates to Crossfit, and give you some ideas to help you in your training. Enjoy the episode!

The PDA boys interview Greg Taylor about his upcoming adventure where he will bike 11,500 miles which takes him all the way across this great United States of America. Check out all of his links with all the social media for USA Cancer Cycle and be ready for when his journey starts on February 20, 2021. 

Talking about breathing seems counter intuitive, but the reality of it is, there is probably so many of us out there that breath incorrectly. With proper breathing strategies we can improve our fitness, strength and performance and through breathwork we can improve the other end of the spectrum of recovery and speeding up the injury healing process.