The Astraea Podcast

Welcome back to a new season of podcasts with your host Andrew McLaughlan. We navigated a crazy lockdown period, gym expansion and growth which took all of our focus, we wanted to bring back some excellent episodes - who better to kick off with Hinley Chan. CF-L1 coach at CrossFit The Tenth Man and a pioneering coach working alongside a powerful team at On The Program

We caught up with the awesome lad Johnny from the highlands of Scotland. We discussed how we managed training through tough times and bouts of unexpected injury, and how this years open has taught us how the greater community of CrossFit have come together to support each other in the UK.

In our episode with Oakley, we dived into her journey from her first WOD with her mum, finding a purpose as a coach from her apprenticeship days to becoming a L1 Seminar Staff. Not only has she found her purpose to serve a budding community at Forest Flow and took her spin on making it a special place from visiting many affiliates during her journey. We spoke on the new girl workouts and funny events that happened during her time making teams at regionals.

Another podcast drops with the CF-L3 Shortz, truly an episode which will help new coaches in the fitness world navigate and understand some thoughts on becoming a better coach, how he got into CrossFit, learning new skills to serve those who struggle from loss of hearing, and all round a look into the 2021 season

A legend in his own right - Karl is a humble man with a great history of coaching and education in the field of fitness. We dive into the experience within the years at CrossFit head office, the future of the training methodology, Semi Finals and memorable moments we’ve had when coaching awesome human beings. Not one to miss

Speaking on many topics this weeks episode on all things fitness during lockdown. We got talking on the situation for people in Germany, how they are working through the countries rules and what members at Maarten’s affiliates are doing to keep their motivation on fitness and mental health. CrossFit Nordlicht on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crossfitnordlicht/ Potentialperlen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/potentialperlen/

We dive into the taboo topic nobody wants to discuss - the menstrual cycle. Me and Ellie Geldard speak on helping members at our affiliates get a better understanding on how your body adapts and works during each phase of this natural occurrence. Helping women get a better insight into this could help make improvements on when to increase and decrease training volume, listening to signals the body gives off and a few other pointers you can apply right away to get more from your training. If you wish to follow Ellie and her journey, check out her Instagram on @elliegal or @elliegeldardnutrition. Please note - audio on my end is low as we had a technical fault during recording (100 burpees to me) but I feel the content is excellent from Ellie so enjoy.

Don’t just jump back into your training at warp speed expecting to be the same pre-COVID. Have a strategy to help you focus on steadily increase your quantity and quality of repetitions. On this episode we cover some ideas and keystone training methods you can do for getting yourself ready for getting into the gym and the upcoming open.

Every wondered how you can get a better sleep? Sometimes you don’t need to go to insane levels to optimise the quality that you get. Here are some markers you should look out for to see how good your sleep is, and what tricks you can do today to make steady improvements

All things in life require water, so why don’t we speak about it enough? Here we speak on the role it plays within the human body, how much we need and the effects it has on our exercise and performance.