Your CoachRx Podcast Network Update Late July 2026
The network coaches covered serious ground these past two weeks: how hidden stress shapes training outcomes, progressing skills inside mixed modal workouts, and why so many coaches slide into a nine to five mindset. There's also a deep dive on training in the heat, a rapid-fire round of fitness truths and myths, and the story of two teenage athletes chasing the CrossFit Games. On the brand side, Behind The Design tackles Olympic lifting and program notes, while Frameworks kicks off a two-part series on fitness facts and fallacies. Here are must-listen episodes.
Conquer Athlete Podcast
With Coaches Jason Leydon & Ryan Bucciantini
The Hidden Impact of Stress on Your Training
Your client's training is only as good as their recovery, and total life stress is often the missing variable. Jason Leydon breaks down how chronic and acute stress affect performance and health, and why managing stress load matters as much as managing training load. A useful lens for the client whose progress stalls despite a dialed-in program.
How to Progress Skills Inside a Mixed Modal Workout
Skill work often falls apart the moment it meets fatigue. Jason shares how to progress skills within mixed modal training: honoring proper progression, understanding the limits of each energy system, and pairing exercises strategically so athletes can hold quality under load.
The Standard Podcast
With Coaches Brandon Gallagher & Jerry Hayes
The Standard
9-5 Coach: How Not To Become One
Punching the clock is a mindset before it's a schedule. Brandon and Jerry dig into the standards that separate career coaches from hourly session-runners, and how the habits you keep in your own training carry over into how you build your coaching business.
The Fitness Movement by ZOAR Fitness
With Coach Ben Wise
Exercising in the Heat: Physiology & Practical Applications
Summer training carries a real physiological cost that most programs ignore. Ben walks through how heat affects performance for CrossFit athletes, from the underlying physiology to practical adjustments for pacing, hydration, and expectations when clients train in hot conditions.
Smarter Strength Podcast
With Coach Dr. David Skolnik
What to do When Your Client has a Pain Flare Up
A client's pain flares up mid-program: now what? Answering a listener question from a physical therapist and coach, Dr. Skolnik walks through normalizing non-linear progress from day one, stripping the emotion out of the moment, and collecting objective data on what was novel in training. The reframe worth stealing: a flare-up is a benchmark of current tolerance, and repeating the session symptom-free a few weeks later becomes a measurable win.
How to Break Through the Good Coach Plateau
Stagnation does not always look like failure, which is what makes the good coach plateau so easy to miss. Dr. Skolnik prescribes naming the clients and conversations you have been quietly avoiding, then building a focused self-study plan to attack that weak spot. Practical for any coach who feels competent but stuck.
Performance Programming Simplified
With Coach Spencer Kankel
How to fix your Overhead Squat + Other Thoughts on CrossFit
Overhead squat limitations frustrate coaches and clients alike. Spencer sits down with Kerry Kirsch of the Coach Em Up Podcast to work through targeted mobility drills, loading techniques, and shoulder stability work, plus programming considerations for youth and senior populations. They also get into warm-up design and where AI fits in the fitness industry.
Episode 13: Carbohydrate Metabolism
Fueling decisions fall flat when you do not understand the underlying physiology. Spencer breaks down carbohydrate metabolism and translates it into practical fueling guidance for functional fitness training and competition.
HYROX Heroes
With Coach Damian Votta
It's Not Where You Are, It's Where You're Going
Comparison culture hits athletes hard when someone else is always running faster or training more. Damian digs into why comparison strips away context, how social media creates false timelines, and why long-term success comes from staying focused on your own path and circumstances. A good one to share with any client stuck measuring themselves against strangers.
The Viomati Co Podcast
With Coaches Robin Styvers & Manon Jongejan
#12: What’s Your Dream? How to Turn Your Passion Into a Business
Plenty of coaches sit on a business idea without ever acting on it. In this solo episode, the show works through identifying what you actually want and the early steps to turn a passion into a sustainable business. It is steady encouragement for anyone weighing the leap.
Use It or Lose It, Train for Life
With Coaches Kayla Smith& Kevin Armstrong
This or That, Truth or Myth
Fitness influencers generate strong opinions faster than anyone can fact-check them. Kevin puts a series of popular hot takes in front of Kayla in a rapid-fire truth-or-myth format, and the pair sort out what holds up from what doesn't. A handy way to pressure-test the claims your clients bring to check-ins.
8 Fitness & Health Reminders You Need To Hear Right Now
Sometimes clients don't need new information, they need the right reminders. Kayla and Kevin share eight health and fitness principles worth returning to, from mindset shifts to daily habits that compound over time. Good material for your next client conversation about consistency.
The Grit Performance Podcast
With Coach Tyson Maher
Chasing The CrossFit Games | Rylee Kent & Tamatea Mccall
What does the road to the CrossFit Games actually look like for a teenage athlete? This documentary-style episode follows Rylee Kent and Tamatea Mccall as a dream that once felt impossible becomes real, told from inside their preparation for the 2026 season. A different format from Grit, and worth the watch.
Behind The Design
With Coaches Daniel Persson & Brandon Gallagher
Behind The Design: Program Notes That Help Clients Train With Intent
A well-designed session still fails if the client doesn't know what it's for. Daniel and Brandon show how they write program notes that communicate intent, so clients understand the why behind each exercise and execute the session as designed.
Behind The Design: Olympic Lifting In Program Design
When does Olympic lifting earn a place in a client's program? Working through real client examples live, Daniel and Brandon cover where the snatch and clean and jerk fit, who they fit for, and the principle-based reasoning behind including or excluding them.
Catch it live: Tuesdays at 10:30am EST on the OPEX YouTube Channel
Frameworks with Carl Hardwick
With Coach Carl Hardwick
Facts & Fallacies of Fitness
VO2 max as the top predictor of longevity, HIIT as the most efficient path to fitness, glucose monitors for healthy people: three popular claims built on false certainty. Carl and James FitzGerald take each one apart and make the case that chasing efficiency pulls clients away from sustainable practice.
Fitness Facts & Fallacies Part 2: The Sustainability Problem
The series continues with seed oils, GLP-1 drugs, and the obesity conversation, all viewed through one question: is the behavior sustainable? Carl and James argue that clients rent short-term results from unsustainable protocols, and that better coaching starts with better questions rather than another six-week fix.
The Autonomy Problem in Fitness Coaching
What should coaching actually produce: a dependent client or an autonomous one? Carl Hardwick and OPEX founder James Fitzgerald dig into autonomy as self-governance, why so many clients stay stuck in dependency, and the business case for building toward client graduation instead of clinging to retention. They also cover expectations, simplicity over complexity, and what physical freedom really means.
Marketing For Fitness Coaches
With Kandace Hudspeth
Episode 50: The Full Marketing Roadmap Recap
Fifty episodes in, Kandace brings the whole message back to one idea: your marketing should be as individual as the way you coach. This recap walks the complete eight-step roadmap, from defining your niche and building your content signature to packaging your offer and running a content system you can actually sustain. A solid reset if your content has started to sound like everyone else's.
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