Fitness and Thinking

About Fitness and Thinking

There's more to fitness than lifting weights, and if you've achieved your sports or body goals – or you're on you way to them – you'll likely have found yourself wondering alternately: is this it or what's next? Some of you might even self-sabotage before you get to this point because not knowing is a scary place to be. F&T tackles the big and small, the fat and the skinny and the completely delulu, and is hosted by a PT and online coach with a masters in Psychology, who's sick of fitness being reduced to: do you have a six pack?

Publisher

Jack Mann

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jun 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Eloise Skinner - Are Your Options Holding You Back? - F&T70

   Eloise Skinner worked as a corporate lawyer before spending time in a monastic community and becoming an author, model, yoga and fitness instructor, entrepreneur and existential psychotherapist. In this conversation, we talk about purpose, religion, monasticism, the body, fitness, spirituality and building a life that might only "make sense" in retrospect. We talk about the freedom that can come from narrowing your options, the importance of being present rather than living entirely in the future or the past, and why the path that feels authentic to you may be more important than finding the objectively “correct” one. Eloise's current work brings together meaning, purpose, education and wellbeing, and she is currently completing an MSc in Existential Analysis. More from Eloise: eloiseskinner.com instagram.com/eloiseallexia/ More from Fitness & Thinking: Read the Fitness & Thinking newsletter on Substack Follow @coachjackmann and @fitnessandthinking on Instagram If you enjoyed this conversation, there's plenty more to come and in the archive about meaning, identity, practice, purpose and what it means to build a good life.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Alexa Ryan - You Don't Need Another Health Hack - F&T69

   Alexa Ryan is a neurotherapist, functional medicine practitioner, nutritionist and founder of It Comes Naturally. Alexa's own journey into this work began with becoming her own patient. After years of unexplained health problems, she eventually found herself using what she had learned to understand her own brain and body — and later, after a severe spinal injury, to explore the relationship between physical pain, emotion and recovery. We talk about the gut-brain connection, whether we should look to food before supplements, the problem with constantly searching for the next biohack, and why Alexa believes the foundations of health matter more than endlessly adding new interventions. We also get into neurofeedback, brainwaves, binaural beats, screens, nature, attention, the vagus nerve, HRV and the increasingly popular world of nervous-system regulation. More from Alexa: Website: https://www.itcomesnaturally.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexa_ryan/ Keep exploring Fitness & Thinking: F&T31 | 10 Painful Lessons From 2025 F&T40 | Why Perfect Diets Usually Fail | Amy Stephens F&T61 | Your Relationships Will Struggle Without This Fitness & Thinking explores the physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and financial sides of what it means to live well. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to Fitness & Thinking, leave a comment with the idea that got you thinking, and send the episode to someone who might enjoy it. New episodes every week. Follow F&T: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitnessandthinking/ Newsletter: https://fitnessandthinking.substack.com/ Want to work with Jack on your own physical and wider wellbeing? coachjackmann@gmail.com Guest ideas, collaborations or questions: fitnessandthinking@gmail.com

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Dr. Justin Anderson - How You Can Perform When Everything Is Going Wrong - F&T68

   What happens when the thing standing between you and a good performance isn't your ability, but where you've placed your attention? Dr Justin Anderson is a high-performance psychologist, former collegiate quarterback and author of Intentional Attention. Inspired by his time with athletes and leaders, Justin's work could help all of us to become more deliberate about what we notice, what we respond to and who we choose to be. We begin with pressure: what it feels like to stand in the pocket, to have the physiological warning lights going off, and to perform anyway. And then the conversation quickly moves beyond sport. We explore why we tend to focus on what's wrong, how fear and insecurity pull our attention away from what matters, and why the goal under pressure might not be to perform better than our best but to avoid falling too far below what we're capable of. Justin introduces his Intentional Attention Framework, including awareness, intention, execution, reflection and renewal. We discuss the difference between thoughts, emotions, physiology, attention and behaviour, and how recognising patterns can give us more agency over our lives. We discuss sleep, nature, screens, circadian rhythms and the possibility that even rest can become another thing we try to optimise. We explore mindfulness, why Justin chose not to use the word in his book, and whether a more practical and performance-focused language can make these ideas more accessible – or lose something along the way. More from Justin: Intentional Attention: https://intentionalattention.com/ Premier Sports Psychology: https://premiersportspsychology.com/ Fitness & Thinking explores the relationship between physical fitness and the way we think, feel and live. Conversations about movement, psychology, philosophy, health, identity and what it means to live well. Like and subscribe for more.

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