Smarter Than Yesterday

About Smarter Than Yesterday

Whether you’re chasing an Ironman dream or simply aiming to feel fitter, healthier, and sharper day to day, Smarter Than Yesterday is here to help you perform, fuel, & live smarter. Hosted by Darren and Alex from Smart Performance Coaching, each fortnight we chat with athletes, coaches, and everyday people to uncover lessons in training, nutrition, and mindset. Every episode also features Performance on a Plate bite-sized nutrition tips you can actually use in your own kitchen. Honest conversations, practical takeaways, and stories that leave you you guessed it a little smarter than yesterday

Publisher

Smart Performance

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Oct 2025

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   🎙️ Episode 18 - IM A FU*k*NG IRONMAN! With Alan Adye-Rowe

   🎙️ Episode 18 – IM A FU*k*NG IRONMAN! With Alan Adye-Rowe From a health scare, a 16km comeback run and plantar fasciitis to one of the toughest Ironman courses in the world—Alan Adye-Rowe’s journey is anything but below average. Alan joins us to share how changing a few unhealthy habits quickly escalated into running, cycling, open-water swimming and a calendar packed with endurance events. Just three years after beginning his journey, he crossed the Ironman Wales finish line and finally got ...

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   🎙️Equinox 24 Full Review – Bite size episode 6

   In this bite-sized episode of Smarter Than Yesterday, we're taking you inside Equinox 24 — the 24-hour endurance race at the stunning Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. From pre-race nerves and van "Chalky" rocking up with fresh SPC decals, to 3am low points, a chafing SOS mission, and a full SPC crew keeping Darren moving lap after lap — this is the full, honest debrief. Twelve months on from foot surgery, Darren set out to hit 100 miles on a brutal 6.2-mile loop featuring the aptly-named "No...

3. 

   11 Sept 2026

   🎙️ Episode 17 STRONGMAN & PHYSICAL FOUNDATION with Harvey Robinson

   This week Darren and Alex sit down with Harvey Robinson, a full-time dairy and sheep farmer, competitive powerlifter since 2012, and the reigning Hereford's Strongest Man. Harvey takes us from milking cows at 6am to squatting 360kg, benching 230kg (a British raw bench press record, won at the Arnold Classic) and deadlifting 385kg, all while running the farm and raising a family. He explains the "training pyramid" that underpins everything he does: general conditioning at the base, bodybuildin...

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