The Everyone Active Podcast

We're back in the North East this week for our 100th episode, chatting to Bob Glass - Sunderland Aquatic Centre member, Ibiza Wellness Retreat competition winner and regular gym-goer - who's here to tell us all about how activity has changed his life. He tells us how he thought winning the competition was a 'scam', that going to the gym pretty much every day does him the world of good and that yoga and Pilates could well have saved him from needing a knee replacement. For all this, and more listen in to this episode of The Everyone Active Podcast. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Join YOU+ Today Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, Jo is joined by Keiser's UK & Ireland Manager Garry Spreadborough and, continuing on with YOU+ Movement Month, we're talking all things indoor cycling. Garry's the oracle when it comes to indoor cycle classes - he still teaches - and we learn everything there is to learn about the company, the bikes and what makes them special and why Everyone Active chooses them. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Join YOU+ Today Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

It's YOU+ Sleep month, so for this week's episode, we've delved into the archive to bring you some of the best bits from previous episodes dedicated to helping you sleep better. Firstly, Jo and Michelle are joined by the architects of YOU+, Oli Patrick and Steph Heath to talk about how sleep works and why it's so important. Secondly, they're joined by clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas to talk about how living with ADHD can affect your sleep and effective strategies to help combat it. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Join YOU+ Today Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, we're back at The Sunderland Aquatics Centre, where Jo is joined by Tigz - the Fitness Manager at Redcar Leisure Centre. We hear all about what her role involves, but also how YOU+ has impacted her life. How she has implemented the various pillars into her routine and how it has helped turn around the parts of her life that weren't quite working as well as they could. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Join YOU+ Today Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, Jo is in Sunderland, speaking to Nikki Francis - Fitness Manager at The Neptune Centre in Middlesbrough, as well as her friend, client and Neptune member, Yasmine Abulfia who has come on the show to tell us all about her YOU+ journey, with a particular emphasis on the Recovery pillar and how it has transformed her life for the better Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Get more workouts with Everyone On Demand - https://www.everyoneactive.com/Everyone-On-Demand/ ➞ Get fitness advice, gym tips and more - https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/ ➞ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everyoneactive/ ➞ Find your local centre - https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/ ➞ Learn more about Sporting Champions - https://www.easportingchampions.com/

This week, Jo is joined by Nikki Wells - Fitness Manager at the Harborough Leisure Centre. Together, they chat about Heart Rate Variability - HRV - and its importance to you and me. They discuss what it is, its relevance to everyday active people, as well as elite athletes and how its measured. In this episode, we focus on how it affects our recovery and how a lower HRV can make our recovery less effective and a higher HRV can improve it, as well as strategies to improve it ourselves. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, Jo is joined by the returning Steph Heath - Everyone Active's National Fitness Products & Training Manager - as well as Mike Murphy, who is our nutrition partner, Nutrable's chief nutritionist. In this episode, they have got together to discuss Everyone Active's all-new Medicated Weight Loss Support Programme. This is a new product that's been designed to help people who have been prescribed medicated weight loss drugs get the most out of them. How can you be sure not to put all the weight back on? To eat the right foods when you're eating less and so much more. We answer these questions. Join YOU+ Today - Join - Everyone Active Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

In this week's episode of The Everyone Active Podcast, we're talking to Mike Murphy, Chief Nutritionist at Nutrable – a nutrition company with which Everyone Active has just partnered. As YOU+ members, you'll have access to a Nutrable membership and Mike will take us through exactly what this means, what you get with your membership and how you can benefit. He'll also take us on his journey from the tech industry to nutrition and give us his – and Nutrable's – nutrition manifesto. For example, is fat fattening? Are 'low calorie' foods really that healthy? And what's responsible for the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic of the last few decades. Listen in to find out! Join YOU+ Today - Join - Everyone Active Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

In this special festive edition of The Everyone Active Podcast, we take a look back at some of our favourite moments from the best episodes of 2025. This year, we've introduced revolutionary new wellness concepts with YOU+, taken on knife crime with The Ben Kinsella Trust, tackled breast cancer, social inequality in east London, performance nutrition, looked at how to get the most out of your post-natal self and so much more. There are links to the full episodes featured here in the description, so if anything piques your interest, you can find out more! Thanks for all your support this year and we look forward to seeing you in 2026! Introducing YOU+ Ben Kinsella Trust Parkinson's UK Breast Cancer Now The BADU Way Fuel Your Fitness Mummy MOT Join YOU+ Today - Join - Everyone Active Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, Jo is joined by Chloe Moore - a swim teacher at Harborough Leisure Centre, who's going to talk to us all about Swimming Crash Courses. What are they? Who are they for? When are they available? What's so great about them? To find out all this and more, listen to this episode of The Everyone Active Podcast now. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week, Jo and Sally are joined by Kirstie Simpson, Chief Operating Officer of Mummy MOT - a pre- and post-natal health service that helps mums and mums-to-be get the most out of themselves. In this episode, we hear all about how Mummy MOT operates, what its practitioners do, what a session might look like, how the many changes a woman's body goes through during pregnancy affects them and for how long and how physical activity fits into all of this, as well as so much more! Find out more about the Mummy MOT here - https://mummymot.com/ Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

This week's episode of The Everyone Active Podcast features Richard Randall, 66 - a member at Harpenden Leisure Centre. In May 2025, Richard was inspired by Everyone Active's Grit Challenge to take on something extraordinary - a HYROX. Having never attempted anything athletic in his life, Richard spent the next six months training hard for this life-defining event. Using a programme developed in accordance with the YOU+ principles by his Personal Trainer, Becks, Richard aced the HYROX event and is now looking forward to his next challenge! ---- Get more workouts with Everyone On Demand - Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ https://www.everyoneactive.com/Everyone-On-Demand/ ➞Get fitness advice, gym tips and more - https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/ ➞Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everyoneactive/ ➞Find your local centre - https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/ ➞Learn more about Sporting Champions - https://www.easportingchampions.com/