The Everyone Active Podcast

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.

In the wake of the Everyone Active Champions Awards, held at The English Institute of Sport in Sheffield in February, we took some time out to chat to some nominees and winners in the Community Champions categories to uncover more about their inspirational stories. We heard from dance collectives The Y.E.S Project and Pinder Dance Productions, mental health warriors Active Minds and sports group 6+1 to discover who they are, how they operate and how being part of the Everyone Active Community Champions Scheme has benefitted them. Listen in to find out more! The Y.E.S Project Active Minds Pinder Dance Productions 6+1 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/

Today Jo is joined once again by Gary Foley to talk about breathwork and the new Everyone Active Breathing Space class. Joining them on the podcast this week is the class's inspiration and guru - breathwork expert Jamie Clements. He'll be speaking to us all about how and why he became interested in the practise, why paying attention to our breath is such a good idea and give us an idea of what the Breathing Space classes will feel like. As a special treat, as well, he'll also be giving us a short guided breath meditation at the end of the episode, giving us a powerful insight into what a Breathing Space class might feel like. Listen on to find out more! 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 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.

This week, Michelle is joined by Keri Paliczka from our ever-popular Coral Reef Waterworld site. With five outrageous water slides, rapids, a lazy river, a pirate ship sailed by Pete the Pirate, it really is the perfect day out for the whole family. With half term approaching and the Easter holidays following rapidly on their coat tails, there's never been a better time to book your session!  Coral Reef Waterworld Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ Join YOU+ Today - Join - Everyone Active 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.

For our first episode of 2026, Jo and Gary take a look at the ACSM's (American College of Sports Medicine) list of fitness trends for 2026. They'll analyse what's new on the list, what's moved up, what's moved down and how you can enjoy what's on that list at your local Everyone Active centre! 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 in the co-host's chair by Gary Foley to chat with Harpenden member and owner of several incredible stories, Enzo. In this episode, Enzo regales us with his life story; through hardship, tragedy, health difficulties and yo-yo-ing weight before finding his community with Everyone Active at Harpenden Leisure Centre. Find out more about the podcast here: https://www.everyoneactive.com/content-hub/online-tools/everyone-active-podcast/ 

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.

On this week's episode of The Everyone Active Podcast, Jo is joined by Ness, a visually impaired member from our Harborough centre, who has overcome a number of challenges in her life - as well as barriers to getting active - to find a community that has embraced her and enabled her to enjoy getting active at Harborough Leisure Centre. Listen to her inspiring story 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 is joined by Ian Mansel-Thomas, Team Principal of the Tofauti Everyone Active Majaco junior cycling team. In this episode, Ian tells us all about what it takes to run a succesful junior cycling team, how it came into being, how it weathered the storms of Covid, what it takes to mix it with the big beasts of the cycling world and how to ensure the brightest British cycling talent achieves all it can, as well as so much more! Tofauti Everyone Active Majaco | Junior Cycling Team Tofauti Everyone Active Majaco (@tofautieveryoneactivemajaco) • Instagram photos and videos TOFAUTI - African wildlife and communities charity - HOME Majaco | Home 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'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/

The Everyone Active Podcast is BACK and this week, Jo is joined by Amy O'Connor, Global Lead for Policy & Advocacy at Movember. In this episode, Jo and Amy will be discussing the Movember campaign as we go into November, how it started and everything to do with men's health. Why are men so much more likely to die four years earlier than women? What are the barriers men are experiencing when attempting to access healthcare? How can Everyone Active play a role in improving the situation? And so much more besides.  Listen in to find out more. To get involved and donate to Movember's campaign, visit their website: Movember | Changing the face of men's health - Movember 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.  

Once again, Michelle and Jo are in Wakefield, and this week they are talking to Nikki Riozzi, the Music Label manager for Pure Energy. Together, they have a deep dive into the science of audio, how music can aid our recovery, and the evolution of music for group exercise classes. 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 Michelle are back in Wakefield, talking with Dan Richardson, a performance nutritionist. Together, they discover how small changes to your diet can make a big difference to your workouts. Dan shares practical, easy-to-follow tips to boost energy, stamina and recovery, as well as busting common nutrition myths to help you get the most from your exercise regime. Find more from Dan right here: https://www.instagram.com/drnnutrition https://linktr.ee/DRNnutrition  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 Michelle are on the road, visiting Pure Energy Music in Wakefield. They're chatting to Pure Energy's CEO, Andy Pickles about his career in the music industry, Pure Energy's formation and how it helped revolutionise how music is used within the fitness industry. They also talk about how important music is to fitness and how that relationship translates to an improved experience for both trainers and members. 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 Eric Morecambe Centre General Manager Kate Barton to chat all things Everyone Theatre. Together they discuss why Everyone Active has taken on a selection of theatres, what sort of productions our new theatres are putting on - including pantomimes, stand-up comics and community theatre as well as talking about what benefits they bring to the communities in which they operate. It's not just about entertainment, but education and social wellness too. Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.  

This week, Jo and Michelle are joined by Jane Bains. Jane's a Personal Trainer at Harpenden Leisure Centre, but she's also a qualified, registered nutritionist of 15 years' experience. Jane's joined us to talk all about sugar. What is it? How much of it should we eat? Are we eating too much? Well, the answer to that is: probably. Jane, therefore, takes us through some strategies to reduce the amount of sugar we consume and what the consequences might be if we don't. Trust us when we say this is an episode you don't want to miss! Everyone Active - everyoneactive.com Join us over on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.