156 episodes

Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australia’s cultural life. Recognising it’s much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You don’t have to get sport, to get Sporty!

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    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.6 • 39 Ratings

Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australia’s cultural life. Recognising it’s much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You don’t have to get sport, to get Sporty!

    Take Control, part one - Exercise

    Take Control, part one - Exercise

    Life is full of things that are beyond your control. You lose your job. A relationship ends. Someone dies. Or indeed, there's a global pandemic. So what about the things that are within your power, that can make you feel better?
    This special series over four weeks in turn focuses on diet, sleep, pain, and in this episode - exercise. They're the controllables.

    • 29 min
    Take Control, part two - Diet

    Take Control, part two - Diet

    Life is full of slings and arrows that are outside of your control. So what about the things that are within your power, to make you feel better?
    This time the focus is on what you eat and drink.
    Four people each on a quest to take control of this share their experiences and insights.

    • 29 min
    Take Control, part three - Sleep

    Take Control, part three - Sleep

    There's an awful lot that can keep you awake at night.

    In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, and diet.

    Now they discuss their difficulties with sleep - and what sends them into the arms of Morpheus.

    • 29 min
    Take Control, part 4 - Pain

    Take Control, part 4 - Pain

    Can you change how you think about pain, and therefore your experience of it?
    In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, diet and sleep.
    Now, it's pain

    • 29 min
    How to move more

    How to move more

    Why do the countless public health campaigns encouraging people to be more active tend to fail?

    • 29 min
    Adults who can't swim and Federer the sponsor magnet

    Adults who can't swim and Federer the sponsor magnet

    For adults, learning to swim is difficult and scary. How do you overcome a deep fear of water?

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
39 Ratings

39 Ratings

Dilidog ,

Female Commentators

Great podcast Amanda. The importance of hearing women’s voices commentating on any sport is so important to girls, young women and old farts like me. It is important for boys and men to hear great female commentary from women like the 3 you interviewed. I think it is a game changer.

Galfakfsgspycchhcjf ,

Sporty

I so enjoy listening to your podcast. I like that you explore so many topics related to sport. Please keep up the great work.

Athlete61 ,

Love it

Tha parkrun ep and the one on HIIT were great! Excellent research. Thank you ABC !!

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