Live Your Own Fit | LYF Performance

Pete Jacobs
Live Your Own Fit | LYF Performance Podcast

The Live Your Own Fit Podcast is helping you see the big picture of health and performance. Hosted by World Ironman Triathlon Champion Pete Jacobs and his wife Jaimielle Jacobs they bring balanced discussions and information to help you on your journey to finding increased energy, health, & performance. With a focus on lifestyle and mindset tips & knowledge, Pete also brings his experiences of becoming Ironman World Champion & shares his journey of working through an undiagnosed fatigue/health issue over 20yrs, and how he has rebuilt his health & energy.

  1. 27/07/2021

    Uplevel Your Massage

    What do you and elite athletes have in common?  You both need to build familiarity with being relaxed, and build awareness to be able to tap into the feeling of being relaxed. You should be getting massages more often; * to spend time being relaxed  - benefits your nervous system and thought patterns * build familiarity with being relaxed - so you can be more relaxed more often by choice. * Improve blood flow to low flow areas. Increased oxygen and efficient energy. Uplevel your massage ; * Become more aware and in control of your tension/relaxed states. * Become more present with 'no expectations' of pain/discomfort. * Uplevel your ability to control your perception with each tight spot touched. Every time you overcome the tension and overcome the expectation of tension, you are increasing your brains ability to control your perception of everything you experience. * Build awareness in the present - be aware of the connection between mind and body, and the change that occurs when you quiet your mind. An integral part of becoming a better, healthier higher performing human is building the awareness of your mind and body, when they are connected as one. If you would like coaching to build this awareness and all other aspects of preventing injury, improving energy, losing weight, breaking performance limits, then contact Pete or Jaimielle.  email   Hello@liveyourownfit.com Find out more about LYF Performance here https://liveyourownfithealthandperformance.practicebetter.io/#/5ea248732a9c240a8cf8de6c/bookings?step=services

    18 min
  2. 22/07/2021

    Carbohydrate | Pros & Cons

    The main point to remember throughout this podcast is that everyone has a different level of aerobic capacity, and everyday one individual can have a better/worse aerobic capacity  [tolerance to carbohydrates]. Everyone is different to everyone else, and everyone is potentially different to themselves each day also. I give a few examples that might help you solve an issue you've had, but if it does not make sense I can explain it personally to you so you can get the aerobic benefits of having increased oxygen all the time for better recovery, performance , less aches, more energy all day, lower health risks, less excess weight and so many other potential improved symptoms. If you want to feel better, contact me here and set up an consultation for health and fitness gains https://liveyourownfithealthandperformance.practicebetter.io/#/5ea248732a9c240a8cf8de6c/bookings?step=services   Carbohydrates CONS * Carbohydrates are not essential. * Carbohydrates replace more nutrient dense foods. * Carbohydrates can lower your aerobic energy production more than other macronutrients. PROS * Carbohydrates can increase perception of energy during exercise. --  Perception of energy -  - feeling safe - state of growth  - happy hormones - -relaxed -  efficient. * Carbohydrates can assist in performance through energy production during exercise.   1 . What problem are you trying to solve?   During exercise?   Improve health? i.e. low aerobic capacity & nutrient deficiencies?       How much can you handle depends on how aerobic you are?     Have you ever not taken carbs during a race because of fear, or out of spite or dogmatism?  Listen here to learn how to approach life and carbs with a more rational thinking process.

    33 min
  3. 11/07/2021

    How to Run Slow to Run Fast

    Stop wasting your time running without knowing exactly how to improve. If your running still needs improvement after listening to this episode [and to my previous podcast on technique linked below], then it is time to send me your run video and have a talk about it :) It could be your aerobic capacity, or technique, or tension, and I've got a million ways to approach how to improve your running performance and enjoyment. Contact me @petejjacobs through social media, or through www.liveyourownfit.com https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/live-your-own-fit-lyf-performance/id1403266236?i=1000459088848   Running slower - it’s harder technically, and easier to relax mentally and physically. You want to improve your running speed at the same effort, or you want to be able to run longer with less fatigue. You also want running to FEEL better mentally. If you cant run slow efficiently and relaxed, then you are limiting your running ability. Running slow with efficiency is not easy, it takes a lot of focus Running at your default pace and HR and tension physically and mentally is damaging. Running slow TRAINS you to release tension during running, to become more aware, relaxed, and in that state it is EASIER to improve technique.  Observations from running with a client - runs with tension, swings arms low, default pace, cant run slow with same technique. Look at the African Elite runners in their EASY runs. See the link below they are joking, running 5-6min /km, or 9min/mile, and SSOOOO relaxed. https://youtu.be/-4etokKIcvQ?t=13   And then look at the best marathoners racing, they are also incredibly relaxed and efficient. In this video you can see Cherono looking the most efficient, with hands up high, a relaxed thoracic region twisting, relaxed face, etc. and he goes on to win by bringing in power with a bigger arm swing in the final 200m's. https://youtu.be/w5RmIyDKElw?t=379   If you are tense running slow, of course you could never run at a high output without tension. Practice running slow. Really Slow. Really relaxed. PJ

    25 min
  4. 02/07/2021

    How to Improve Sleep for Health & Performance

    Sleep expert Devin Burke shares secrets to improve your sleep, and therefore improve your health and performance. If you have trouble with insomnia, or feel like you should have more energy, or your health or performance is not as good as you want it to be, this episode will give you tips and protocols for a routine that reduces stress and improves your sleep habits and quality. Devin has never shared his “Three P” approach publicly until this episode! Devin Burke and Pete Jacobs  cover amazingly helpful & interesting information, and Devin tells you some tips for improving your sleep you would have never considered.  Watch the podcast on youtube here Devin Burke is an international and TEDx speaker, the bestselling author of “The Sleep Advantage,” the founder of Sleep Science Academy, and one of the top health and sleep coaches in the world. His books, keynotes, programs and videos have inspired thousands of people to improve their sleep, energy, and life. Devin Burke helps high achievers and exhausted insomniacs get and stay asleep so they can wake up with more peace, power and presence. He was named one of the “Top 25 Health Coaches in America.” and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world’s top health and human performance experts for over a decade. As a speaker and coach, he has inspired thousands of people to open their eyes to what is possible through creating new sleep, health and performance habits, and routines.   What's the connection between sleep and stress? How everyone can improve their sleep? Why is sleep important? How can we fall asleep faster, rest deeper, and wake refreshed?   Find more information about Devin below, or get in contact to work with him at The Sleep Science Academy. https://sleepscienceacademy.com Check out his book “The Sleep Advantage” https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578752484 Devin Burke Social Media https://www.linkedin.com/in/devinburkewellness/ https://www.instagram.com/devinburkewellness/   LYF Performance Podcast is hosted by Pete Jacobs, Ironman World Champion and Health and Performance Coach.  Co-Founder of Live Your Own Fit with his wife Jaimielle Jacobs, they are also Prekure Certified Health Coaches and work with clients on all aspects of health and performance to help people feel better and achieve their goals of living a better life, with more energy, more happiness, and more success.

    53 min
  5. 15/06/2021

    Aerobic Health & Performance | How To Improve It?

    If you have ever done ANYTHING to follow lifestyle improvements, breathing or mindset techniques, ANYTHING that is considered a healthier choice (by me haha) you are unknowingly doing something to either increase oxygen levels in the cell, or at least doing something that reduces oxygen levels by the least. Your poor lifestyle and habits are lowering your cellular oxygen. Low oxygen levels create a more ANAEROBIC environment in your mitochondria, where energy production occurs. The worst thing for health, for all living things on earth, is chronic low levels of oxygen. Aerobic is Health | Anaerobic is increased stress products, poor health, & inefficient energy. Oxygen is Key to Life Inflammation lowers cellular oxygen Stress lowers cellular oxygen   Very brief anaerobic exercise can be good (for some), but I'm talking about long term aerobic or anaerobic environments.   If you want to feel better, get fitter, be healthier, or perform better in everything you do, you need more oxygen in your cells. I let you know how I got 'fitter' without even exercising. I explain deeper theories around aerobic and MAF exercise, and how breathing rate is more important than heart rate.   1 Breathing influences cellular oxygen  2 inflammation lowers cellular oxygen 3 Oxidative stress lowers cellular oxygen 4 Stress lowers cellular oxygen   All life on earth needs oxygen. At the top of everything your lifestyle habits are trying to change/improve, they are all under the category of "ways to increase oxygen in your cells and mitochondria"

    30 min

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The Live Your Own Fit Podcast is helping you see the big picture of health and performance. Hosted by World Ironman Triathlon Champion Pete Jacobs and his wife Jaimielle Jacobs they bring balanced discussions and information to help you on your journey to finding increased energy, health, & performance. With a focus on lifestyle and mindset tips & knowledge, Pete also brings his experiences of becoming Ironman World Champion & shares his journey of working through an undiagnosed fatigue/health issue over 20yrs, and how he has rebuilt his health & energy.

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