Fitness & Thinking

Fitness & Thinking is a weekly podcast exploring fitness as more than training plans, body composition, or discipline theatre. Hosted by coach and writer Jack Mann, the show treats fitness as a thinking and feeling practice. Episodes examine how physical training intersects with psychology, culture, identity, work, money, relationships, and meaning. Rather than offering optimisation tricks or rigid dogma, the podcast asks harder questions: what fitness is actually for, how much effort is necessary, and how particularly Western approaches to living – think capitalism, social media, magazines and reality TV – have distorted our understanding of health. Conversations range from physiology and coaching practice to trauma, attention, ageing, risk, and responsibility. Guests include coaches, clinicians, academics, and practitioners whose work sits at the edges of traditional fitness discourse. Fitness & Thinking is for people who “do the work” but suspect or even know that there is more to understand.