
Lionhearted
A comical and thought-provoking exploration of all things CrossFit, fitness, nutrition, mobility, programming and health topics hosted by Coache Dave of Croga CrossFit in San Jose, CA.
Episodes
57 episodes
Ep 55: NonProphet Endurance with Coach Nick (Part 1)
This week I sat down with one of our former coaches at Croga, Nick Ralston, for another chat about Endurance.If you haven’t listened to my first interview with Nick about Self Identity and Using Fitness to Experience the World, go check ...
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Ep 54: Croga Nutrition - Thanksgiving/Holiday Tips & Tricks
This week, with Thanksgiving only a few days away, I sat down with our Coach Cody, who is not only our Head Coach at Croga Fitness, but also one of our awesome Croga Nutrition Coaches to run through our top tips and tricks for surviving Thanksg...
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Ep 53: Croga Nutrition - August 2020 New Client Questions
This week I sat down with our Croga Nutrition Coaching Staff (Cody, Meghan and Stephanie) to answer a bunch of questions form our newest set of clients and some frequently asked questions we’ve been asked over and over during our first year of ...
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Ep 52: Croga Nutrition - Coach Meghan’s Transformation & Human Interaction
This week I sat down with our awesome Croga Nutrition Coach, Meghan, for the second time.This time I wanted to chat with her about her experience DURING her journey and if/how life has been different since reaching her goal weight and bo...
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Ep 51: Croga Nutrition - Coach Preston’s Nutrition Coaching & Athlete Advice
This week I sat down with one of our long time coaches from Croga CrossFit who also happens to be, hands down, the most knowledgable member of the Croga Nutrition StaffPreston has been coaching at Croga for six and a half years now and a...
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Ep 50: Croga Nutrition - Coach Meghan’s Story & Successful Habits
This week I sat down with the Croga CrossFit 2019 Member of the Year and one of our Croga Nutrition Coaches, Meghan Pierce for a chat.Meghan had one hell of a successful year of self improvement that included about 60 lbs of weight loss,...
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Ep 49: WAG Nutrition, COVID-19 Nutrition and Working From Home Tips - Dave & Adee Cazayoux
This week I sat down with the CEO and Founder of Working Against Gravity, Adee Cazayoux.We started off by having some fun chatting about kids because she is 24 weeks pregnant, which is super exciting.Then, since Croga is a WAG nut...
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Ep 48: An Exploration of Coaching - Dave & Joy Sobel
This week Dave sat down for the second time with Croga’s favorite canadian, Joy Sobel, (sorry Kal) to continue our conversation about fitness and coaching.If you didn’t listen to our last episode, I suggest you go back and check out epis...
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Ep 47: COVID-19 and Leading a Community through Uncertain Waters - Dave & Wes Piatt
This week Dave sat down with a man who has one hell of a resume as a veteran of the Air Force, an owner of a highly successful CrossFit affiliate, member of the CrossFit seminar staff, and CrossFit Games athlete.And even better, he’s a w...
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Ep 46: An Exploration of Coaching - Dave & Joy Sobel
This week Dave sat down with one of our honorary Croga members who lives in Toronto, Canada and is a jack of all trades fitness coacHer name is Joy Sobel and our paths crossed when she was visiting her brother, Kal, who is a member at Cr...
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Ep 45: The Mental Side of Endurance - Dave & Nick Ralston
This week Dave sat down with one of his former coaches at Croga CrossFit, Nick Ralston, to follow up on his half-ironman in Boulder, Colorado and half-marathon up the side of PIke’s Peak in Colorado Springs, ColoradoIf you haven’t listen...
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Ep 44: GPP & Giving People Wins - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about General Physical Preparedness and how when you elect to use this methodology as the anchor for your programming your clientele will be pushed physically and mentally, which will help them improve, bu...
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Ep 43: Consistency Pays - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about consistency. More specifically: consistently moving well, consistently eating well, consistently sleeping enough, consistently doing the work required to advance your career, consistently learning, a...
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Ep 42: Self Identity and Using Fitness to Experience the World - Dave & Nick Ralston
This week Dave sat down with one of his former coaches at Croga CrossFit, Nick Ralston to chat about self identity and how changing the way he sees himself has allowed him to use fitness to experience the world.On the outside, Nick is a ...
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Ep 41: When to dial it back - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about when enough is enough and you just need to dial back the intensity or maybe take a good ole fashioned rest day, rest week or rest weeks. We’ve experienced overtraining and lack of recovery as athlete...
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Ep 40: CrossFit in Prison - Redemption Road CrossFit - Danny, Dave & Andrea
This week the boys sat down with our friend, Andrea Cecil. If you didn’t hear her join us to chat about CrossFit’s effect on the Female Aesthetic in Episode 37, go back and give it a listen. Andrea is the former assistant managing editor & ...
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Ep 39: If you see something, say something - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about Coaching and a little bit about being on the receiving end of coaching. The conversation was sparked by a blog post titled “If you see something, say something” written by Janet Navarette on Pat &...
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Ep 38: April 2019 Nutrition Chat - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for another chat about Nutrition. Since this is a topic where there is constantly new information and Danny and Dave are constantly reading, learning and experimenting it only seemed fitting that they have another ch...
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Ep 37: CrossFit’s Effect on the Female Aesthetic - Danny, Dave & Andrea
This week the boys sat down sat down with the lovely, Andrea Cecil. She’s the former assistant managing editor & head writer of The CrossFit Journal. Andrea and Dave crossed paths about 6 years ago when she moved to town for a job at CrossF...
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Ep 36: How to get the most out of the 2019 Open - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about the 2019 Open. More specifically, some lessons we’ve learned over the previous 8 years of The Open, including how to perform your best during the workouts, how to motivate yourself even though you’re...
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Ep 35: CrossFit Still Needs Its Heroes - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about an opinion piece titled “CrossFit Still Needs Its Heroes”, written by the Editor-in-Chief of The Morning Chalk Up, a daily CrossFit focused email dedicated to keeping it’s readers up to date with the...
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Episode 35
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Ep 34: CrossFit.com Changes - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a conversation about the exciting changes to the main site, aka CrossFit.com, that showed up on January 1st. As many of you know, this past fall CrossFit HQ announced a sort of s...
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Ep 33: Gym Etiquette - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for an episode filled with laughs about Gym Etiquette and what NOT to do when you’re traveling to another gym for the holidays. This one started as an idea on good behavior for your home gym, but because of the time ...
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Ep 32: How to Stay Fit During The Holidays - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a quick chat about how to stay fit during the holidays. To be honest, they didn’t really have a plan for this episode, they just kind of went for it, but sometimes that produces the best content. Well…….funniest ...
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Ep 31: Intensity, Concentration & Effort - Danny & Dave
This week the boys sat down for a chat about one of my favorite training tools to make sure you’re doing what you should be doing mentally to get the most out of your training. The idea came from my coach, Kyle Ruth of Training Think Tank, and ...
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