PAC Talk with Pieter Vodden

Welcome to the PAC Talk where we help you explore your capacity to move better, push further and achieve your limitless potential through fitness, nutrition, recovery, and lifestyle. I’m your host Pieter Vodden, co-owner of PHAROS Athletic Club in Echo Park. Thanks for tuning in and Welcome To The PAC!”

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Episodes

“PAC Shield Protocol” Getting back to business With Dr. Katherine Haker - Episode 12

Making sure our gym is safe and cleanly in this new Covid world is our top priority. Our gym isn't just ran by a couple of meatheads. Today we are joined by our business partner and medical advisor, Dr. Katherine Haker. Dr. Haker works at Cedar Sinai Medical Center and has been working on the front lines over the past two months. Today Dr. Haker goes over how she is taking her experience and work with Covid-19 over the past two months to make sure that Pharos is the cleanliest and safest environ...

May 24, 2020•27 min

Keep the Lights On! The Growth of PHAROS during quarantine - Episode 11

The global pandemic has effected businesses small and large all around the world. Gyms and fitness clubs are one of those businesses that have been hit hardest. As California and Los Angeles plan a prepare for reopening Pharos Athletic Club we wanted to focus on what we have been doing during quarantine; our challenges, the positives, the negatives, and what the future holds for our gym. Thank you so much to our members who have stuck with us and continue to take part in our challenges from home...

May 17, 2020•38 min

Navigating Pregnant + Postpartum Fitness - Episode 10

In this episode of the Pharos Fit Podcast, I speak with Emylee Covell and Madeline Mosier Timm about how to navigate fitness during pregnancy, postpartum and beyond! Maddie is a Pregnancy + Postpartum Athleticism Coach dedicated to building strong female tribes and being the coach for other women she needed for herself during her first pregnancy. There’s a lot of information about #pregnancy + #postpartumfitness on the internet now. But not all the messaging is good. Not all the coaching is cust...

Mar 02, 2020•38 min

Programming with Purpose - Episode 9

What kind of training should you be doing ? What kind of frequency and volume do you need to reach your goals? Does your lifestyle support the stresses you are putting in your body ? All this and more in today’s PHAROS FIT podcast Sign up for The Limitless Challenge Welcome to the Pharos Athletic Club podcast. Please make sure you subscribe wherever you are listening to this show and if you loved this show please leave us a 5 star review in the iTunes store. It is the currency of podcasts and it...

Feb 10, 2020•38 min

3 Men and a Baby - Birth, Renewal and Starting a Business - Episode 8

Happy New Year and welcome to our first show of 2020. Today I am joined by two gentlemen who have been along their fitness and wellness journeys during mine in Los Angeles. I am joined by John Kim, aka @theangrytherapist , and Andy Thompson two friends who have carved out their own new and unique spaces in the health and wellness space. The Angry Therapist Train with Andy at Cross Fit Hollywood Sign up for The Limitless Challenge Welcome to the Pharos Athletic Club podcast. Please make sure you ...

Jan 27, 2020•52 min

The Evolution of Bodybuilding and Figure Competition with Sean and Holly Covell - Episode 7

What do you think of when you see the words, “Bodybuilding”? For most people they picture images of massive muscled, oiled up men in tight little bikini bottoms. Yes, these are body builders, and yes it is a competitive sport that many men and women around the world participate in, however, there is more to Bodybuilding that meets the eye. Bodybuilding is in fact what the word states: it is someone who seeks to build their body from the ground up. Today I'm joined with Sean Covell and Holly Cove...

Jan 17, 2020•50 min

6 Steps to Achieving Sustainable Health and Fitness in 2020 - Episode 6

2019, what a year! We expanded the gym, twice, we had a kid, we started this podcast but more importantly, we've helped members lose a collective of 500lbs of fat and gain nearly 200lbs of muscle through our PAC Limitless Challenge. THE PAC LIMITLESS CHALLENGE isn’t a 5 week “fast fix,”— it’s a system that, when implemented, can transform every corner of your life. We don’t believe in crash diets, “Off Limits” Food or unsustainable efforts that cause “yo-yoing” and ultimately more longterm damag...

Dec 30, 2019•48 min

Train to Avoid Pain with Emylee Covell - Episode 5

Feeling pain doesn’t mean your body has failed. In fact, it signals a body doing its job by letting you know something’s up. By heeding its wise (if blunt) counsel, you can effectively identify and deal with the cause. For most of us, the natural response to pain signals is resistance—to push them away or deny that they even exist. Yet ignoring pain only serves to add an extra layer of angst to an already unpleasant situation. Not only do you still have the pain to deal with, but now you have to...

Dec 23, 2019•35 min

The Fuel Plan - Adventures at Feeding Time - Episode 4

The foods you eat have big effects on your health and quality of life. Eating healthy can be fairly simple, however the rise in popular "diets" and dieting trends has caused confusion. These trends have distracted us from several basic nutrition principles; how many calories do I need a day, how much protein do any today, how much carbs and how much fats relative to that. Today, I am joined by two members of our staff, Tyler Manzo and Alena Henke who share their personal dieting experiments and ...

Dec 09, 2019•30 min

“The Life (and Death) of the Fitness Industry” - Episode 3

At Pharos Athletic Club, we believe the value of gym memberships are not tied to the costs, but what value it is offering to its members. Before we opened the doors to our own facility we noticed our friends and family owned multiple memberships around Los Angeles. They would do their yoga at one gym, their cycling at another and their CrossFit on the other side of town. Gym members want to know they can lift, they want to be able to do their cardio, they want to work on their movement, and they...

Nov 25, 2019•30 min

The 7 Pillars of Pharos Athletic Club - Episode 2

The values we choose create the future we will experience. Values, chosen carefully, can empower us to grow and develop when they are directed toward a specific purpose. At Pharos Athletic Club we have 7 Pillars that reflect the values we live by, today and every day: 1 SHOW UP 2 BUILD OTHERS 3 NOTICE THE LITTLE THINGS 4 CHASE KNOWLEDGE 5 ANTICIPATE THE CURRENTS 6 MOVE WITH PURPOSE 7 LEAD WITH LIGHT It's not about the workout, it's about the sensation you have in their body when you leave the bu...

Nov 11, 2019•34 min

The Genesis of PHAROS - Episode 1

What happens when a meathead and a jock start a gym? You end up creating a energetic group environment and programs that undoubtedly motivate and inspire you to reach farther, push harder, and get in the best shape of your life. Pharos Athletic Club is a hybrid center of excellence built on three anchors we believe to be essential to high performance life MECHANICS | STRENGTH | CONDITIONING We started three years ago. And we're at the point now where we're undergoing our third expansion in two y...

Oct 28, 2019•26 min

Welcome To The Pharos Fit Podcast

Hey, guys, this is Pieter Vodden and I'm one of the co-owners of Pharos Athletic Club in Los Angeles, and I wanted to welcome you to our new podcast, The Pharos Fit Podcast. Our gym exists as a space in which we're trying to cure the fitness industry. My co-founders Jeffrey Scarborough and Emylee Covell and I saw a lot of things wrong with the finished industry. We were frustrated with a lot of things and we really wanted to build a gym that provides something new, something buried, something ed...

Oct 23, 2019•2 min

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