Meet Schalk Viljoen, in-house coach at Coastal Fitness and writer of The Process Programmig’s Train For Life programme! Long before he became a great coach, Schalk wasn’t really sure what he was going to do in his life. Between a brief modeling stint, gap year, and attempt at computer programming, he couldn’t find a career that spoke to him. But through a natural curiosity for training, he found himself on a path to personal a group class training, which led him eventually to Coastal Fitness. Ed...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Today, we revisit Ed’s stem cell treatments for a 9-month progress check! In May of 2023, Ed had finally decided to give stem cells a chance. After years of research and consultations, Ed flew to Medellín, Colombia to meet the team at BioXcellerator, a leading stem cell treatment facility to treat his ailing right knee. After multiple surgeries and rehab exercises to treat a history of ligament and muscle injuries, these stem cell injections were the next step. After 9 months, has Ed noticed any...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 21 min
OUR LISTENER SURVEY IS LIVE! TAKE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN FREE PROCESS GEAR! Take the survey here: https://forms.gle/mkTFFNr6stXvVcDk8 The 2024 CrossFit Quarterfinals have just wrapped up, and we have THOUGHTS. Today, we sit with Process Programming Director of Programming Ed Haynes, CrossFit Games athlete Ant Haynes, CrossFit Semifinals hopeful Adele Quinton-Page, and Process Programming Community Manager Chris Tuazon to talk about their Quarterfinals performance. With this being the first year ...
Apr 29, 2024•59 min
OUR LISTENER SURVEY IS LIVE! TAKE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN FREE PROCESS GEAR! Take the survey here: https://forms.gle/mkTFFNr6stXvVcDk8 Matt Patterson is the founder of Minisport, an introductory sports program for children in Hong Kong to be physically and mentally well-rounded. Before he was a business owner, Matt was Ed’s primary school classmate. Like old mates trading pints at the pub, Matt and Ed reminisce about their youth, the dreams they had, the risks they took, and what they think about...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Dr. Kaili Chen is a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping adolescents and adults process issues such as trauma, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Kaili is a longterm member of The Process Programming’s original Affiliate, Coastal Fitness, and we asked her to bring her expertise into the world of competitive CrossFit. We believe that one of the biggest, but often overlooked separators of sport is mental health and fortitude, so we invited Kaili to our January Athlete Trainin...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Isabell Wolfe, General Manager for The Process Programming and Lead Affiliate Coastal Fitness, outlines the mistakes that prevent gyms from being a successful business. Every gym needs coaches, but that’s not all they need. Who maintains member payments? Who makes sure the equipment works? Who shoots and edits content for the gym’s social media? If you work at a gym and the answer to these questions are “One of the coaches,” then you’re doing a huge disservice to the coach, the members, and your...
Apr 08, 2024•55 min
Meet Mark McDermott, who, along with his wife Meg, are our two newest coaches at The Process Programming HQ Affiliate, Coastal Fitness! Mark is a veteran coach of 14 years, taking him from his home in the UK to Kuwait, Dubai, and ultimately to our Hong Kong doorstep. Today, we want you to get to know about our newest coach and his journey. We’ll learn about his gymnastics childhood, lifting 85kg on his first-ever snatch session, his career as a high-profile fitness photographer, and a near-death...
Apr 01, 2024•59 min
That’s it for the 2024 CrossFit Open. What does this mean for the rest of the Games season, and about the sport of CrossFit? Today, we bring in a roundtable of different CrossFit athletes to reflect on their Open experience. Karan, the up-and-coming competitor. Ed, the Masters Athlete. Ant, the Games Athlete. We talk about our opinions of these three Open workouts, assess our strategy and execution of them, and look ahead to the next stage: The Quarterfinals. Whether your CrossFit Games season e...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Meet Jason Dembski, architect and co-founder of local art collective HKWALLS, an annual gathering and public exhibition of street art taking place in Hong Kong this March 23-31. In the world of street art, the canvas is the city. If this is the case, there is perhaps no better canvas than Hong Kong. HKWALLS is an organization that has worked tirelessly to elevate the local street art scene with its annual festival, which brings renowned street artists and up-an-coming local talents together for ...
Mar 21, 2024•35 min
Today, Ed helps Tammi reflect on the last few months of her life, where he battled injury, illness, and the lows of bipolar disorder. Tammi is our in-house Nutrition Specialist, HYROX Director of Programming, and BUILD member of The Process Programming. This is all to say that she is a busy, busy person with a lot to take care of in a single day. She and Tammi talk about her struggles this last few months, which started with changes in her life and routine, an injury, multiple illnesses, and enc...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Today, Ed breaks down the different training phases an athlete undergoes when preparing for, approaching, and participating in a competition. Are competitive athletes elite because they’re at their best performance all the time? Quite the opposite! In order for an athlete to be capable of their best, they need to prioritise when to peak. As for how, follow Ed and Karan as they discuss the different phases of training, what they consist of, and how they help an athlete to make their entire season...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Today, we slow things down for a moment of reflection between Ed and our in-house Content Creator, Alex. If you don’t know it yet, “We’re Not Really Strangers” is a card game you HAVE to know. We are in no way sponsored by them, but we just love it that much. The is game is simple: randomly pick a card, read the question out loud, and answer with an honest, open mind. The questions for Ed dive into where his head and heart are at the moment and we hope it inspires you to take a minute from your ...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Alison Scudds is a professional CrossFit athlete with multiple Semifinals appearances. Today we talk about her goal to qualify for the 2024 CrossFit Games. If you’re a fan of CrossFit, the CrossFit Open, and of course, Crossfit memes, you definitely know Alison Scudds. As the 2024 CrossFit Open kicks off this weekend, Chris talks to Alison about how she went from competitive cheerleading and Biomedical Engineering to CrossFit, her ultimate goal of reaching the Games this season, what it’s going ...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Today, we sit down with Process Programming Coach Karan Sanjeev on what it took for him to build his growth mindset and how that’s transformed him today. Regardless of how you see yourself as an athlete, champion or spectator, serious athlete or weekend warrior, one thing is true for all: you’re a person first. This means that you have a past that shaped who you are, a future that you have the ability to affect, and a present that you can pour yourself into. But being a person means that all of ...
Feb 19, 2024•55 min
Josh Smith is a nutrition and lifestyle professional who also mentors other coaches, using the unique lens of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to create long-term habits. If you’ve ever failed to meet or maintain your lifestyle or nutrition goals, you’re not alone. But instead of repeating the same mistakes and getting the same results, Josh is using the research of CBT to identify problems and re-frame ways of thinking to create lasting success. Josh and Ed break down the different CBT models he u...
Feb 12, 2024•54 min
The biggest time of the year for CrossFit is coming: The 2024 CrossFit Open. Are you ready? Is 2024 going to be your first CrossFit Open? Or is this the year you make it to The CrossFit Games? Whatever your goal is, we have tips for you! Chris and Ed share 17 years of CrossFit Open experience to share what their goals are, how to best prepare for the workouts, and why, after all this time, they still love to participate in The Open. Anyone have a guess about what these workouts will be? FOLLOW T...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 29 min
The Process Programming heads to Cebu to answer the question: What does it take to create the right workouts for a CrossFit competition? Our Affiliate gym CrossFit Subtero in Cebu, Philippines, recently hosted an in-person CrossFit competition and asked The Process Programming to write all the workouts for the single-day event. With nearly 100 participants across different ability levels, strength numbers, and age groups, the main question was how to write events that were appropriate for athlet...
Jan 29, 2024•58 min
If you haven’t heard of HYROX by now, you definitely will in 2024, because this sport is only getting bigger! Run one thousand meters. Then, do a physical challenge. Repeat eight times. You think you can do it? A lot of competitions say anyone can join, and HYROX will say the same. Today, APAC Event Director for HYROX, Richard Cowley, makes the case for why “ The Fitness Competition for Every Body” is true to its word. Ed and Coach Tammi also share their experiences on the race floor and what th...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Leigh Coates is a two-time CrossFit Games Masters athlete in the Women’s 55-59 Division. Today we talk about her preparation for the upcoming 2024 CrossFit Games season. You would think that a two-time Games competitor would consider themselves an athlete. But for Leigh Coates, she’s just barely coming to grips with the idea of calling herself one. Today, she and Chris, a two-time CrossFit Masters participant, recap her 2023 season, what she looks forward to in the 2024 season, and how she is ab...
Jan 15, 2024•58 min
Have you set a big goal for New Year’s Resolutions? That might be a problem. Why, and what can we do about it? Welcome to 2024! It’s natural for us to look at the big year ahead with ambitious goals, but are our goals realistic? Even more, do our goals actually resonate with who we are? Today, we take the question to a roundtable with Process Coaches and Athletes Storm, Tammi, Andrew, and Chris, who look at their past goals and look forward to 2024 with maybe a new mindset that you can take on a...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 5 min
As the Founder and Managing Director of The Process Programming, just what kind of leader is Ed Haynes? This is an episode about how one person learned – the hard way – on what it takes to be a good leader, and what kind of leader you’re meant to be. For Ed, this meant figuring himself out as a human being first. This meant unlearning the aggressive, brash approach as the captain of his rugby team, allowing himself to be vulnerable, and forming a team where leadership is a collaborative effort. ...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min
We are coming to you from the 2023 Dubai Fitness Championship where CrossFit Games Competitor and The Process Coach Ant Haynes takes on the elite field! It takes a lot to step onto the highest levels of CrossFit competition, and The Dubai Fitness Championship is no different. We want to dive into how the body and mind holds up after three intense days of high-octane events, so Ed and Ant sit down at the end of each competitive day to debrief Ant’s physical and mental state. What do these elite e...
Dec 25, 2023•44 min
Today, we say farewell to Coach Liam Carmichael as he leaves Hong Kong and The Process team to return to his family in the UK. We had ChatGPT write the final questions to ask before he leaves. It is never an easy day to say goodbye to a colleague and friend, and today is no different. Liam has been an integral piece of The Process Programming, professional development in HQ, skyrocketing BUILD to where it is today, and working with Ed to create The Individual Coaching Course. But he’s also been ...
Dec 18, 2023•42 min
Is CrossFit for everyone? Do we really need to learn how to walk on our hands and snatch a barbell? Is CrossFit a cult? Today, we talk about common myths and misunderstandings about the sport of CrossFit. The Process Programming Head Coach Ed Haynes sits down with our in-house Content Creator, Alex Matthews to answer the most asked questions about CrossFit. Alex has decided he will sign up for his first CrossFit Open in 2024 and wants Ed’s hot takes on everything he can throw at him. Listen up a...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 7 min
André Houdet is a three-time CrossFit Games athlete, 2023 Fittest Man in Denmark, and founder of NoShortcuts Training Actually, scratch that. André is first and foremost a dad, fiancé, brother, and son. And earlier this year, he proved this point by retiring from the sport of CrossFit, just months after his NoShortcuts team finished fifth in the 2023 CrossFit Games. And André will be the first to tell you that this was an easy decision to make. We welcome André back to the podcast for a third ti...
Dec 04, 2023•51 min
Sofie is a professional rugby player with roots in China, Germany, and the US, finding ways to support other young women caught in the middle of cultures, expectations, and definitions of beauty and strength. Sophie has been proud to call Hong Kong’s Coastal Fitness – the headquarters of The Process – for the last three years. She is relocating to join a professional rugby team in Dubai, but we could not let her leave without being a guest on our show. Sofie and Ed share about the constant press...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Brandon Wakeling is an in-person and online weightlifting coach, representing Australia in the 73kg mens category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Most people would happily assume that reaching the Olympics is the pinnacle of sport. Brandon, however, can hardly remember it. For him, the most important part was the process that led him to that exclusive stage. This is the mindset and habit that he is instilling to all of his clients in his growing athlete community. Ed sits down with Brandon to talk h...
Nov 20, 2023•52 min
At long last, welcome the The Process Programming Individual Coaching Course. After more than two years of filming, writing, reshoots, and additions to the team, we are now ready to release our professional coaching course to the world! Between the two of them, Ed and Liam have been professional individual coaches, coaching mentors, and leaders for over 20 years. One day, it finally hit them: why not create our own coaching course? What they thought would be a quick few months of filming require...
Nov 13, 2023•51 min
Mike Lee is a personal trainer based in England and founder of Fire & Ice, a company that makes custom luxury ice baths and saunas. For today’s conversation, we talk to him about his work as a gym designer, notably for Cheslea and Al Nassr Football Clubs. When Mike and his LIFTD Design earned the contract to put together the training facilities for Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr Football Club, they had just six weeks to design the space. With an infinite budget and fraction of the time, Mike and hi...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Harry Loasby is a professional runner and coach who holds the Hong Kong record for the 3000m event. He is also the founder of Buffalo Running Company, a local running club for enthusiasts of all ages and levels. Hideo Harry Loasby sits down with us about how a simple passion for running can grow into a mission, a community, and even a culture. After setting junior national records in Hong Kong in the 1500 and 3000m and joining a NCAA Division 1 university to pursue the sport even further, Harry ...
Oct 30, 2023•59 min
