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Podcast 64: The WHOLESTIC Method with Debbie Potts

Debbie Potts has been in the fitness industry for over twenty-five years and a competitive endurance athlete for twenty years.  Along her journey, she has accomplished many goals including being nominated as one of the top one hundred best trainers in the U.S. by Men’s Journal in 2004 and 2005 as well as participating in fifteen Ironman Triathlons – five of them were the Hawaii World Ironman Championship.  Debbie has owned and operated her own fitness studio in Bellevue Washington since 2010 to offer an “all in one” fitness studio – now including The WHOLESTIC Method Services including The WHOLE Athlete coaching program, Infrared Therapy Treatment and Nutritional Therapy program to transform the WHOLE person from the inside out.   

Debbie has played various roles in the fitness industry for the past 25 years in Bellevue, WA including fitness management, top personal trainer, group and small group personal training, cycling instructor, yoga, Pilates Mat, run, triathlon coach, CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Superhuman Coach, Metabolic Efficiency Technician, and a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.  She has implemented heart rate training, heart rate variability training and metabolic efficiency testing into her coaching services over the years. Debbie is a speaker, podcast host (The WHOLE Tri-Athlete) and an author of “LIFE IS NOT A RACE” as well as “The WHOLESTIC Method Manual & Workbook”.  We coach clients how to become fat burners, optimize health and improve their performance in life and sports with The WHOLESTIC Method.

She always wanted to offer programs and services to help transform the WHOLE individual from the inside out with the eight elements of ‘The WHOLESTIC Method’.  Clients will get results in less time with our total body workouts, nutritional and life coaching to reduce chronic stressors.  Debbie created ‘The WHOESLTIC Method Transformational program’ after years of working with clients reaching a dead-end with only personal training sessions.  She wanted to offer programs, services, and coaching programs to help transform the WHOLE individual from the inside out with the eight elements of The WHOLESTIC Method.  Clients will get results in less time with our total body workouts, nutritional and life coaching as exercise alone will not always help an individual optimize their health and reach their goals. 

 

Debbie does her best to walk the talk as she was a competitive top age group triathlete, marathoner, and cyclist but since 2013, she has been recovering and rebuilding from Adrenal Exhaustion and burnout.   In November 2016, she shared her personal story called in a book called “LIFE IS NOT A RACE” to help others avoid going through what she has from “living life as a daily race”.  In the past, I have been on the Mark Allen Elite Triathlon team 2004-2013 and placed top  ten overall in numerous Ironman triathlons.  Debbie’s passion and purpose now is to help transform the WHOLE Athlete, of all levels, to learn how to become fat burner, get off the blood sugar roller coaster – and of course reduce stressors from the inside and out!   She offers ‘The WHOLESTIC Method’ 5-day and 30-day total transformation detox, repair and rebuild programs to help clients improve their health at a cellular level.  Debbie Potts is the host of ‘The WHOLE Athlete’ weekly podcast to help athletes of all levels perform their best in sports and life with elements of ‘The WHOLESTIC Method’. 

LIFE IS NOT A RACE… It is a Journey!  Pace the WHOLE You with ‘The WHOLESTIC Method’. 

 

Life is Not a Race… It is a Journey

Learn why and how to Pace the WHOLE you with The WHOLESTIC Method.

Debbie Potts shares her personal story of her struggle with chronic stress and fatigue from living life as a race that put her triathlon and running career on hold. Learn about the domino effect of chronic stress on the WHOLE you from the inside out. Learn from Debbie's experience!

Voted one of the “Top One Hundred Personal Trainers in the U.S.” by Men’s Journal, trainer, health coach, and triathlete, Debbie Potts, shares her personal story about living life as a race each day until she found herself struggling to stay awake, sidelined with muscle fatigue on her training workouts, and suddenly gaining thirty pounds. Debbie had to take a step back, assess her life, and figure out what it was causing her to be tired, sick, and overweight. Throughout LIFE IS NOT A RACE, you’ll discover the need to eliminate the belief that more is better in every aspect of your life or else you will pay the consequences on your body. Learn what Debbie discovered through her own health challenges and how she transformed her life from the inside out and created The WHOLESTIC Method from her experience, as well as observations about how our society encourages the glorification of being busy rather than living life as a journey… and being fully present to enjoy it.

Debbie Potts is the owner of Fitness Forward Studio in Bellevue, Washington, the creator of The WHOLESTIC Method, as well as the host of The WHOLE Athlete health and fitness podcast. Debbie has been in the fitness industry for twenty-five years as a trainer, coach, and athlete including being nominated as one of the Top One Hundred Personal Trainers in 2004 and 2005 by Men's Journal. She has competed in over fifteen Ironman Triathlons and over twenty marathons including Hawaii Ironman World Championship five times and the Boston Marathon numerous times with a PR of 3:12. Debbie brings her experience as a trainer, coach, and athlete into her book "Life is NOT a Race" where she shares the principles of her The WHOLESTIC Method program to help you improve the whole you from the inside out with her new approach to improve fat loss, health, and performance for life and sports.

 

DEBBIE POTTS LINKS:

• Website, blog or social media Links:
• Website:  www.fitnessforwardstudio.com
• Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-athlete-podcast/id951124097?mt=2&i=360126613
• Facebook:  Debbie Potts, Fitness Forward, The WHOLE Athlete Podcast
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewholeathlete
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/WholesticMethod/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewholesticathlete/
• LIFE IS NOT A RACE book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2pESNZE
• The WHOLESTIC Method Manual & Workbook on Amazon:  https://amzn.to/2zTDrWQ

 

Debbie Potts

The WHOLESTIC Method Coaching Program

We Train the WHOLE You from the Inside Out!

Burn Fat.  Optimize Health. Improve Performance.

NTP, CHEK HLC, USAT, NASM CPT, MES

Host of "The WHOLE Athlete" podcast

Debbie Potts

Find my book & manual on AMAZON!

 

If you want to train smart and race fast?  Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching. 

 

 

Podcast 63: Brenda Richards’ Journey from an Obese School Teacher to Fit, Strong Coach

Brenda has been a yo-yo dieter her entire adult life…until now. In 2009, she reached out for help at her highest known weight of 407 pounds. In the spring of 2010, she had weight loss surgery, which took her to maintain at ~290 pounds after the honeymoon period of weight loss her surgeon described had ended.

During the winter of 2016, Brenda nearly passed out in the store. Her doctor ordered several tests, including one which resulted in her being identified as prediabetic. At that time, her doctor suggested considering a Paleo diet, an anti-inflammatory diet, or an Atkins diet. She began researching and found the Ketogains-style approach to the ketogenic diet, which is basically a blend of the other three.

She began her ketogenic portion of her journey in the spring of 2016. After six months on the diet, she was no longer prediabetic.
Brenda’s passion for strength training is a direct result of her experience in Ketogains boot camps with Luis, Tyler, and Zach. She’d never lifted prior to enrolling in one and was extremely intimidated and overwhelmed her first day in the gym, BUT she went back and has kept going. She has participated in back-to-back camps, first as a client and now as a coach. She is certified by the National Council on Strength and Fitness as a personal trainer and is preparing to enroll in the Bayesian Bodybuilding course.

Brenda has degrees in mathematics, computer science, and educational administration. She works full time as an instructional coach. She has a passion for educating and empowering people to find the courage within to risk trying something new and push beyond their comfort zones to achieve levels they didn’t know were within reach.

Credentials

• Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) – National Council on Strength & Fitness (NCSF)
• Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Computer Science – Central College
• Master of Education in Educational Administration – Grand Canyon University

If you want to train smart and race fast?  Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.