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Mind Over Muscle

By: Ant Middleton
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  • Summary

  • Training your body for a marathon is tough. Training your mind is even harder.

    Unless you have Ant Middleton as your mentor....

    The former special forces soldier, and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, has recruited five first-time Virgin Money London Marathon runners who have recently faced-up to a variety of mental health challenges.

    Supported by elite marathon runner Mara Yamauchi and sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry, Ant is on hand to help them battle through their self-doubt, anxiety and fears, can they overcome their psychological barriers to reach the finish line?

    A TBI Media production for Audible Originals.

    If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues mentioned in this podcast, please contact the Samaritans on 116 123.

    October 9th 2020 Update: Recorded in the run-up to the Virgin Money London Marathon, with a final episode recorded after the postponed event in October 2020, all seven episodes are now available.

    ©2020 Audible, Ltd. (P)2020 Audible, Ltd.
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  • Ep. 1: Obstacles Ahead
    Feb 6 2020

    Ant has invited his team of first-time marathon runners to a muddy assault-course on a freezing cold January morning. This is no warm-up. Ant meets his runners and puts them through a tough day of obstacles, designed to assess their attitude and application. Who will rise to the challenge, and who will fall face-down in the wet mud?

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    32 mins
  • Ep. 2: Getting Tougher
    Feb 20 2020

    The runners came through their obstacle course initiation well, so Ant’s got an even bigger challenge that will push them to their limits. Plus elite marathon runner Mara explains to Ant what drove her to compete over 26.2 miles.

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    33 mins
  • Ep. 3: It's Up To You
    Mar 5 2020

    As the runners’ training begins to get tougher, psychologist Josie heads to the Midlands to visit Kelly, and check whether she has what it takes to keep going. Back in the studio Ant sits down to talk to 28 year-old Victoria, who’s running for the charity that saved her life when her mental health took a sudden dive.

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    30 mins

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Only One Episode

Downloaded this hoping for the full podcast but it has only downloaded episode 1, how do I download all of them????

Just saw this in the narrative!! pays to read it all :-)

New episodes will arrive in your Library fortnightly, on a Thursday.

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dull. little.to learn from it

tedious. Little practical advice. lot of whining. ant adds very little to this. look elsewhere for entertainment

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Only one episode?

I downloaded this podcast and there was only one episode?

I absolutely love Ant and the work that he does and so was hoping for the whole series? :(

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Mind Over Muscle won't protect me from Covid-19.

After seeing this man declare that he doesn't care about the thousands, if not millions of people who are at risk of death or serious complications from the current global pandemic, seeing this appear in my recommendations made me feel sick and angry.

YOU might not be at risk of the more serious symptoms, but there are plenty of people around you with asthma, using immunosuppressive therapies for autoimmune diseases, chemotherapy for cancer, and so many others. If you can't care about others at a time like this then I can't take any of your advice seriously.

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The next episode will download automatically When available

This is great full of useful hints and tips on how to plan and prepare to achieve your goals

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Beyond pointless

Taking a bunch a bunch of marathon runners, listening to them running around while Middleton shouts motivating things at them, does not make a compelling Podcast. I got zero value from this.

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As disappointing as his views on Coronavirus

The guy is an idiot and I refuse to give my time, money or attention to him ever again

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Absolute fraud

How this fraud is still peddling this crud is beyond me. If you’d ever read his first book you’d realise he spent it drinking heavily, having drunken punch ups, realising after some considerable that he hadn’t joined the actual parachute regiment which came as a shock to him! I mean, FFS! You think you’d research it wouldn’t you! To top it all, he was never ‘first in’ to anything. He’s an absolute fraud, the Tracy Emin of the British army. Snowflake? He’s an avalanche.

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Be inspired!

Just finished listening to this pod cast. Very inspiring. It's really made me think that I've got to set myself a challenge like this. I wish all the participants the best of luck. 👍😉

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How do you even delete this

I can't remove this rubbish from my device. It's almost a tv episode that they copied the audio into a podcast.

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