Raise The Bar

Raise the Bar is a place for honest conversations about health, fitness, and high performance. It exists to give you the tools and mindset shifts to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. In a world of thirty-second reels and conflicting advice, this show filters out the noise and creates space for nuance in the health conversation. Hosts Ariel Comeau and Matt Duncan, coaches with 30 years of combined experience, sit down with world-class experts and everyday high performers to discuss the latest research, hard-won lessons, and the difficult realities of transformation.

Raise The Bar is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Raise The Bar, a general show with 6 episodes published.

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  Coach's Corner: What We Took From the Sheridan Skye Episode on Women's Health

  Aug 12, 202614 minS0

  <p>Ariel Comeau and Matt Duncan sit down after the Sheridan Skye conversation to unpack what stuck with them, and the honest answer is that a single statistic reframed the whole thing. Only about 20% of women resistance train. Both hosts admit they were floored, because inside the fitness industry it can feel like everyone already knows better. That gap between the bubble they work in and the reality outside it drives most of this debrief.</p><p>From there the conversation moves into what it actually means for coaching practice. Why menopause, perimenopause and pre and postnatal should be treated...

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  80% of Women Don't Strength Train & It’s Costing Them Quality of Life | Sheridan Skye

  Aug 9, 20261h 48mS0

  <p>Registered nurse turned strength coach Sheridan Skye reveals how 80% of women skip the one thing that protects their independence as they age, what the cycle syncing trend was actually built on, and why "for research purposes only" means you are the research.</p><p>Sheridan Skye spent 15 years as a registered nurse, including intensive care and a stint as a nursing officer in the Air Force, before she left clinical medicine for strength coaching. The turning point was a 75 year old woman who arrived on her ward with osteoporosis, sarcopenia and advanced vascular disease, choosing between an above knee...

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  Coach's Corner | Sebastian Oreb: The 8 Essential Strength Categories

  Aug 5, 202616 minS0

  <p>Ariel and Matt reflect on a recent conversation with elite strength coach Sebastian Oreb, diving deep into the mindset shifts required for professional and personal growth. They discuss the power of taking on opportunities before you feel fully ready and how leaning into self-doubt can serve as a powerful indicator that you are successfully stretching your limits.The conversation also breaks down practical programming strategies, including the nuance of "periodizing effort" to avoid burnout and the foundational mechanics of RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion). Finally, the hosts share a comprehensive 8-category exercise audit designed to help anyone build a...

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  Coach to the Strongest Man Alive On Breaking Plateaus and Building Max Strength - Sebastian Oreb

  Aug 2, 20261h 32mS1

  <p>Strength coach Sebastian Oreb, The Australian Strength Coach, reveals why maxing out every week is the reason you stopped getting stronger, how long you should really be resting between heavy sets, and the four-week model behind the heaviest deadlift in human history.</p><p>Sebastian is the coach behind Hafthór Björnsson, aka Mountain from Game of Thrones. He coached Thor through breaking multiple world records, including his 510 kilogram deadlift and has since become one of the most sought-after strength coaches in the world. He is also an elite powerlifter in his own right, with multiple Australian records, wh...

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  Shona Vertue: The Psychology of Stress, Grief, and Staying Healthy Through Life's Hardest Seasons

  Jul 26, 20262h 29mS1

  <p>Shona Vertue has built one of Australia's strongest fitness brands - over 600,000 Instagram followers and 25,000 people inside her online training system. At the height of that success, she went back to university to study psychology, and in this episode she explains why understanding the mind became just as important as training the body. Drawing on her path through competitive gymnastics, ballet, and personal training, Shona breaks down the biopsychosocial model and why willpower alone rarely explains why people succeed or stall.</p><p>The conversation moves through the mechanics of behaviour change: the difference between cognitive load and allostatic...

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