Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.

I'm your host, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 322 of the podcast.

And I'm delighted to be joined by my guest, Dominic Manelli, who has been a leading personal trainer here in Ireland for multiple decades at this point as a huge amount of experience with an array of clients

within his personal training practice, but has also been at the forefront of trying to learn

more from very divergent fields and using that to create a philosophy around how he approaches coaching and how

he approaches health and wellness in general. And these are going to be some of the topics

we delve into throughout this discussion. Now, whilst there are direct implications, of course,

for those you who are client-facing practitioners,

whether that's a nutritionist, dietitian, personal trainer, fitness professional.

There are also many things just for everyone listening related to how we think about the

concepts of what health and wellness are.

What is it we're actually striving for in our training and nutrition?

What are the elements we commonly miss out on? What are the things that we focus on that maybe we

then later learn weren't the real or shouldn't have been the real targets of our goals and attention?

So I think there's a lot of valuable insights that people can

take from this and I think there will probably be different parts that resonate more or less with

different people. So I am very interested to see how you guys respond on what pieces you pick up on and find

particularly useful.

In addition to this conversation, Dominic also emailed me over a suggested reading list with

various recommendations on books and articles that are related to some of the topics that

we're discussing today.

So things around community, reconnection, our ability to, or the trap of falling away from being able to hold attention,

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