#616 - Highs & Lows of Being a World Champion with Jenny Todd

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Tom my co-host interviews his training coach, Jenny Todd, who is 4x England’s Strongest Woman and previous winner of Britain’s Strongest woman, Europe’s Strongest Woman and the 2017 Arnold Amateur Middleweight Division. They discuss her approach to competing, why she decided to retire from the sport after reaching the top, the lessons learned along the way about being a world champion level athlete, and also about being a happy person. They also discuss gym programming, where to start if you’re new to the gym, working on your weaknesses, and how to start out if you want to get involved with strongman! An awesome (in places deep) interview with a truly inspiring person - we hope you enjoy it!

Find Jenny at @trapsliketodd on Instagram

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to Ben Coomba Radio. So you're here again with me Tom and
0:09.2	as usual that means that I have someone to interview. So if you listened to the show last
0:13.8	week, which if you didn't, you should, Ben mentioned that I would be interviewing my
0:18.0	coach this week. So I have the absolute pleasure to introduce you all to my coach Jenny Todd,
0:24.0	Jenny, nice to be speaking. Hello. So for the listeners, I'm not one for introducing other people,
0:32.9	I think it's way better if you do it yourself. Please take like two to however long many minutes it
0:38.8	takes, just introduce yourself, let us know who you are. Okay, my name is Jenny Todd. I own
0:45.5	trainbytod.com. So basically a little bit about me, I started my strength journey. Could we say
0:55.6	in 2011, I quickly rose to fame in the sport of strong woman within a couple of years. I decided
1:07.7	embark on strength coaching mainly because I have to coach myself. So yeah, I've been doing
1:17.0	strength coaching since 2016 officially, but I've kind of been helping my friends out a little bit
1:23.2	earlier than that. I'm formerly a coach at Spartan Performance in Concert. I worked there for three
1:31.9	years, and after the first lockdown, thanks to Covid, it made me spend an awful lot of time
1:37.3	with thinking too much, and I decided to take the clunge and work for myself. So that's a little bit
1:42.8	about me. Awesome. So for those who aren't aware, Spartan Performance is quite a big deal,
1:50.9	in like the strong, strong man, strong woman community, right? Yeah. Yeah, certainly in the UK,
1:57.6	absolutely. Yeah, so tell us a little bit more about your background because for the listeners
2:04.7	who aren't aware, you have quite a prestigious competition background, right? That's right.
2:11.6	So as I mentioned, it's strong woman or strong man, you know, the female division,
2:17.9	could we call it, because the sport is actually called strong man, which gets a little bit confusing,
2:22.3	but yeah, basically, I rose pretty quickly. The field of athletes was very small when I first
2:30.9	started. So it wasn't, if you were talented and you were smart with your training and smart
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