Adam Boyd (Ultra Running, Breathwork and First Responder Fitness) - Episode 1111
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Adam Boyd is a law enforcement veteran, Leadership & Wellness Expert and the Founder & CEO, Soleful Training A distinguished leader in resilience training and wellness, with a career spanning over a decade as a police officer, SWAT operator, and Detective. As the founder and CEO of Soleful Training, Adam leverages his extensive experience to equip first responders, military personnel, and professionals with the tools to build physical, mental, and emotional resilience.
Throughout his law enforcement tenure, Adam spearheaded wellness initiatives, designed and implemented department-wide resilience programs, and served as PT team lead—revamping the SWAT PT applicant process to enhance operational readiness. His expertise is backed by elite certifications, including:
A dedicated ultra-runner, Adam has completed more than a dozen ultra-distance races, including two 100-mile runs, further exemplifying his commitment to endurance and resilience. His deep understanding of the physical and psychological demands faced by first responders led him to develop the Soleful Warrior, a holistic wellness program, built on four core pillars: physical resilience, mental resilience, social resilience, and purpose. Unlike traditional wellness programs, Soleful Training focuses on behavioral change, ensuring that individuals develop lasting strategies to manage the stressors of high-performance careers.
One of Adam’s most impactful teaching tools is the Wim Hof Method, a scientifically-backed approach combining breathwork, cold exposure, and mindset training. He has delivered this transformative method to medical professionals, SWAT teams, first responders, business leaders, and Special Forces operators, helping them unlock peak performance, stress resilience, and mental clarity.
Beyond his work in wellness and resilience training, Adam serves on the leadership councils of two international organizations dedicated to protecting children. His commitment to safeguarding vulnerable populations reflects his deep-rooted dedication to leadership, service, and making a lasting impact on communities worldwide.
Through Soleful Training and his global advocacy efforts, Adam Boyd continues to lead the charge in redefining wellness, empowering to strengthen their bodies, sharpen their minds, and build an unshakable foundation of resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Team Builder, yet another company that's doing great things for the first responder community. |
| 0:07.0 | As a strength and conditioning coach myself who also trains tactical athletes, |
| 0:11.0 | dissemination of wellness information is one of the biggest challenges. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, TeamBuilder is the premier strength and conditioning software for tactical athletes. And there are several features that really impressed me. |
| 0:23.6 | Firstly, there is a full exercise library, so you, the personal trainer, does not have to create that within your own department. |
| 0:31.6 | Secondly, you can send out programming, but also individualize, which I love. |
| 0:36.6 | So you blanket program for everyone. |
| 0:39.4 | Now you can tweak based on someone's injury, someone's need to maybe drop some body composition, |
| 0:45.0 | rather than having to write a program for every single person on their own. |
| 0:49.6 | TeamBuilder also allows you to build custom questionnaires to collate health and wellness data. It integrates |
| 0:55.7 | with wearables. And I think one of the most important things is obviously it tracks. To me, |
| 1:01.3 | it's imperative that we as a profession start tracking our people from day one and then over the full |
| 1:08.6 | span of their career, therefore catching potential wellness issues and injuries before they happen. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, if you want to try TeamBuilder, they are offering you, the audience of the Behind the Shield podcast, a free 14-day trial to experience all of the features. |
| 1:26.5 | And if you want to take a deeper dive into Team Builder, |
| 1:28.9 | listen to episode 132 with Melissa Macardo or go to team builder.com. And I'll spell that to you |
| 1:37.3 | because it's not as you think. T-E-A-M-B-U-I-L-D-R.com. |
| 1:46.1 | Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. |
| 1:50.3 | As always my name is James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, |
| 1:56.5 | veteran law enforcement officer, SWAT operator, and the founder of Soulful Training, |
| 1:58.3 | Adam Boyd. |
| 2:04.2 | Now, in this conversation, we discussed a host of topics from his journey into law enforcement, |
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