Former American college football player, wrestler, half-ironman competitor, and strength coach Alexa Towersey (Action Alexa), and ex-competitive gymnast, BMX racer and now multidiscipline high-performance athlete and coach, Jenna Louise have launched their new podcast, How Fitness Saved My Life, on LiSTNR.
How Fitness Saved My Life is a podcast that will expand listeners understanding of what the human body is capable of – mentally, physically, and emotionally. In each episode, the pair invite a guest in to share their story of surviving life-threatening situations and recovering from terrible accidents, using trauma to drive their success, and how they’ve rebuilt their minds and bodies after this event.
Towersey battled through significant health issues having died on an operating table four times and she credits fitness with turning her life around after overcoming alcoholism and addiction. She now trains some of Australia’s top business people, athletes, and Hollywood stars.
When a back injury stopped her Olympics gymnastics dream, Jenna Louise became a qualified master trainer as well as a nutrition coach and mentor and has appeared on the Nine Network’s Australian Ninja Warrior and Seven’s Ultimate Tag.
During the series, Towersey and Louise will talk to guests such as Alyssa Azar, who survived an avalanche to become the youngest Australian to reach the summit of Mt Everest, champion BMX and mountain biker Caroline Buchanan who overcame a near-fatal accident, boxer Luke ‘Action’ Jackson who fought his way off the streets and away from alcohol, drugs and crime into a professional boxing career, and Em Carey who has transformed her life after becoming a paraplegic in a skydiving accident.
LiSTNR original podcasts head of content, Jen Goggin, said: “Jenna and Alexa’s passion to teach people to overcome their own self-limiting beliefs in all areas of their lives, combined with their guests’ stories of surviving and thriving after experiencing situations and accidents that would be the undoing of most of us, has led to a podcast that is uplifting, informative and inspiring. We look forward to its success.”
Towersey and Louise said: “We’re so pumped to finally bring this project to life. These are the role models and the conversations we wish we’d had through our tough times, and we just hope that the listeners feel as empowered and inspired listening to their stories as we did in being able to share them.”
How Fitness Saved My Life is available now on LiSTNR.