Sep 8, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 15 segments
Holly Brooks joins us for a candid conversation about fitness, running, social media and making the huge decision to leave Manchester for Los Angeles. We talk about her journey from calorie-deficit…
Holly BrooksGuest
Jake DeardenHost
I mean, I feel like it's always important to kinda go back to childhood, because I think that's where you pick up so many like habits and like you learn to love things.
I think his dream would've been [laughs] for me and my sister to become like pro tennis players.
We were decent, but we were never gonna make it to like elite level, so we kind of stopped doing tennis.
People out here don't know what netball is, but I feel like if you're from England, you'll know what netball is.
Um, so I played a lot of netball, but then kind of naturally when I hit like 16, you know when you just get like bored, other things become more important, you start thinking about boys, you wanna go out with your friends, like I kind of fell off of like enjoying exercise and sports, so I stopped playing netball.
And honestly, I didn't really pick it up again until post-COVID was when I kind of started to think like, oh, maybe I should like get back in the gym, because, I mean, as so many people did through COVID, all of my healthy habits went out the window.
Like I was drinking too much and eating a lot, and I honestly came out of lockdown and I just remember thinking like, "I don't even recognize myself and the way I'm treating myself." So I was like, okay, why don't I look into getting a PT or like start training? I had no idea what to do in the gym.
But I found this amazing PT, and started working with her online, and then honestly it just like snowballed from there.
I feel like I started to really understand nutrition and the gym and fitness and yeah, it just kept going from there.
I feel like when you start learning and understanding something, habits become pretty easy.
No, from down south, from Kent, if you can't tell from like the southern accent.
I mean, I feel like it's always important to kinda go back to childhood, because I think that's where you pick up so many like habits and like you learn to love things.
I think his dream would've been [laughs] for me and my sister to become like pro tennis players.
We were decent, but we were never gonna make it to like elite level, so we kind of stopped doing tennis.
People out here don't know what netball is, but I feel like if you're from England, you'll know what netball is.
Um, so I played a lot of netball, but then kind of naturally when I hit like 16, you know when you just get like bored, other things become more important, you start thinking about boys, you wanna go out with your friends, like I kind of fell off of like enjoying exercise and sports, so I stopped playing netball.
And honestly, I didn't really pick it up again until post-COVID was when I kind of started to think like, oh, maybe I should like get back in the gym, because, I mean, as so many people did through COVID, all of my healthy habits went out the window.
Like I was drinking too much and eating a lot, and I honestly came out of lockdown and I just remember thinking like, "I don't even recognize myself and the way I'm treating myself." So I was like, okay, why don't I look into getting a PT or like start training? I had no idea what to do in the gym.
But I found this amazing PT, and started working with her online, and then honestly it just like snowballed from there.
I feel like I started to really understand nutrition and the gym and fitness and yeah, it just kept going from there.
I feel like when you start learning and understanding something, habits become pretty easy.
No, from down south, from Kent, if you can't tell from like the southern accent.
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