: Episode 554 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss building chest muscle, quitting sugar and putting life into living on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.
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SUPER BOWL SUNDAY
- Anna watched, half time show was disappointing, so was 3rd quarter, so she went to the gym instead of watching the 4th quarter
- Vinnie watched at a neighbor’s for the first quarter
- Neighbors’ kids ride motorbikes and play football, reminds Vinnie
- Then Vinnie went to Hancock park to his friend’s house who is in bad shape
- Watched the rest of the game in his in-home theater
- Like being at the game!
- Some of these in-home theaters have movie snacks and everything
- Hard to watch the game when his friend is sick
- Watched the rest of the game in his in-home theater
AMAZON WINNER
- Winner this week is Rebecca Palson
- USB Desktop Charger with Intelligent Technology
- Nylon Waterproof portable accessories organizer cosmetics purse
- Rebecca is a TRUE super fan, has phone-called
- Has lost well over 100 lbs
- Came to LA
- Go Rebecca!
- Schoolteacher
- Friends with the Lorey’s!
- Saturday podcast with her will be coming up in the future
BUILDING CHEST MUSCLE
- Do not do EVERY exercise in one day
- How to choose how to build your chest:
- If you’re not trying to become a bodybuilder, at the very most pick 3 exercises per workout that focus on Chest
- Ex: bench press, incline, decline, dips, dumbbell press, flat fly, incline fly, decline fly, pushups
- Hit it and quit it — your body can only handle so much
- Start with major exercise, then do two minor exercises
- Also, make sure you are warmed up with a light weight exercise first (this does not count as 1 of your 3 exercises)
- How much weight (8-9 sets of press)
- Reps: 12-15 is good, you want to be hurting at rep 12 (weight wise) and wondering if you can get to 15
- If you are doing 8 reps, you want to be ‘struggling’ at rep 6
- Free weights make sure someone is spotting you
- Don’t overwork triceps either (tricep extensions)
- More is not necessarily better
QUITTING SUGAR
- If you aren’t going to quit grain, your liver doesn’t know that you quit sugar
- It might help quitting just sugar, but not ever really effective until you quit both
PUTTING LIFE INTO LIVING
- You can enjoy sugar or grain every once in awhile, just don’t go crazy and don’t make it a habit, then it is a slippery slope
- Vinnie has done 2 years of NLIL and hasn’t found ways around it
- He never told himself lies and ate agave or fake sugars or anything like that
- If you want to do NLIL, don’t lie to yourself — your liver won’t believe you!