Episode 2056 – On this Friday show, Dan Lynch joins Vinnie Tortorich, and the two talk Don Coddington, Mont Blanc, fighting sugar addiction, setting records and falling in love with rowing, and more!
DAN LYNCH
- Vinnie knows Dan through Don Coddington.
- The two have known each other since childhood.
- They were athletes together!
- Don was the perfect example of ‘you can’t outrun a bad diet.’
- He was the fittest obese guy Vinnie knew.
- One of the wakeup calls for Don, according to Dan, was going on a climbing trip and worrying he was going to be cut based upon his size.
FIGHTING SUGAR ADDICTION
- Dan knows how big a control sugar can have over us.
- Don showed Dan this lifestyle several years ago.
- He was raised in an era where because he was active, he could get away with whatever.
- There was no class on nutrition and fitness.
- Eventually, it caught up to Dan.
- He began to gain weight and his joints hurt.
- Dan still struggles to accept the fact that he has a sugar addiction.
SETTING RECORDS
- Dan has been on the show before.
- He fought non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and then was out of commission because of Covid-19 for a year.
- He was in the hospital several times for coronavirus.
- Dan could not believe the effect the virus had on him.
- His recovery didn’t really begin until May or June of last year.
- At the start, he would spend only 10 minutes on his rowing machine.
- He still has permanent side effects, like scarring in the lungs.
- At 59, Dan did achieve the record of most consecutive rowing days.
- He did 1086 consecutive days of rowing prior to coming down with coronavirus.
- But, he’s now working once again to achieve his rowing records.
- Dan is a superb athlete!
- He’s at over 350 days now.
- Rowing is fabulous exercise and everyone can do it.
- It becomes addictive.
- You can do it for 10 minutes or 90, and you can do it every day (like Dan) or incorporate it with other things like Vinnie suggests.
