Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Nina Teicholz and The Big Fat Surprise

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 530 – Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this 1 on 1 Friday episode of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.  The two discuss the incorrect school of thought that eating fats is what makes people fat, and talk about what in peoples’ diets actually puts on the weight.

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NINA TEICHOLZ

  • From NorCal
  • Has gone to a number of extremely excellent schools
  • Argues that nutrition experts over the past 60 years have been wrong in regards to eating fat
  • Great, just like Gary Taubes!
  • Has done what nobody else has done in the war of bringing sat fats back into existence
    • Really talked about Ancel Keys and showed how he was wrong and why he did what he did
      • Discusses other better studies
  • Check out her book here! The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

ANCEL KEYS

  • Started the FAT WILL KILL YOU craze
    • Sat Fats and dietary cholesterol cause heart disease (not true)
  • Physiologist
  • Created a study to benefit him
  • Has since been disproven, yet he still influences government policies in regards to diet
  • 7 Country Study

Brisk Walking vs. Weightlifting

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 529 – Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber discuss exercising as a poor way to lose weight, and brisk walking vs. weightlifting to better complement weight loss from diet. All this and more in this Wednesday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer Podcast.

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ARTICLE ON LOSING WEIGHT

  • There was an article that discussed whether brisk walking or working out was a better way to lose weight
    • In part, depends on what you do at the gym
  • They did not even touch on diet
    • Exercise is a poor way to lose weight!

BRISK WALKING VS. WEIGHTLIFTING TO LOSE WEIGHT

  • Bottom line is, having a good diet is necessary ALSO to lose weight
  • Walking, you might burn more fat calories and maybe make it to zone 2
    • Trying to keep up with Andy will make you lose 300 calories
      • However if you go eat a bag of M&Ms after, you’ve negated the calories you’ve lost
      • Calorie in calorie out doesn’t work so that is why exercise doesn’t work as well as diet to lose weight
    • Walking is good and heart healthy
  • In your 30s, you start to lose pounds of muscle, so weightlifting can be good to help this
  • Depending on what the weightlifting is, you may burn more fat calories
  • At the end of the day, neither will really MAKE you lose weight
    • Do both to stay healthy and help weight loss

Sugar Trickling

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 528 – Sugar Trickling. Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino host this Monday episode of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer Podcast, brought to you by Audible.

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VINNIE’S BRIEF ONE-ON-NONE

  • Vinnie lost Anna on Skype briefly
  • Didn’t know what to do!!!
  • Nice rant “as a woman”

SUGAR TRICKLING 

  • When you participate in sports at a high level, you may need to just have a small amount of sugar in your mouth
    • Gives many people the energy they need to reach that 5th gear
  • A listener had been NSNG 6mos-1year then she got into running half marathons
    • Now she is trying to go for a PR but feels like she is missing a 5th gear
  • The longer you are NSNG, the more efficiently your body can run on fat
    • In the meantime, you can trickle some sugar
  • Many athletes are used to GUZZLING sugar which is why it is harder to go really hard at first
    • Your muscles can’t take you all the way right from the beginning
      • To complement the use of fat by your body, use maybe one Gu an entire race or even less to get you to your 5th gear
        • Different for everyone but once you become more fat adapted, you will need even less 
  • Zach Bitter, who just set another big record, trickles sugar to help him through
  • UCAN works well for this
    • Vinnie is a fan of plain UCAN and mixes it with a TINY bit of MCT oil
    • Shouldn’t give you any inflammation
    • The product is derived from grain (corn), which is why Vinnie will not let UCAN be a sponsor
      • It is super-starch by the time it is UCAN
        • You never get a big liver-spike

NLIL

  • The past year, Vinnie has put no life into living
  • On New Years day, he will eat a slice of chocolate pecan pie
  • He has not sugar trickled or ANYTHING for the past year

AMAZON WINNER

  • Every week, a listener who buys through the banner and writes is chosen
  • Listener is picked out of a hat, and is sent a hat or a shirt

 

Avoiding Habitual Snacking

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 527 – Listener John Reed joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss avoiding habitual snacking on this Saturday’s Listener-Question Edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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JOHN REED

  • Came to the impromptu fan meet up in LA with his wife from NorCal
  • He is a long haul trucker
  • John had a great constructive weekend at the meet up
    • He enjoyed it very much and he and his wife will attend the next one
  • Been on NSNG for a year
    • First 6 mos, lost 60 lbs
    • Next 6 mos, lost an additional 25 lbs

AVOIDING HABITUAL SNACKING: WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

  • John in the beginning found it difficult not to snack when he was watching tv, or was in the truck, etc.
  • One day, Vinnie got pork rinds as his long-drive snack
    • He realized he didn’t have to eat the whole bag, and that high fat made him feel better
    • He realized raw nuts were better because you aren’t snacking the WHOLE time and they aren’t so bad for you!
  • John found if he had something to put in his hand like a cup of coffee in front of him, he wouldn’t go to the fridge to get a snack

PERSONAL PHONE CALLS

  • Reasonably priced and incredibly beneficial
  • Call Vinnie for a chat/advice/etc.

Drinking NSNG

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 525 – Andy Schreiber and Vinnie Tortorich talk alcohol, drinking NSNG, Caitlyn Jenner, Playboy, and festive decorations including the Starbucks Controversy on this Wednesday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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ALCOHOL – Drinking NSNG

  • Vinnie and Andy drinking scotch while this is recorded
  • Distilled liquor doesn’t have sugar that will cause a glycogen spike, unless added
    • Vinnie will drink things like tequila and scotch and vodka, but not wine or beer or a margarita or Kahlua
  • Neither Vinnie nor Andy like to get drunk — they can’t afford to have hangovers
  • Martinis are okay because generally vermouth is splashed in then poured out

CAITLYN JENNER

  • Caitlyn Jenner had a cocktail dress on
  • Vinnie thinks she is hotter than Kris and Kourtney Kardashian
  • She looks great

VINNIE AS A “TALENT SCOUT” FOR PLAYBOY

  • He would go places with attractive women showing their bodies and give them cards to contact Playboy to become a bunny
  • It was actually Andy’s card, but she would tell her friends and he would get free lap dances all night

FESTIVE DECORATIONS

  • In winter, everything is flocked with fake snow
  • Starbucks red cup
    • Controversy!
  • In SoCal, we walk around in shorts and short sleeves, but there are winter decorations everywhere