Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Physical & Mental Toughness With Nate Ebner of the New England Patriots

by Vinnie Tortorich

On today’s Saturday show comes a Friday podcast! Vinnie Tortorich speaks with NFL player Nate Ebner in this shorter 1 on 1 interview on the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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WHO IS NATE EBNER?

  • Safety for New England Patriots
  • Also played Rugby (US National Team — National 7’s)
  • According to Vinnie, 2nd most attractive player on the Pats
  • Has strong Jewish origins
  • Did not play football in high school
    • Picked it up half way through college — walked on to OSU team
  • Played a lot of squash and loved to compete

RUGBY

  • Gained skill set in Rugby
  • His dad was part of the rugby community in Ohio
  • He was the youngest player to make the national team
    • Took it very seriously in high school and went to U19 World Cup
  • Played U19s twice, and then U20s once
  • Different type of tough than football
  • Incredibly painful — can’t outrun it

HELICOPTER PARENTS

  • Parents come to Vinnie asking him to train their kids to get athletic scholarships
  • Kids pushed and overworked until they hurt themselves because of overbearing parents
  • Important for kids to try all sports to see what they like and what they are good at

CHARACTER

  • Very important to Nate
  • His dad taught him great character, which he cherishes so much
  • Worked over the summer, worked for all he achieved

Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss with Dr. Jason Fung

by Vinnie Tortorich

Dr. Jason Fung speaks with Vinnie Tortorich on today’s Angriest Trainer podcast concerning the effects of diet and insulin.

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DR. FUNG

  • Kidney specialist
  • Works often with type 2 diabetics — biggest cause of kidney nephropathy
    • Type 2 linked closely with obesity
    • Insulin has negative effects
  • Visit his website here 

DONALDSONVILLE

  • People all on tons of meds
  • All have a sugary drink and some awful food in their hands

MISUNDERSTANDING OF WEIGHT GAIN

  • Obesity links tons of diseases together
  • Dr. Fung started by asking: What causes obesity?
  • The Aetiology of Obesity Lectures 
  • Sugar is the enemy, not calories
    • When you eat less calories, your energy expenditure (and thus fat/fuel usage) goes down
      • You simply get hungrier
  • Takes time to lose the weight
  • Cortisol is a stress hormone — encourages getting fat
  • Leptin — produced by fat cells, regulates how much fat is in the body
    • If you have lots of fat, leptin is released and tells your brain to stop gaining more weight
    • When you are quite fat, your body stops responding to leptin
    • Secondary hormone — doesn’t pass the causal test
    • Ghrelin is another one of these secondary hormones
      • No lasting effect so doesn’t pass the causal test

FASTING

  • People always ask Vinnie about IM fasting
  • Intermittent fasting should happen every day
    • 3 meals a day — fast in between
    • literal “break – fast”
  • Snacks don’t allow your body to process everything
    • Shorter fasts are not enough
    • Insulin levels not sustainably down
  • We obsess to much about what we are eating, we need to think about when we are eating

What It’s Like to Ride in the Silver State 508

by Vinnie Tortorich

Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber co-host this Wednesday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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508

  • Trackers on all riders
  • Can figure where they are and when they will come in
  • They have been out there since 5:30am, until 2 am + the following end
    • Will then sweep the course to pick up rest of signs
  • Video coming soon.. look for it on next Wednesday podcast! (so I don’t get fired)
  • Randonneurs are nuts in a good way
  • Racer had gotten about half way, but had to go to hospital
    • Partner had to go back and finish
    • DNF
  • Vinnie has DNF’d twice — has tendon problem in one of his tendons
    • Found out that he had leukemia on a training ride for the 508
      • 300 mile training ride — wearing winter clothes in summer, etc.
    • Really progressive leukemia, overcame it!

Coca-Cola and the Obesity Epidemic

by Vinnie Tortorich

Vinnie Tortorich and cohost Anna Vocino discuss America’s fattest states, the obesity epidemic and Coca Cola’s involvement, and Jaden Merrick’s new record on this Monday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast!

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FATTEST STATES

  1. Arkansas
  2. West Virginia
  3.  Mississippi
  4. Louisiana
  5. Alabama
  6. Top three have obesity over 35%

BRENT MERRICK & JADEN MERRICK

  • The Merrick’s are from ARKANSAS
  • Jaden (7) is now Vinnie’s hero
  • Jaden ran his first half marathon — is a record setter
    • 1 hour, 1:43:33

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OBESITY EPIDEMIC

  • Coca Cola has been funding researchers who divert the conversation of obesity away from too many calories toward people not exercising enough
    • NOT right, NOT widely shared
  • Coca Cola trying to be more transparent but bribing incorrectly
  • Coca Cola also gave money to American Cancer society
    • American Cancer society has prior talked about how sugar is bad — this is messed up
    • Diabetes foundation has also received (wrong) funding from Coca-Cola
  • We know sugar makes cancer grow and hurts diabetes, but these foundations advertise wrongly because they are receiving money from corporations like Coca-Cola

If You Can Ultra Run Without Sugar You Can Do Anything Without Sugar

by Vinnie Tortorich

Carlos Dones joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss running 170 miles through the Grand Canyon NSNG on this Saturday episode of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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WHO IS CARLOS?

  • Has run over one million miles, rim to rim of Grand Canyon
  • Was at the LA meet up — Vinnie did a bike fitting for him and they became friends

GRAND TO GRAND

  • Carlos called Vinnie asking if this race (170 miles across the Grand Canyon) NSNG
    • Vinnie had his doubts
    • Carlos has to carry everything he is going to eat — difficult due to time and heat
  • 7 days, 6 stages, carrying everything you need
    • Packaged, low sugar, minimum grain was the plan for Carlos
    • Required to carry at least 14,000 calories
      • Carlos carried 16,000 calories
  • Carlos wanted to minimize sugar because he was becoming fat adapted
    • Most of his food had between 2-3 grams of sugar
    • Took UCAN bars, low sugar, Epic bars, turkey bars, beef bars
    • Coconut oil, all types of nut butters
    • 2 pre dehydrated meals per day
      • Black beans, rice, vegetables
    • ~600 calories per breakfast
  • Averaging a marathon per day, mostly uphill
    • Ate between 1000-1200 calories per day
    • ~120 grams of sugar over the course of 7 days
  • Carlos finished 34th place
    • He did not crash at all
    • Had no swelling, no elephantitis

Writing and Cycling with The Metal Cowboy

by Vinnie Tortorich

Joe Kurmaskie, the Metal Cowboy, speaks with Vinnie Tortorich about writing books about family and adventure, and riding bicycles all over the country and the world on this Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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WHO IS THE METAL COWBOY?

  • Joe Kurmaskie from Portland, Oregon
  •  Journalist
    • Written for main magazines, NY Times, etc, 7 books
    • Friends with Cheryl Strayed
    • Writing is about doing good work and pushing it — publishers won’t help as much as fans and readers
    • Writes fiction & nonfiction and wonderful books, often having to do with cycling
  • Cyclist
    • Cycles around the world
    • Writes books around cycling
    • Dubbed “Metal Cowboy” by blind farmer who saw the bicycle as his steed and the asphalt as his path
    • Pulled family across Canada off the back of his bike
    • Cycles with family
    • Chased by an elephant in Zimbabwe — link here!
  • Suffers from genetic hemachromatosis- biggest treatable killer
    • On coroner reports, shows up as heart attack, cancer, liver failure, etc.
  • Check out his books here
  • Check out his website here