Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast, where Vinnie Tortorich and cohost Andy Schreiber discuss Vinnie’s Saturday and how Vinnie and Andy sell their vitamins through Amazon.

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VINNIE’S SATURDAY

• 5:15am — physical therapy
• Got ready for his day
• Spoke on the phone with a woman from England (Janie)
  • Discussed her relationship with food
• Talked to a guy named Henry who quoted old podcasts
• Packed about 1000 bottles of vitamins with Andy today
• Vinnie enjoys talking to more people at a lower price so he can help

WHY AMAZON?

• Had to charge ~10$ more to make a profit through Amazon
• Shipping company usually sends them out
• Originally sent 200 bottles to Amazon, but quickly realized they needed many more
• Sold a bottle every three or four days or so
• The more people buy, the lower (better) the ranking of the product gets
• Selling way more on Amazon than expected to the point where they have to ship their own bottles
• Top quality at the price that every man can afford
  • Rolls Royce priced as a Toyota
• No advertising dollars behind the vitamins which is why the rise in numbers selling is so shocking

Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino discuss intermittent fasting, Heidi and Frank, is walking enough to lose weight, a 6 day weight training plan for 30 mins a day, and how effective is the Fitbit? on today’s episode of the Angriest Trainer podcast!

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THIS WEEK’S AMAZON WINNER

• This week someone one an Air Dyne
  • It’s a stationary bike where hands move as well, and there is fan resistance
• Clicking through our link to Amazon really helps support the show!
• David won a t-shirt this week!
• He bought this because he wants to make changes to get fit again

HEIDI AND FRANK

• Vinnie was on this LA morning show recently
• Originally he did a phone interview, and they liked him enough to bring him on the show again

STARBUCKS

• Vinnie couldn’t find Starbucks in a 5 mile radius in a poorer neighborhood
• In barrios and such you can’t find a Starbucks or even a bank for that matter
• Magic Johnson has helped this
• Watch Vinnie’s Starbucks Video Here 
• Coffee shops in poor neighborhoods have things like donuts instead of bagels

HORMONES

• Spit tests, blood tests, freeze tests to look at hormones
• Doctors can figure out what you need to be tested for based off of hormones

INTERMITTENT FASTING

• Vinnie is not a fan of IF
  • When he misses lunch, it isn’t intentional
• IF can lead to eating disorders
• If you plateau, you may have hormone issues so don’t just skip to IF and restriction

WALKING WITH BROKEN BONES

• Can walking alone keep one in shape and lose fat?
  • It will keep you in shape & healthy, but likely not make you lose (lots of) fat
• How can one help broken bone recover?
  • Take magnesium!
  • Knox gelatin

FITBIT

• Fitbits are really expensive
• You can buy cheaper heart rate monitors
• “You don’t need a fitbit to tell you you’re sleeping”

Vinnie Tortorich chats with Tarun Bajaj from India, residing in Australia, who talks about how NSNG changed his life on this episode of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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TERUN’S STORY 

• He is from a similar place that many shirpas come from
• He comes from one of the wettest places in the world — it rains nearly every day
• The chaos from the earthquake did spread throughout India due to aftershocks and such
• Terun is in really good shape!

HOW VINNIE CHANGED TERUN’S LIFE

• His (ex)girlfriend told him he was becoming too fat
• He was chubby in the athlete-context and he really wanted to change this
• Everything mentioned on the Facebook group appeared foreign, especially given Terun’s ethnic background
• He lost tons of weight and gained tons of muscle and confidence
• He became “India’s Angriest NSNGer”
• He believes that NSNG is an awesome lifestyle with lots of flavor(s)

INDIA

• Cows are sacred, there are many Yaks
• Chicken is often eaten, but most people live on grains

DOCUMENTARY

• Tarun will be in an ABC-like documentary about Indians living in Australia
• He is in an arranged marriage section
• He told an Indian girl that he ate red meat and she rejected him for it
• The filmmaker has even seen the transition within Tarun’s life

Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk Amazon, proper ways to work out, hormones and steroids, and how to eat healthily on this Monday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK

• Lonnie Beauchamp winner bought a $700 infrared camera
• To win, go through Vinnie’s site to Amazon, buy something cool, and then write us about it!
• You can enter the same thing for a few weeks because we only pick one winner a week
• Lonnie pays for his phone calls even though Vinnie owes him one for the meet up in LA he held
  • Thank you to the Beauchamp bros for your support

SQUATS

• Lonnie does too many squats, then quits for a month because he’s in pain, and then has to start all over again
  • How can one prevent one’s hamstrings from hurting too much?
• Stabilize yourself and don’t start with a bar for squats
• In the gym, start with lunges, do light leg presses, let your legs get used to it
• Take your time — don’t feel any pressure to push yourself too far

HCG DIET

• There was a “diet” shot that made you less hungry and easier to gain muscle
• Gonadotropin was taken from pregnant mares, and body builders used to do it but we could female-like breasts
• HCG = human choieonic gonadotropin
• This is not safe or effective 
• Consumers should stay clear of weight loss products with this in it

THYROID MEDICATION

• You only take a little of porcine thyroid
• This way, your body will still produce hormones that it needs to
• Any hormone (steroid) that you take will make your body stop producing that hormone which is bad

WEIGHT LOSS AND FRUIT

• Fruit is not the best to lose weight
• By all means, eat it, eat berries, but fruit prevents weight loss if you have a poor metabolic system
• Bananas and pineapples are such straight sugar
• Vegetables are better!
• Just be careful

ANNA’S ALLERGY TEST

• Anna has been testing 180 foods to see what see is allergic to
• She had no dairy, and now has gone back to it
  • she can now tell the difference between high and low quality dairy

BCAA

• Branch chain amino acid
• Breakdown of 4 different amino acids
• Vinnie has prior worked with it
• Building block in protein that helps your muscles build and recuperate faster

MG VITAMIN

• New magnesium vitamin made of 3 different types of magnesium
• Vinnie has been working on this for almost as long as the multivitamin
• This is more expensive, but Vinnie will work it out

CELIAC AWARENESS

• When Brain Grain, and Wheat Belly came out, people began to understand the health risk of gluten
• Perlmutter even agrees
• Restaurants are getting better too