Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Gina Grad, Viking Bread & Breasticles – Episode 787

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 787 – Gina Grad joins Vinnie today to catch him up on her amazing NSNG success, her viking bread experiment, the upcoming Big Fat Show at Flappers Burbank, getting cool swag from Specialized Bikes and, of course “breasticles”…

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GINA GRAD

  • One of the best voices out there, along with Anna
  • She has lost 36 lbs because of Vinnie
  • Gina is part of the Carolla gang
  • She will be at Vinnie’s upcoming Flappers show!

VIKING BREAD EXPERIMENT

  • Raw unsalted mix nuts
  • Flax seeds
  • 2 tsp of salt
  • Half a cup of olive oil
  • Eggs
  • Baked
  • Gina and her friends hate it
  • Our brains make us think it is going to taste good, then it proceeds to not live up to expectations

SPECIALIZED BIKES

  • Specialized Bikes is outfitting Vinnie with an awesome bike, helmet, gear, etc.
  • Go check out their products!
    • AMAZING frames and bikes and accessories too

NSNG Meetups with Lonnie Beauchamp – Episode 784

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 784 – Lonnie Beauchamp joins Vinnie on this Saturday show to discuss his role as a Super Fan, Facebook Page Moderator, and the NSNG Meetups in general.

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LONNIE BEAUCHAMP

  • He has been following Vinnie since the very beginning
    • The biggest Super Fan
      • Came to the NSNG meet up in 2015 with his bro, Trey (?)
  • Last name pronounced “Beach-um”
  • Also a moderator/admin on the NSNG Facebook page

NSNG MEETUPS

  • Lonnie helped organize the last one
  • Hopefully there will be more in the future, but people will have to pay
  • Vinnie still won’t make money from it, but he has to at least cover his time
  • $250 for a weekend is really not a lot, especially for the amount of info one will get from Vinnie
    • Last time, Vinnie also took everyone out to eat
  • Anna, Andy, Tallulah, Serena all were there and at the hotel and on the hikes and the like

FACEBOOK GROUP

  • Lonnie is the most active FB group moderator and poster as well
  • The group has around 16,000 members
  • Rated R often
  • Vinnie Tortorich’s No Sugar No Grains
    • Vinnie actually doesn’t have anything to do with this group
  • Tallulah and RuEl are the other mods
  • Good for advice, stories, recipes, motivation and the like

Sugar & Childhood Leukemia – Episode 781

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 781 – Vinnie & Anna discuss a published study on sugar addiction of cancer cells in childhood leukemia, John Cleese rants on political correctness, and Vinnie sings with nuts in his mouth.

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VINNIE’S PERSONALITY

  • Vinnie can be quiet in groups
  • He is still a very friendly guy
    • He likes to come off as such!
  • Rarely angry, except when your good intentions have been stolen!
  • He truly does enjoy speaking with people

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

  • People are becoming very PC to the point where people cannot take a joke
  • Vinnie and Anna both love Monty Python
    • The new generation may not even know what Monty Python is
  • If you’re gonna make a politically incorrect joke, it better be funny
  • Political correctness actually makes people more uncomfortable

CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA

  • Sugar does fuel cancer cells
    • Cancer cells are addicted to sugar, just as we are
  • Although Vinnie did not have childhood leukemia, he did have leukemia
    • They told him he would have to do more chemo
      • He eats healthy and cut out sugar
        • Hasn’t needed more chemo
  • Children who are sick should not eat a lot of sugar

 

 

John Cleese on Political Correctness

Glycogen Loads & Unqualified Trainers – Episode 776

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 776 – Anna Vocino joins Vinnie this Monday to discuss glycogen loads vs. glucose spikes, unqualified trainers, wacky sauna conversations, and idiotic dietary recommendations by the American Diabetes Association.

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SUGAR LIES

  • Just because baked potatoes are not sugar, does not mean your body treats them right
  • Cutting back from 7-8 sandwiches a day
  • If something doesn’t say ‘sugar’, that doesn’t mean you are genuinely not consuming sugar

GLYCOGEN LOADS VS. GLUCOSE SPIKES

THE CRAWL

This is what happens when you’ve been riding the sugar train and run out of fuel…

Vinnie’s Big Fat Show at Flappers Claremont – Episode 774

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 774 – Enjoy a recording of Vinnie’s Big Fat Show in Claremont at Flappers Comedy Club on February 19th, 2017.

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BIG FAT SHOW FLAPPERS CLAREMONT

  • Many Flappers locations and Vinnie performs at a bunch!
  • Check Vinnie out on April 2nd
    • Sunday evening, 7 o’clock
  • This show will be at Flappers in Burbank
  • Gina Grad will be there, and probably Anna too
    • She will sign and sell books there
  • Vinnie and the gang will be fielding questions
  • Buy tickets here

College Dining – Episode 773

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 773 – Tallulah Tepper joins Vinnie Tortorich today to talk about her on and off NSNG journey, baseball, and the difficulties of healthy college dining.

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TALLULAH

  • Tallulah makes sure the podcasts are posted
  • She is Vinnie’s step daughter
  • Goes to UVA
  • She is a huge baseball fan
    • Has an internship in Washington with a minor league team this year
  • On and off NSNG
  • Tallulah tends to gain 5-10 lbs when she goes back to school
  • Dodger, the dog that Vinnie and Serena have been training, is going back to school with her
  • (Also this is Tallulah writing the show notes, and I am not a fan of 3rd person writing but here ya go!)

COLLEGE DINING

  • The dining halls around the country preach the Standard American Diet
  • All cheap, breaded food
  • Salads are old
  • It can be hard to eat healthy in college
  • Anna’s Eat Happy Cookbook is a must for college students
  • Mixed drinks and beer also make college less healthy
  • College restaurants consist of burgers, sandwiches, wings, cheap restaurant/bar food
  • The move is to buy ingredients and meal prep for the week because being in college, one is not home very often and is always on the move