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Keeping It Fresh – Episode 2758

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2758- Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss the practice of periodization by keeping it fresh to optimize your strength training and health.

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Keeping It Fresh

  • What is Periodization? (6:15)
    • Vinnie’s workouts have periodization built into the program.
  • Periodization is the structure of workouts into cycles: “macro, meso, micro.” (12:30)
    • Another way of saying this is: to change things up to keep things fresh.
  • Vinnie goes deeper, using his 2-day routine as an example. (15:00)
    • Periodization is a way to build strength by focusing on different parts of the body. (19:00)
  • Another approach Vinnie uses is in his aerobic exercise. (23:00)
    • Depending on his goal, Vinnie changes things up.
  • How do you know when you should mix things up? (33:00)
    • When you’re not seeing much change happening in your strength, or when you’re getting bored. (39:00)
  • There is such a thing as changing things up too frequently as well. (41:00)
  • If you feel like you are not making progress, it may actually be time to let up for a little bit, not necessarily grind harder.

 

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Coffee Talk and Sarcopenia – Episode 2472

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Episode 2472 – On this Monday’s show Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino have a coffee talk, discuss sarcopenia, overtraining, and more.

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Coffee Talk and Sarcopenia

  • Vinnie has always loved coffee and tried to learn what he could about it. (2:00)
    • It’s an ergogenic aid, for one.
  • Anna reads an article about coffee from “Medical News Today” about coffee as it relates to sarcopenia. (15:30)
    • Vinnie clarifies what sarcopenia is and they discuss why it’s a problem.
    • If you exercise your muscles, you are also strengthening your bones; that’s why weight-bearing exercise is great!
  • Anna reads about how metabolism affects aging muscles. (29:00)
    • There is no shortcut—proper nutrition and exercise are the best ways to combat sarcopenia.
    • The study was done by the makers of Nescafé. Even though Vinnie has his own coffee company, he’s curious about certain aspects of the claims.
  • Vinnie has had to address overtraining in recent consultations. (44:00)
    • Some folks struggle with the idea of breaking a streak and not being able to start again.
    • But there is a reason for taking a brief break: depending on the activity, your muscles need time to rebuild.
    • Rest to rebuild!
  • Anna’s upcoming Eat Happy Italian book is on the way.
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Learning Resilience with Teresa Strasser – Episode 2348

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Episode 2348 – In this Friday’s episode, Vinnie Tortorich welcomes friend Teresa Strasser, author of “Making It Home”, and the two discuss baseball, learning resilience, and more.

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LEARNING RESILIENCE

  • Vinnie welcomes Teresa, and the duo jumps right into how they met, what they initially thought of each other, and Teresa’s background growing up. (3:00)
    • They also discuss several things they have in common.
    • They talk about team sports and the sports community, and the lessons learned.
    • Any moment can be a make-or-break moment.
  • They share some favorite baseball movies and discuss some famous Jewish athletes. (19:30)
  • They get into more details about Teresa’s backstory, which is important to the foundation of her story in the book. (31:30)
  • Teresa is a vegan but doesn’t try to influence others’ choices, which leads to a chat about Michael Greger. (35:00)
  • Vinnie lets Teresa know she has a celebrity doppelgänger, Sabrina Impacciatore. (38:00) 
  • The duo discusses their early days in Los Angeles. (42:00)
  • They return to the topic of Teresa’s “Making It Home” book and more of her background as it relates to the book. (53:20)
  • Teresa has some questions for Vinnie regarding athletics and the social aspects of being on a team. (1:07:00)
    • Her boys are involved in sports, so they share some stories.
    • Vinnie confirms, that even with all his injuries and pain throughout the years, he wouldn’t change a thing about playing football.
    • Competing in sports is a great way of learning resilience.
  • They also discuss players like Kurt Gibson, and his progressing Parkinson’s disease. (1:11:30)

CONNECTING THROUGH A GAME

  • Vinnie asks Teresa about her relationship with her dad, who was a great baseball fan, and how they bonded over baseball while also grieving her brother’s death. (1:14:00)
    • Teresa explains the way she handled the narrative of the story, with flashbacks to various points in childhood.
    • She and her dad were able to connect in a way just by watching games together.
  • Vinnie asks Teresa how she was able to get Cal Ripken to write a “blurb” for her book. (1:19:00)
  • They also chat about FQ, “Failure Quotient” as well as “streaks”, and how to apply them to lessons in life.
  • You can find Teresa on both Instagram & Twitter at @teresastrasser.
  • You can purchase her book, Making It Home, here.
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Bad Advice from TikTok – Episode 2346

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Episode 2346 – On this Monday’s show Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss bad advice from TikTok, advocating for your health, and more.

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BAD ADVICE FROM TIK TOK

  • Vinnie was having a good day spending time with friend Dan Lynch. (3:50)
    • Dan Lynch has an impressive record—he has rowed over 1000 days in a row, 2000 meters a day.
    • He rowed even while going through chemo.
    • Dan challenges himself to streaks with daily rowing no matter what.
  • But then Vinnie opened an email that led to a guy on TikTok who claimed to lose weight while eating McDonald’s 100 days in a row. (8:00) 
    • Vinnie plays the video and Vinnie and Anna analyze what they see. (10:35)
    • They explain why they are suspicious of the video as being authentic.
    • There is skirting of details and the guy sounds coached.
    • Looking at his TikTok, the guy appears quite media savvy.
  • They review the bad dietary advice from the TikTok video. (23:30) 
    • The man in the video denies having a relationship with McDonald’s.
    • Vinnie adds some thoughts to what he’s seen and heard.
    • Anna asks a question regarding calories; CICO can help you lose weight, but it’s unsustainable.

CUE THE MUSIC

  • Vinnie tries to calm down, and the best way to do that is through Indian music and Villa Cappelli. (30:15)
  • Anna reads an email from Melissa about how NSNG has helped her during menopause. (37:20)
    • Melissa even went vegan at one point but her symptoms got worse.
    • Melissa’s email is a positive message, as opposed to the TikTok video, which is like driving an infected monkey to an airport.
    • At least The Today Show gave a disclaimer from a nutritionist verifying that eating only McDonald’s is bad advice from TikTok.
  • Vinnie shares some of the concerns he hears from people while having consultations. (42:00)
    • He hears a variety of frustrations, including with their doctors and the “sick care” system.
    • Anna and Vinnie believe there will be a  huge fallout from the weight loss drugs that are popular now.
  • Anna tells the story of a recent doctor’s visit with her husband. (45:30) 
    • She discusses his A1C and fasting glucose and other concerns.
    • Anna refers to Loren as “ASAG”, “All sugars, all grains”–and it’s starting to catch up to him.
    • You have to find a doctor that is willing to work with you and who “gets it”.
  • Vinnie tells the story of Marie’s fall, her injuries, and how Vinnie helped handle it. (50:00) 
    • You can’t let doctors automatically steamroll you— you need to advocate for yourself!
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Keep on Running – Episode 2232

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Episode 2232 – On this Saturday’s show, Vinnie Tortorich welcomes return guest Suzy Demeester and the two talk generational differences, running races and keeping streaks, goals to keep on running, and more.

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KEEP ON RUNNING

  • Vinnie welcomes Suzy back to the show and they chat for a bit about the differences between generations and how some things evolved. (1:00)
  • Vinnie mentions his 12-hour walk and “going off the grid” occasionally for a digital detox. (15:35)
  • This leads to chatting about streaks–seeing how many consecutive days in a row you can stick to a goal. (18:15)
    • They talk about Dan Lynch and Jacky Hunt-Broersma and the streaks they’ve accomplished.
  • They switch the discussion to Suzy’s recent accomplishment of running her first 10K at 60 years old. (18:00)
    • She reviews how she discovered Vinnie and her evolution to challenge herself to become a runner, something she had never done before.
    • Suzy gives a great recounting of her challenge and how she did even better than she expected!
    • It was a great experience and she loved the community and she plans to keep on running!
  • They finish the show with an old ad from the 1970s that you would never see today!
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Cigarette Ads & Upcoming Shows – Episode 2055

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Episode 2055 – On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk luminaries, cigarette ads, Playboy, vitamin ingredients, and more.

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CIGARETTE ADS

  • Doctors used to feature in these ads and say “these are the cigarettes doctors choose.”
  • Now, we have ads for drugs that Vinnie feels are similar.
  • Listen to the upcoming Monday show for more on this.
  • Additionally, really bad food commercials for super processed food products felt similar.

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