Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Eating a Nutrient-Dense Diet

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 584 ; Dr. Colin Champ joins Vinnie on this Friday show to discuss paleo and the benefits of eating a nutrient-dense diet.

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DR. COLIN CHAMP

  • Check out his website here
    • He is the “Caveman Doctor”
  • There is a reason we evolved eating the way we did
  • Will sometimes eat dairy and drink wine
  • A real doctor!!!
  • Has lots of degrees

PALEO AND NUTRIENT-DENSE DIET

  • Clearly, this diet does not work for vegans and vegetarians
  • Dr. Champ believes that this is the healthiest diet, and therefore he supports it whole-heartedly
  • High protein, high fat, no processed food
  • Dairy isn’t technically paleo but it still works for some people

Healthy Weight Loss

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 583 – Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie to discuss healthy weight loss, kind bars, and PVC Vitamins!

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LISTENER MATTHEW & HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS

  • Says he only eats one meal a day
    • Says he eats whatever he wants in that meal
    • Has taken him 3 years to lose 50 lbs
  • This is not a HEALTHY way to lose weight, and is so hard to maintain
  • Long-haul trucker — hard to lose weight
    • It is great to lose a lot of weight, but it is not great to do it calorie in/calorie out
      • He likely has fatty-liver or metabolic syndrome
  • Matthew, get in touch with us!

KIND BAR

  • Point blank, they are full of grain and sugar
  • It is junk food
  • Ingredients: “non GMO” glucose, pea crisp, other unhealthy stuff are some of the top ingredients

VITAMIN E IN PVC

  • There is NO synthetic Vitamin E in our vitamins
  • Derived from edible vegetable oils
  • We made the best and healthiest decisions
  • Magnesium can help with good sleep

What to Do About a Sugar Hangover

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 581 – Listener Jennifer asks Vinnie what happened when she had a serious sugar hangover after putting a little life into living. She has been very successful with her transition to NSNG and wanted to know why she felt so poorly the day after a little cake and fried chicken…

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LISTENER JENNIFER

  • Lives in Boston, MA
  • Italian heritage (therefore she and Vinnie hit it off right away)
  • Has always been a relatively healthy eater, then before she started down NSNG she had a phase of eating LOTS of sugar
    • when she was drinking
      • She used to be a daily wine drinker (over 7 months ago)
  • Lifts 4 days a week (& spins)
  • Has been NSNG for a few months
    • Found it through Dr. Drew
  • Sometimes, Jennifer likes to put LIL
    • Cake & fried chicken at a b-day party
      • Felt really horrible the next day

WHAT TO DO ABOUT A SUGAR HANGOVER

  • Jennifer felt like she had the flu the day after eating sugar
  • Sugar is addicting and poisoning
    • You feel awful from the poison and you feel the withdrawal from the sugar, too
  • Try to make sure you don’t have a cheat day or even an entire cheat meal
  • Salt is helpful and good proteins
  • Don’t use sugar to get rid of your hangover — easy to get in that cycle

 

Barefoot Running

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 580 : Lee Saxby joins Vinnie in this 1 on 1 edition of the Celebrity Fitness trainer podcast to discuss the art of injury-free barefoot running, and how everyone is born to run.

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LEE SAXBY

BAREFOOT RUNNING

  • Jogging book from the 70s
    • Jogging is the same thing as race-walking
    • When you are barefoot, your brain KNOWS when to break into a run due to force
      • When you have rubber (heel) under your foot, your body doesn’t know when to run vs. jog, which can hurt you
  • Lee’s epiphany came in the year 2000, in Kenya
    • He saw lots of kids running barefoot and he saw how everyone had the same running technique
      • Biomechanically, running barefoot forced them to
        • Lower impact for them!
        • The best runners come out of East Africa, so there Lee saw a correlation
  • Lee saw that there was a definite difference in running depending on where they ran (endurance running)
    • Forefoot on hard ground
    • Heel-strike on grass
    • They didn’t realize what they were doing — instincts and biomechanics kicked in
  • Your foot is constantly trying to find the ground — it cannot do that if you have tennis shoes on
  • Lee will film people with shoes vs no shoes
    • The more padding in the shoe, the longer their feet stick to the ground
      • This is an issue and can cause extra strain

CORRECTING A BAD RUNNER

  • Many people never heel-strike which causes lots of pain to achilles and other tendons
  • Lee tries to educate people simply
    • Educating trainers to what good running looks like
      • To do this he has a certification program

BORN TO RUN

  • People looked at Chris McDougall’s book as a bible which wasn’t the best idea
  • Both do love the book, though
  • McDougall had plantar fasciitis in 2010 and Lee Saxby helped fix that by changing his running style
    • Those toe-shoes are not the cure-all, good running technique is
    • Both Vinnie and Lee owned these Vibrum’s before realizing they weren’t the right move
    • The 5 finger can hurt those with broad feet, cause knee injuries, etc
    • They were more of a fashion statement than a functional shoe
    • Vinnie had issues with them on long runs
    • Your running style has to be good for these to work
    • You’re better off going actually barefoot if you are able

 

 

Male Implants

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 579 – Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber explore the world of male implants, and the topic of cosmetic enhancements in general.

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MALE IMPLANTS

  • Men recently have been deciding to get chest, bicep, calf implants
  • Vinnie thinks that you are the way you were born
    • Be happy with what you have!
    • Many pro athletes appear to have small calves, but they are still super muscular
    • Rich Roll has HUGE calves, but this doesn’t make him a sprinter
  • Andy saw a guy he used to date getting implants in a video recorded before they dated
    • Chest implant just pushes OUT the muscle so you feel the muscle when you touch
  • Andy has had hair transplants
    • He believes we should all be happy with what genetics gave us
    • However, if we can do something to improve ourselves without risking health, OK!
    • Hair transplants are not foreign bodies
      • Your hair is moved from one place to the next
  • Having a foreign body being introduced inside of you is a very strange thing
  • Once people get to a certain age, it is clear they have been enhanced
  • Necessity and vanity are two different animals
  • Ultimately, if it will make you feel better, just understand the risks before you dive in
  • Other people need this for their career (actors)

Blood Sugar and Intermittent Fasting

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 578 – Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino discuss fasting blood sugar and the health pros and cons of intermittent fasting, as well as how NSNG can affect a woman’s hormones and therefore her menstrual cycle on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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NEW ORLEANS

  • Home to many special characters
    • Vinnie worked with some crazy people
    • He had some corporate clients in the early 80s
      • Set up gyms at big businesses
        • He worked at a big law firm
          • The lawyers would come down and work out with him during their work days
  • Nicest people in the planet
  • People in New Orleans put LIL every day

VINNIE’S SPEECHES

  • Vinnie has now done a bunch of speeches at different places such as at Princeton University, or in New Amsterdam
  • He has a short compilation of his speeches in a video online
  • He wants to do a Ted Talk but has not been asked to!
  • Speaking of Vinnie speaking, schedule a phone call with him!

PROTEIN BARS AND PROTEIN POWDER

  • Only good protein bar are Epic Bars
  • Vinnie does not like protein powder, but will use it every once in awhile sparingly
    • Don’t use Whey powder!
    • Anna uses Bovine Collagen in her coffee
      • She will add cinnamon and some full fat coconut cream
      • No sugar or anything in there!

BLOOD SUGAR AND NSNG MEALS

  • Her fasting blood glucose has gone up a bit, but unsure why because she is NSNG
  • All of the following recipes are in her cookbook
  • In a day she eats:
    • Last night for dinner she roasted a chicken
      • White meat, dark meat, chicken skin
      • 3 inch circle serving
    • Made a salad with her own salad dressing
      • Ratio: 3:1
        • 3 part oil to 1 part vinegar
        • Fresh herbs
        • If you want creamy dressing, you can use dijon mustard or a teaspoon of NSNG mayo
    • Green beans with garlic and salt
    • Has olives and salami for snacks
      • Careful with carrots because they are pretty sugary
  • Her Intermittent Fasting was causing the cortisol levels to get very wonky
    • For some people, IM Fasting does not work, for others, it really does work!
      • Tread lightly
      • Also, if you are super low carb like Anna was, the tiniest thing like a baby carrot can throw you off
  • Vinnie is not SUPER low carb nor does he Intermittently Fast, and he has really low fasting blood sugar
  • In general, IM fasting is good for those with metabolic syndrome, and those who are very overweight, etc.
    • We all should look at how much we eat though
    • It is good to do to reset, but for Anna, it was not good to stay on

MENSTRUAL CYCLES AND NSNG

  • When you are eating processed foods, your hormones are affected
    • For Anna, she had 21 day cycles with awful cramps and heavy flow
      • Once she cut out processed foods, her cycle was more regular and her pain went away
  • So, when a woman eat NSNG and eat natural, it is likely her menstrual cycle can improve
  • NSNG also helps you sleep better and stress less, also affecting (a woman’s) hormones
  • Dr. Sara Gottfried talks about this in detail 

RU EL’S POUND COUNTER

  • Ru El has made a spread sheet where you can insert the amount of weight you have lost on the NSNG facebook page
    • Go check it out and contribute!
  • That being said, don’t worry about checking your weight all the time, etc.
    • Weigh in maybe once a month, not too often