Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

The Gym

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 548 – Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schrieber discuss how the gym has changed over time on this Wednesday edition of the Celebrity Trainer Podcast.  Brought to you by our sponsors, Pure Vitamin Club, Villa Cappelli, and Squatty Potty.

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The Gym

OLD GYMS

  • Gyms used to have names like “Vinnie’s Gym”
  • Gyms were often separated by gender
    • Women had a few hours they would work out
    • Men had the rest
  • Gyms used to be like very large work out rooms with few machines and steam rooms and pools etc., separate section for men and women
  • Rudimentary squat rack, punching bag, rope, pull up devices

NEW GYMS

  • Vinnie still marvels at all that gyms like 24 hour Fitness have
  • By and large, a lot of trainers at gyms are not the best trainers
  • Crazy stuff at new gyms, elliptical machines that work muscles you hardly need
    • People doing exercises that they don’t really need and disrupt other people in the gym
    • People pushing around plyometrics boxes around for exercise when you have a million machines that do the same things better
  • Concept 2 Rower — how to use a rowing machine correctly

How to Keep Your Tush in Shape

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 547 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich host this Monday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast. The two discuss how to keep your “tush” in shape with exercise and NSNG.

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“SHRIMPERS”

  • Men with foot fetish
  • Podofilia – sexual interest in feet
  • Classic Vinnie and Anna, taking things too far
  • “Toe Cleavage”
  • Gay sex – how do you decide who gets to be on the bottom?
    • Question of the day: Should Anna have lesbian sex?

THE FACTS OF LIFE

  • Kim Fields (Tootie) is hot now!
  • They didn’t know what to do with Natalie (Mindy Cohn) when she got boobs
  • Too Close For Comfort is another one of these shows

HOW TO KEEP YOUR TUSH IN SHAPE

  • People want that big butt with the skinny leg
  • Some women do the waist trainers for that hourglass figure
  • The girls working on their butts with weights and such are the ones who will get the nice tushes.
  • Throw leg press and hack squats in there
  • When you do a squat with a bar on your shoulders, you want to do a normal, parallel feet squat, NOT a pile squat
    • your butt has to kind of poke out then
  • Squat- stand over the kettle bell
    • Eyes straight forward
    • Let your hands go to the kettle ball with your hands and hips freely bent
    • Hold kettle bell between your legs and keep coming down with it
    • Working hamstring, quads, and buttocks
  • Good lunges
  • Do “butts” 2-3 times with a day in between
    • This is for any anaerobic exercise

Vinnie’s Shoulder with Dr. Frederick Matsen – Episode 545

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 545 – Dr. Frederick Matsen joins Vinnie Tortorich today to discuss surgery and specifically, Vinnie’s shoulder surgery on this Friday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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DR. FREDERICK MATSEN

  • Actually gives his attention to his clients
  • One of the best joint and surgery experts in his field
  • Vinnie went to visit him in Seattle
  • He gives special shoulder and elbow surgeries and gives his clients the time they need
    • He has the luxury where he is able to do that
  • He has completely changed VInnie’s range of motion
    • Now Vinnie can actually use his shoulder
      • If it wasn’t for Matsen, this probably would not be possible
  • He is the best of the best

Oprah and Weight Watchers

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 544 – Vinnie Tortorich and cohost Andy Schreiber talk Studio City and Oprah’s Weight Watchers endorsement as well as Vinnie’s appearances on Oprah’s show on this Wednesday episode of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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STUDIO CITY

  • A lot of gay men in the area
    • Vinnie believes this has “enhanced” the neighborhood
  • This is where Andy lives
  • Also a lot of Jewish people in this neighborhood — LA has quite a lot of Jews

*SHOUTOUT TO TIM PAGEN, YOU’RE THE MAN!

OPRAH AND WEIGHT WATCHERS

  • Vinnie respects her, but she is not the person to look to for weight loss
  • Vinnie and she are not friends, even though he was on the show
  • When Vinnie was on Oprah, he was totally taken care of
    • check out this cougar show with Vinnie’s pants if you haven’t seen them
  • Oprah endorses Weight Watchers in a commercial in which she has a lot of excess weight
    • She is getting paid for this
    • She caused a big stir, especially on the Facebook page, when she put out a tweet about how she “loves bread” and gets to eat bread Weight Watchers
    • Smart investment for Oprah because Weight Watchers makes their money from their clients’ failures
  • Weight Watchers’ business plan from 2001: “Its members have demonstrated a consistent pattern of repeat enrollment of a number of years, signing up for an average of 4 cycles”
    • IT DOESN’T WORK! And that’s why Weight Watchers makes so much money
  • Vinnie was promised endorsement of his podcast by Oprah’s people, never got it
    • Oprah is on his “shit list”

The Most Influential People in Fitness

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 543 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss the 100 Most Influential People in Fitness according to a blog, the late David Bowie, good TV on Netflix, and more on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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DAVID BOWIE

  • As everyone knows, he died last month at the age of 69
  • Vinnie and Serena, on the day of his death, sat around for an hour or so playing his music
  • He was the original cross-dresser (actually, second to Bugs Bunny)

TRANSPARENT

  • Great Netflix TV show
  • Amy Landecker
    • Vinnie met her at a Topanga party
  • The two also really like “Making a Murderer”

LIST OF MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN FITNESS

  • Vinnie (and Anna) aren’t on it (has been checked)
  • If Vinnie had to put himself on the list, he would put himself between 48 and 65
  • Vinnie would put the following people in the Top Ten
    • Gary Taubes
    • Nina Teicholz
    • David Perlmutter
    • Terry Wahls
    • Peter Attia
    • Tim Noakes
    • Ron Rosedale
    • Dr. Drew
    • Eric Westman
    • Donald Oneil
    • Ivor Cummins
  • Jillian Michaels is #40 and Dr. Drew is #2, though, so the list must not be too credible
    • here is this silly list  
    • Vinnie guessed some of the people on the list including Oprah, and a Kardashian :(
    • Some good people like Perlmutter, Nestle, and Rich Roll did make the list!!

ANNA’S COOKBOOK

  • Full of yummy NSNG recipes
  • She will also be including a “meal plan” with shopping lists and such just to make it easier for people
  • Eat Happy Cookbook
    • Coming online soon!

Being Gluten Free and F*** Quinoa

by Vinnie Tortorich

: 542 – Listener Meaghan KNS joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss being gluten free, running, race, podcasts and the bad qualities of quinoa* today on the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

*fuck quinoa

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MEAGHAN

  • She has a confusing last name!
  • Her husband is from Morocco, they have beautiful children
  • She went to James Madison in Virginia
  • Meaghan knew Vinnie had to be on the Dr. Drew show
  • She is very involved in podcasts and running

BEING GLUTEN FREE

  • Meaghan went to Runner’s World Festival (4 races in three days (1/2 marathon))
    • Generally, people want to “carb up” before races
    • At this conference she went to they had a gluten free pasta option
  • Often, Gluten-Free marked foods are quite processed
    • eat REAL food, not foods that have to be marked gluten free if you can
  • It is frustrating when everyone asks if she eats “Quinoa” because she is gluten free
    • She said “Fuck Quinoa”
    • Even Quinoa can make you inflamed

RACE & TRIATHLONS

  • There is resistance to black women wanting to run/do triathlons simply because their hair can be hard to deal with and requires a lot of work
    • Meaghan thinks it is healthy and good to discuss race and gender and it makes the world interesting that people are different
  • Vinnie loves people of all races, genders, religions even if he rants or makes comments :)