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

Vinnie Tortorich answers listener questions from George Ramler concerning getting lean and fitness in general on today’s Saturday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.

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HOW GEORGE FOUND VINNIE

• George doesn’t completely remember, however he is a big audiobook listener
• He then found the podcast
• George refers many people to both the book and the diet
• He’s a former football player (D3) but he wants to get lean like Vinnie which is part of the reason he follows Vinnie so seriously

HOW CAN A GUY LIKE GEORGE LEAN OUT BUT ALSO STAY BIG?

• George was a tightend, 6’4″, 225 lbs
  • He now weighs 245 and is in pretty good shape but wants to get lean
  • He wants to lose 15 lbs
• In football, it was all about being big to stay safe
  • “Fear of smallness” after stopping playing football
  • Ex Football players have to accept that they will lose a little size (not muscle size, muscles can look bigger)
• There are many guys who aren’t in shape but are very strong, built
• One must consider: Fit to do what?
• Vinnie feels that George will still be as strong even if he were to lose 30 lbs

IF ONE IS CARRYING A BIG BODY AROUND, IS IT HARDER TO STAY HEALTHY LONG TERM?

• It depends on one’s BMI, not on one’s sheer size
• You can still live a long, successful life

COULD VINNIE EVER DO A MUSCLE UP?

• A muscle up is where one does a pull up, pulls oneself over the bar, and dips
• Vinnie could do this in college even when he weighed 230 lbs
• Vinnie was in the gymnasium all the time as a physical education major so Vinnie could even do an Iron Cross

IF ONE WANTS TO LEAN OUT, DOES ONE NEED TO BE INCREDIBLY STRICT WITH THE DIET?

• You do not need to be in ketosis
• If you are eating veggies, some fruit, and meat, your body will pack on lean muscles
• This will improve one’s workout
• You have to completely commit to this diet to achieve goals such as George’s

An NSNG meet up where Vinnie goes to his fans may be on the horizon…

Cindy Rakowitz, former Division President for Playboy Enterprises, (Andy Schreiber), and Vinnie Tortorich discuss Playboy on today’s Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer!

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POSITIONS AT PLAYBOY

• Vinnie did work for Playboy for a bit (as an actor)
• Andy sold such videos and worked in PR, and Cindy worked in PR

THE MANSION

• There was a “boom boom room” at the mansion for privacy in intimate moments
• There were tunnels in the mansion
• The way to get in to the mansion was to speak into a rock, and they would let you in accordingly
• The parties at the mansion were huge and everyone wanted to attend
• Vinnie was a boy-toy
• One needed to be beautiful or have beautiful people accompanying them to get into parties

PLAYMATES

• Tawny was a playmate, very sweet girl
  • Andy took her abroad
  • Has her act together
• Vinnie took Kathy Shower on a date
  • She is still friends with Playboy
• Most of the girls were very nice, and most were not troubled
  • Playboy was a stepping stone into acting
• Andy’s favorite playmate was Victoria Silvstedt
  • She never needed taking care of

BOND GIRLS

• Another exclusive group of beautiful women
• Bond girls go to conventions to sign autographs
• The Bond girls are across a table, and people generally really respect them

EXERCISE

• Kickboxing is a really good form of exercise
• Fitness should be a part of everyone’s regime
• You feel better with your endocrine system, with your health, etc.
• “Use it or lose it”
• Do whatever you need to do to exercise, any form is better than nothing

ANDY AND VINNIE

• Even when Andy was working at Playboy, they’d meet all the time to discuss invention ideas
• “Trainer in a box”, “Billion Pound Challenge”
• They’d talk for hours brainstorming new ideas
• Vinnie would never lie on TV
• Some ideas that were discussed back then may soon be created!

WORKING AT PLAYBOY

• If you worked as an exec, you had to host people
• Give tour of grounds and have lunch with guest and a few playmates
• Occasionally you would run into Kim Conrad (Hefner) and her sons
  • She was lovely but wanted time with her boys
• Eventually she moved out with her children

Find Cindy at her website here!