Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Sleeping Dogs and Valentine’s Day – Episode 759

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 759 – Andy Schreiber and Vinnie Tortorich host this Valentine’s edition of the Fitness Confidential podcast. The two talk sleeping, natural sleep aids, dogs, and Valentine’s Day.

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SLEEPING

  • Sleep is the most important thing for your health
    • More important than power lifting and cardio
  • If you don’t sleep enough, all the exercise in the world will not be enough
  • The body regenerates when you sleep
    • Muscle builds the
  • Vinnie changed his sleep after leukemia
    • Sleeps a lot more these days
  • Vinnie takes some melatonin before bed (1mg)
  • Sleep will help you perform loads better at the gym
  • Magnesium is also a good sleep/relaxation aid
    • (Check out PVC)
  • When it is close to bedtime, get off technology!

 

VALENTINE’S DAY

  • Valentine’s Day can become a competition about who is the most loved
  • Can make many feel inferior
    • “Betsy’s husband wasn’t as good as Julie’s husband”
  • Valentine’s Day menus are such a hassle
    • A good way to rip people off
  • Vinnie treats Serena to a Valentine’s Day surprise a week or two before, and he gives her real, practical gifts

 

Grass-Fed Beef and F***ed-Up Chocolate

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 630 – Vinnie and Anna talk about grass-fed beef, food in France, f***ed-up chocolate, and NSNG Philly cheesesteaks!

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GRASS-FED BEEF

  • Is conventional beef better than grass-fed because it is fatter?
    Grass-fed still has plenty of fat as long as you are eating the fatty parts
    Taste & quality is what really matters
    Grass-fed beef isn’t given corn or grains so that is good if you can afford it but if not, no big deal!
    As long as you avoid fast-food meat as much as possible, you’re good
    Vinnie eats a lot of grass-fed but mostly just eats whatever he can
    Prices of grass-fed depends on availability

EUROPEAN EATING

Lots of dairy
Different stores for every type of food
They don’t full their food full of hormones and chemicals

No GMOs
When Anna was in Italy, she did notice the kids were getting a bit chunkier

CHOCOLATE

NSNG PHILLY CHEESESTEAK

Children’s Lunches and NSNG Coffee

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 626 – Co-host Anna Vocino joins Vinnie Tortorich today to talk about children’s lunches, sugar, coffee, and obesity.

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PURE, WHITE, AND DEADLY

  • Dr. Yudkin
  • 1972, book written about the dangers of sugar
  • Cool thing is back in the early ’60s there was a war between Dr. John Yudkin and Ancel Keys
    • Ancel argued yes carbs, Yudkin argued sugar and carbs are bad
    • K ration in war is still based off of Keys
    • Keys only pushed sugar because it helped his wallet
      • Keys himself did not eat high carbs
        • “cereal is for the little people”
  • Sounded the alarm back in the 70s
  • Check out interesting article and also Lustig’s speech here! 
  • Yudkin was ridiculed and shamed, but posthumously it is making a comeback
  • Gladiators would stuff themselves with grains to get a layer of fat so when they fought they had something to protect them

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NSNG COFFEE

  • Your body treats fake sweeteners and honey and stevia the same as it does all sugar
    • Agave syrup is sugar!!!
    • Causes a reaction in your liver
  • Vinnie puts one of three things in his coffee:
    • Coconut oil, for a little extra energy
    • HWC or some whole milk
    • A little bit of kerrygold butter
  • Coffee in and of itself is a flavor — if you don’t like how it tastes, then don’t drink it
    • “Just put some coffee in your coffee”
    • Remains bitter but eventually once you stop eating sugar and processed crap it won’t be so bitter
    • Same goes with all ‘bitter’ things — your taste buds will change and you’ll miss out on less
      • The fact that sugar changes your tastebuds is disconcerting enough

CHILDREN’S LUNCHES

  • Anna would rather see you pack a sandwich with hard boiled eggs and fresh veggies and such than something like a Lunchable
    • So processed and chemical-y
  • At the very least, nothing should be a processed food in a package
  • Carrots, cucumbers, nuts, apples, peanut butter, eggs, etc.
  • Just because food is from somewhere with healthy options doesn’t mean it is healthy
  • Kids having a knowing within them if you start to awaken it

 

 

Controlling Hunger with Dr. Ludwig – Episode 624

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 624 – Dr. David Ludwig joins Vinnie Tortorich today on the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast to discuss controlling hunger and the obesity epidemic.

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DR. DAVID LUDWIG

  • PhD and an MD
    • Attended Stanford and is a professor at Harvard
  • Professor of Nutrition
  • Director of New Balance Foundation of Obesity Prevention

CONTROLLING HUNGER

Taking the Right Vitamins

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 623 – Co-host Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie Tortorich this Wednesday on the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast to discuss taking the right vitamins and how you can do that with Pure Vitamin Club.

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THE RIGHT VITAMINS

  • Vitamins don’t ‘expire’ – if it ain’t working, it ain’t right
  • PVC Vitamins do not have any “other ingredients” other than those blatantly listed in quantities on the label
  • We have 4-5 more PVC products on the way
    • Including electrolyte supplement
    • We take our time with our formulas so all you get is the right stuff

Weight Training

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 622 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich host this Celebrity Fitness Trainer Monday edition podcast to talk about weight training and a few other side notes.

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DANCERS

  • Dancers have very little upper body strength
  • Many pop stars also apply
  • Vinnie has trained dancers who have had to weight train
    • Especially as they age

WEIGHT TRAINING

  • Fan of Vinnie wanted to know how many sets/reps to achieve a certain ‘deal’
  • Wanted to know about how to add chest muscle
    • Are chest flies worth it vs bench press?
      • If you have a lot of time, use flies to complement bench press
        • If you strictly want to add muscle meat, do bench press then incline press
        • Flies are worth it if you have time to do it
      • Bang for your buck comes from presses
  • Vinnie does bicep curls with 5/10/15lb weights
    • He is rehabbing and doesn’t want to press it
    • He will not continue once he gets back to 30/40/50lbs
      • Then, he will do pull ups etc.
      • Vinnie doesn’t like what curl biceps look like
        • Too Mark Wahlberg for his taste
          • real boobs vs. fake boobs
          • Curl biceps look too done
      • Vinnie is also a fan of lat pulls
        • Use a band attached to the top of your door if you don’t have anything else
        • Pull down to your clavicle
  • Vinnie likes a little extra tricep
  • A crossfit body is a good body, but lots of people get hurt doing crossfit because of bad instruction

AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK

  • Sandra Mason is this week’s winner
    • She bought the Toddy Cold Brew Coffee Maker with extra filters
      • Vinnie is a huge fan of this
  • Go buy through the banner on our website and send it in an e-mail to Vinnie and we will pick a winner and send some SWAG!