Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Nutrition, Carbs and Training for a Marathon

by Vinnie Tortorich

Welcome to our Saturday show where Vinnie goes one-on-one with a listener and answers their questions on air.  Today’s guest listener is Phoenix Lam and she has been NSNG for over a year.

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PHOENIX SHARES WHAT A DAY OF NSNG LOOKS LIKE

  • Breakfast can be eggs, bacon or sausage or maybe chia seed pudding with nuts and seeds
  • Morning snack at work can be fruit and greek yogurt or some meat and cheese
  • Lunch will be a meat and veggie and sometimes rice on the side
  • If she has an afternoon snack, almond butter with an apple
  • Dinner will be protein with veggies

IS IT EFFECTIVE TO WORK OUT BEFORE YOU EAT?

  • There’s no reason to work out without eating
  • Cyclists sometimes do it before a race to lose weight
  • More effective to eat and get your metabolism moving
  • Exercise is a poor way to lose weight…you are going to have to replace calories you burned

WHEN YOUR ARE INTERVAL/ANAEROBIC EXERCISING, CAN YOU EAT MORE CARBS?

  • It is also ok to up your carbs especially if you are training for an event
  • Get the carbs from veggies first, then fruit
  • Ok to have a carb like a potato…but keep track.  If you start craving sugar…pull back

Plant Trainers, Depression and PTSD

by Vinnie Tortorich

Today’s One-on-One is with Shoshana Chaim.  Shosh and her husband, Adam, are co-f0unders of Plant Trainers which advocates a plant-based lifestyle.  Today they discuss mental health…depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • Traumatic stress event began at the beginning of Shosh’s second pregnancy when she found out that Adam had a tumor
  • Went to hypnotist to help her with crippling anxiety and depression
  • Was told she had PTSD
  • Hypnotist had her go back 5 years to when trauma started

ANGER AND WOMEN

  • Have to find source of stress and figure out how to resolve it
  • Hard on marriage
  • Shosh found herself being mean to Adam when she is normally quite passive
  • Women need to be strong and stick together

IS IT OK TO GO ON MEDICATION

  • Shosh realized she needed to go on meds to be emotionally healthy
  • She does want to find more natural ways and eventually decrease or go off meds
  • Alternative medicine, such as acupuncture can help

THE TRUTH ABOUT CALCIUM

by Vinnie Tortorich

It’s Wednesday and that means that Andy Schreiber is in the house…Vinnie and Andy discuss this coming weekend which is the First Annual NSNG Meetup.  They also discuss calcium…it’s benefits, what foods have it and different forms of calcium supplementation.

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FIRST ANNUAL NSNG L.A. MEETUP 

  • This weekend, March 27 – 29th
  • Between 13-15 people are flying in from all over the country
  • Some of the events scheduled for this weekend and what to expect

CALCIUM – WHAT’S THE TRUTH

  • It’s needed   in diet and supplementation because the body does not produce it’s own calcium
  • Primarily found in dairy and also in darker, green leafy vegetables like kale
  • One form is calcium carbonate which can cause stomach upset
  • The other form is calcium citrate which has been shown to be more bioavailable

COFFEE, SWEETENERS AND AMATEUR ATHLETES

by Vinnie Tortorich

Hey everyone…welcome to Monday’s podcast with Vinnie and Anna.  This coming weekend is the first annual NSNG LA Meetup.  There will be surprises for everyone!  It is supposed to be in the high 80’s and even 90 degrees … so leave sweaters and snow gear at home and bring plenty of sunscreen.  Lots to talk about today, so let’s get going…

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EUROPE VS USA

  • In Europe remaining active is not about losing weight…it’s about enjoying life
  • They eat healthy there because that is how Europeans were brought up
  • There is a healthy relationship with food
  • Not as attached to food as Americans

BULLET PROOF COFFEE

  • Check out GlutenFreeAnna.com for a  dairy-free bullet proof coffee recipe
  • Don’t need sweetener
  • Start with some cream if you need to
  • After you get used to it, you will rebuild taste buds and start to taste the coffee

JOHN OLIVER PIECE ON THE NCAA

  • Vinnie says NCAA is a form of legal slavery
  • Everyone makes money but the players
  • The March Madness season brings in 1 billion dollars of ad revenue
  • Players have to “squeeze in” education

 

 

Losing Weight through Ketosis with Beth Zupec-Kania

by Vinnie Tortorich

Today’s One-On-One guest is Beth Zupec-Kania who has been an RND (Registered Nutritionist and Dietician) for 32 years.  She works with The Charlie Foundation for Therapeutic Therapies in Santa Monica, California.  The foundation was founded in 1994 and is named for Charlie Abrahams.  Twenty years ago, Charlie developed seizures and as a last resort, his parents turned to a ketogenic diet for help.  The diet worked and Charlie was seizure free.

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HOW THE KETOGENIC DIET CHANGED CHARLIE’S LIFE

  • Between 1 and 2-yrs old, Charlie was on seizure medications and had already gone through brain surgery
  • His father, Jim Abrahams, found out about the Ketogentic diet on his own
  • The Ketogenic Diet had been around since as early as the 1920’s
  • Charlie’s doctor referred him to John Hopkins and within a month of starting the diet, his seizures had stopped and he was off all medication

KETOGENIC DIET AND CANCER

  • In the 1920’s, Otto Warburg, a German physician, showed through metabolic research that cancer cells prefer sugar glucose as an energy source
  • His work was dismissed until recently
  • Tumors grow quite rapidly when they have sugar as fuel
  • Cancer cells don’t recognize ketones as energy

HEALTHY FAT ADAPTED DIET

  • Fats give you energy that will last you all day
  • However, with no sugar and no refined carbs, some women have hormonal issues
  • They need more carbs
  • Beth recommends they eat more veggies and berries (as opposed to other fruits)

KETOGENIC CHALLENGE

  • For adults, it is counterintuitive to eat a lot of fat
  • So Beth had to come up with recipes and techniques to up the fat
  • These include olive oil and balsamic vinegar shoots
  • Candy made from coconut oil, a drop of Stevia and some cocoa powder
  • “Fat bombs” or “Fat boosters”

The Talking Fitness Radio Show

by Vinnie Tortorich

We received so many requests from listeners to hear “Talking Fitness” which was aired this past Sunday on NY’s WABC-AM 770, that we decided to post it for tiny,  It’s been 25 years since Vinnie hosted his radio show, by the same name “Talking Fitness” in New Orleans.  Here’s the show…enjoy!

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VINNIE’S BOOK AND PODCAST

  • Vinnie’s book, “Fitness Confidential” is a cross between a fitness book and a memoir.
  • It is a best seller and nominated as Audible.com’s Book of the Year
  • Vinnie’s podcast, The Angriest Trainer, is very successful
  • He is not angry at you.  He is angry for you

WHY DO A RADIO SHOW

  • Vinnie and Andy decided to create an “informercial”
  • There’s no upset or pressure
  • Just giving you information

WE DON’T GET WHAT WE NEED FROM A BASIC AMERICAN DIET

  • Missing essential 13 vitamins necessary for life
  • Due to environment, lifestyle and processed food
  • Supplements are just that…they are not meant to replace but to fill in the gaps

WHY CREATE HIS OWN VITAMIN

  • What shocked Vinnie was the extra ingredients that he found in most vitamins, even the very high end
  • Fillers, excipients and dyes
  • You won’t find these in Pure Vitamin Club
  • We also deliver them to your door…all for an amazingly low price