155: Vinnie Tortorich - Exercise For Mental Health • Choosing The Right Trainer • No Sugar No Grains
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Vinnie Tortorich is a celebrity fitness trainer, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling author of Fitness Confidential: Adventures in the Weight-Loss Game.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why is Vinnie know as America's Angriest Trainer?
- What's it like working with actors, writers, directors, executives (Hollywood types)?
- Making the move from New Orleans to LA
- Living a minimalistic lifestyle
- Vinnie was turned onto weightlifting after watching Jack LaLanne on TV
- Choosing the right gym
- Most trainers suck
- What to look for in a great trainer
- Exercise isn't a good way to lose weight
- You can't do high intensity interval training (HIIT) daily, if you're doing it correctly
- Is ultra athletics healthy?
- The best piece of fitness equipment that does it all and it's dirt cheap
- Fitness is more mental than physical
- The time Vinnie got fat and he didn't even realize it
- How a hypoxic tent lead to Vinnie finding out he had leukaemia
- No Sugar No Grains (NSNG)
- What does Vinnie eat?
- Getting nutrients through food vs. supplementation
- Everyone is lacking in magnesium
- Vinnie's morning routine
- Don't wait until tomorrow... start today
- In life, always take the garbage out
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Related links:
Vinnie Tortorich - Fitness Confidential (book)
Follow Vinnie Tortorich on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Vinnie's recent interview with us on Fitness Confidential (his podcast)
Listen to Dr. William Davis previously on TUHP (episode #153)
Adam Carolla - In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ultimate Health Podcast episode 155. |
| 0:12.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman. Ultimate Health Podcast episode 155. |
| 0:13.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:15.2 | and we are here on a weekly basis |
| 0:16.9 | to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:19.2 | This week our featured guest is Vinny Tortureich. |
| 0:21.9 | He's a Celebrity Fitness trainer, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling |
| 0:26.3 | author of Fitness Confidential Adventures in the Weight Loss Game. |
| 0:30.7 | And Vinny is just such an interesting fun dude. |
| 0:33.0 | We actually were recently on his podcast, |
| 0:35.0 | so we're going to put a link in the show notes |
| 0:37.0 | over to that conversation. |
| 0:39.0 | You'll notice with Vinny, the conversation just goes back and forth |
| 0:42.0 | more than usual. |
| 0:43.7 | We're just having fun and yeah, we just really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:48.5 | So we got an awesome review this week and it's a nice short and sweet one so I'm going to read you guys |
| 0:53.4 | the review of the week and it's five stars and it's titled Massive Gratitude |
| 0:58.6 | by Happer Girl from Canada. My best friend found you guys and immediately passed along your |
| 1:04.0 | podcast. I love listening to you both such incredible guests and very well |
| 1:07.9 | spoken. Thank you for all that you do. Well thank you so much for your |
| 1:11.6 | awesome review. You guys are sending in so many reviews. We are so grateful. |
| 1:16.0 | So we are just trying to make sure that we read them all to you guys. So keep sending them in and we love them. Thank you. |
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