Alwyn Cosgrove: Cancer, Wellness, & The Cardio Myth
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Based on the research, aerobic exercise has a very negligible effect on body composition. - Alwyn Cosgrove
Join us on Wellness Force Radio 133 as we welcome sought-after fitness expert, author, and cancer survivor Alwyn Cosgrove. He shares his extensive knowledge on smart exercise, good nutrition, and how to build the internal and social support needed for our health to thrive.
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Along with his proven strategies, Alwyn also helps us uncover our "deeper why" and core motivations to ensure we remain consistent and achieve incredible results.
Listen To Episode 133 As Alwyn Uncovers:
- Designing an enjoyable training program based on your personality type
- His love for boxing and background in competitive martial arts
- Spreading health through smart exercise, good nutrition, and social support
- Becoming proactive with our health care instead of waiting until we get sick
- His personal strategy for success as a trainer and gym operator
- Visualization techniques he used to recover from chemotherapy
- His journey and mindset through multiple bouts of stage 4 cancer
- How to develop a time-efficient training plan
- The power of focus and the law of attraction
- Exercise programming for introverts vs. extroverts
- How to train clients if they are logic vs. emotion based
- The most effective types of exercise to speed up metabolism
- The importance of getting in touch with our deeper why
- How new members are integrated at Results Fitness
- Discovering our core motivations for exercise and weight loss
- How to build strong habits by starting with small achievable goals
- Implementing strategies so we don't rely on willpower alone
- The impact of steady-state cardio vs. "HIIT" training
- Learning how to redirect our negative thoughts
- The growing popularity of obstacle course races
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| 0:00.0 | Wellness Force Radio. |
| 0:05.0 | feelings are essential, but they can't dictate our actions. |
| 0:12.0 | We literally inspect each other with our emotions. |
| 0:15.0 | We came here for a special purpose. |
| 0:16.8 | Let the purpose unveil itself. |
| 0:18.9 | Knowing without doing the same thing as not knowing. |
| 0:20.9 | They're not just trackers. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm going to wear this and it's going to help me do the right thing. |
| 0:25.0 | Wellness Force Radio episode 133 with Alwynne Cosgrove. |
| 0:29.0 | It all starts with people and if you can reach a person and you can take that person and you can |
| 0:35.2 | make everything in their life better you can make them move better feel better |
| 0:39.2 | perform better and just everything about them function at a slightly higher level like a slight upgrade. |
| 0:46.4 | Then you can impact that person and then you can impact that family in that small town or that |
| 0:51.3 | small business or that large business or that small business or that |
| 0:53.4 | sports team or that government and you can impact these people and you can |
| 0:56.8 | change the world. |
| 0:58.8 | What's up my friend? |
| 0:59.8 | It's your host Josh Trent and welcome back to another episode for your weekly access to global |
| 1:04.4 | experts in all things wellness as we discover the physical and emotional |
| 1:08.2 | intelligence we need to live life well. In this episode I got to have an in-depth and connected conversation with one of my original |
| 1:16.0 | mentors in the fitness industry, Alwyn Cosgrove, who as luck would have it, I just happened |
| 1:20.8 | to run into last week in Lake Tahoe at the Spartan race to thank him personally for coming on the show. |
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