Angriest Trainer 285: Tony Portera, Badwater, Running & Weightloss

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 102 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Temperatures can get up to 120 degrees during the 135 mile Badwater Race and Tony Portera has run it seven times, finishing five. He joins the podcast with fellow runners Brian, Jason and Andrea, who is running this year’s Badwater as well. They discuss the race, crewing, NSNG and how God fits into all of this, all while having a great time with lots of laughs. Here are some of the highlights... Badwater is grueling 135 mile race 18,000 foot climb The run uphill is 22 miles The first 44 miles will make you or break you Running, NSNG and God Brian lost 25 lbs with NSNG Describe running as a religious experience As close to God as you can get without dying You never finish the race as the same person you started -- you always learn something new about yourself Tony's NSNG Experience Tony was up to 208 lbs at 5’9” Got down to 180 lbs by exercising but got stuck Prime example of how exercise is a poor way to loose weight Read FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL On NSNG, Tony had more energy, slept better, trained better, ran better and the weight started coming off Tony ran Badwater 2014 at 148 lbs

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0:15.3	Thanks, Vin.
0:15.7	Thank you. He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness. And now, America's
0:31.0	Angriest Trainer, Vinnie Tortridge, with co-host Anna Buccino.
0:37.2	Why am I America's Patriots trainer?
0:39.8	Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.
0:44.6	I am Vinny Toterich, and folks, she's not here today.
0:48.7	Anna Vocino is not here.
0:50.2	The best voice in podcast radio is somewhere else in the Valley.
0:53.9	It's Sunday, so she's
0:55.8	probably out. Actually, I think she's out watching her daughter in some horse event. I think
1:03.6	Lucy had a horse event today. But you may hear a lot of ambient noise around me because I'm in a big
1:09.0	empty room with four other people.
1:12.6	I came out today. I'm not running. I'm not crewing. I'm not doing anything at the Badwater Race,
1:19.6	the Badwater 135, Chris Costman's event. You may remember he was on the show at one point.
1:24.6	I came out here pretty much just to say hi to a guy who started
1:29.2	NSNG a while back and we had a few phone calls together. He is a veteran of this race. We'll
1:36.2	be talking to him in just a minute. He dragged a friend into it and then that friend dragged
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