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Fitness Confidential

Cyclist David vs. The Adirondack 540

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

: Episode 712 - Listener and fan David Sternberg joins Vinnie to talk about his first attempt at the Adirondack 540 and his efforts to remain fat-adapted during the race. CYCLIST AND LISTENER DAVID Has done a few phone calls with Vinnie in the past Reached out to some of Vinnie's friends (including Tony!) Talked to plenty of folks about NSNG Vinnie offered his services for free, but David and Vinnie still couldn't convince Ernest who was extremely overweight but still a cyclist (exercise is a poor way to lose weight) Must change diet to lose weight, exercise can supplement it but may actually increase weight due to muscle mass Can help with losing inches and fat Folks have to be interested in being thin! ADIRONDACK 540 A gorgeous ultracycling event in New York Did the 408 miler Completed it in 49 hours Remained fat-adapted throughout the race Ate spoonfulls of solid coconut oil He was lucky in that his body had no trouble processing that Likely went through a whole cup of coconut oil Also fueled with "nuggets of energy" Dark chocolate and an assortment of nuts 10g of fat, 4g of sugar Experimented with these for he was slightly worried he wasn't fat adapted to enough Made some PB&J sandwiches because he has bonked in the past and was afraid of bonking He plans on doing one of his races in the future completely fat-adapted! He must play around with it ahead of time a bit more Took his hands a long while to stop hurting His toes were numb for a few days after the race

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0:00.0

He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness.

0:12.2

It's Fitness Confidential with celebrity fitness trainer Vinny Tortorich.

0:16.8

Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.

0:21.7

I am Vinny Torterton, folks. Here we are again on the Saturday show. It's the one where I go one-on-one

0:28.2

with a listener. And I got to tell you, it's a little shocking for me because this guy should

0:35.7

have been on the show a long time ago.

0:38.3

Now, I'm basically working off of memory, and we will ask him.

0:42.1

His name is David Sternberg.

0:43.8

David, welcome to the show.

0:45.7

Hi, how are you doing?

0:46.5

Good, man.

0:47.0

How are you?

0:48.3

Good.

0:48.9

Now, I'm working off of memory, but stop me and tell me I'm wrong when I'm wrong. We've done a couple of phone calls.

0:57.4

I want to say two or three. How many has that been? I think we're at two.

1:02.7

Two phone calls. And if I remember right at the beginning, you were one of the earlier phone calls

1:08.1

when I first started doing that. By the way, folks, if you want to book a phone call, don't write to me on Twitter and say, hello, book a phone call, even though you're going to do

1:15.7

that anyway. Go to Vinny Tortoise.com and it says something like book a phone call. Is that simple,

1:23.4

right, Dave? I mean, yeah, the calendar. The calendar feature is pretty nice.

1:29.3

Yeah, I'm looking it up right now because I don't even know what my own website says.

1:33.3

It's Vinny Tortoise.com.

1:35.5

And if you go to that, it says, would you like some help reaching your goal?

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