FFF 012 : Fitness Obsession & Nutrition Simplification – with Armi Legge
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Armi Legge is an extremely interesting nutrition and fitness writer based in Virginia, USA. Armi’s philosophy is to help people who are obsessed with their health and fitness simplify their efforts so they can pursue their passions without giving up their other interests and social lives. He has previously been a nationally ranked triathlete and a he’s been a professional fitness writer since the age of 16!
In the episode we discuss how Armi’s childhood experiences of anorexia have influenced his current approach to nutrition and fitness. We explore why Armi believes a flexible approach to nutrition is the key to long term success, why consistency is crucial and his take on nutrition cults and dietary extremism.
Armi also explains how to find the balance between endurance and resistance training – how to structure your workouts, when to train and how to ensure optimum recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.5 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.5 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform |
| 0:14.7 | better. |
| 0:15.4 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you |
| 0:21.5 | the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness |
| 0:27.4 | podcast. Thank you for joining me on episode 12 of the Food for Fitness podcast brought to you by |
| 0:40.4 | Foodfor Fitness.co.uk. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm your host, Scott Bapti, and today I have another awesome guest who's going to help you |
| 0:47.8 | get leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier. |
| 0:50.9 | Army Legg, welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, Scott. |
| 0:53.8 | It's great to be on. I'll let you introduce |
| 0:55.9 | yourself. So tell us who are you? What do you do and what are you going to share with the listener |
| 1:00.6 | today? Yeah, sure. So my name is Army Legg. I'm a fitness writer and founder of Evidencemag.com. |
| 1:08.8 | And the goal is just to break down more complex topics about health and fitness in very |
| 1:15.6 | simple systems or techniques that people can use to get in better shape, using the best evidence, |
| 1:21.6 | as the name suggests. |
| 1:22.6 | So, yeah, I write articles, I do podcasts, and I write books. |
| 1:25.6 | So how long have you been doing this for then, Army? Let's see. I launched the first article on Evidencemag.com in November on Thanksgiving Day. So that'll be like November 25th or whatever it was in 2013. So I'd say, what is that? Like two years now? Something like that? Yeah. A little over two years. Yeah, like two and a half years, I guess. And then I've been writing about health and fitness for various different websites |
| 1:47.3 | since I was, or since back in like 2010, no, 2011. I started writing in 2011. And I know a little |
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