ONE-ON-ONE WITH BJ TUCKER

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is B.J. Tucker. He is an endurance runner, a vegan, a member of Plant Powered NSNG and an advocate of changing the food that is served in schools to more “real food” and less sugar. Join Vinnie and Anna and learn more about how B.J. is working to get schools and parents to look closely at what we feed our children. Serena joins in to talk with BJ about endurance running, marathons and raising money for a special foundation... How Do We Change Our Schools Take baby steps Starting with something as simple as chocolate milk The nutrition guidelines are more concerned with the milk than they are with the sugar and additives Stop kids and parents from bringing in outside sugar-laden snacks Work with athletic department...don’t need sugary sports drinks...just water It’s an opportunity to educate others There’s Not One Perfect Way To Eat It’s about eating real food - food that grows out of the ground Vinnie’s new book has addresses Vegans and NSNG Meat is only a part of NSNG The brain needs some carbs...not bread and pasta...but fruits and vegetables How Do People React to BJ Being a Vegan BJ tries to turn questions into a conversation Besides meat, he focuses on the other 80% of our diet He doesn’t preach, but leads by example At the end of the day, eat a variety of real food Serena and BJ Talk Shop They are both endurance runners BJ has run the Back to Back on New Year's Eve, a 50K and a 223 mile race from Austin to Corpus Christie Serena is training for The Avalon 50 on Catalina Island on January 10, 2015 She is raising money for “In Situ” an organization that trains dogs to sniff out cancer through blood and breath for early detection.

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0:00.0	He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness.
0:17.0	And now, America's Angriest Trainer, Vinnie Torterich, with co-host Anna Pacino.
0:25.4	Why am I America's Anx trainer?
0:27.9	Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.
0:32.7	I am Vinny Tortarich, and folks, she is not sitting right here, but she's here.
0:38.2	Don't ask me how that happens.
0:40.2	I'm in my studio.
0:42.1	The fact that I have a studio now is kind of crazy, but I'm in my studio in Woodland Hills,
0:48.8	and Anna, who doesn't have to sit next to my sweaty body anymore,
0:53.9	is over in the barrio on the other end of the valley.
0:56.7	I figure now since you have a studio, I mean, this is the man who couldn't turn on a computer
1:00.6	two and a half years ago, and now you know how to Skype me.
1:03.9	Yeah, yeah, I can Skype.
1:05.4	Sometimes I Skype.
1:06.3	You know those two idiots, John, John and Andrew?
1:14.5	Oh, John Harris and Andrew Weaver oh john harris andrew yeah yeah yeah of back of the pack yeah yeah give them a little plug give him a plug back of the pack
1:19.4	dot com back of pack i think is what it is let me i'm gonna look it up while we why you give him a plug
1:23.7	if you guys want to hear how podcasting should be done go listen to that don't Don't listen to this. By the way, I didn't even introduce you yet. Folks, that's the best voice in podcast radio. Working now or any time in the history of podcasting, that's Anna Vochino. How you doing, Pumpkin? I'm good. I just went to backofpack.com, and that's Andrew Weaver and John Harris's. You know what they're on? Episode 53. So they have actually stuck with it. You know, only people have said I'm starting a podcast because you guys have inspired me. And then they do like maybe 10 episodes and they realize, well, this is a pain. What's the average number of podcasts that people do before they give up? I don't know. Yeah, it's between 7 and 15, I think. But you know who I learned all that from is someone who's been podcasting for five minutes, Carrie Gormley, who she loves when we mention her name too. She's great. Yeah, and she tells me about podcasting. Like, she'll call me and she'll go, do you guys do this and do that?
2:20.0	I'm saying.
2:20.4	Like, what?
2:21.7	What is that?
2:23.8	No, we just turn the mics on and we talk.
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