Vinnie Tortorich: Fitness Confidential, Why Exercise Doesn't Work, and Why Jerry Seinfeld is Wrong about Breakfast

Abel James Show

Abel James Bascom

Mental Health, Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a oft-requested guest, Mr. Vinnie Tortorich. He's Hollywood's go-to guy for fitness and weight loss, coined as America's Angriest Trainer. Vinnie is also the author of the terrific book Fitness Confidential, where he debunks the myths and gimmicks of the weight loss industry.

Vinnie is hilarious - you're going to dig this episode.

Before we get to the show, I have a very special request. Unlike a lot of podcasts out there, The Fat-Burning Man Show is entirely listener supported. No advertisements, no sponsors, no corporations lurking in the background trying to influence what we have to say.

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Alright, on the show. Vinnie and I chat about:

Why the fitness and weight loss industry thrives on products that don’t work
Why exercise is a horrible way to lose weight
And why Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about what he orders for breakfast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, this is Abel James, and thanks so much for listening to The Fat Burning Man Show, where we talk about real food and real results.
0:16.7	Today's special guest is Vinny Tortortich, and he's the author of Fitness Confidential.
0:21.3	He's been one of the most requested guests we've ever had on the show, and this is definitely a really fun one.
0:27.4	So stay tuned for that.
0:28.5	Before we get to it, though, I wanted to say a few quick things.
0:32.2	Unlike most of the podcasts in health, the Fat Burning Man Show is entirely listener supported. We don't have any advertisements,
0:39.7	no sponsors, no corporations lurking in the background influencing our message whatsoever. It's
0:46.1	just me at a microphone and now a team of people who are helping me produce the show and
0:51.9	coordinate all the guests and that sort of thing.
0:54.6	So it's been really exciting. We just hit over two million listens in our first year and a
1:00.0	half of having this show, which is just absolutely bananas. My goal when I set out was to reach a
1:06.1	million people. And we did that in less than a year. And so now the number keeps expanding,
1:10.7	but I, you know, I don't want to stop anytime year. And so now the number keeps expanding, but I, you know,
1:11.8	it's, I don't want to stop anytime soon. And so now it's really exciting that we have a whole
1:15.9	team of people to help me do that. So the show itself, as you well know, is 100% free and I intend to
1:22.7	keep it that way. 95% of all of our content is completely free. I believe in this message of health so much that I just want to get it out there and turn down a lot of business and sponsorships and affiliate opportunities from people who I think had the opportunity to cloud the message if I were to let them advertise on the show with their, you know, sicky sweet protein bars
1:44.5	or their ridiculous fat burning potions and all that other stuff.
1:47.8	You guys deserve better.
1:49.1	I don't want to deal with any of that.
1:50.5	So I'm not going to hold a cheesy drive or anything like that, but I did set up a page
1:54.8	over at fatburningman.com forward slash donate.
1:58.8	If you'd be so kind to donate as little as a dollar, every little bit
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