Vinnie Tortorich - Exercise For Mental Health • Choosing The Right Trainer • No Sugar No Grains
Episode 155
Vinnie Tortorich is a celebrity fitness trainer, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling author of Fitness Confidential: Adventures in the Weight-Loss Game.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why is Vinnie know as America's Angriest Trainer?
- What's it like working with actors, writers, directors, executives (Hollywood types)?
- Making the move from New Orleans to LA
- Living a minimalistic lifestyle
- Vinnie was turned onto weightlifting after watching Jack LaLanne on TV
- Choosing the right gym
- Most trainers suck
- What to look for in a great trainer
- Exercise isn't a good way to lose weight
- You can't do high intensity interval training (HIIT) daily, if you're doing it correctly
- Is ultra athletics healthy?
- The best piece of fitness equipment that does it all and it's dirt cheap
- Fitness is more mental than physical
- The time Vinnie got fat and he didn't even realize it
- How a hypoxic tent lead to Vinnie finding out he had leukaemia
- No Sugar No Grains (NSNG)
- What does Vinnie eat?
- Getting nutrients through food vs. supplementation
- Everyone is lacking in magnesium
- Vinnie's morning routine
- Don't wait until tomorrow... start today
- In life, always take the garbage out
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Related links:
Vinnie Tortorich - Fitness Confidential (book)
Vinnie Tortorich's website
Follow Vinnie Tortorich on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Vinnie's recent interview with us on Fitness Confidential (his podcast)
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