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Dr. Natalia Petrzela - Fit Nation

All About Fitness - February 10, 2023 23:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Do you realize that once-upon-a-time, carrying a few extra pounds of fat was considered a sign of good health? How did we go from a culture that appreciated girth to one obsessed with being skinny? Why do we exercise the way we do? What societal forces influence the ways that we exercise? Dr. Nat...

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Emily Rudow - Find Your Stride

All About Fitness - February 08, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
What motivates you and why? Motivation is an elusive emotion; high achievers seem to have motivation seeping from their pores while slackers can barely be motivated to answer the door for the food deliver service. Motivation can be focused as a powerful force used to accomplish seemingly insurmou...

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Dr. Shannon O'Grady - The Chemistry of Nutrition

All About Fitness - January 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
There is a famous saying that abs are made in the kitchen; what it means is that no matter how hard you exercise, if you are not following a proper nutrition protocol, you may not get the results that you want. The purpose of the food we eat is to provide specific nutrients that we need for optim...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapt 4, part 2

All About Fitness - January 25, 2023 02:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Why do you do the exercises in your workout program? Why do you add certain exercises to your routine, but not others?Not all strength-training exercises are the same or produce the same output; in this section of Smarter Workouts, you will learn why it is so important to perform exercises for th...

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Rick Richey - 2023 Fitness Trends, part 2

All About Fitness - January 21, 2023 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Dr. Rick Richey is a physical therapist, personal trainer, massage therapist, studio owner and fitness educator and podcast host for NASM, one of the largest personal training certification organizations in the fitness industry. On the second half of the conversation, Rick shares his insights on ...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapt 4, part 1: Core Strength

All About Fitness - January 18, 2023 03:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
If you think that planks and crunches are the only core exercises that you need to do, then think again; on this episode of the audio book for Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, we transition from mobility into strength training, specifically strength training for your core mu...

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Rick Richey - 2023 Fitness Trends with the '22 Personal Trainer of the Year; part 1

All About Fitness - January 14, 2023 02:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Dr. Rick Richey is a physical therapist, licensed massage therapist, studio owner and an educator and podcast host for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (FYI - NO one in the fitness industry has 1, single job; making you sweat doesn't pay a lot, so we all have to get our hustle on). Rick wa...

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Fitness Trends for 2023

All About Fitness - January 11, 2023 19:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
How will 2023 make you sweat? What new fitness trends do you need to keep your eyes out for? It's a new year which means that between December 31, 2022 and January 1, 2023, suddenly EVERYTHING about changed about fitness and that you need to start over from ground zero. Not really, but the way t...

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Eoin Everard - How to Run Injury-free

All About Fitness - January 07, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
We are all born knowing how to walk which explains why running is one of the most popular forms of exercise; we already know how to do it and all that's required is a decent set of shoes, some proper kit and you're off. However, poor running mechanics or a poorly designed training program could c...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapter 3 Mobility Training

All About Fitness - January 04, 2023 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Do you experience lingering injuries that just won't seem to heal? Do you want to find a way to supercharge your results? Mobility training is probably the most overlooked component of a workout program. Mobility refers to a combination of joint range of motion and tissue extensibility; in other ...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapter 3 Mobility

All About Fitness - December 14, 2022 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
If Monday is "international chest day," (so-named because a lot of people tend to do chest press on Mondays) which day is international mobility day? Mobility workouts are a popular on social media; however beyond being a current trend, mobility should be a key component of your overall workout p...

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Andy Orbeck and Nicole Stuart: The Secrets to Looking and Feeling Your Best After Age 35

All About Fitness - December 11, 2022 01:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
No one knows exactly how the aging process will effect the human body, but we do know that regular exercise can help slow down the speed at which we age. Actors and actresses use exercise and an overall healthy lifestyle to always look their best so that they can land that next part. Andy Orbeck,...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapter 2, part 6

All About Fitness - December 03, 2022 00:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple originally started as a series of blogs called, "1-weight workout" and teaches you how to design workouts for mobility, strength or metabolic conditioning using only one piece of equipment. Chapter 2 concludes with specifying the 2 distinct, d...

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Eric the Trainer - The Secret to a Hollywood Body

All About Fitness - November 29, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Originally recorded in 2017, this is a rerun of a conversation with Eric Fleishman, also known as Eric the Trainer, the personal trainer to a number of well-known Hollywood celebrities. In this episode, Eric shares how he got interested in fitness, why he studied the early generation of bodybuild...

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Dr. Bill Ferro - The Health Benefits of Reducing Chronic Inflammation

All About Fitness - November 25, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Time. Equipment. Not knowing what to do. These are all common excuses for not getting results from an exercise program; however, one important thing missing from this list, the issue of chronic inflammation. Inflammation is your immune system's natural response when fighting an outside invader li...

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Lauren George - Fitness Entrepreneur

All About Fitness - November 22, 2022 23:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
It is often said that entrepreneurs are people who work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40. It takes a lot of things to be a successful entrepreneur: a great idea, motivation, a tireless work ethic and the ability to be comfortable with failure so that you can learn from your mistakes. Lauren Ge...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, chapt. 2, part 5

All About Fitness - November 18, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
This episode of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple is the conclusion of chapter 2 which reviews two different types of strength training and how they can make changes to your body. In addition, you will learn about the most effective types of equipment that you can use for a gr...

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Molly Galbraith - Girls Gone Strong

All About Fitness - November 15, 2022 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Necessity is the mother of invention. Fitness enthusiast, personal trainer and powerlifter Molly Galbraith saw a need for women who enjoy being strong to come together to form a community around strength training and that is how Girls Gone Strong came into being. What started as an online support...

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Jay Glazer - How to Become Unbreakable

All About Fitness - November 10, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Jay Glazer is a sports reporter, experienced MMA fighter, conditioning expert, gym owner, author and now podcast host; on this episode he talks about his experience as a combat athlete, how he got started as a sports caster and his work with combat veterans who suffer from PTSD. Jay explains how ...

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Coach Kevin Carr - Benefits of Functional Strength Training

All About Fitness - November 08, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Not all strength training is the same; lifting a barbell is different than swinging a kettlebell and using a set of dumbbells provides a completely different workout than using a machine. To make sure that you are doing the best exercises and workouts for your goals, you should first have an unde...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple chapt 2, part 4

All About Fitness - November 04, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
ALL successful exercise programs have one thing in common: they adhere to the established principles of exercise program design. It's true, any experienced strength coach or personal trainer can watch any workout and know within a few minutes whether the person who designed it knew what they were...

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Dr. John Krakauer - The Neuroscience of Human Movement

All About Fitness - November 01, 2022 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Do muscles really have memory? How does your brain tell which muscles to move and how hard they should work? Is it possible to learn how to shoot a basketball like Steph Curry? Dr. John Krakauer is a professor of Neurology who runs the Center for Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins U...

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Gray Cook - Functional Strength Training

All About Fitness - November 01, 2022 00:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Living in 2022 is great: we can have almost anything we want delivered to us by simply swiping our phones; however is this much automation a good thing? As humans we were all born knowing how to move, but modern society has evolved to a point where movement is not necessary, the result is that ma...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple; Chapt. 2, part 3

All About Fitness - October 28, 2022 19:24 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
This audio book series of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple is continuing with Chapter 2: How Exercise Changes Your Body. In this episode you will learn about how your heart functions during physical activity, why it's important to pay attention to the 3 laws of physics when y...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple; Chapt. 2, part 2

All About Fitness - October 22, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
What is the difference between different types of strength training? Why should your workouts focus on metabolic conditioning instead of cardio? Smarter Workouts was written expressly to help you learn the science of how your body adapts to exercise; currently this is an audiobook series going ch...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, chapt 2, part 1

All About Fitness - October 18, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Continuing with the series, this episode transitions to Chapter 2 of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple and is titled, Movement and Intensity in Practice. Mobility, strength training and metabolic conditioning are the the 3 primary components of a well-designed exercise program...

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Gary Gray - the Father of Functional Training

All About Fitness - October 17, 2022 23:29 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Functional training is a popular fitness phrase that can mean different things to different people. Coach Mike Boyle describes functional training as training for a purpose, but in reality, functional training simply refers to an exercise program that is designed to help you move and perform bett...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, chapt 1, part 4

All About Fitness - October 15, 2022 01:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
This episode continues with chapter 1 from Smarter Workouts and addresses why it is important to include the different components of exercise: mobility, strength training and metabolic conditioning into a cohesive, effective exercise program. Any mode of exercise is better than nothing, however y...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, Chapt 1, part 3

All About Fitness - October 11, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
This episode continues with chapter 1 from Smarter Workouts that addresses how exercise changes your body. Your muscles use two different types of energy to produce movement: mechanical and metabolic; this episode covers the basics of energy metabolism and how your muscles convert the food you ea...

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, chapt 1, part 2

All About Fitness - October 04, 2022 01:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
This episode of All About Fitness picks up in chapter 1 Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple where you will learn how exercise influences change in your muscles. Chapter 1 covers how exercise changes the body; it's important understand that exercise is a physical stress imposed u...

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