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Habits, Tiny or Atomic
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 01, 2020 16:55 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMost people think that the bigger the habit the bigger the result but current thinking is that the biggest changes come from small changes in our day-to-day routine. We break down two of the popular books today on habits. James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and BJ Fogg's "Tiny Habits" to br...
Let's get personal (trainers)
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - November 03, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe start by talking about the common stereotypes of personal trainers and the people who use them. Is a 30-day transformation possible? Yes, but is it sustainable? We create a list for you of questions you can ask to identify a good personal trainer. Do they start with some kind of ...
Fat Fiction
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - October 06, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAlthough Brandon is usually wary of documentaries because they can come packed with bad advice for those looking to transform their fitness and nutrition, he was really impressed with "Fat Fiction" from director Jennifer Eisenhardt. Forget everything you've been told about fat... Mark ...
Anthony Langer - Simple long-term goals & fighting Moobs
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - September 01, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEnergized by a story from the history of people applying logic, he was inspired by to do the same logic to a renewed middle-age. His transformation from the "dark ages" to "enlightenment of his life. Like many people with a personal transformation of their bodies, he had a moment that ...
Understanding metabolism with Paul Bengds
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - August 25, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsA lot of people don't understand heartrate. Many tools like apple watches or heart rate monitors give over-generalized results that are less than accurate. The truth is the choices we make every day greatly affect your metabolism. You hear people say things like, ", I have a terrible m...
Alpha-Stim - Replace pills with electricity?
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - July 21, 2020 20:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAlpha-Stim has been FDA approved for 23 years and Patrick is a rep in Easter Carolina. We talk about the science, the treatments, and commonly asked questions and misconceptions about treating with micro amperage electricity. The treatment increases your body's production of serotonin ...
Thai Massage
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - July 14, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe learn about Fernanda and Dean's background. Their trip to Thailand to explore more about the roots of Thai massage and to get a masterclass from the local experts. A Thai massage is a full-body approach. While it is helpful to think of Thai massage as assisted yoga it is different f...
The Big "Fat" Truth
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - June 30, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWho is responsible for our misunderstanding of "fat?" Ancel Keys is largely responsible for how government dietary guidelines were shaped. He argued that dietary saturated fat caused cardiovascular heart diseases and should be avoided. The data used to support this was selective and...
Biomechanic Specialist Alvin Miles
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - June 16, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn the 2016 Olympic trials Alvin suffered a devastating injury. After getting tired of hearing what he couldn't and wouldn't be able to do by doctors, he started learning about biomechanics and adopted some new habits that allowed him to make a full recovery and now helps clients. Bran...
The rise of the Microgym
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - June 02, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsExcited to be back in the studio, Brandon talks about how his business was impacted as a personal trainer during the COVID-19 lockdown. We also talked about the dreaded Quarantine-15 that many Americans were packing on the pounds during the stay at home order. Whether it be from stress ...
Home workouts and making the most of your time
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - March 31, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, we talk about the opportunity with more time at home due to the Coronavirus to work on fitness and nutrition. We focus on some of the more corrective exercises and things you can do at home when access to the gym is no longer an option. Many personal trainers including...
Kimball Jane Sargent on strengthening your immune system
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - March 24, 2020 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKimball is a holistic self-care coach. And for most of her life, she has been an entrepreneur and holistic psychotherapist. About 14 years ago, she changed things up and went into the holistic realm leaving medical and nursing behind to move into helping people live their best lives and...
Ryan George from This Tour Life
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - March 17, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRyan understood that the change he needed to make for his health needed to a change that was sustainable with his lifestyle. So he started to research, write, and experiment to discover a plan that worked for him. Many people try to start at a level 10 and can end up setting themselve...
How childhood aliments are related to our food
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - March 10, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEverything we discuss in this episode, although focused on child nutrition can be directly applied to adults as well. Many of the studies and scientific research quoted in this episode are from "Cure Your Child with Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments"...
Strength training fundamentals
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - March 03, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMany people, women especially, feel that weight training will cause them to bulk up and look like their muscles have muscles instead of tone. There are no accidental bodybuilders walking around who after a couple of trips to the gym find themselves with the physique of Arnold Schwarzene...
Intermittent Fasting with Mike Schappell
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - February 25, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings"When I got started as a personal trainer, I was like, most personal trainers in that I was pretty terrible at it. Basically just counting reps and making up random workouts. From there, I learned that instead of trying to crush people every day, more people need help learning how to m...
Schwuomp! How to eat healthy on the go
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - February 18, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, Brandon gives practical tips and instructions for eating healthy on the go with examples from his own life. He shares a crazy story about trying to get some free therapy that turned into a bit of a nightmare situation, but at least he had his snacks! Brandon describes i...
Lily Ward on overcoming cystic acne through nutrition
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - February 11, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLily Ward is a 22-year-old student going for her psychology degree in sexual health and relationships. She is very passionate about nutrition, fitness, and self-growth. She wants to change society’s views and issues dealing with women’s rights, toxic masculinity, gender norms, and get r...
Microbiome is a big deal
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - February 04, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe have both good and bad bacteria and an imbalance of the two is a condition known as dysbiosis. Common Causes of Intestinal Dysbiosis Antibiotics NSAID's Diet Psychological Stress Reduced Gut Motility Alcohol intake Antibiotic use especially early in life and used chronically,...
Talking fitness with the Private Investigators from The Sleuth
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - January 27, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Sleuth Podcast is a show about real private investigators from Blackman Detective Services and their stories and insights from the field. Jamie and Lindsey the hosts of the podcast join us on Fire Within to talk about how they got their start in this fascinating field and how people...
Slow Food, Self Care, and Behavioral Science
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - January 21, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJustin and his wife moved from the Bay Area of California and he discusses some of the cultural differences between North Carolina and the Bay Area. We discuss the movement of slow food, which is a response to fast food and returning to a time when there was less involvement from food...
Sugar. The Stealthy Killer
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - January 14, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBrandon Woolley of the Fire Within Podcast has created many seminars as a personal trainer and speaker. Today's episode is based on one of his more popular topics. Sugar. Sugar is the most addictive substance on the planet. Sugar is so addictive that rats given a choice between sugar o...
The biology of stress and sleep
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - January 07, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIf you're awake you are breaking down muscle tissue, it's only during proper sleep that we have the hormones we need to rebuild your muscles. You would often be better off to skip the second workout or cut down the workout time if you could increase your sleep quality. It's not just h...
Kenny Ragsdale on becoming a bodybuilder in his 40's
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 31, 2019 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKenny shares his origin story about starting at the lowest rank in the military at a young age and completing his career as a major to becoming a bodybuilder at 44. Kenny, now 48, is running Frontline Fitness and training for an upcoming bodybuilding competition. His inspiring story of...
Mike and Lilla - Wolves never lose sleep over the opinions of sheep
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 24, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMike Winkfield - creator of Wolf Fitness Equipped with the National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM), Functional Movement Screening (FMS), and TRX certifications with 15 years of experience in wellness and fitness. At Marshall University he majored in Exercise Physiology. His pas...
Chris Mondragon - It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 17, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, we talk about the importance of sustainable behaviors and how since Atkins and shows like the biggest loser the American understanding of diet has changed to short-term changes in behavior to achieve results instead of the "No Shortcuts," common sense approach of a life...
Allie Doiron on Nutrition and Dietetics
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 10, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAllie learned a lot about chronic disease and chronic disease management but had a turning point working in the inpatient work because nutrition is not put in the forefront. Allie is a registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, and plant-based health nut who strives to make good...
Amanda gets healthy and Billy Wins
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - December 03, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAmanda shares about her journey from obese and unhealthy and all the obstacles she had to overcome to become healthy. She is a mom and shares with our listeners some of the struggles of helping her kids and family make healthy choices at mealtime and the process of introducing healthy a...
Adam Lee on addiction, fitness and spirituality
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - November 26, 2019 09:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLessons of Weight Loss From a Reformed Alcoholic Adam Lee is a husband and a father of four! He works at Hope Community Church as a production team event coordinator, loves riding motorcycles, building furniture, and buying his wife purses. He’s traveled all over the world but still...
The Proper Way to Detox
Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness - November 19, 2019 09:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDetox has many benefits. It can both reset your mindset and your body as you intentionally eliminate common contributors to poor health. Unhealthy detox approaches Lemon Water, Cyanne Pepper, and Maple Syrup (thanks Kelly from the Office) A bar or shake "only" program can be unsusta...
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