Fitness, Wellness, and Longevity

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Here you are confident and motivated, ready to start your new diet, but then you run into trouble. What food should I buy? How do I cook it? How often should I be eating. Without the knowledge of how to use your diet and overcome the obstacles associated with a change in eating, you are helpless. That's where Scott and I come in with this week's episode. We answer these questions and more!

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, life has been turned upside-down. In working with clients in the post-covid era, people are in need of strategies to overcome obstacles when it comes to their nutrition. These new obstacles include: shopping for groceries, staying out of the kitchen while working from home, and juggling work and kids from home. Scott and I discuss these issues and offer our solutions in this week's episode.

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How to Be A Successful Wrestler With Empire Wrestling Academy Owner John Degl

Welcome back to the Fitness, Wellness, and Longevity Podcast! In today's episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with owner and head coach of Empire Wrestling Academy John Degl. John is a New York State High School wrestling champion and in 1992 John packed up his things and drove from Mahopac, New York to the famed University of Iowa intent on pursing his academic and athletic career. With grit and determination, John made the team for Coach Dan Gable went on to qualify for and wrestle at the NCAA Championships for the Hawkeyes, and participate in four National Championship teams. He has coached multiple state champions and All-Americans and has a wealth of knowledge on what it takes to be a champion in one of the most grueling sports.

In today's podcast, we cover:
0:00 The Lock Down
2:30 Pivoting After Lock Down
7:30 Being an Aging Athlete
9:30 Shaping his business after NCAA
13:00 The risks of travel in 2021
23:00 The difficulties of laying off employees
24:15 The strength of the wrestling community
26:30 John's wrestling career
32:00 How John went from not being allowed to wrestle to becoming a state champion
35:00 The freedom of being broken
37:00 The wrestling camp experience
38:00 There is no excuse to miss practice
43:20 You Don't Need Permission to Succeed
44:30 Work and Sacrifice= success
45:00 If you to be exceptional, you have to be obsessed
47:00 Long Island Wrestling
51:00 Making the best of what you have
53:00 Better, Worse, and Equal in the wrestling room
54:30 Peaking
55:30 Getting destroyed by Kurt Angle
58:30 Coach Dan Gable
60:01 Once you have been broken
60:03 Leaning about coaching
60:06 Changing mentalities to gain success
60:08 Trusting the people who love you
60:19 Trust someone else until you have enough info
60:10 Parents as mentors?
60:12 Eliminating winning as the goal
60:13 Improving as the goal

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In today's episode, Scott and I discuss some our best advice to starting a new fitness routine. We identify the biggest obstacles and how you can overcome them.

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In this week's episode, we are inspired by the recent Men's Health Magazine article highlighting their 2021 fitness industry predictions. We give our take on some of the more popular trends like wearables, gyms closing down, and kettlebells becoming more popular.

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Welcome back to the Fitness, Wellness, and Longevity Podcast! In today's episode, I have a very special guest, Manny Alayon!

Manny is a 9 year affiliate owner of NorthEast CrossFit. He's coached various high level athletes in the CrossFit Games, Weightlifting Nationals, and wrestling. Aside from the usual cocktail of CrossFit certifications, he has certifications with OPEX and O23 Holistic Coach. He now spends most of his time running his two affiliates, being a father of two young girls, and playing fetch with his fluffy dog.

Manny and I cover a wide range of topics from how he got started with Crossfit, who Manny's mentors are and what they taught him, managing his business during the pandemic, and so much more.

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If you are you live in Westchester county and are looking for world class coaching, head on down to one of his amazing facilities.

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Where my endurance athletes at? In this week's episode, Scott and I break down consideration for marathon runners and triathletes who are going into either off season or preseason training. If you are running your first marathon, or are super competitive in Ironman's, you won't want to miss this!

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Last week, Scott and I broke down the do's and don'ts of a weight loss challenge, but we really didn't address those of us in the fitness community who would rather put weight on, than take weight off. This week, we are speaking to you!!! We'll talk about how leaning out will actually allow you to put on muscle easier, what exercises are best for mass gain, what you should be eating, and so much more!

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'Tis the season to get your butt back in shape! You are going to see tons of advertisements for weight loss challenges promising 20+ weight loss on six weeks. Before you sign up, there are big questions that you must consider, and that is what Scott and I will be breaking down into today's episode. Questions like: "What type of training should I be doing?", "What should my diet look like?" and my personal favorite, "How much cardio should I be doing?" will be answered in today's episode.

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Scott and I didn't always have our head on straight when it came to smart training. It wasn't until we came across influential people and life changing experiences did we call an audible and reassess what our training looked like. Today we share some of those experiences. If you are looking for direction in your training, you won't want to miss this!

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