Straight Shot Radio

Being a radio DJ isn’t exactly the healthiest, most active job. You spend hours a day on air in a booth, and then more time sitting at a desk editing audio and writing scripts. Combine that with restaurants donating food constantly for reviews and the ease and convenience of fast food while working long hours, and you can see how someone like this episode's guest can end up living a sedentary lifestyle and struggling with obesity. Pat Mendonca is a radio DJ and just a few years ago weighed 266lbs. After making small changes which turned into bigger changes in both his diet and his exercise, Pat has lost 80lbs and has run in several half marathons, 10 milers, and 5Ks. After getting his own health under control, this November Pat is paying it forward by highlighting men’s health issues on his radio show and his podcast (The Interesting People Podcast). Pat's energy, positivity, and sense of humor shine in this encouraging and informative interview. 

Being a radio DJ isn’t exactly the healthiest, most active job. You spend hours a day on air in a booth, and then more time sitting at a desk editing audio and writing scripts. Combine that with restaurants donating food constantly for reviews and the ease and convenience of fast food while working long hours, and you can see how someone like this episode's guest can end up living a sedentary lifestyle and struggling with obesity. Pat Mendonca is a radio DJ and just a few years ago weighed 266lbs. After making small changes which turned into bigger changes in both his diet and his exercise, Pat has lost 80lbs and has run in several half marathons, 10 milers, and 5Ks. After getting his own health under control, this November Pat is paying it forward by highlighting men’s health issues on his radio show and his podcast (The Interesting People Podcast). Pat's energy, positivity, and sense of humor shine in this encouraging and informative interview. 

Denise Hanton was faced with the seriousness of obesity when she witnessed family members suffering from the effects of diabetes and dying from heart attacks. Knowing that she had to make a lifestyle change to save her own life, Denise sought the help of a dietician and made the commitment to lose weight and get healthy. 2 years later, she’s lost 200lbs and continues to improve her health by eating correctly and exercising throughout the week.

Denise Hanton was faced with the seriousness of obesity when she witnessed family members suffering from the effects of diabetes and dying from heart attacks. Knowing that she had to make a lifestyle change to save her own life, Denise sought the help of a dietician and made the commitment to lose weight and get healthy. 2 years later, she’s lost 200lbs and continues to improve her health by eating correctly and exercising throughout the week.

Grab a donut and catch up with Delaney and Brandon now that they've been training for me for a couple of months! We get into how they're enjoying their new jobs as personal trainers after their internship and I answer some questions along with them that I've received recently. We get into foot placement on squats, strategies to get your first pullup, and how to become a personal trainer. We finish with a quick talk about some health and fitness topics that we feel are over and underrated, with some thoughts that may surprise you...All of this with the help of some glazed donuts from Maple Donuts because health and fitness is all about balance! 

When we talk about functional fitness, we typically mean we’re training movements, not muscles. We’re trying to do things in the gym that mimic things in everyday life outside of it. My goal as a coach for my athletes is to have them moving well and feeling great whether their sport is on a field, in an office, on a construction site, in a classroom, at home, or anywhere else. Bodybuilding takes a different approach to fitness, where the athletes are trying to maximize muscle size and definition, acheive body symmetry, and reduce bodyfat to ultra low levels for competitions. While many sports have their dangers and drawbacks, for some reason the functional fitness world has ALWAYS been at odds with the bodybuilding world. This is where my guest and I hope to serve as ambassadors to find some common ground between the two. In this episode I sit down with my college roommate Ricky Williams to talk about the similar methods that our practices have and what functional fitness athletes and coaches can learn from bodybuilders.

In today’s fitness world the lines are often blurred between genuine advice, and gimmicky advertising. That’s why one of the goals of this show is to provide a clear, no nonsense approach to fitness and health. In this episode, I'll answer a few questions that have been posed to me recently regarding rapid weight loss and it's effect on strength, the benefits of stand up desks, and the safety and efficacy of testosterone boosting supplements.