One look at Josh Chewning and you’d think he’s the kind of guy that has a good life and never struggled with anything. His infectious energy and smiles do a great job at hiding the fact that he’s a cancer survivor and that he once struggled to get his life back.

Josh Chewning is a personal trainer who started his career as a computer crime investigator shortly after leaving the army. He realized he didn’t like knowing the ugly side of humanity, so he quit. It wasn’t long before he heard an inspiring story from his friend, who was a personal trainer, who had a client that walked for the first time since being hit by a drunk driver.

Kelly had the amazing opportunity to interview internationally recognized speed and conditioning coach, personal trainer, and motivational worker, Todd Durkin. Todd is the founder of Fitness Quest 10 – a world-class workout facility in San Diego that provides the complete gamut of health, fitness, and wellness services including personal training, strength conditioning, therapeutic massages, as well as offers chiropractic and physical training programs, Pilates, yoga, and nutrition.

Dr. Mike Roussell knows the nutrition game. On top of being a nutrition expert, Mike is also an author of several books as well as a nutrition adviser for Men’s Health and Shape magazines. He believes in the idea of what he calls the “Psychology of Nutrition” or the mental aspect of eating and dieting. He actually did a research on the eating behaviors of ordinary people, ordinary being people who aren’t really into the whole health and fitness mindset yet. He found out the hardest part of maintaining a diet was not planning or crafting the right nutrition plan rather it was the doing of the nutrition that people find most difficult.

Today, Mike talks about the idea behind the Psychology of Nutrition, the difference between physiological and hedonic hunger, and what food logistics is. He describes the Rate Limiting step of nutrition as well as why he thinks people have a misguided focus on their wellness.

 

"The psychology of nutrition is an extremely interesting and untapped area of food and nutrition.” Dr. Mike Roussell

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Tracking nutrition in whatever detail you want is fine.
• People are too obsessed with how many calories they eat that they lack sleep and not exercise. This makes counting calories not matter.
• Mike describes the Rate Limiting Step of nutrition by comparing it to when you overeat, but you focus on work to rest ratio when the focus should be on the “overeating” part. People need to focus on what's limiting them, what's holding them back.
• People base their decision on food based on level of wholesomeness instead of nutrition.
• A lot of gluten-free foods aren't really all that much healthier.
• Pay attention to hunger and stop eating in front of a screen. It will make you focus on the food you're eating and will help you satiate faster.
• Physiological hunger is when the body has a need for calories and nutritional sustenance. Reward driven or Hedonic hunger is when your body doesn't need any calories, but you eat because it makes you feel better.
• Food logistics is knowing how you get the right meals for you at the right times during the day, every day.
• Good food isn't just going to magically appear in front of you unless you prepare it first.

 

Key Takeaways:

• To be successful in nutrition there has to be some gray. There is no "just" in nutrition.
• People need to listen to their body's signals which we just don't do as much as we should.
• Pre-planning your meals will make your nutrition more about execution and not figuring out.

 

Connect with Dr. Mike Roussell:

• Mike Roussell Official
• Facebook
• Instagram

 

Resources Mentioned:

• The Nutrition Gray Zone blog by Dr. Mike Roussell
• Neuro Coffee
• Cerevan
• The Meta Shred Diet book by Dr. Mike Roussell
• Leslie Bradshaw interview
• The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet book by Dr. Barbara Rolls

 

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Betina Gozo is a Nike Master Trainer who approaches fitness from a holistic and long term perspective. She got started into fitness way back in high school, when she was simply someone who enjoyed dancing and joining any event related to dancing. As a dancer, she saw herself as a fit woman capable of a lot of physical activities most people find difficult. At least until her friend took her to a bootcamp class which served as a wake-up call to her actual level of fitness.

Instead of letting that experience scare her, Betina sought to take that boot camp class as a challenge. She got stronger, she knew more about what it means to be fit, and ultimately realized she wanted to make other people feel great too, so she pursued a career in personal training. She currently serves as an independent contractor for a variety of commercial modeling campaigns and a full-time personal trainer to her many clients.

Betina joins us to discuss what it means to be fit in a holistic manner. She gives insight on the importance of stretching and mobility and why mobility exercises can vastly improve your workout performance. She also dives in on why muscles get tight and why most people think Yoga and mobility are the same thing.

 

"Holistic training is all about just incorporating other things and not just doing the same thing every single day.” Betina Gozo

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Her muscle-string analogy on muscle tightness and stretching.
• The difference a personal trainer can do for your training.
• Is mobility defined differently from Yoga?
• Should you foam roll before or after you train and why?
• Common injuries her clients don't see coming.
• How she teachs her clients to look at fitness from a long term perspective?

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Canvass Training

 

Key Takeaways:

• The more you train, the tighter are your muscles going to get, so you need mobility.
• Focus on loosening tight muscles rather than making loose muscles, looser.

 

Connect with Betina:

• Betina Gozo Official Website
• Instagram

 

 

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Michelle Norris is the CEO, Founder, and Owner of Paleofx. Paleo Fx is an organization dedicated to creating the world’s best holistic health and wellness event, inspire and empower people all over the world to find optimal health, and have a forum where they can turn ancestral health practices into real world application that serves to improve health and wellbeing.

Before Paleofx, Michelle was your typical corporate warrior, a trained chef who struggled with health issues conventional medicine mostly failed to heal. Her struggles with the traditional medical orthodox made her figure out a way to improve the system and tackle health. She would soon become one of the Paleo community’s most outspoken evangelists, which lead her to eventually start Paleo Fx and reach out to those looking for an answer to their health and nutritional needs.

Michelle is with us today to share the mission and vision behind Paleofx, how the body reacts to the food we eat, and why she’s not a fan of nursing homes.

 

"We buy in to the theory, that we are supposed to grow old and slowly disintegrate. And that's bullshit.” - Michelle Norris

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• When she first started pursuing health and fitness.
• What is a "SAD" diet?
• Why she doesn’t believe getting older means getting weaker and unhealthier.
• How our can compensate for what's wrong on the inside.
• How she started Paleofx and what it is all about.
• What's important to most who follow a Paleo lifestyle.
• Why they structured Paleofx to have a business model.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Your body is amazing. It can do incredible things. You just gotta give it what it needs.
• We're meant to live and be healthy until the moment we die.
• The more you clean up your diet, the more your body hates the junk you put in.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Paleo Fx 2018 Friday, April 27 through Sunday, April 29, 2018 - Palmer Event Center Austin, TX
• Guiltless Superfoods SKINNY DONUTS

 

Connect with Michelle:

• Paleo Fx
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

 

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Keri Gans’ became a dietitian after she realized working in the fashion industry didn’t give her a sense of passion. She believed that looking good on the outside is nothing if you’re breaking down on the inside. Her philosophy in general nutrition is simple: she just doesn’t believe in good or bad foods. She does believe there are foods out there that can be better for you, and in foods that we should consume more of.

Keri’s belief is the principle behind her successful book The Small Change Diet where she challenges the all-or-nothing approach to current diet trends and tells her audience that there shouldn’t be any “shoulds” when it comes to being healthy. She believes there is a place for every food in a well-balanced diet, and deprivation is definitely not in her category.

Keri joins us today to discuss her concept of what a good diet really is, why she hates the term “cheat meals,” the importance of motivation, and what she normally tells people when they ask her for diet advice.

 

" With healthy eating, believe it or not, it also means not always eating healthy.” Keri Gans

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What interested her in pursuing a healthy lifestyle?
• Why she thinks there shouldn't be any "shoulds" when it comes to diet and exercise.
• The importance of how you feel when you do something good for your body.
• Why Keri doesn't provide "meal plans" to clients.
• The importance of building a healthy lifestyle gradually.
• Why having a personal motivation is necessary to try to improve your health.
• Her dietary recommendations for most people to get started.
• Why Keri doesn't like the term "cheat meal"
• What she tells people when they ask her if they should go on a specific diet.

 

Key Takeaways:

• It's crazy to totally eliminate a certain food from your diet. What’s not crazy is having a normal relationship with food.
• You can't outrun a bad diet, that's something that cannot happen.

 

Connect with Keri Gans:

• Keri Gans Nutrition
• The Small Change Diet book by Keri Gans
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

 

 

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Robyn Openshaw is popularly known as the Green Smoothie Girl because of how she helped popularized the concept of green smoothies more than a decade ago. Robyn is an accomplished author of over 15 books, a former psychotherapist, a university professor, and a single mom to four children. She now strives to teach a lifestyle that isn’t just merely about having a healthy diet, but a lifestyle that allows you t

Kate Geagan is an award-winning dietitian and nutritionist who has helped millions of people discover and love foods that promote a healthy lifestyle. She is the author of Go Green Get Lean: Trim Your Waistline with the Ultimate Low-Carbon Footprint Diet, a book about eating a diet that not only promotes healthy weight loss, but also helps protect the planet. She also works with forward-thinking companies to empower eaters and build a more sustainable future.

Pioneer, changemaker, speaker, author, and mother; Kate Geagan plays so many roles in her life, it’s amazing how she manages to keep them all in balance. 

Kate joins us today to share her wisdom and experience when it comes to a healthy diet. She explains how a trip to Italy made her choose a career in nutrition, provides insight on the building blocks of every healthy diet, and shares tips on what to fill our cart with the next time we go buy groceries.

 

"The good news is you are not your genes because environment is activation.” Kate Geagan

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What is genomics?
• The original purpose of nutrition.
• Aside from sustenance, how should we view food?
• What does Kate say to people who think being on a diet means getting rid of everything that "tastes good"?
• Her grocery shopping tips when choosing the right foods to eat.
• Why whole foods are optimal for our body's functions.
• Kate's five health principles to have a healthy lifestyle.

 

Key Takeaways:

• We want to feel confidence in what we are choosing to put in our bodies.
• You should be eating your calories and drinking water, tea, and coffee.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Go Green, Get Lean: Trim Your Waistline with the Ultimate Low Carbon Footprint Diet book by Kate Geagan

 

Connect with Kate Geagan:

• Kate Geagan Official Website
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram

 

 

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Adam Bornstein is probably the most “zen” guest we’ve ever had in the show. He’s the epitome of what being calm and chill is all about, but interestingly enough, he wasn’t like this when he got into fitness. Like many others, Adam’s first fitness experience is related to doing sports activities in school and he always had a fondness for basketball. Unfortunately, Adam incurred back injuries twice: The first one was treated poorly, and the other took a year and a half to treat.

Perhaps it was fate, but Adam says his second therapist was the one who urged him to get back into a fit lifestyle. He would endure physically demanding tasks, but he figured it was a lot better than just remaining injury prone and living a sedentary lifestyle forever. He has since had a curiosity for the human body, which is what made him who he is today.

Adam joins us to share his insight on what fitness really means. He talks about the current state of the fitness industry, and why many are joining and more are quitting. He also talks about the kind of successes we should look for in our fitness program and why it’s alright to not be in tip top shape all the time.

 

" It's not about the six pack abs or the big muscles. Those are a byproduct of doing things the right way.” Adam Bornstein

 

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Is there enough focus on developing a personalized way of fitness in the industry?
• The psychological aspect of making an effective workout program.
• How we should view our successes in terms of workout results.
• Huge mindset shifts Adam has to work on with his clients.
• Why the human body is not guaranteed to be in top shape all the time.
• Why the successes you want to see may not be the ones you should be focusing on.
• Why it's important to find a way to do things you find difficult or impossible to do.
• His go-to desserts for indulgence

 

Key Takeaways:

• There's nothing wrong with wanting to look better. The problem is, when those goals become the primary focus it becomes hard to stick to it.
• If you keep in mind the type of people that you're trying to help, there's always going to be someone who wants to listen or read because you're not creating something that is hypothetical.

 

Connect with Adam Bornstein:

• Born Fitness
• Twitter

 

 

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