All About Fitness

This Quick Fit Tip identifies top benefits of cardio training, some are well known while others may be more obscure but of great importance. You'll learn all about why you should be doing your cardio in less than 15 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danielle Martin is an empowerment and mindset coach; on this episode she offers some suggestions on how you can approach challenges in your life so they become distant memories in the rearview mirror instead of obstacles keeping you from your goals. WARNING: this episode is full of motivational insights that could change your life!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gunnar Peterson is a Beverly Hills, CA-based personal trainer who develops workout programs for celebrities in addition to working as the Director of Strength and Endurance for the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team; not only does he know how to design workouts to change appearance, but he also helps condition top athletes to perform at the highest level of competition. In other words, it's worth hearing what he has to say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. John Rusin is a physical therapist and strength coach who has created the Pain Free Performance Specialist education program for fitness professionals. Dr. Rusin develops conditioning programs for professional athletes in many sports, travels the world to teach fitness professionals how to design exercise programs and is now visiting the All About Fitness podcast to share insights with you on how you can get the most out of your workouts while greatly reducing the risk of injury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sure, you may exercise regularly, and yes, you may even lift weights, but are you using enough resistance, more specifically, is the weight you're using heavy enough to make the changes that you want to see in your body? This Quick Fit Tip identifies 6 benefits of heavy resistance training that can not only help you to become stronger but could also provide a number of other important benefits - you'll have to listen to find out what they are.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The practice of doing an exercise for one bodypart at a time,  comes from bodybuilding where the goal to develop the biggest muscles possible. That can be a great way to exercise IF you have the time. Brandon Wagner, a fitness coach who works with Canyon Ranch joins me to talk about the benefits of training like an athlete even if you have no desire to play a sport. This is a fun and lively discussion with a top fitness coach that will have you thinking differently about how you should be sweating.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you hear the phrase "mind-body" admit it, you immediately think of an exercise format like yoga; however EVERY form of exercise requires an effective mind-body connection. On this Quick Fit Tip, you will learn about the benefits of the mind-body connection along with seven strategies that you can implement right away to enhance your workouts so that you get a optimal return on the time you invest in your exercise program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of All About Fitness features an interview with Jeff Dilts, the Vice Product of Product Management and Innovation for Core Health & Fitness. Jeff is probably the most influential person in the industry because of his knowledge about exercise products and the manufacturing process that brings them to life. This is a fascinating discussion that will help you understand how the fitness products that you love to hate are made!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbells. Dumbbells. Strength training machines. Kettlebells. Medicine balls. Heavy ropes. Treadmills. Stair climbers. One-wheeled bikes that go nowhere. There are so many equipment options in a modern fitness facility that it’s sometimes a little overwhelming to know which you should use to get the results you want. This episode of All About Fitness is a Quick Fit Tip that reviews that overlooked exercise equipment that you should be using the next time you visit your favorite workout facility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of All About Fitness, Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a research psychologist at Stanford University, joins me to discuss her new book the Joy of Movement. Dr. McGonigal studies how physical activity and exercise can change the way your brain functions and our conversation will provide you with specific suggestions for how you can change your approach to exercise so that it can become something that you look forward to doing as opposed to being something that you feel you have to do.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many benefits of exercise and reasons to do it; this Quick Fit Tip reviews a number of benefits of exercise and group fitness for those of you who may need some additional motivation to add a regular workout to your already packed daily schedule. If you need a little assistance for making time to exercise then this episode of All About Fitness is for you!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of All About Fitness, Dr. Ashton joins me to talk about her new book, THE SELF-CARE SOLUTION, where she was both researcher and subject as she focused on 12 separate challenges over the course of the year. We talk about the different components of self-care and how you can apply them to your life in order to achieve optimal health. This is a lively conversation that will have you thinking about how you can take better care of the most important person in your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems like fitness consumers have been conditioned that we need to have goals for why we’re sweating. When most people are asked why they exercise they often provide a rote, canned response like, "to tone up and lose weight" thinking that is what an instructor or personal trainer wants to hear. Is having a specific fitness goal really necessary? This Quick Fit Tip is a discussion of fitness goals and how you can set goals that help you succeed for the long run (as in the rest of your life). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one starts a career in fitness for the money. It is possible to earn a decent living but it’s a hustle. Most fitness professionals get into the business because they genuinely care about helping others, but earning a decent living can be a challenge.  On this episode of the All About Fitness podcast, Dr. Natalia Petrzela joins me to discuss the economics of being a fitness professional; specifically how challenging it can be to work as a relatively low-wage worker serving a high net worth demograph Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1976 hit Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band contains the chorus, “Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future,” which describes the annual transition of welcoming a new year. Because time, as Mr. Miller so accurately observed, does inevitably slip into the future being able to accurately predict what could happen in the coming days would be an invaluable resource.  Yet we all know the harsh reality, that the future is impossible to predict with any real accuracy; however, wi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you exercise? Do you follow a regular workout program? Are you over the age of 35? If you can answer yes to those questions, how about these: How long have you been following the same workout program? How do you decide which exercises to do in a workout? Do you make time for your breath work? On this episode of All About Fitness, I am joined by personal trainer, fitness educator and all-around renaissance man Sam Berry. On his return to All About Fitness, Sam and I talk about how our experience and edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to School House Rock, necessity is the mother of invention (ok, it was really Plato). If you’re an athlete (even a retired one) you know that injuries happen. For athletes, many injuries are the result of making contact, either intentional or unintentional, with another player during competition. Other types of injuries can happen simply because muscles don’t work correctly. For example, muscle imbalances are a common occurrence (READ ABOUT THEM HERE) that could change joint function and ultim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Generation X is defined as all of the people born between 1964 and 1978 (give or take). Those of us in Generation X do things differently and as we were growing up created a number of fun, exciting sports like skateboarding, mountain biking, snow boarding and BMX. Adventure sports competitions like the X-Games on ESPN were then produced as a way to introduce the world to the amazing physical feats performed by these athletes. Physical activity is key for long term health. Physical activity includes all kin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Football. Basketball. Baseball. Hockey. For years these four sports have been the dominant professional leagues in the United States. Overseas and in other parts of the world sports like soccer, cricket and rugby are wildly popular while the American sports are barely acknowledged. What does it take for an athlete of a “second tier” sport like soccer, lacrosse or rugby to become a professional and play at the highest levels? Another question is, if the sport isn’t on TV, can it become part of the Ame Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The best gifts are the ones that you were not expecting or were even aware that they existed, but end up being a helpful addition to your daily life. If you like to sweat and enjoy all things fitness then it can be a challenge for the folks in your life to find the right gift that supports your training efforts. Likewise, you may have a couple of people in your life who seem to live in the gym and it can always be a challenge to give them a thoughtful gift. To make this holiday gift giving season easier f Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices