All About Fitness
All About Fitness is a free podcast that explores how exercise can successfully manage the aging process. From popular fitness programs to recently-developed exercise equipment, discover new trends and evidence-based solutions that can help you slow down the effects of time and stress on your body. No matter your age, learn how to burn calories, build stronger muscles and get YOUR best body straight from the people who conduct the research, invent the products and create the workouts that make you sweat. Host Pete McCall is a master personal trainer, education content creator and blogger for leading fitness organizations including the American Council on Exercise, Nautilus, StairMaster and the National Academy of Sports Medicine. In addition, he is the author of Ageless Intensity: Effective Workouts to Slow the Aging Process and Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple as well as multiple textbook chapters on exercise science. With extensive experience traveling around the world teaching workshops to personal trainers and group fitness instructors, Pete is an engaging host with the unique ability to translate the science of exercise for all to understand. The Quick Fit Tips deliver practical, actionable advice in under 15 minutes; while the interviews are in-depth, informative and engaging conversations with top health and fitness experts. New episodes are posted weekly; listen and subscribe to the All About Fitness podcast in order to learn how exercise can enhance your quality of life while extending your lifespan.
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Quick Fit Tip - Creative Exercise Solutions
From improving health to burning calories to growing muscle to slowing down the aging process, exercise provides many important benefits. However, there is not one single type of workout that you should be doing, rather, performing a variety of...
19 min
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Jack Thomas - Host of the Fitness Business Asia...
78 min
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Dr. Jim Stray-Gundersen - The Benefits of Blood...
Dr. Jim Stray-Gundersen explains how to get big muscles without using heavy weights by using the Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) system.
52 min
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Robert Linkul - Strength Training for the Fount...
Strength is the ability of muscles to generate force against an external resistance. Strength training is often thought of as being for the young and fit, however, over the course of the aging process, the human body can lose up to 10% of muscle mass...
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Elisabeth Halfpapp, Fred DeVito and Tricia Murp...
For years the prevailing wisdom on exercise for older adults has been that as we get into our sixties that we should 'slow down' or 'take it easy' and maybe not do so much exercise. Nothing could be further from the truth, as we age we need to remain...
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Dr. Norman Lazarus - How to Age Well
Aging is going to happen, there is nothing that can be done to stop or reverse the passage of time; HOWEVER, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that regular exercise can be the means for slowing the aging process and maintaining optimal...
75 min
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Dr. Daniel Levitin - How to Achieve Successful ...
Successful aging is the process of aging free from disease while maintaining optimal cognitive and physical performance. Dr. Daniel Levitin was originally a musician but ended up with a PhD in cognitive psychology and is an expert in the field of...
40 min
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Quick Fit Tip - Successful Aging
Chronological aging is the length of time that you have been alive and began the moment you were born. Biological aging refers to the normal degradation of cells, tissues and organs that occurs as a result of the passage of time. Successful aging is...
17 min
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Dr. Herman Pontzer - How We Burn Calories, Lose...
The Paleo diet is based on the foods our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate as they roamed the land looking for sustenance, but is it the ideal nutrition plan for the twenty-first century human? Is there any difference between how a hunter-gatherer...
66 min
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Dr Sylvia Tara - The Secret Life of Fat
This may sounds crazy but fat is an essential component of our bodies and, in fact, could be considered an organ. Yes, having too much fat could be extremely bad for you and cause a number of chronic diseases, but your body does need some fat to...
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Katee Sackhoff - The Fitness Habits of a Hollyw...
Katee Sackhoff is an actress who won a Best Supporting Actress award for her role on the television show Battlestar Galactica and is known for her commitment to her craft which includes maintaining the fitness it requires to look great on camera....
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Gunnar Peterson - Personal Trainer and Strength...
There are many ways to exercise, some are extremely effective while others simply may not be a good use of your time. Gunnar Peterson is a Los Angeles-based personal trainer and strength coach who works with high profile clients whose time is worth...
45 min
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Shannon Fable - From Fitness Instructor to Fitn...
The ONLY place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Success is based on a number of factors including hard work, the ability to network with others and timing. Shannon Fable has had many roles over the course of her fitness industry...
62 min
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Alex Hutchinson - The Curiously Elastic Limits ...
The human body is capable of amazing feats of performance. From lifting extremely heavy weights to running for incredible distances we are constantly pushing the limits of what the human body can do. In his book Endure, award-winning journalist Alex...
56 min
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Dr. Martin Gibala - The Benefits of 1-Minute Wo...
Going back to the early 1900s, interval training has been used by athletes to develop the fitness required for their specific sport. As a result, most of the research conducted on high intensity interval training (HIIT) was focused on how it benefits...
42 min
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Quick Fit Tip - 7 Benefits of High Intensity In...
Which do you think would provide better results from a workout? 30 minutes of running on a treadmill at a steady pace, OR running on a treadmill as fast as possible for 20 seconds, taking a 10 second break and repeating 7 more times for a total of 4...
24 min
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Marcelis Branch - Pro Football Athlete
Watching a sport on television is easy, all you have to do is tune in, sit down and pay attention. Playing a sport at the highest level as a professional athlete is a whole different story, it requires motivation, drive, an amazing level of...
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Dr. Debby Herbenick - The Connection Between Ex...
Managing a healthy bodyweight, adding lean muscle mass, enhancing cardiorespiratory efficiency, reducing the risk of developing a chronic disease are among the numerous benefits from regular exercise; however, one of the most important benefits is...
51 min
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Dr Diana Hoppe - Healthy Sex Drive, Healthy You
Exercise. Nutrition. Sleep. Meditation. These are all components of health and wellness, but what about sex? Does sexual intercourse, more specifically great sex, play a role in supporting optimal health and wellness and if so, how? who specializes...
35 min
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Quick Fit Tip - The Health Benefits of Great Sex
There are many components of wellness: exercise, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness and good sex. Yes, that's right, good sex is an important component of achieving and maintaining optimal health. You can crush your workouts, dial in your nutrition, get...
15 min
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Dr. Stuart McGill - Strength Training from the ...
If you have had back pain or deal with a 'bad back,' you are not alone, hundreds of thousands of people experience some sort of back pain. Dr. Stuart McGill spent more than 30 years researching biomechanics of the human spine and has developed the...
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Rebecca Rouse - Athlete, Coach and Founder of S...
There are many ways to workout, your individual needs and personal goals will determine the most effective kind of exercise for you. Explosive strength training with barbells and kettlebells can provide numerous benefits and could produce the results...
44 min
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Dana Brooke - Life of a WWE Diva
Athleticism takes many forms, you don't need to play a sport to be an athlete; to paraphrase legendary strength coach Vern Gambetta, athleticism is a combination of precision, grace, timing and coordination. As an athlete, Ashley Sebera went from...
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Dr. Brad Schoenfeld - The Science of Muscle Growth
Muscles do two things: they lengthen and shorten. Yes, lifting weights with your muscles causes them to become stronger, get bigger and change their appearance; however, increasing muscle size and doesn't happen by accident, it takes a lot more than...
42 min
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Quick Fit Tip - Different Types of Strength Tra...
Have you ever wondered why bodybuilders and powerlifters look so different? Bodybuilders have large, well-defined muscles while powerlifters are often extremely strong but lack the same definition as their sculpted counterparts. The fact is that not...
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