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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Dr. Natalia Petrzela - Fit Nation
Dr. Natalia Petrzela is an Associate Professor of History at the New School in New York City and teaches about the history of the fitness industry; Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession is her book that describes the origins of our obsession with fitness and how that has shaped our society (pun fully intended). Dr. Petrzela shares her insights on what has made exercise popular and what that means for our workout routines. It's all about the history of half-naked people getting sweaty on this episode of All About Fitness.
57 min
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Emily Rudow - Find Your Stride
Emily Rudow was motivated to make her mark on the world and set out to run a half marathon a day for a period of days. Find Your Stride is Emily's book that can help you to find motivation and purpose in your workouts. It's all about how motivate yourself to accomplish challenging tasks on this episode of All About Fitness.
61 min
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Dr. Shannon O'Grady - The Chemistry of Nutrition
59 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made...
21 min
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Rick Richey - 2023 Fitness Trends, part 2
On the second half of the conversation, Rick shares his insights on the latest trends, we discuss what you can do to build more physical activity habits into your lifestyle and we offer tips for how you can use exercise to enhance your quality of life. It's all about how to use fitness to achieve freedom on this episode of All About Fitness.
48 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
This episode identifies the muscles that control movement in the core region of your body and identifies the fundamental approach that you should follow when designing an exercise program to strengthen your core muscles. It's all about developing a foundation of core strength on this episode of All About Fitness.
27 min
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Rick Richey - 2023 Fitness Trends with the '22 ...
Dr. Rick Richey was recognized as the 2022 Personal Trainer of the Year by IDEA, a trade association for fitness professionals; on this episode, which is actually part 1 of the conversation, we discuss the differences between principles and trends and identify new, different ways for how to use exercise to improve your health in 2023 and beyond.
32 min
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Fitness Trends for 2023
26 min
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Eoin Everard - How to Run Injury-free
Eoin Everard, PhD, is a champion runner who is also a physiotherapist and a pilates coach. Over the course of his experience as a runner, therapist and coach, Eoin has developed a functional approach to exercise that can significantly reduce the risk of injury while helping you to improve your running performance. It's all about how to be a better runner on this episode of All About Fitness.
64 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
17 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
28 min
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Andy Orbeck and Nicole Stuart: The Secrets to L...
Andy and Nicole join All About Fitness to discuss the motivation for writing Total Body Beautiful, talk about what they do to help their high-profile clients maintain a camera-ready physique and share insights in how to use exercise to feel your best at any age. It's all about how to maintain a beautiful body throughout the aging process on this episode of All About Fitness.
55 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
Chapter 2 concludes with specifying the 2 distinct, different types of strength training that should be a part of your overall workout program along with identifying the pieces of exercise equipment that can give you an excellent workout whether at home or in the gym. It's all about the simple pieces of exercise equipment that can give you a GREAT workout on this episode of All About Fitness.
30 min
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Eric the Trainer - The Secret to a Hollywood Body
Originally recorded in 2017, this is a rerun of a conversation with Eric Fleishman, also known as Eric the Trainer, the personal trainer to a number of well-known Hollywood celebrities. In this episode, Eric shares how he got interested in fitness, why he studied the early generation of bodybuilders and how he used those lessons to shape many of the bodies that you see on a screen.
36 min
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Dr. Bill Ferro - The Health Benefits of Reducin...
Dr. Bill Ferro is a chiropractor who realized that chronic gut inflammation was effecting many of his patients and keeping them from becoming completely healed. Dr. Ferro realized that helping his patients to first reduce inflammation in their digestive tract was a key component to helping them heal from their other health issues. As a result, he developed the Betr Health protocol to help his clients improve their health from the inside-out by reducing gut inflammation. It's all about achieving better health by reducing inflammation on this episode of All About Fitness.
60 min
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Lauren George - Fitness Entrepreneur
56 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
This episode of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple is the conclusion of chapter 2 which reviews two different types of strength training and how they can make changes to your body. In addition, you will learn about the most effective types of equipment that you can use for a great workout at the gym, home or anywhere you can move your body.
30 min
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Molly Galbraith - Girls Gone Strong
48 min
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Jay Glazer - How to Become Unbreakable
46 min
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Coach Kevin Carr - Benefits of Functional Stren...
On this episode, Performance Coach Kevin Carr talks about the difference between bodybuilding and performance training and why you should be doing the latter instead of the former. In addition, he shares how some of your muscles actually function (not the way you think) and the types of exercises that you should be doing to help them become stronger so that you can perform your best. It's all about how to improve your ability to move on this episode of All About Fitness.
46 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
ALL successful exercise programs have one thing in common: they adhere to the established principles of exercise program design. Chapter 2, part 4 of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple explains the variables of exercise program design and why each one is important for helping exercise make the desired changes to your body. It's all about how to design the workouts that change your body on this episode of All About Fitness.
23 min
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Dr. John Krakauer - The Neuroscience of Human M...
Dr. Krakauer is an expert in the field of neurophysiology which is the science of how our brain controls our movements. On this episode, originally recorded in 2019, Dr. Krakauer discusses how your brain learns movement patterns, what that means for your workout routines and whether or not it really is possible to teach an old human new tricks. Learn all about the science of how your brain learns movement on this episode of All About Fitness.
44 min
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Gray Cook - Functional Strength Training
Gray Cook is a physical therapist and strength coach who has helped many elite athletes to dominate their sport. Years ago, Gray identified the lack of coordinated movement as primary reason why many athletes fail to achieve success or become injured; as a result, he and his colleague, Dr. Lee Burton developed the Functional Movement Screen as a system for classifying movement ability. Gray talks about the Functional Movement Screen and how it can be used to identify potential muscle imbalances that could become an injury. Originally. recorded in the fall of 2017, learn all about the role of functional movement in your strength training program on this episode of All About Fitness.
59 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
In this episode you will learn about how your heart functions during physical activity, why it's important to pay attention to the 3 laws of physics when you're planning your workouts and the variables that are a component of EVERY exercise program. It's all about the science of exercise program design on this episode of All About Fitness.
29 min
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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made ...
Smarter Workouts was written expressly to help you learn the science of how your body adapts to exercise; currently this is an audiobook series going chapter-by-chapter to help you learn more about how exercise changes your body. This episode picks up on Chapter 2 and covers the benefits of core strength training and metabolic conditioning.
30 min