Cancer is something that will have directly or indirectly affected almost everyone who has listened to this podcast. But despite it’s prevalence, lot’s of us know so little about it.
This week, cancer researcher and sport scientist – Dr Ian Lahart – is on the show to talk about exercise and cancer and why exercise can reduce your cancer risk. He’ll explain how different lifestyle factors can contribute to cancer, the types of cancer that respond best to exercise interventions, why exercise can reduce instances of certain cancers but not others, how exercise can benefit patients, why physical activity affects cancer survivorship and lots more.
FFF 048: Running For Your Life – How & Why Exercise Helps Fight Cancer - with Dr Ian Lahart is a post from: Food For Fitness
Dr Brian Wansink is a leading behavioural economist, food psychologist, bestselling author and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University.
On this episode of the Food For Fitness Podcast, Brian shares some unique insights from his latest book – Slim By Design – that will make it easy for you to eat healthier-without even noticing that you’re making changes! Brian explains that the easiest, quickest, and most natural way to reverse weight gain is to work with human nature, not against it.
He believes the best way to lose weight isn't to tell people what to do; it's to change their living environments so it becomes mindlessly easy for people to eat healthier.
In this episode, Brian shares some incredibly insightful findings from his lab. For example, did you know that serving your food from the stove away from the dining table will prompt you to eat 19% less food! Or that a person who has breakfast cereal sitting on the worktop on average weighs 21 pounds more than their neighbour who doesn’t? Or that a messy kitchen causes you to snack 44% more often!
It doesn’t get better at work either, Brian explains that people who have snacks in or on the desk reported weighing 15.4 pounds more than those who didn’t. This is an incredibly interesting podcast episode that will make a huge difference to how you set up your home and workplace to help you lose weight! .
FFF 047: Slim By Design, Is Your Home & Office Making You Fat - with Prof Brian Wansink is a post from: Food For Fitness
Robin Sieger is a Scottish professional motivational speaker, former stand-up comedian, cancer survivor, world-record holder (for the coldest round of golf ever played, 18 holes at -26°C), author, and a leading success strategist. His bestselling book Natural Born Winners has been translated into over 20 languages and sold in 90 countries.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness Podcast, Robin shares his top tips on how to achieve success with your health, your fitness, in your relationships and in all aspects of life.
He’ll explain the impact your beliefs have on outcomes, why you shouldn’t be afraid of failure, how to deal with setbacks, how you can beat the fear associated with risks, the secrets used by peak performers tackle to take goals and overcome obstacles, why belief without action is just dreaming and other realistic and insightful mind hacks on how you can achieve success in everything you do. .
FFF 046: How To Create The Life You Want & Deserve, Practical Advice For Achieving Success & Happiness - with Robin Sieger is a post from: Food For Fitness
What is emotional eating? From a craving that won’t go away, to eating when stressed at work, to celebrating success with a piece of cake, we all are emotional eaters.
However, some people turn to food for the wrong reasons and it can result in growing waistlines and unhealthy food associations.
In this episode of the podcast, Sport and Exercise Psychologist Dr Tracey Devonport explains the causes of emotional eating and how you can combat it. We’ll cover food cravings, being mindful, tips to combat eating when stressed, how to prevent children becoming emotional eaters, the difference between overeating and binge eating, the causes and symptoms of binge eating, the willpower consequences of being overly restrictive, why chronic dieting can lead to cycles of poor eating and lots more.
FFF 045: Understanding Emotional Eating & The Psychology Of Food Binges - with Dr Tracey Devonport is a post from: Food For Fitness
Brad Schoenfeld PhD, is an internationally renowned muscle building expert, researcher, speaker and lifetime drug-free bodybuilder. He is a best-selling author of multiple fitness books and has published over 70 peer-reviewed research articles on exercise and sports nutrition.
In this episode of the podcast Brad will explain what the latest research says about muscle building. He’ll explain how often you might want to train if maximum muscle gain is your goal and why it might be more often than you expect, how much volume is needed per workout, the science on high repetitions vs low repetitions, why tempo may not be that important, the importance of de-loading and rest weeks, why you don’t need to ‘confuse the muscle’ as often as you think and lots more. If you want to make gains, then this podcast is going to help you avoid the broscience and make serious improvements to both your training and your physique.
FFF 044: The Science Of Maximum Muscle Building & Making Gainz - with Brad Schoenfeld PhD is a post from: Food For Fitness
This episode is packed with everything you need to know about sleep. Dr Ian Walshe is a sleep researcher at the University of Stirling and in this episode he’ll explain all about how sleeping or a lack of sleep impacts your body composition and recovery.
He’ll explain why sleep is so important, if a lack of sleep leads to fat storage, the optimum number of hours you need per night, if excessive sleep is detrimental and why the quality of your sleep is more important than the quantity of sleep.
We’ll examine if long term sleep deprivation has any detrimental health consequences, how shift work can impact sleep patterns, if you can catch-up on sleep or if it’s just a myth, the science of power napping, if the time of day you exercise impacts sleep and whether you need more or less sleep if you want to lose fat or build muscle. .
FFF 043: The Skinny On Snoozing, How Sleep Impacts Your Body Composition - with Dr Ian Walshe is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week, Georgie Fear is our expert guest. Georgie is a US-based sports dietitian and nutrition coach.
In this episode, Georgie explains how long it takes to develop a habit, the difference between thought habits and behavioural habits, why being hungry isn’t always a bad thing and how you can shape your social and physical environment for greater success.
FFF 042: Lean Habits For Lifelong Weight Loss - with Georgie Fear is a post from: Food For Fitness
Josh Hillis is a nutrition coach who specializes in habits-based, positive changes. LoseStubbornFat.com, his popular fitness and fat-loss blog, has tens of thousands of regular readers, and his fat-loss and kettlebell-training ebooks continue to help people reach their personal goals.
FFF 041: Fat Loss Habits For The Real World - with Josh Hillis is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week Laura Turner-Allenye is on the show to chat all about how sprint training can benefit not only sprinters but footballers, triathletes and casual runners alike.
Laura has an impressive background as a GB athlete and her 12 year international athletics career saw her compete at the Beijing Olympics, win 5 UK titles and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal. These days, she is a top coach.
With an MSc in Sport Sciences (High Performance Physiology) she works with professional athletes, weekend warriors and every day folks who want to get fitter, stronger and faster.
FFF 040: The Benefits Of Sprint Training & How To Incorporate It Into Your Exercise Routine- with Laura Turner-Alleyne is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week Professor of Sports Psychology – Andy Lane (PhD, CPsychol, CSci, FBASES) – is on the podcast to chat about the psychology behind eating.
We’ll look at the effects eating has on emotions, why people comfort eat, how to improve self-control when it comes to eating, emotional regulation, the importance of reinforcing positive behaviours, why it’s important to focus on behaviour change and not just the outcome and why rewarding change can make a huge difference to your long term weight loss success!
FFF 038: The Psychology Of Eating – with Andy Lane is a post from: Food For Fitness
In the first show of 2016 we are talking all about binge eating. Nia Shanks, online trainer and fitness coast is this week’s guest and she is joining us from Kentucky in the USA.
Nia completed her degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Louisville and she’s earned a load of awards including being listed as one of The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness by Greatist.com.
In this episode, Nia share’s her story about how she suffered from binge eating cycles and disordered eating. She explains how it came about but most importantly, the steps she took to beat it!
FFF 038: Breaking Free From Binge Eating – with Nia Shanks is a post from: Food For Fitness
If you have always had a dream or goal in your mind and struggled to achieve, this week’s guest, Kim Ingleby has know how to help you make it really happen.
FFF 037: How To Overcome Fears, Limiting Behaviours and Increase Your Mental Strength – with Kim Ingleby is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week on the podcast we’re chatting all things low carb. Specifically some of the flaws regarding the claims made about ditching carbs from your diet.
Alan Aragon is the man in the guest’s chair. He is someone who is held in extremely high regard in the nutrition and fitness industry and for many good reasons. He is a nutritionist, researcher, writer and speaker, he also loves a good troll on Facebook too…but in a good way, he provides evidence, is polite and doesn’t block folks who disagree with him.
FFF 036: Low Carb Dieting Flaws, Examining The Claims vs Evidence – with Alan Aragon is a post from: Food For Fitness
Nutrition lecturer, former strongman and super-smart guy, Rich Sennewald comes back on the podcast to chat all about sugar.
FFF 035: Sweet Science The Truth About Sugar – with Rich Sennewald is a post from: Food For Fitness
In this episode of the podcast, Nick explains all about the benefits of strength training for fat loss.
FFF 034: Strength Training For Fat Loss – with Nick Tumminello is a post from: Food For Fitness
Strength and conditioning specialist, Tony Gentilcore, explains the fundamentals of how to create a successful training programme to get stronger...and it has nothing to do with oranges or bosu balls!
FFF 033: How To Get Stronger By Juggling Oranges On Bosu Balls – with Tony Gentilcore is a post from: Food For Fitness
A major goal in the battle against obesity in Scotland is to develop strategies that result in healthy and sustainable weight loss.
Dr Alex Johnstone from the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen is a leading expert on how protein, from both plants and animals, can help to minimise hunger, improve metabolic health and assist with weight loss. In this episode you’ll discover the science behind why protein makes you “feel full” and other top ways to minimise hunger.
Alex will explain how different protein sources impact your body, how often we should eat protein, why protein at breakfast is a good idea and the importance of variety. She’ll dispel myths surrounding high protein diets and kidney function, why more than 30g of protein per serving doesn’t “go to waste”, her thoughts on organic meat vs conventional meat and why she thinks we should potentially be eating more protein from plants!
FFF 032: Can High Protein Diets Help You Lose Weight – with Dr Alex Johnstone is a post from: Food For Fitness
Does red meat cause cancer? Are sweeteners bad for you? Should you avoid anything with chemicals in it? Do we need to be eating organic food? Why is there so much bad science in the newspapers?
These are just some of the questions that this week’s guest – Rich Sennewald - is going to answer. Rich is a nutrition coach, lecturer, researcher and strong man. Not only does he have the book smarts but he can shift a tonne of weight in the gym too! He is going to go behind the headlines and explain why so much of the nutrition information we see in the news and in magazines is badly reported and based on crappy science. He’ll explain why you can enjoy a diet coke and a juicy steak without the worry!
FFF 031: Bad Science BS, Artificial Sweeteners & Red Meat – with Rich Sennewald is a post from: Food For Fitness
Jessie Mundell is a strength coach based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada who specialises in pre and post-natal exercise, lifting for women, and sustainable lifestyle change.
In this episode of the podcast you’ll learn how much exercise can you do when pregnant and some of the benefits of training when expecting. What are the main concerns – what should you not do, the exercises you should avoid, when should you stop and what exercises are safe when pregnant.
FFF 030: Training When Pregnant, The Do’s & Don’ts Of Pre And Post-Natal Exercise – with Jessie Mundell is a post from: Food For Fitness
This week James Conci-Mitchell, seasoned personal trainer, fitness writer and owner of the super cool Six3Nine gym in Convent Garden is on the show. In this episode James explains exactly how he helps his clients to completely transform their body. If you’ve always wanted that shredded six pack or toned tummy then this show is going to help!
FFF 029: A Step By Step Plan To Transform Your Body & Achieve Lasting Results – with James Conci-Mitchell is a post from: Food For Fitness
Dan John comes on the podcast to chat about the fundamentals of lifting, goblet squats, over head pressing, pushing and carrying weight, tumbling and the best abs exercise you've never done!
FFF 028: Goblet Squats, Basic Lifts & Tumbling To Get Stronger And Feel Epic – with Dan John is a post from: Food For Fitness
Drew Price is a Registered Nutritionist who embarked on a unique project for Men’s Fitness magazine which saw him follow 12 different, extreme diets over the course of 12 months.
He tried IIFYM, The Paleo Diet, Warrior Diet, Anabolic Diet, Velocity, Carb Back Loading, The Slow Carb Diet, Get Shredded Diet, The Good Gut Diet, The Blood Group Diet and The Ornish Diet.
His goals were to find out which ones work, and which were a waste of time? What are the costs to health and happiness, and how does each diet impact his long term diet ‘success?
In this episode of the podcast Drew shares his story. He talks about the highs and lows, which diet was the most effective, which was the most unpleasant and which one actually caused him to gain weight. He explains how the different diets impacted his social life, his stress levels and which one he found most enjoyable and why it was different from his prediction.
Drew also tracked all his blood work so he also shares which diet had the greatest improvement on his markers of health, which one cause the most amount of weight loss and which diet had the most detrimental effect on his gym performance.
FFF 026: The Highs And Lows Of 12 Extreme Diets In 12 Months – with Drew Price is a post from: Food For Fitness
Nick Winkelman is the Director of Education at EXOS where he oversees all mentorship education courses and is a full-time strength and conditioning coach. He also lectures nationally and internationally on all topics pertaining to exercise science, strength & conditioning and personal training.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, Nick chats all about coaching cues. What are they and you’ll learn the difference between internal and external cues and when they’re best used. Nick explains how someone’s physiological makeup can affect their ability to perform certain exercises and how he allows for this when designing workout routines.
We’ll cover Nick’s favourite cues for teaching the deadlift, squat and the hip hinge. He shares why single leg or unilateral work is so badass and why more people should be doing it, his thoughts on sprint training for the general public and why he thinks it’s perhaps too dangerous. He talks about why group training is so effective and his thoughts on Crossfit.
Whether you are a recreational lifter who wants to improve your technique or a personal trainer who wants to develop how to coach your own clients, you’re going to love this episode! .
FFF 026: Training NFL Athletes, Coaching & The Benefits Of Single Leg Training – with Nick Winkelman is a post from: Food For Fitness
Sohee Lee is a health coach, fitness writer and competitive bikini model who specialises in helping women develop healthy relationships with food and their bodies while achieving lasting fitness success.
Having fought through both anorexia and bulimia, Sohee is on a mission is to empower women to practice compassion and grace with themselves in the gym, in the kitchen, and in life.
In this episode you’ll learn some of the biggest nutrition mistakes people make when competing in bikini and fitness competitions, how to avoid excessive restriction and post-comp blowout binges, the science behind peak week and why ‘drying out’ is usually a really bad idea, why Sohee believes people should do as little cardio as possible and why competition prep will take much longer than you think.
She also explains how she programs refeeds for her clients, why she trains glutes 4 to 5 times a week, how excessive dieting and bland foods almost ruined her college life and why she thinks flexible dieting and tracking macros is the ultimate approach for healthy, lasting success.
FFF 025: How To Eat, Train & Stay Sane When Competing In Bikini Modelling – with Sohee Lee is a post from: Food For Fitness
Born in sunny South Africa and raised in London, Dr Michelle Storfer (MBBS, BSc) qualified as a medical doctor from University College London and also completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) Nutrition at King’s College London.
The mounting clinical evidence on the effect of nutrition on health convinced Michelle to combine her medical knowledge and passion for nutrition and establish The Food Effect, a comprehensive nutritional advice practice based in London.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, Michelle chats about her experience in the medical field, why good nutrition is so crucial yet often undervalued in the community and why she made the shift from doctor to nutritionist.
She explains some of the strangest things she’s heard patients do to lose weight, the health risks of many popular FAD diets, why juicing could be destroying your progress, her favourite strategies for woman who want to lose weight, how to re-steer clients who get off track, her top strategies for long term success, her favourite healthy meals and why she hates bananas.
FFF 024: Fighting Fat & FAD Diets With Food As Medicine – with Dr Michelle Storfer is a post from: Food For Fitness