Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy

 

 wellness minute gym safety: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you some tips on how to prevent injuries and accidents by working out safely at the gym. First learn how to use the equipment. Now at most gyms they have lots of people who can teach you how proper form, how to adjust the seat, how to get on and off the machines, etc. Ask the personal trainer for help that’s why they are there. Also when you are working out in a group go at your own pace. Lots of spinning instructors love to push and push you but be careful. In the shower wear the right shoes - there are lots of germs and fungus living on that shower floor and you have to be careful there as well. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute exercise for sedentary: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you some tips on how to add exercise to your day even if you hate to exercise. You have to make the activity fun. Try frisbee. Play active video games like the wiiFit or wiiSport of Dance Dance Revolution. Play kid games like ping pong or Marco Polo in the pool or start riding your bike again. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute cut drink calories: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you some tips on how to cut the calories out of your favorite drink beverages. People are always asking us kind of shocked…”How many calories are in that drink?” Well today we give out simple ways to cut the calories from your favorite beverages in half. If you must have full calorie soda you can cut the calories in half by replacing half the soda with plain seltzer water water. This keeps the carbonation but gets rid of the calories. Try sweetening tea with fruit instead of sugar. Also add some sangria into your drinks for more punch. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute bike safety: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you some tips on how to safely ride your bike. If you are unsure of yourself on your new bike then get a few lessons. Most bike shops offer introductory lessons for bike beginners. Before a ride check your tires for the proper air pressure and also to make sure the tires are fastened on properly. Always wear a helmet. And try to avoid courses where there are a lot of fast driving cars and unsafe roads. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute vacation workout: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you some tips on how to get an even better workout on your vacation whether you hit the beach or hit the mountains.

If you go with others, you can exercise as a group or get an early morning jog, quick set of doubles tennis.

Time is on your side, don’t have to worry about the clock

If you go to the beach, running in the sand is a great way to burn calories and you don’t even need running shoes.

Body surfing is another way of burning calories

Beach volley ball

Beach soccer

If you go to the mountains, hiking is a great way to burn massive calories since you can go for hours at a time .

Always end the day with a long shower or even better a Jacuzzi and a glass of red wine.

Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute safer kids sports: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we give you tips in order to help your kids play sports safer.

Children are at greater risk than adults from sports and recreational injuries since they are unable to assess the risks involved and have less coordination, slower reaction times, and less accuracy. Children develop at different rates, both physically and psychologically. A less developed child competing against a more mature child of the same age and weight is at a disadvantage and may be at a greater risk for injury.

Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40% of sports-related injuries for all ages. The rate and severity for sports-related injury increases with a child’s age.  Children who are new to a sport or activity are at greater risk of a sports- or recreation-related injury.

Children who do not wear or use protective equipment are at a greater risk of sustaining sports-related injuries. Lack of awareness for potential injury, inappropriate or unavailable equipment, and lack of money to purchase equipment are some of the reasons children do not use protective equipment.

Sports:

Baseball has the highest fatality rate among all sports for children ages 5 to 14. Each year, 3 to 4 children die from injuries sustained while playing baseball

Gymnastics has one of the highest injury rates among girls’ sports and the risk of injury increases with the level of competition

Basketball: In 2002, Most injuries out of all sports than 207,400 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in hospital emergency rooms for basketball-related injuries

Recreational Activities

Bicycling: Most injuries come from bikeing than any other recreational activitymore than 373,000 children aged 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries.

Playgrounds: #2 Nearly 20 children ages 14 and under die every year from playground related injuries.

PREVENTION TIPS

Protective equipment, biking helmet, shin guards, mouth piece safe play conditions (e.g. field surfacing, maintenance) and development

Children should wear appropriate safety gear when participating in sports and recreational activities.

Make sure proper physical and psychological conditioning, use of appropriate safety equipment, a safe playing environment, adequate adult supervision, and safety rules that are enforced are included in any sports program.

Provide children with proper training and skills building when they are learning a new sport.

Match and group children according to similar skill level,

Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 interview with fit advocate craig pepin-donat: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about Craig Pepin-Donat’s mission to help people get accurate information about health and fitness. Craig is the Fit Advocate and the brains behind the free webinar series The People’s Guide To Health.

The International Health & Fitness Symposium brings together twelve of the world’s top health, fitness, nutrition and lifestyle experts in an exclusive one-of-a-kind event to share their knowledge- and secrets- to better health, happiness and longevity. We are united in our passion to improve and extend lives.

Craig  formed The International Health & Fitness Symposium with the singular mission of giving people just like you the unbiased, professional, and often suppressed information you need to make healthy lifestyle choices.His panel of experts cut through the clutter and misinformation to deliver hundreds of answers that you can use in your life today. These are real solutions for real people.The best of each panelist’s recommendations are compiled in The People’s Guide to Health, Happiness and Longevity. Each expert delivers detailed information to help you make simple but effective changes that will have a major impact on your life.

For more information about Craig and his International Fitness Symposium check out his websites www.fitadvocate.com and www.ThePeoplesGuidetoHealth.com. And be sure to sign up for his free webinar series where you can listen and learn from the best of the best in health and fitness. Shameless Plug… Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy will be featured on a webinar on July 31 at 9pm EST. You don’t want to miss that one!

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our new Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute perfect workout: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you the secret to the perfect workout.

Depends upon how much time you have, if you are training for a sport, if you have any physical limitations due to injuries, what equipment you have to

2-3x/ week you should be doing all of the stuff below

Strength, 30 minutes maximum

Equipment vs. body weight exercises

Flexibility, 15 – 20 minutes

Stretching, yoga, pilates, but always warm-up first.

Cardiovascular conditioning 30 minutes

continuous exercise- walking, biking, jogging, swimming, rollerblading

non-continuous exercise- change of direction, sprints at the track.

Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 interview with randy glasbergen thin lines cartoonist: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about Cartoonist Randy Glasbergen. He created the comic strips Thin Lines and The Better Half. He was pretty funny. He told some behind the scenes stories from his days writing Hallmark Cards and how he gets his inspiration for his comics.

His doctor is a thorn in his side so he got his revenge by creating this doctor character that is always nagging him to lose weight and eat less.  My favorite caption is the one with the doctor telling the patient “What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?”

There are literally hundreds more on his website. For more information about Randy and all his work please go to his website www.glasbergen.com. And if Thin Lines or The Better Half isn’t in your newspaper, be sure to send an email to the editor and ask for it. You can even Google Diet Cartoons and his stuff will come up.

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our new Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. Now available on iTunes right here

 

 wellness minute healtheir choices: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you what the healthy choice is for each meal.

Instead of coffee, Fresh squeezed juice (Apple, Carrot, Celery, pineapple)

Especially if you are not a breakfast eater or do not get enough fruits and veggies

Have some eggs-b vitamins, choline, polyunsaturated fats, folic acid

Instead of a bag of chips from a vending machine, go with the nuts and raisins

Lunch-normal sandwich

Eat your sandwich open faced, throw away the top piece of bread, use some olive oil as dressing and a nice slice of avocado instead of mayo and  cheese.

Treat yourself to a big piece of fruit as dessert

Dinner-

Always start the meal off with a soup/ vegetable based like miso soup when you head for some sushi

Go with a salad as well and always take half of you entrée home with you for a meal the next day.

If you end the night with some ice crease always incorporate some type of fruit in your ice cream like blueberries, strawberries, orange slices and one of my favorites, raspberries.

Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here