Working Out and Eating Right

Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk Amazon, proper ways to work out, hormones and steroids, and how to eat healthily on this Monday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Villa Cappelli Pure Vitamin Club AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK Lonnie Beauchamp winner bought a $700 infrared camera To win, go through Vinnie's site to Amazon, buy something cool, and then write us about it! You can enter the same thing for a few weeks because we only pick one winner a week Lonnie pays for his phone calls even though Vinnie owes him one for the meet up in LA he held Thank you to the Beauchamp bros for your support SQUATS Lonnie does too many squats, then quits for a month because he's in pain, and then has to start all over again How can one prevent one's hamstrings from hurting too much? Stabilize yourself and don't start with a bar for squats In the gym, start with lunges, do light leg presses, let your legs get used to it Take your time -- don't feel any pressure to push yourself too far HCG DIET There was a "diet" shot that made you less hungry and easier to gain muscle Gonadotropin was taken from pregnant mares, and body builders used to do it but we could female-like breasts HCG = human choieonic gonadotropin This is not safe or effective Consumers should stay clear of weight loss products with this in it THYROID MEDICATION You only take a little of porcine thyroid This way, your body will still produce hormones that it needs to Any hormone (steroid) that you take will make your body stop producing that hormone which is bad WEIGHT LOSS AND FRUIT Fruit is not the best to lose weight By all means, eat it, eat berries, but fruit prevents weight loss if you have a poor metabolic system Bananas and pineapples are such straight sugar Vegetables are better! Just be careful ANNA'S ALLERGY TEST Anna has been testing 180 foods to see what see is allergic to She had no dairy, and now has gone back to it she can now tell the difference between high and low quality dairy BCAA Branch chain amino acid Breakdown of 4 different amino acids Vinnie has prior worked with it Building block in protein that helps your muscles build and recuperate faster MG VITAMIN New magnesium vitamin made of 3 different types of magnesium Vinnie has been working on this for almost as long as the multivitamin This is more expensive, but Vinnie will work it out CELIAC AWARENESS When Brain Grain, and Wheat Belly came out, people began to understand the health risk of gluten Perlmutter even agrees Restaurants are getting better too