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- Audio File naturally_savvy/1511ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Ricki Heller, PhD, RHN
- Book Title Living Candida Free: Conquer the Hidden Epidemic that’s Making You Sick
- Guest Website Ricki Heller
- Guest Twitter Account @RickiHeller
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Ricki Heller, PhD, RHN, is an award-winning blogger, author, and instructor who has worked with food for more than 20 years. An Associate Editor for Simply Gluten-Free, Ricki is also a regular contributor to The Balanced Platter and Fitalicious.com. She lives in Ontario. Her new book is Living Candida Free: Conquer the Hidden Epidemic that’s Making You Sick—100 Recipes and a 3-Stage Program to Restore Your Health and Vitality.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1511ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Carol Alt
- Book Title The Raw 50: 10 Amazing Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Drinks for Your Raw Food Lifestyle
- Guest Website Carol Alt
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/modelcarolalt
- Guest Twitter Account @ModelCarolAlt
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Carol Alt is the ultimate pioneer and chameleon; constantly on the lookout for new ideas and new frontiers. Since her days as the world's most renowned Supermodel, Carol Alt has gone on to be multi-award winning actress, bestselling author on Raw Food Nutrition and hosting her own show, A Healthy You, on Fox News. Having twice graced the cover of the coveted Sports Illustrated Magazine's Swimsuit Edition and in February 2014 Alt was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit franchise. Alt's other activities include hosting various TV and radio morning shows and newscasts, including Good Day Live, GMA, Access Hollywood, and E! Entertainment. Forever touted as "the model that started the Supermodel trend" by John Casablanca, the owner of Elite Models – made Carol the first ever "Super Elite Model in the Supeer Elite Division." The press therefore dubbed her the first "Supermodel."
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: March 11, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis
Guest: Carol Alt
Whether you are new to the living healthy lifestyle or a healthy living veteran, this is the place for the honest answers to your questions. Naturally Savvy with registered holistic nutritionist, Andrea Donsky and health journalist, Lisa Davis, on RadioMD.com
LISA: Here on Naturally Savvy, we are huge fans of Carol Alt and we are so glad that she joins us twice a month on the show. Well, she is back today to talk about her new book, A Healthy You.
Hi, Carol. So glad to have you back.
CAROL: Hi. Yes. Thank you for having me back.
LISA: Alright, Carol. Tell us all about A Healthy You.
CAROL: You know, first, if you don't mind, I just wanted to interject a little bit because I know both of you girls wrote books and, Lisa, I had you on the show about your book, which was a very interesting segment. But, Andrea just sent me a book called Unjunk Your Junk Food. I have to tell you this is like a very cute little book, but I wanted to just say to your listeners is, what's great about this book is it's kind of a bridge to raw because what Andrea's trying to do is teach people how, if you're going to eat junk food, to find the least junky junk food, if that's possible. You know what I'm saying?
ANDREA: Yes. Exactly.
CAROL: And what I try to do when I teach people to go raw is, I try to give them the junky food to transition from first and then to take the next step, so that you're doing things in steps and it's not overwhelming. So, you know, this is a nice little adjunct to what I do because if you can, from here, once you start being aware of what's in your food, you can become more and more aware and then possibly, add more and more raw as you go along. So, it's a cute little book, Andrea. Thank you for sending it to me.
ANDREA: Well, thanks, Carol. I appreciate that. Well, I'm very excited about your new book. Tell us a little bit about what inspired you to write it.
CAROL: Well, I think what happened was, is there were a lot of people asking questions for the "Ask Carol" segment of the show and then there were people who would write in after the show was over and say, "Oh, this was a great segment, but I didn't catch the lower third on the bottom of the TV with this person's website, so could you send it to me or how do I get it?" And, even though we were doing a lot of stuff on CarolAlt.com, I was re-running segments and doing recaps of the show and trying to give the information and everything. I just realized that sometimes people miss it, because they're listening to the show, but they might not be watching, which is cool, too, because as long as you get the information, I don't care how you get it.
ANDREA: Right.
CAROL: So, I was talking with the people up at Fox and I was like, "You know, the best way to get all of the best of the best information on my show to people is to put it down. Write it somewhere." And they went, why don't we just put this in a book?
ANDREA: I love that.
CAROL: I was like, "You know what? That's a really good idea because in a book, what I get to talk about, "Now, this isn't every exercise out there, it's the best of the exercises we had on the show for my watchers, you know? It's the best of the best nutritional information." That goes across the board because, you know, I'm heavy into nutrition because without good nutrition, everything else is just not worthwhile, really. If you don't feel good, you can't work out. If you don't feel good, you don't look good in those new jeans you bought. If you don't feel good, you're not nice to the people around you. So, if you don't feel good, you're not going to age well, either. So, for me, nutrition is the lynchpin which is where we start in the book. So, the best of the best doctors who came on the show and this is also things that I have been doing for 17 years and, you know, I like to hold myself out as an example, not because, "Oh, you know, I'm so proud of what I did." No. It's because I've had such health issues and I have come back from the brink several times and I just want to teach people that if I can do it, you can do it. If I can make my health better, you can make your health better. These are the things that I did and here's a doctor who backs up what I did because, you know, I'm just a model. I get it. But there are certain things that just really, really work. You go out there in the marketplace and you have all these people marketing all this garbage to you. Things that don't work; they didn't try; they wouldn't even put their face on the product because they're like 90 years old and they look terrible. They put some 20-year-olds on there to sell you wrinkle cream. So, this is just…Sorry. But it's true. I mean, you know, I was that 20-year-old and I was like in a studio with 50-60 year old people who were pushing a wrinkle cream and I'm like, "Man, do you use this because, you know, I don't want to be 60 and look like you."
ANDREA: Seriously.
CAROL: So, you know, I see them selling with these 20-year-olds. You know, a 20-year-old doesn't need wrinkle cream, but you want to look like that 20-year-old, so you buy that wrinkle cream. I'm going, "You know what? It starts from the inside." So, it's nutrition. The best of the best nutrition. It's fitness. It's anti-aging. We do some great home remedies so you don't have to spend a fortune because beauty shouldn't be just for the rich. You know, stuff like that. Of course, I put a lot of anecdotes and things that I've learned over the course of the years to help guide you through this. It's a labyrinth of garbage out there. When someone is sitting there and saying, "Listen, this is tried and true. I did this. I'm 54 years old. I did this. It helped me. I would be dead right now if I didn't do some of these things."
ANDREA: Wow.
CAROL: A lot of people, unfortunately, they wait until something happens instead of saying, "Hey, this is so easy to do every day." It's just so easy to do, girls. It really is.
LISA: Yes, it makes a huge difference and exactly, if you have somebody who's done it and it's worked for them and we look at you and you're such a perfect model, no pun intended, of perfect health. But, I have to say something about those wrinkle creams. When I was a kid, and this is true, I would watch those commercials and I would think, "Those girls are so young. What? Like, this is totally false advertising. They don't have any wrinkles." So, I was on the ball. I'm just telling you.
CAROL: Right. And, as you get old, you go, "Geeze. I'd really like to look like that. Let me try that cream." You forget that little voice in your head when you were a kid looking at television going, "Hmmm. That's silly. Why does she need wrinkle cream?"
ANDREA: Yes. You know, it's very true. Listening to this and then laughing because, you know, as we age, most of us, I mean, I only started to care about wrinkles, as I started to get older, like you're saying, Carol, and I think the key is like you're saying, it's not so much on the outside, it's from the inside and we really have to nourish ourselves to make it inside out. Having the experience that you've had and interviewing the people that you've interviewed, you've really got the best of the best information so I think it's amazing that you've compiled it.
CAROL: Yes, it's a resource book. We compiled it and took the best of the things; the things that I know work and I compiled and I think that I know that everybody can do. You know, but you just said something that was really quite interested, however. You said to me, I didn't really care about wrinkles. But, you know, that's the problem. You know, that statement I always think of as the older I get that, "Youth is wasted on the young." I didn't think about wrinkles when I was a kid. I didn't think about getting sick or having health issues. In fact, when I turned raw, it wasn't about health issues at that moment. It was minor health issues. It was heartburn, etc., I just thought if I could feel a little better, great, but it really was about vanity when I first did this.
ANDREA: Right.
CAROL: I'm the first to admit it. It was, "I'm starting to look old." If I had done this when I was 20 or 30, I would have saved myself so many issues: the fear, the waste of time going to doctors and all this stuff that just interferes with your life and the lack of joy because you're not feeling good and maybe they don't even know what's wrong with you. The truth of the matter is, I don't ever wish that on my worst enemy. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy because it's a horrible way to live. So, I do these things exactly because of what you said. Not because of, "Oh, you're going to get old and wrinkly." But, because you forget or you don't want to face the fact that you're going to get old and wrinkly. This is like, do this every day and keep yourself from getting into that moment where you go like, "Oh, shoot. I need to do something." But now, you've got to dig yourself out of a hole.
LISA: Yes. And then you've got to do something bigger. Cosmetic procedures or surgery. It is. So, if you can start young and, even you can't, any age you can make a difference is huge.
Carol, this is so fantastic. Tell us where we can pre-order your wonderful book, A Heathy You.
CAROL: For sure on Amazon.com. Those guys are amazing over there. Amazon.com has our book pre-ordered. Or, you could go to your bookstore and ask them to bring it in. I even say, "You know what, go to your library and ask them to bring it in." Then, you could borrow it. You know?
LISA: Oh, that's a great idea.
ANDREA: That's a great idea.
CAROL: For me, these things aren't about raising money. This stuff is about me getting this information out there. You guys do such a good job in helping me do that. Thank you so much, always, for having me on your show.
LISA: Oh, Carol, it is our pleasure. I want to thank everyone for listening. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @YourRadioMD and @Naturally Savvy.
Have a great day and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File eat_right/1511nd2b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Marina Chaparro, MPH, RDN
- Organization Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Guest Bio
Marina Chaparro’s background includes clinical nutrition, outpatient counseling, public health and program planning, research, and public speaking. As a diabetes educator at the pediatric endocrinology department at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, she provides comprehensive diabetes education and trains patients on the use of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors. Chaparro is the founder of Nutrichicos, a bilingual children’s nutrition center that offers individual assessments and personalized programs. On her blog www.nutrichicos.com, Chaparro shares reliable, practical and science-driven recommendations to improve children’s eating habits in Spanish and English. She co-created a successful nutrition and physical activity program at Miami Children’s Hospital for Hispanic adolescents and their mothers called Healthy Chicas. Chaparro is a graduate of Boston University and earned a master’s degree in public health from Florida International University.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Let’s face it. Mornings are often hectic and rushed, leaving breakfast as the last priority for families as many as 30 percent of school-aged kids report skipping breakfast. However, breakfast should be the first priority of the day as it can enhance a child’s development and academic success. My guest today is Marina Chaparro. She’s a diabetes educator at the Pediatric Endocrinology Department at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. Welcome to the show, Marina. Tell us a little bit about how important breakfast is and why do you think so many Americans skip breakfast altogether.
Marina Chaparro (Guest): You named it—so happy to be here—but breakfast is the challenging meal because we’re all rushing. We’re all real people and breakfast sometimes is the last priority. However, we as parents, we want the best for our kids. Studies show time and time again that kids who eat breakfast tend to do better at school. They tend to have better math course. Their behavior is improved. They even are less tardy at school. If we want smart children, parents, we need to get that breakfast in the door.
Melanie: Okay, so what are good healthy breakfasts, Marina? Because parents run around, they think these cereals—the cereals are misleading on the box—they look at all these kinds of different juices. What is good? How much protein do you want our children to have? How much carbohydrate or grains in the morning? What’s going to keep them awake as they’re in school all day?
Marina: Breakfast doesn’t need to be complicated or boring, right? We can go beyond that cereal-and-milk. Sometimes that cereal-and-milk is the fastest thing to do, but I’m going to share a couple of things that some of our parents can do to really make sure that breakfast is simple and it’s fast and nutritious, really like the breakfast of champions. One key thing that we got to remember is really how is that breakfast constructed, right? Breakfast quality is equally as important, so we need to talk about what do we serve our kids? If we can put in at least three food groups in breakfast, that’s a gold star breakfast. What do I mean by three food groups? If we can put in a protein, like some peanut butter, like some egg, like some turkey, if we could do a grain like a whole wheat grain, whether it’s a whole grain cereal, an English muffin, a mini whole wheat bagel. Dairy is extremely important; we can do calcium, which is high in protein as well, or we can also do a fruit. If we think about three of these nutrients, we’re talking about a gold star breakfast.
Melanie: What do we do, Marina, if our children tell us, first of all, they don’t have time for breakfast? Especially our teens, they’re running off to catch the bus, sometimes as early as 6:30 in the morning and they just want to either grab something. There’s granola bars on the market. There’s yoghurt granola bars on the market. Are any of these an adequate breakfast for them to just run out the door with or do we get them up earlier and make them sit there and have a scrambled egg and the gold star breakfast?
Marina: Both of these options do work, obviously if we prep the day before where you’re just going to have a better success at really having breakfast. Being prepared, number one, is key. As parents are always on the go, if we’re truly going to make a complicated meal, the morning time is not going to be the best time. Number two you just said is equally as important: Just because it’s on the go, that doesn’t mean it can’t be nutritious.
For example, always having some fruit product, making sure they can just grab and go a little container for the bus to take. Or even some high quality protein that we can have like Trail Mix. That’s just an easy, quick finger food that’s going to give them some protein, some healthy omega-6 and 3 from the fats and from the nuts. Or even yoghurt –yoghurt is something fast, something quick that they can eat at a later time. Just because it’s fast doesn’t mean it can’t be nutritious. Having both options on the go is going to be very important, and absolutely being prepared is going to be key.
Melanie: It is. And you know what? Kids feel like if you take that extra five minutes and you make them a bowl of fruit and you make them a little yoghurt parfait and throw some oats on top of that and mix it up a little bit, they really do feel well taken care of and then they actually start looking forward to that breakfast. When we’re feeding our kids these breakfasts, if we can get them to slow down long enough and eat some of them – give us some more of your best breakfast tips, things that we can do, maybe even prepping the night before to get them ready so that then it’s a much faster process in the morning.
Marina: You got to remember also, sometimes some kids might not be as hungry in the morning. A good strategy would be “let’s get dressed first” and then that will give them a little bit of more time to really get them hungry once they’re done dressing. At least we gain maybe five to 10 extra minutes. That way, again, they have a better breakfast and they feel they’re truly taken care of. Other simple ideas that I just really like to focus on would be types of breakfast, like you named it, the parfait that we could do with yoghurt the night before, either vanilla or plain because that way it’s going to have less sugar. Just putting a little bit of fresh fruit, either that same morning and a little granola or little nuts, that’s the perfect breakfast, three-star breakfast. Or even just doing a peanut butter and jelly on an English whole wheat muffin, we have that peanut butter which is going to be the protein and we’re going to get some of the whole grain bread which is going to last them throughout the day – again, three-star breakfast. If we have a little bit more time, then we can talk about maybe a quick and fast omelet or even like a burrito to go. Whole wheat tortilla, nice and hearty, a little egg scrambled with even some veggies in the morning, that way they got fiber and we’re starting the right way of breakfast and they could take it to go. They could even have it packed up with a little slice of fruit on the side, eat it on the way, eat it on the bus. Those are good tips.
Melanie: How much fiber? Because as we’re talking about like the egg wraps, I love doing that for my kids, but then I find if I put chia seeds into their smoothies or too much oats, then they feel like they have to use the bathroom and then they don’t have time necessarily for that or they don’t want to do that at school. You know what I mean? So how much fiber in the morning should be kind of included with some of these foods?
Marina: I always like to recommend really choosing products that have at least two to three grams of dietary fiber. Just really make sure that it’s a high fiber product. Depending on the age range that a kid is, they could range anything from 10 grams of fiber up to 25 grams of fiber for the adolescent. I guess it’s going to be more individualized. So if you notice that really your kid’s very sensitive to like you said, if you have a more high fiber morning breakfast, then that is going to be a little bit more sensitive in the stomach, then I would rather wait until having those snacks or those dinners and late night snacks while they’re at home if that’s a better strategy for your kids. It really just depends on each person because I know that some kids might have fiber every single morning and that might not necessarily mean that they’re going to go to the bathroom every time, but it definitely makes them have a more balanced and more regular digestive system, that’s why we like fiber so much.
Melanie: What do you think about the situation where people drive through McDonald’s and get their kids an Egg McMuffin to go on their way to school?
Marina: Why not make an egg McMuffin at home? We’re probably going to save about 200 to 300 calories. And let’s talk about sodium. The sodium that you’re going to get at McDonald’s is going to be tripled than what you would get at home. Really, it’s all about habits. Can they do that once in a while? Yeah, maybe we can find a lower calorie, lower sodium, lower fat choice like a turkey McMuffin type of thing, which could be a better strategy. But, again, it really starts at home. If we really want our kids to succeed and be smart kids and reach their full potential, it’s really going to be on what habits are we getting them. Are we teaching them from home and that way they can truly go to school having not a rush breakfast but a nice, balanced and even fast breakfast?
Melanie: That’s great advice. Thank you so much, Marina. You are listening to Eat Right Radio with our good friends from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. For more information, you can go to eatright.org. That’s eatright.org. This is Melanie Cole. Thanks so much for listening and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File sharecare/1511sc2e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jim White, RD, ACSM HFS
- Guest Website Jim White Fit
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Guest Bio
Jim White is a Registered Dietitian, spokesman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Health Fitness Specialist and spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine. He is the owner of three fitness facilities named Jim White Fitness and Nutrition Studios. His media work and affiliations include ABC Family Channel, Today, Shape, GQ, Men’s Health, Muscle and Fitness, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and much more. In his free time, White enjoys giving back through his very own foundation which focuses on helping the homeless get back on their feet through fitness, nutrition and motivation.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File sharecare/1511sc2d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Amar Kendale, BS, MS
- Guest Website Mc10Inc
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Amar Kendale leads marketing and strategy for MC10, a company that develops biosensors and other wearable medical devices activities. Kendale has a passion for creating products that help people to live healthier, safer and happier. His experience spans more than a decade of operating and executive leadership roles in the life-science industry, with a strong record of driving innovation in healthcare. He earned his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File sharecare/1511sc2c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Shana Dowell, MD
- Guest Twitter Account @shanadowell
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Guest Bio
Board-certified ob/gyn and mother of three young boys, Dr. Shana Dowell, places a high value on communicating issues of women's health with her patients in an approachable manner, with a mix of empathy, compassion, and humor. Dr. Dowell is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University, and she is the Chair of the Obstetrics and Pediatrics Department of NorthCrest Medical Center. She also maintains a thriving general ob/gyn practice in Springfield,Tennessee. She holds a particular interest in the treatment of vulvar disorders.
Dr. Dowell completed her residency at Columbia University and the University of Rochester. She holds an M.D. from the University of Rochester, a M.S. from Georgetown University, and an A.B. from Columbia University. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File sharecare/1511sc2b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Katie Schrier
- Guest Website Barre3
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Fitness and healthy living enthusiast, Katie Schrier, was one of the very first clients at barre3’s first flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, back in 2008. A serious runner and former Pilates instructor (trained in STOTT Pilates and also taught Pilates reformer and chair classes), she immediately fell in love with the company’s unique combination of yoga, Pilates and ballet barre work, low impact yet dynamic movement, amazing results and incredibly supportive and welcoming community. In 2014, she opened Georgia’s first barre3 in Atlanta’s South Buckhead neighborhood. Katie continues to be challenged by her ever-deepening barre3 practice, to be thrilled by the transformations that she and her clients experience in their bodies and to bask in the warm and wonderful barre3 community that has grown up inside her studio.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File train_your_body/1511tb2b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Neal Pire & Grace Desimone
- Organization ACSM
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Guest Bio
Neal Pire is a nationally noted expert on fitness and personal training. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has served on the Executive Council of ACSM's credentialing arm, the Committee on Certification and Registry Boards. Neal served as vice president of a leading national health management company and now serves as an Exercise Physiologist at HNH Fitness, a medical fitness center in Oradell, NJ. He is widely sought after as a consultant for athlete training programs, performance enhancement centers and fitness industry management. As a 35-year veteran with deep understanding of the subject matter, he is often asked for background, commentary or analysis by media covering wellness, fitness, and personal training.
Grace DeSimone has been in the fitness industry for over 30 years and brings a variety of experiences in commercial, corporate and community settings. She is the editor of ACSMs Resources for Group Exercise Instructors (LWW, 2011) and is an ACSM certified personal trainer and group exercise instructor. Grace is the National Director of Group Fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum Company. -
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RadioMD Presents: Train Your Body | Original Air Date: March 10, 2015
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guests: Neal Pire & Grace DeSimone
RadioMD.com. Your trainer Melanie Cole is here to motivate and help you perform. It’s time now for Train Your Body.
MELANIE: What do trainers teach you? What do instructors teach you? Do they differ sometimes? Are they pretty much the same? Are they teaching you things that you've read are not that good?
My guests are two of my fan favorites here on Train Your Body. Neil Pire, a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, served on the Executive Council of the Credentialing arm and the Committee on Certification and Grace Desimone. She is definitely the class instructor guru. She is the editor of ACSM's Resources for Exercise Instructors and the national director for group fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum Company. I keep making sure to get that in, Grace.
GRACE: Thank you.
MELANIE: Okay. "When Fitness Rules Fail You". So, let's just start with some of these ones people do. Behind the neck pull-downs. That makes me absolutely bonkers. Neil, start with you, buddy. What's going on with lat pull-downs and why are people still doing them behind the neck.
NEIL: Let me start the segment just by saying there are a lot of rules that are put out there that really can't be looked at by actual rules by the professionals. Once size never fits all and you never say never. Those are rules that I live by as a trainer. You really have to assess and then prescribe and teach exercises that are pertinent to the individual. That's one of my pet peeves.
MELANIE: Here, here.
NEIL: There aren't too many people that live behind the head, you know, do pulling and pushing behind the head, behind the neck.
MELANIE: No, they don't.
NEIL: So, it's not going to be one of those ADL-type of approaches with people like that, but, I don't know, a longshoreman or something that's doing something funky on a regular basis, anything that you need to be prepared to do on a regular basis. You should train to do it.
MELANIE: If you're training longshoreman that is doing something funky behind his head, you can do it that way. Now, guys, what I want to ask you and, Grace, I'm going to ask you first, sometimes class instructors will teach a way to do something. You know, a lateral raise or a bent over row, and then your trainer comes along and teaches it to you differently. So, even those these things are individual, do class instructors and trainers learn these exercises differently or are we all learning them the same?
GRACE: Great question.
MELANIE: Thank you.
GRACE: And I think that would be like a big mystery in the world. Here's what I can tell you and you will both relate. When I got certified over 30 years ago, I can dictate to you every single rule that I learned. Now, every 2 years after that, you're supposed to get what we call "continuing education" and the industry allows you to choose your own courses. So, if I didn't, on my own, upgrade my level of information, which was kind of our whole idea of doing this piece, I'm kind of stuck back where I'm stuck. So, I can kind of tell, because I audition instructors all the time, when the instructor was certified by what they do as part of their class.
So, for instance, in spinning, there was spinning sort of the way that we learned it originally where you only had 5-10 degree bend in the knee and now spinning of today where they've upgraded the information to allow more flexion in the knee. Pregnancy. Remember this one? You both remember this one. Don't let your heart rate go above 140. I still have people, I swear to you, that come in and I say, "What do you do for a pregnant client?" "Oh, heart rate never goes above 140." They've never upgraded that information. So, I mean, that's sort of like a problem with the industry, but for the listeners out there, you know, do your homework. Don't take what the instructors and trainers give you as "law". Learn a little bit. Gather information. Learn your body and glean those things that make sense to you because you'll hear it two different ways. Ask questions. I think a lot of what we were thinking about was people have not updated their knowledge base about fitness.
MELANIE: So, Neil, when you look into classes because you're in clubs all day long and all the time and you look into classes, do you cringe sometimes at what you see instructors do?
NEIL: Well, you know what you see a lot of? I'll give you an example and Grace could probably expand on this a little bit because she teaches classes. When you're doing like body bar exercise and you're doing a chest press and people are laying out on the step, for example, one of the things I see a lot in group exercise classes is people with their feet up on the step while they're laying down on the step. So, they're in that flat, lower back position against the step, which in their head, means they're better supported as opposed to the classic position in a bench press which is 5 points of contact. You have each foot, that's 2. You have your butt, 3. Shoulders or upper back and head. So, you have 5 points of contact which gives you a wide base of support and you're able to better stabilize your body while you're lifting the weight.
MELANIE: So, are you saying your feet should be on either side of the step?
GRACE: Mmm hmm.
NEIL: Yes.
GRACE: Yes. But, what you're saying is absolutely true. When I teach class, I go through this all of the time and based on, also people who take class. You know, they learned it this way, "It's bad for my back to have my feet on the floor because your spine is in neutral, so…"
MELANIE: That's right. So, they think that they're in…
GRACE: Right.
MELANIE: That's right.
GRACE: And, I always explain it to people and then I give people the option because in class, you're generally not pushing a big load of weight. So, because you have the light weights, you're more than likely okay, but if you are going to be pushing heavier weights, you absolutely should be in that position and that's more training, body building, so your personal trainers are going to be much more knowledgeable about a position like that than your group fitness instructors.
MELANIE: That's great advice, guys. The 5 points of contact, Neil. You spoke that very well and that's a good point to look at when you're taking these classes or when you're working with a trainer that says, "Put your feet up on the bench," because you're very unstable being that way.
NEIL: Exactly.
MELANIE: What about squats? Knees over the toes. Knees not over the toes. Lunges, knees over the toes. Don't do this lunge this way, do it only a back lunge. So, Grace, lunges, when you're teaching your instructors how to teach a lunge, do you talk about the knees? Do you talk about the knees going over squats?
GRACE: We always talk about the knees. So, I give it this way. If you're a beginner, you lunge backwards first because it's easier to learn backwards and it's less stress on the knee. Then, you can gradually move forward, but when you're teaching a large group of people, you need to give them options. So, if this is bothering your knees or you're a little off balance, this is what you're going to do instead. Go backwards first instead of going forward. Load your back leg when you're lunging backward because most people lean forward. Remember how smart your body is. Your body will avoid the exercise as much as it can. So, when you're trying to load the leg, what does your body do? "Hey, let me make this easier or you?" And, your body naturally leans forward, so it takes the weight out of the leg, so that's why we're employed. Otherwise, we would not be in work, right?
MELANIE: So, you're loading it backwards because your body is fighting the exercise. I love that you said that. Now, Neil, because we only have a minute and a half left, guys. These go fast. Squats, the same. You know, squats for trainers, you can teach them in the big pieces of equipment. But, in classes, you know, they're doing them freeform and sticking that tush way the hell out. Do you pelvic tilt? Do you tuck it under? Do you straight back, chest up? Give us a good, perfect squat that you might see so the class and trainers are both doing the same thing.
NEIL: Here's the peeve. The peeve is the fitness rule that always fails you which is, "Never squat beyond 90 degrees. Your thigh should always be parallel to the floor." Generally speaking, that is a safe way to a squat, but it's not necessarily perfect for everybody. I mean, when you look at the fact that in so many cultures around the world, people actually live in that deep knee bend position. They live in that butt to the floor, squat down. They do their laundry that way. They feed their kids.
MELANIE: Yes.
NEIL: And, what's the incidence of knee injuries in those cultures? Zero compared to us. So, it's not about the deep squat. It's about the conditioning and the training and the ability to balance your center of gravity over your feet. That's where the hinge, which is what you're alluding to, comes into play. Cues like "stick your butt back" and "sit back into the squat" help get you into that hinge. I spend more time teaching people to do a proper hinge before they actually squat or deadlift, than actually putting them through the squat. That's something that a trainer can certainly take time and effort to do, that in a group class it might be a little difficult.
MELANIE: Well, stay tuned for more "He Said, She Said". We're going to keep doing these because you're wanting them and they're popular. They're fun and funny, so stayed tuned.
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Thanks for listening and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Guest Bio
Neal Pire is a nationally noted expert on fitness and personal training. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has served on the Executive Council of ACSM's credentialing arm, the Committee on Certification and Registry Boards. Neal served as vice president of a leading national health management company and now serves as an Exercise Physiologist at HNH Fitness, a medical fitness center in Oradell, NJ. He is widely sought after as a consultant for athlete training programs, performance enhancement centers and fitness industry management. As a 35-year veteran with deep understanding of the subject matter, he is often asked for background, commentary or analysis by media covering wellness, fitness, and personal training.
Grace DeSimone has been in the fitness industry for over 30 years and brings a variety of experiences in commercial, corporate and community settings. She is the editor of ACSMs Resources for Group Exercise Instructors (LWW, 2011) and is an ACSM certified personal trainer and group exercise instructor. Grace is the National Director of Group Fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum Company. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Train Your Body | Original Air Date: March 10, 2015
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guests: Neal Pire & Grace DeSimone
RadioMD.com. Train Your Body. Here's exercise physiologist, Melanie Cole, MS.
MELANIE: What do you think really goes on at the gyms? In today's He Said, She Said segment, we are talking about "What Goes on Behind the Scenes?" What goes on with the members? What goes on with the employees? You know, when I was working at a fitness center, I remember there were all kinds of things going on that I was not willing to share, but we are willing to share today.
Of course, I've got Neil Pire with me today. He is an exercise physiologist with H & H Fitness, a medical fitness center in Oradell , New Jersey, and Grace Desimone, who is the national director of group fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum company. Welcome to the show, guys.
So, Grace, I'm starting with you. When people say you won't believe what members do and, then, we're going to get with the employees, too, but let's start with the members because you do classes. You're all involved with all the ladies standing around. What goes on? Gives us your favorite thing.
GRACE: Okay. My favorite? I mean, I have tons and tons of stories, but the category is theft. Things that people steal. My favorite thing that someone stole from the health club is the shower curtain from the shower. Now, you have hung a shower curtain. You know how long it takes to hang a shower curtain. Just imagine trying to do this without being seen. Shower curtain. Toilet tissue. We actually had somebody come in and stuff a duffel bag full of toilet tissue. Now, keep in mind there are now cameras around. Back in the days, our early days, all of us when we were in the clubs, there were no cameras, but now there are cameras everywhere in the club except the locker room. So, the locker room is a big place to rip things off. People bring in their own bottles and if the club has amenities, and I'm sure this goes on in hotels, too, the nicer the amenity like soap and shampoo in the shower, people bring their own bottles and pump them up and take the stuff home. They take the towels. You know, you have the blow dryers so, the clubs thought, "Oh, we have this one handled." They cable tied them to the counter. People come in with scissors, cut the cable ties, take the blow dryers. It's utterly amazing.
MELANIE: Oh, that is unbelievable. Okay. Go on.
GRACE: And, the other thing that goes on is they steal other things from others. So, if you are in a locker room, please lock up your things with the knowledge that number one, there are no cameras to protect you and number two, everyone's not as honest as you. If there are digital locks. This is sort of the new technology where you don't have to bring your own padlocks. There are digital lockers. Anybody who is going to steal something will use the most obvious code which is 1-2-3-4. So, try not to choose 1-2-3-4 because we've had many, many people who've had things stolen because somebody went 1-2-3-4 and the thing opens and they take what's in there.
MELANIE: Wow. That's incredible because, and I hear you say, they fill up their own little bottles, and at the nicer places, the nicer hotel fitness centers, boy, they have some beautiful amenities. Are some of the amenities like the wrapped hair brushes, the combs, the little pads, the moist toilettes, all those things that are wrapped up and in a nice little bucket. Are you allowed to take those or do you assume that they're strictly for use there. Can you take a few and shove them in your purse or is that really not cool?
GRACE: Well, in the club, they're intended for your use while you are there. It is not "take your duffel bag and dump the container in your bag". That is not the intention.
MELANIE: That is so funny. So, stealing. Number one thing. Great advice about digital lockers. Don't pick 1-2-3-4.
Now, Neil, because you work with trainers, you work, you see the desk people, you see all of the employees and things like that. Besides just the hooking up stuff, what else is going on? I mean, we don't want to say they're talking bad about members, but, of course, there's always the members that you do talk about a little bit. You can't help it.
NEIL: One of my pet peeves isn't as nefarious, perhaps, as stealing, but it is in some ways, stealing, because it's the "wanna be" trainers. It's the members that are so into fitness and they're so… It's all about what they've last read in Muscle and Fitness and Shape or whatever it is and they want to share that information. The end up actually writing training and diet programs for members.
MELANIE: Wow.
NEIL: So, they actually train people on the side. Sort of a little side gig, which is not cool in just about every club, but most clubs for sure, it's not something you want in your club and you're looking at the most ineffective, the most unsafe training, spotting. It's just wrong. I see that almost in every club. There's always somebody who, you know, is jacked out of their minds or looks really fit and everybody's like, "Oh, he must be an expert," and what he's doing is sharing the latest Mr. Olympia workout with people that really have no business trying that particular workout. So, that's really one of my pet peeves.
MELANIE: Okay, now I'm going to add in one of my own. When you have staff that works the floor at your fitness rooms or in your hotel and they're supposed to be walking around helping people, making sure, but they're secretly training some clients and you see them kind of going off with somebody and kind of looking around, making sure nobody…and then, they end up getting paid for that session while they're on club hours. I think that that probably happens more often than people would even realize. Am I right?
GRACE: Oh, yeah.
NEIL: That happens especially in clubs where you don't have active management or you don't have a floor manager, personal training manager, that kind of thing. If you have someone on the ground level managing their people and directing and tracking activities, then that usually doesn't happen too often. But, in the independent clubs where pretty much everything goes and training is not one of the things that they're driving for revenue, it's really more membership and that's about it, I do see it. I've seen it almost everywhere for that matter.
MELANIE: Now, Grace. What about in classes? Do aerobics instructors…Aerobic instructors. I'm sorry. Class instructors.
GRACE: That's okay.
MELANIE: Do they try and take classes from each other? Do they try and say, "Well, I want that most popular time at 5:00 because that's when most of the people come in for boot camp?" What happens with the instructors?
GRACE: Well, again, it depends on how well the program is managed and how the folks are selected for hire. There can be that competition for the prime time slot and the class does…This is one of my big, big pet peeves everyone who knows me knows this is part of my orientation. Do not rally the members. It really upsets me.
MELANIE: Okay. I was going to ask you about rallying the members.
GRACE: Oh, that makes me crazy.
MELANIE: I know it makes you crazy. It used to make me crazy. So, when they rally the members, the members go to the management and say, "I want this teacher teaching at 5:00 because her class is the best."
GRACE: Yes. Because this is what the employees do. They do this when they're trying to take advantage of the members in some way and that's why I dislike it so much. It's not genuine. If you're really good, let your class, let your training session speak for itself. You don't need to put people up to that. "Oh, go tell so and so how great my class was." Oh, really? You know what? When people are satisfied, they leave with a smile on their face. They don't go run over and tell 10 people. It just happens organically by itself. So, when the instructors are doing that and they're trying to sort of one-up each other and like trip each other down the stairs to get the prime time spots, you know, generally talent and good manners and good teamwork speaks for itself. I mean, that works in some gyms for a little while, but at the end of the day, the folks that are really talented will move up and the cream rises to the top.
MELANIE: You know, you two are two of my very favorite guests.
GRACE: Thank you.
MELANIE: We could talk about this subject for a very long time. But, Neil, I'm giving the last word, baby. One minute to talk about the things that go on in the club that people just wouldn't believe.
NEIL: One of the crazy discretely done things is when you have sign-up sheets for cardio equipment, because you were talking about competition for prime timeslots. You know, Mary comes in, she wants to get on the treadmill. She wants to use it for an hour, but there are 20 minute intervals and limits during the busy times, so people can get on the treadmill and Mary signs up her friend, Jean, who's not in the club and Joe hasn't been to the club in months and then, she's the first one. So, she gets on for 3 time intervals and, you know, Jean who is not there is the next one, so she's on for an hour.
MELANIE: That's a weasely move, signing up your friends.
NEIL: Isn't it, though?
MELANIE: That is such a weasely move, especially if they're not coming. Okay, guys. So, that's it for He Said, She Said. This segment: "You Won't Believe What People do in the Gyms." Absolutely true.
You know, I love this show. Train Your Body: Motivate and Perform with the American College of Sports Medicine. Right here on RadioMD.
I'm Melanie Cole. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS