Dr. Fitness & the Fat Guy

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Dr Melina Jampolis has a new book out titled The Calendar Diet

Dawn and Ryan Holman created the Out Tri iPhone app for triathletes

Samantha Clayton makes awesome exercise dvds and fitness videos.

Interview with Christine Avanti

Interview with Jackie Warner

Jimmy Gohsman with the Dirty Girl Mud Run explains why you should run this muddy 5k.

Kathy Smith has a new exercise dvd Ageless with Kathy Smith: Total Body Turnaround

Matt Robinson talks about 1 million participants worldwide in the Warrior Dash.

 Sarah Neukom from the Great Urban Race

Jim Laughlin from Life is Good Playmakers.

Katy Widrick is the Executive Producer of Growing Bolder TV and Growing Bolder Radio

We opened the show with Stacey Lei Krauss with Will Power Method.

We interview Pam O'Brien from Fitness Magazine.

Hungry Girl Lisa Lillien is finishing up her new book. 

Derrick Smith explains why a Run For Your Lives zombie run is better than a regular 5k

We opened the show with Andrea Metcalf star of Naked Fitness and host of Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is reality TV show. 

We closed the show with Alexis Eldridge with Yogurtland.

Billy Blanks Jr has a new exercise dvd titled Fat Burning Hip Hop Mix

Healthy Skeptic Robert J Davis has a new book Coffee Is Good For You.

 Jimmy Pena with PrayFit exercise dvd

 Nordic Naturals educator Stuart Tomc talked about dietary supplements and omega 3 testing.

We closed the show with Coach Nicole Nichols from SparkPeople who has a new exercise dvd out

We opened the show with David Roddenberry co-founder of HealthyWage. 

 Ellen Barrett shared some new Year's Resolution tips and some information about her new exercise dvd

Dr Cory Kidd invented a robot to help you lose weight called Autom. 

Our guest was Elisabeth Halfpapp from Exhale Spa.  Did you know that her husband Fred DeVito was a distant relative of Danny DeVito from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Taxi? In fact Fred taught Danny’s kids how to swim. Elisabeth came on to talk about her new Core Fusion PowerSculpt Exercise dvd. This is the 9th exercise dvd in the Core Fusion series. This one features five 10 minute workouts that you do separately or together. This features a stronger yoga flow with weights plus a core workout, stretching and some cardio. Elsiabeth gave us some behind the scenes look at what it takes to produce an exercise dvd. Plus she shared some stories about her Thanksgiving in the Hamptons which was highlighted by a flag football game in which she competed against and talked smack with none other than Alec Baldwin.

We opened with Bryan Pate, co-founder of ElliptiGo the hot new low impact outdoor exercise device

We closed the show with Reggie Ramsey from Healthways who talked about their new Blueprint to Quit smoking cessation program.

We were happy to have on our good friend Denise Austin on again. She talked about her new exercise dvd titled Sculpt and Burn Body Blitz which Denise said was her toughest workout dvd ever. Denise also shared some nice stories about her fitness mentor Jack LaLanne, who sadly passed away earlier this year. She still stays in touch with Jack’s wife and spoke at the ceremony celebrating his life. Katie Scharf from the Strength in Moms blog joined us in the studio and it was fun to hear her suck up to Denise.

 Phil Southerland, founder of Team Type 1 also joined us in the studio.

We closed the show with Reggie Ramsey from Healthways.  Reggie will be one of Dr Fitness’ teammate when he does the Ragnar Relay next week in Tennessee. Healthways is a cool company that does lots of things in healthcare but they do the Well-Being Index with the Gallup Organization as well. Reggie shared some more tips about running the Ragnar and he explained how the race has helped his company stay compliant with exercise.

We opened the show with the legendary  Billy Blanks . Did you know he has sold over 100 million copies of his Tae Bo exercise dvds all over the world? Amazing. Billy has been in Japan for the last 3-4 years and he has developed a new program called PT 24/7. He saw the need for a stress relief program in Japan as they did not have the weight issues that we have here so he developed his program to help lower stress – but guess what you also get in great shape and lose weight as a bonus. He is going down to Tampa soon to try and break the World Record for most kickboxers in a class to help raise money for the National Autism Association

 Our guest was SparkPeople cookbook author Meg Galvin

What a treat – we go to interview Tamal Dodge star of Element: Hatha & Flow Yoga for Beginners. Tamal was literally brought up with yoga. His yoga studio in LA is a sight to behold – it is 7000 square feet of yoga nirvana – check it out when you are on the West Coast.

Ben Wagner from LifeKraze.

Tanner Bell co-founder of theRagnar Relay explained why we might enjoy a 200 mile long relay race

 Pete Williams is the Race Director for the Bare Dare 5K.

Katy Widrickshared some inspirational stories from the Growing Bolder TV show and website

 Kathy Smith has a new fitness dvd to talk about

The folks at Do or Die Fitness have a great new product to make your next exercise workout pain-free. 

Dr Fitness almost gets run over by a bike when running. The Fat Guy Family Fitness update. And Katie Scharf from Strength in Moms joins us in the studio 

Our first guest was Dr Barbara Bushman the lead author of the ACSM’s Complete Guide To Fitness and Health. This book translates scientific fitness information into laymen’s terms. She explained the importance of exercise and gave great examples of specific ways exercise can improve your health and your life. This is a new resource from the American College of Sports Medicine that should be on your bookshelf.

We closed the show with registered nurse Candice Rosen whop wrote the book – The Pancreatic Oath. She explained the importance of checking your blood sugar levels in order to determine which foods you should avoid and which foods you should eat more of. In her opinion we are all pre-diabetic and we should treat ourselves as such.

Our good friend Joan Denizot came on to tell us about how her Super Sized bikes have helped someone lose 300 pounds. She regularly gets emails from customers who have lost 100+ pounds. Her bikes are made for people over 300 pounds and can hold someone over 750 pounds. To learn how to get your own Super Sized Cycles please go to her website.

Eating Well magazine Editor Nicci Micco talks about what is in this month's issue - The Georgia Peach cover...

Norbie Lara and Ray Upshaw talk about the Tough Mudder and the Wounded Warrior Project.

Our guest today was Karen Jashinsky. She came back to tell us about the new MaxUFitness program she is starting in colleges. She is looking for Ambassadors to help her help college kids stay in great shape and to prevent the dreaded Freshman 15 pound weight. If you are in college and want to learn more about the ambassador program go to Karen’s website or reach out to her on Twitter at @maxufitness

Liz Neporent gave us some of her best running tips.

We interviewed body builder Lee Labrada and he said to be his friend on Facebook at Labrada Nutrition