Podcast Episode #10: Nutritional Supplements & Pill Poppin’

Ben Greenfield (0:02)

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield fitness.com podcast. This is your weekly free audio exposure to cutting edge fitness, diet, and wellness news. Hey, whether you're an Ironman triathlete, or you're just trying to shed a few pounds, this podcast is going to present you with the latest exercise and nutrition content from the nation's top experts. My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, certified nutritionist, an exercise, diet, and wellness guru. Each week, I'm going to be bringing you cutting edge fitness, nutrition, and wellness advice. Stay tuned for this week's podcast from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield, and in today's podcast, we're gonna actually be combining the listener Q&A and the interview because I received a question from a listener on this week's podcast that I think would best be answered in the way that I am going to answer it later on in this podcast. So it's some really exciting content that I think you'll find highly informational.

In addition, we'll be going over some of the new content at bengreenfieldfitness.com and a special announcement. So stay tuned and remember to listen to the new feature at the very end of this podcast where I'll be revealing a new system called Synergy.

New features and additions to bengreenfieldfitness.com and special announcements. Primarily, the main thing that you may want to know about is that I'm now giving away a free copy of the book Shape 21 Shape 21 is basically a 21 day or three week program that you go through that tells you each day what you are supposed to eat and how you are supposed to exercise. And it gradually builds you in fitness over the course of three weeks. Each day you open to the new page and it shows you your meal plan on one side, your exercises on the other side, pictures and descriptions of the exercises, next to each exercise. And then also at the beginning of each week there is a grocery list so that when you go to the grocery store you actually have in your refrigerator or pantry what you are going to need to implement a lot of the simple recipes that are in Shape 21 When I wrote this book, one of the things that I took into consideration is that everybody starts at different fitness levels. There is a beginner fitness level in Shape 21 that you would start from if you were completely sedentary, or you had broken your leg and been sitting around for two months and now wanted to start to get back into shape. The intermediate level is for the average person who maybe works out a little bit at the gym, but hasn't actually tried out a lot of the more functional free-weight and body-weight type of exercises that are a big part of Shape 21 And then the advanced routine literally is a highly intensive routine that gets you in very, very good athletic functional shape. So the main purpose of Shape 21 is to shed fat as quickly as possible while maintaining or even gaining lean muscles. It's not a bulk you up body building program.

It's also not a cardiovascular or triathlon style training program. It's basically designed to put you into the best shape of your life so that you can approach any sport, any activity, and feel like you can tackle it to the best of your capabilities.

And so why am I talking about Shape 21? Because I'm giving away free copies of it on bengreenfieldfitness.com. All you have to do is post comments on the blog or on the new forum at bengreenfieldfitness.com/forum. And I will, on August 24th, this month, at about noon, I'm going to be sending out three free copies of Shape 21 to the top three authors of any of the comments or any of the forum postings. So get on there, get some discussion going, get your chance to win a free book. That's going to give you exact day by day instructions, meal plans, recipes, cardio routines, resistance training workouts. It basically lays it all out for you in Shape 21 And I also have a pretty comprehensive FAQ section in that book. Okay, another slightly narcissistic addition to bengreenfieldfitness.com is that I now have a Twitter page. And if you're not familiar with Twitter, Twitter is almost like mini-blogging where you can send out text messages from your cell phone or from your computer that alert people to your activities. And a lot of people are using this for social networking, just to find out what their friends are doing and keep in touch. What I'm using it for is to kind of give you an insight into what a healthy life is like. And every once in a while during the day, I'll be posting a Twitter comment about a healthy meal that I've prepared, or a new restaurant that I've found that has a healthy menu, or a new brief bodyweight style workout that you can do in 10 minutes to boost your metabolism. Just little things that will allow you to learn how to live a more healthy lifestyle. So you can check that out. My Twitter page is www.twitter.com/bengreenfield. There is a link to that at bengreenfieldfitness.com in the same post where I talk about the free book giveaway, Shape 21 And then finally, for those of you who listened to the interesting podcast on recovery with Jerry White, I have started to dig into some of the things that he talked about. The first was magnetic wraps or magnetic bracelets that you can wear during competition to assist with recovery and enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to tissues during exercise, which would enhance sports performance and increase recovery while decreasing soreness. Well, I found out that Dara Torres, the Olympic swimmer, the 41-year-old Olympic swimming phenom, actually uses these magnetic wraps and bracelets. And I put up a YouTube, a really cool YouTube video of her in action, as well as a photo of her wearing the bracelet, and some links on where you can get those. So that's the new content at bengreenfieldfitness.com, and I know that all of you are on the edge of your seats wanting to know exactly what this combined Question of the Day and interview is going to be. And I'm going to reveal it right now, and then we're going to go straight into today's interview. Remember to listen in after the interview, where I'll be just talking a little bit more about a new system that I'm revealing called Synergy. Okay, so the Question of the Day was, what supplements do you take and why? A very simple question with a very complex answer. So let's go on to today's topic of the day and special content interview from bengreenfieldfitness.com. Enjoy. Hey, podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield. And like I promised, I'm going to combine this week's question with an interview because basically the question that I was asked was, what supplements do you take and why? And there are so many different supplements that I take. And I know some of you may balk at that and be a little bit critical of pill popping. But I want to actually outline and highlight the amount of supplements that I take, why I take them, and hopefully open your eyes to the supplement industry and what kind of things that we can put into our bodies that can actually have a positive effect on our bodies.