The FitCast Episode 3 is Up!!

Download Here: TheFitCast003.mp3 (Right-Click and Save-as)

Hosts:

• Kevin Larrabee- Health Promotion and Fitness Student
• Dr. John K. Williams: Co-Author of Gourmet Nutrition and also Precision Nutrition
• Keith Suthammanont- Creator of Redefinitions.net

Coming up on Episode 3 of the FitCast

• NEWS/Articles of the week
• Roundtable on Supplements (whey, creatine, what ever you use for supplements.
• Part II of the interview with Craig Ballantyne

Things to quickly go over

• The FitCast on iTunes, Odeo, Podcast Alley
• Tunes, FitCast
• Trying to keep the show under an hour
• Tell your neighbors tell your friends, while you are at the gym, in the office, SPREAD THE WORD OF THE FITCAST!!!
• Possibility of no FitCast next week

Protein Shake of the week

NEWS

Salads or Not, Cheap Burgers Revive McDonald’s (NY TIMES)

• $1 menu has created a resurgence for McDonanlds
• Currently 36 months of consecutive months with sales growth
• Revenue up 33%
• 4 Years ago McDonalds was going no where
• Then got attention with healthier menu options, but it is the cheap unhealthy foods like Double Cheese Burgers and McChickens
• 50 salads to 400 Double Cheese Burgers
• “Restaurant advertising looks very fun and social,” Ms. Schneider said. “But fast-food ads don’t show you what happens when you’re in your 40’s and your cholesterol’s high and your heart has to work really hard to pump.”
• When was the last time you ate at McDonalds? What did you get?
• Do people have their eye’s and ears closed?
• Supersize Me, Fast Food Nation
• Dollar Menu, can’t they make a $1 serving of salad?

Fitness thrust worries schools

• Article coming from Tennesee, one of the most obese states
• Proposal is 90 minutes of required physical activity each week.
• One of the concerns with the program is that it would make it hard in concerns with the current curriculum and meeting all requirements and mandates.
• Can we find a balance of academics and physical fitness?
• Again this all starts at home, the habits they are learning from your parents.
• Quote: “If we don’t attack childhood obesity, we will pay the price in premature deaths, extraordinary health care costs and frightening tax increases,” said Sen. Roy Herron, D-Dresden. chairman of the Select Committee on Children and Youth and a sponsor of the legislation.

Two Small stories I wanted to quickly go over…

50 Cent to Promote Nutrition Torwards Children

• Rapper 50 Cent has joined forces with the fitness expert Jorge Cruise to help improve children’s eating habits in the US.
• The pair are offering a $100,000 scholarship for students who submit healthy recipes to their Free Lunch Money website during the month of May.
• 50 strives to be a good nutritional role model for his son and makes sure the house is stocked with healthy food choices.
• It is really nice to see a major celebrity promoting healthy living instead of biting into a Big Mac right after a basketball game, in a commercial of course.

Fitness on Fast Track with Gilbert Arenas, Washington Wizards Star

• Two Parts of video where Gilbert goes over his workouts in a little bit of detail
• It was just something interesting that I found online that you should check out if you are interested in an NBA players in season workout and habits.

Round Table: Supplements

• We will be talking about popular supplements
• What supplements we use commonly
• What supplements are B.S.
• Where do you go to buy your supplements?

1 on 1 Interview with Craig Ballantyne: Part II

I just want to say thank you again to Craig for doing the 1 on 1. He is truely a great guy and one of the best fitness experts in the world.
Links To Craig’s Sites:
www.cbathletics.com
www.turbulencetraining.com
www.grrlathlete.com
www.undergroundnutrition.com

Links We Mentioned:
alwyncosgrove.com
jpfitness.com
vitaminshoppe.com
bulknutrition.com
bodybuilding.com

Hope you enjoyed the show!!

-Kevin