How to stay healthy through the holidays

219. How to safely drop 2 sizes in 8 weeks!

In this episode, Oscar Agramonte shares tips on how to drop 2 sizes in 8 weeks and achieve fat loss safely!

Oscar Agramonte is both a kung fu Sifu at the Wah Lum Temple and a personal trainer at Control Your Health. He recently began this 8-week fitness challenge with his clients. We discuss nutrition, habit building, strength workouts, and metabolic training.

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What makes a Good Kung Fu practitioner

131. What makes a good kung fu practitioner?

Sifu Mimi Chan and Sifu Oscar Agramonte on ‘What makes a good kung fu practitioner?’ Today Oscar and I sit down to discuss the characteristics that make a good practitioner. Wah Lum Tam Tai Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu is a traditional system taught by Grandmaster Pui Chan, my father.

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Brendon Rearick-physical and mental health

I am happy to welcome back Brendon Rearick of Movement as Medicine.  We discuss health inside and out. As a trainer, Brendon helps clients with their overall wellness, but also is redefining health. Today we chat about mental health and how it impacts or physical health.  

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74. Brendon Rearick on redefining health

How do you define health? I had an awesome chat with Brendon Rearick of Mike Boyle’s Strength and Conditioning and Movement as Medicine. About the need for fitness, medical, and healthcare industries to work together.  He shares his challenge with aplastic anemia and how he combated past depression.  I was inspired by his determination, strength, and honesty.  As a trainer, Brendon helps clients with their overall wellness but is also redefining health.

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51. Dr. Chad Eldridge, on moving to be pain free and love for the 80s

If you were to ask chiropractor Dr. Chad Eldridge about his practice, he would simply state his philosophy: Getting the masses off their asses.  As you can tell, Chad, is not your ordinary chiropractor.  He calls himself rather, the Movement Mechanic.  And rightly so.  His goals are to get people moving towards being pain free pain free.  The key word here being moving!  Chad does not just lay you on a table and give you a conventional adjustment, nope, at his practice you will often leave feeling as if you’ve had a 1 hour work out!  I chat with him on his methods and philosophies and how we can incorporate them in our everyday lives.  If you still haven’t kicked started your new years resolutions, listen on for some valuable information on why movement is just what the doctor ordered.

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Kevin Carr

32. Kevin Carr on strength training, coaching, and ice cream

What comes to mind when you hear the words strength and conditioning?  Does it leave you wanting to run in the other direction?  Sometimes I admit I want to run the other way, but today I sit down with Coach Kevin Carr of Mike Boyle’s Strength and Conditioning and Movement as Medicine to dispel myths and go over the reasons of why we all need both strength and conditioning.

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