GeekFit Podcast
Fitness for the Mind and Body. Podcast hosts: Jason Tucker and Steven Klassen discuss weight loss for geeks.
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JrMint Drops Science
Author: Steven28 Jul
Thanks to JrMint for answering the call to talk about his weightloss routine. He writes about his workout routine in his latest article:
I think a lot of people don’t realize that a lot of benefit in losing weight and working out comes from not being repetitive.
JrMint Recovers
Author: Steven16 Jul
We hadn’t heard from Minty in a while due to his lack of journal updates but yesterday he finally put pen to virtual paper. Even having been down with a surgery for a time he’s back at the gym and continuing to shed the pounds. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m inspired. Here’s an excerpt from his McBlog:
I am happy to say I hit 193.8 pounds today, thats 30 pounds of weight loss in about 7 weeks. If I hadn’t missed those 2.5 or so weeks of workouts I’m confident I’d have dropped to 190 or lower, but thats okay, just gotta stay ramped up.
Its hard to miss multiple days in a row and keep motivated. My wife hit an amazing 125 today and is still working with her trainer, she looks and feels great.
Amazing job, man. You and your wife are tearing it up in a big way. Keep it up!
JrMint Prevails
Author: Steven29 Jun
JrMint’s update says it all. He is now part of the sub-200 club. Way to go!
198.6 (finally broke 200!) and 21.8% body fat. Bitchin.
Fill the Gaps
Author: Steven27 Jun
I knew that once I stopped going out to eat when I travel that there was going to be trade offs. The up side: I’d have time to hit the gym, and I’d be eating store bought food. The down side: nearly total lack of social interaction.
My routine so far for this trip:
- wake up at 6am
- get ready for work
- have breakfast in the room
- work for 8–12 hours
- head directly to the gym
- cardio or weights, alternating days
- back to the hotel & shower
- dress in comfy clothes
At that point it’s 8 or 9pm. I figure I have 2–3 hours of time I could spend filling the gaps. On a “school night” some TV in the room, a video on my laptop, or something else I can turn off when it’s time to sleep is probably a good idea.
What about Friday night through Sunday?
Only Run When Chased
Author: Steven24 Jun
Yesterday I decided to pick up a pedometer. I was reading through the documentation this morning before attaching it to my bod and noticed it “auto adjusts from walking to running strides.”
My first thought: “only if someone’s chasing me with a large knife.”
I’ll track my steps per day and update again when I’ve gotten some details to talk about. So far I can’t hardly tell I’m wearing the thing.
Noticed Progress
Author: Steven17 Jun
There’s a particularly awesome trainer at my local Ballys. Her physique reminds me of Demi Moore in 1997’s GI Jane. The sum of our interaction since 2005 has been a wave and a smile and the occasional, “are you still using this?” when she’s training someone out on the weight room floor.
Yesterday I was laying on my back doing my ab workout and she walked right over to me.
“Want a tip?” she asked, and walked over to grab one of the half-circle balance platforms and placed it under my feet.
I had been doing leg lifts and touching my heels all the way back to the ground before pulling them back up to my chest. She put the balance platform under my heels and it made a big difference. I wasn’t bouncing when I hit the floor any more and there was a lot more control in the motion.
I thanked her for the tidbit and we got to chatting about my struggle with losing weight, what kinds of things I’d been doing, and of course, the GeekFit Podcast. She was really nice about everything; said she’d noticed how hard I’d been working and that she remembered where I was when I started at Bally years ago.
It was a really nice bit of motivation and one that was perfectly timed with me heading to Chicago for 3 weeks this Sunday. I’m armed with my national gym membership, a reservation at an extended stay, and a determination to return either 6–8 lbs lighter or 1.5 – 2% lower in body fat. It’s going to be awesome.
JrMint Continues To Dominate
Author: Steven16 Jun
Another update from McBlog on JrMint’s transformation. Keep it going!
Today marks the 30th day of my “official” start of my new workout program and my new diet. After weighing and measuring up with my trainer today, I’m totally stoked to say that I’ve lost 18 pounds (down from 220 to 202), my body fat has lowered from 28.8% to 23.2%, I’ve dropped 1.6&Prime off my waist, 1% off my neck and about a 1/2% each off all the other areas (legs, thigh, etc…). Needless to say I’m very happy, and plan on continuing on with things until I reach my first goal weight of 192 and a body fat under 20%. I’ll regroup and set new goals there.
iTunes Best of 2007 Podcasts
Author: Jason11 Dec
I’d like to congratulate our friends in podcasting. CJ from Mighty Mommy, Mignon from GrammarGirl, Adam Christianson from MacCast and Steve Boyett from PodRunner for making the iTunes Best of 2007 Podcasts.
Congrats all!
Nominations for Podcast Peer awards
Author: Jason5 Nov
Steve and I are in the running for the nominations at the Podcast Peer Awards. Wanna show your support? We’d love it if you did.
If you are a podcaster click the link below to nominate us for Health and Fitness category:
http://www.podcastpeers.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1617
Jason’s other show TuckerTales is also in the running for the Couplecast category:
http://www.podcastpeers.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1677
GeekFit has joined FarPoint Media
Author: Jason2 Oct
GeekFit has joined up with the FarPoint Media family of podcasts this week. Looks like they have a couple of other fitness podcasts in their lineup but none as geeky and as fitnessy as ours 
*edit*
A few major things have happened with FarPoint Media over the PNME weekend. They have teamed up with Podango and have some awesome things in store for us. We’ll be switching over to Podango’s hosting very soon so be on the lookout for faster download speeds and great content sent to your podcatcher!
We are now listed on FarPoint Media’s show listings as well.
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