Laila Facusse (left) was one of the instructors Steve met while taking classes there for 2 weeks. You can read more about her background on her Zumba profile. She also posts to her fitness blog talking about nutrition, dance, weight loss, and general well-being.

Other awesome instructors at Studio VIDA! included Gabi Mendez, and Carla (CarliBoom) Aranguren. Also, during a quick weekend in Austin between jobs he took a class with Laura Battle.

• ValSlide
• Zumba
• Laura Battle – The Dance Institute
• Strong Sarah

Steven interviews Kelly Emerson, the owner of Fit on 1st, Vancouver’s most awesome Zumba studio. He’s been going there since February 10th and really enjoys it. Coming from many hours on the Dance Dance Revolution arcade game he describes Zumba as “playing DDR on random, but instead of colored arrows you get your cues from a room full of women.”

Fit On 1st 17908 SE 1st St Vancouver, WA 98684 360-909-3331

• Steve talks about his upcoming vacation at Kahneeta (that teepee thing).
• Jason and Steve talk about geocaching & letterboxing.
• Steve talks about on the road vs. at home for workouts.
• Jason starts going back to the gym – day 2.
• They both pay homage to NewGrip gloves.
• Cory Gilday at Accel Human Performance tortures Steve with lunges on the TRX.
• Jason promises to do a Zumba class at his new gym.
• Steve talks about the upcoming Zumba interview with Kelly Emerson.
• Steve talks about Larry Winget – the Pitbull of Personal Development.
• Steve talks about reading people’s expressions (ref: Paul Ekman).
• They’re up on audioboo.com – check it out.
• Much love for the FitBook.

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Episode 41

• Step, Zumba and the New Gym
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• BodyBugg
• Body Fat meter

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Episode 41

• Step, Zumba and the New Gym
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• BodyBugg
• Body Fat meter

More show notes to come.

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Weigh In

• Steve’s Progress this Month – 360

• Jason’s Progress this Month – 229 lbs

Content!

• Steve:
  • 100 books in 2010: 5 so far, plan on catching up on the road.
  • Upcoming travel for Steven: Austin, Virginia (Kris!!), and St. Paul, MN.
  • Meetup dot com @ Sci-Fi Group: read The Time Machine, and Perdido Street Station.

• Jason:
  • Birthday party, went ice skating
  • Rollerblading at the park with my daughter while she was learning to ride her bike.

• Step Aerobics – Nancy
  • Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
    Zumba: Jennifer S., Shawna, Rachelle, Ginger G., Tiffany
    Using a mic? Visual cues? Type of music? 16 count or more freestyle?

• Accel Human Performance [d]
  Uses the TRX for group classes, machines, free weights, and kettlebells.Books read?
• LibraryThing dot Com
• Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen [d]
  As you go through the book learning Swings, Get-Ups, the Clean, the Press, and the Snatch, he takes you through intermediate steps to master the entire movement. It would be like learning how to drive a car by first practicing getting in and out of the driver’s seat. Once you have that down, you move on to the over-the-shoulder reach to retrieve your seat belt to put it on. Then the key-into-the-ignition maneuver.
• The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle [d]
  6 movements: Squat, Dead lift, Lunge, Push, Pull, Twist, and Combo Moves (the 8th movement)

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Product reviews

• Walkmeter App – Steve & Jason – [d]
  The KML links for your walk are very cool and are mapped over Google Maps. Each walk can be associated with a route, or not; there’s an ‘All Walks’ bucket that unmatched routes will go into. If you walk the same route multiple times, associating them with a route gives you best and worst times for your walk. You have the ability to start a walk, stop it for a time (going in to buy something, for example) and then start again. The walk doesn’t conclude until you hit ‘Done’ when it’s uploaded and a message sent to Twitter. We both liked this app.

• EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Backlit 3.5″ Display and Oversize Platform – Steve [d]
  Easy to read display, gives you your weight in 10ths of a pound. Wide enough to get both feet on easily. 330lb limit, so I made my sister Amanda play guinea pig.

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Weigh In

• Steve’s Progress this Month – 360

• Jason’s Progress this Month – 229 lbs

Content!

• Steve:
  • 100 books in 2010: 5 so far, plan on catching up on the road.
  • Upcoming travel for Steven: Austin, Virginia (Kris!!), and St. Paul, MN.
  • Meetup dot com @ Sci-Fi Group: read The Time Machine, and Perdido Street Station.

• Jason:
  • Birthday party, went ice skating
  • Rollerblading at the park with my daughter while she was learning to ride her bike.

• Step Aerobics – Nancy
  • Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
    Zumba: Jennifer S., Shawna, Rachelle, Ginger G., Tiffany
    Using a mic? Visual cues? Type of music? 16 count or more freestyle?

• Accel Human Performance [d]
  Uses the TRX for group classes, machines, free weights, and kettlebells.Books read?
• LibraryThing dot Com
• Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen [d]
  As you go through the book learning Swings, Get-Ups, the Clean, the Press, and the Snatch, he takes you through intermediate steps to master the entire movement.  It would be like learning how to drive a car by first practicing getting in and out of the driver’s seat.  Once you have that down, you move on to the over-the-shoulder reach to retrieve your seat belt to put it on.  Then the key-into-the-ignition maneuver.
• The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle [d]
  6 movements: Squat, Dead lift, Lunge, Push, Pull, Twist, and Combo Moves (the 8th movement)

Promo – The GeekCast

@GeekFit Twitter bot

Product reviews

• Walkmeter App – Steve & Jason – [d]
  The KML links for your walk are very cool and are mapped over Google Maps.  Each walk can be associated with a route, or not; there’s an ‘All Walks’ bucket that unmatched routes will go into.  If you walk the same route multiple times, associating them with a route gives you best and worst times for your walk. You have the ability to start a walk, stop it for a time (going in to buy something, for example) and then start again.  The walk doesn’t conclude until you hit ‘Done’ when it’s uploaded and a message sent to Twitter. We both liked this app.

• EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Backlit 3.5″ Display and Oversize Platform – Steve [d]
  Easy to read display, gives you your weight in 10ths of a pound.  Wide enough to get both feet on easily.  330lb limit, so I made my sister Amanda play guinea pig.

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Quick note regarding this episode. We recorded this episode over Skype video and will be posting the video version first with an audio version the following day. Soon we will be providing both an audio and video feed but for the time being this will have to do – Jason

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Steve - The Lightening

• Paula’s 30 Day Challenge continues to rock – stay accountable! [I'm Steve]
• Steve talks about hitting the Smith and how it kicked his butt
• Jason discusses his daily walks and how scary it is walking near his work.
• Walking with others and how annoying it is for a music / podcast listening.
• Return of the McRib! (ick!), Jason mentions In-in-Out and how awesome it is.
• Talking in mixed company we almost shared to much!
• Steve’s weight update from the month in Dallas. Treadmills, stairs and low carbs Oh My!
• Low carb is the way to go, Steve’s trying it.
• Thanksgiving recap, we both did pretty well staying away from the overeating.
• Living the Fit Life [link] [link] [link] DC’s Toughest Trainer @livinthefitlife
• The BodyBugg tweets now and its personal network
• Being scared of taking a class at the gym, neither of us have done it
• Steve mentions Zumba [link] [link]
• Jason wants to have Strong Sarah on the show. He’s very curious about Kettlebells @strongsarah [link]
• New Grip gloves Steve loves these: no bunching & no hurt!
• Internet connected scales: [Daily Burn - Wifi Body Scale] [Withings] [Body Trace] we’d love to test either of these.
• Steve wants to be able to use the Wii Fit.
• Our review of the New Balance 1906 we’re both pretty impressed with them. We both like the fact that these shoes “breathe” and have great support. We love that they are jam packed full of tech!
• Swing by the website we’ve done some redesigning!
• Audio on this recording was wonky, sorry about that!
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Steve visits the GeekFit south studios and records with Jason live in studio! Steve was also on the Fat2Fit Radio show, speaking about his Southwest Airlines overweight incident. We’ve embedded the interview but so be sure to check out their podcast too!

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• Fat2Fit Radio
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• Steve weight: 370
• Jason weight: 235
• Jason talks about walking at work
• Steve talks about going to the gym and how they are selling their equipment to stay afloat
• Steve is thinking about leaving Ballys and my join 24 Hour Fitness
• Jason shows off his Unicycle and talks about how rough it is getting back into riding one
• Steve talked about his TRX Essentials and the video he recorded (shown in the video version of this podcast episode)
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• Steve weight: 370
• Jason weight: 235
• Jason talks about walking at work
• Steve talks about going to the gym and how they are selling their equipment to stay afloat
• Steve is thinking about leaving Ballys and my join 24 Hour Fitness
• Jason shows off his Unicycle and talks about how rough it is getting back into riding one
• Steve talked about his TRX Essentials and the video he recorded (shown in the video version of this podcast episode)
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• Steve talks about travel for work and how much harder it is for a larger person
• Jason hasn’t flown in the last 2 years
• Airports go from version 1.0 to version 2.0 as you fly west
• Security woes at the airport
• Steve talks about his gym progress
• Apparently shoveling snow counts as a workout.. Jason hasn’t lived in snow yet.
• Jason is looking for work and is trying to continue his daily walks
• Jason is looking to buy some sort of attachment for dragging his 3 year old around with him while bike riding
• Playing at the park is a decent workout
• Steve spills hand sanitizer all over his desk and Jason didn’t edit it out of the show!
• Gyminee – mrxinu and mrsxinu oh yeah, jasontucker is on there as well.
• Steve compares Gyminee to another site and talks about the nutrition area of Gyminee
• Steve talks about various Challenges that Gyminee runs on their site
  • Lose 5 Pounds
  • Lose 20 Pounds
  • Couch to 5k
  • 500 Miles
  • … listen to 10 GeekFit Podcasts
• GeekFit Workout Group – parkerk, brewere, mrsxinu, herbcat, cest_la_vie, jeffreyheinen, xxloserboy76xx, bjmingle, LdyFaile, TriNorm, slpenney, pjfranz , FlyinRoe, ehogue, crysohara , jadielady, jasontucker, mrxinu
• Letter grades on gyminee
• GeekFit Tattoo, please don’t unless they are photoshopped
• Gyminee and the iPhone

Stuff We’re Checking Out:

• squawkfox.com – Printable workout sheets
• More twitter madness
• Home Body Fat Test
• Verve Energy Drink
  Steve likes the mango taste but the taste really comes out when they are VERY cold.
  72 cals for the normal and 4 cals for the diet. 1 serving per can, none of this multiplier stuff going on.

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I haven’t really talked about my involvement in the new media space all that much here on GeekFit. I’m the President of the OC Podcasters in Southern California, the group meets monthly in Costa Mesa and discusses podcasting, new media, social media and all things audio video. Tonight we have a guest that I’ve been wanting to have talk at our meeting for some time now DJ Steve Boyett who does the Podrunner Podcast. I’ve known DJ Steve Boy for a while now, we’d see each other at various LA events and at the most recent one we were talking about the unique way he got into podcasting. Steve has a unique way he got into podcasting and how he runs his podcasts and he kinda went off on his own way of putting his show together. He also pays dearly for the rights to use the music that he plays on his show. Tonight we’re going to have him talk about all of that at tonights meeting and I wanted to tell you all about it.

If you’ve ever wondered where that awesome music you listen to during your workout comes from I invite you to come watch the live stream tonight (or the archive once we release it) over at the OC Podcasters Live site. The live stream start at 7:00pm PST (-0800 UTC), tune in a bit early to catch us setting things up. Also if you have any questions you want me to relay to Steve you can leave a comment here on this blog post or you can ask him in the uStream chat yourself tonight.

http://www.ocpodcasters.com/live

Review: Healthy Choice – Fresh Mixers.

• Steve explains the problems with the box top instructions.
• Jason bashes Steve not RTFM correctly.

Garmin Forerunner 305

Podcasts Mentioned:

• For Whatever Reason
• The Life of SpaGuysWife
• Fat Guy Radio
• Podrunner

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• Steve makes hamburger meat of his rotator cuff.
• Our Natural Life Podcast.
• Mastering the crock pot for slow cooking.
• Weightbot iPhone App $1.99 – What a great looking application for something so simple.
• Audio Recorder for the iPhone.
• Jason’s new job.
• Steve mentioned Remember The Milk for remembering various tasks via email and SMS.
• Addon for google reader for RTM cow icon.
• Jason’s weight… gain
• Stress Eating
• Steve’s co-worker and his dramatic weight loss
• PodRunner
• Steve’s co-worker spreads the work of Geekfit
• Mapmywalk.com Mapmyrun.com an the new iPhone app called iMapMyRun
• Another co-worker and his tips on using Kashi TLC bars and Detour Bars as a breakfast replacement.
• Jason asks Steve if he would eat Kashi bars or Detour bars purchased from ebay. Would you?
• Jason’s dealing with work provided breakfast 2 times a week.
• Posting pictures to flickr of food we’re eating. Should we post them on geekfit?

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This episode Steve is still in an extended stay up near Seattle and Jason is holding it down in southern California as usual. The discussion kind of bounces around (hey ma, look, no script!) but we cover the following.

• Day 3 of the healthy road warrior routine. Steve talks about techniques that he has found useful in dealing with traditional hotels and extended stay hotels. He also explains the differences of the two as well as the pros and cons of each for someone wanting to lose weight.
• Jason carries Jessalyn in the pool. She’s still learning how to swim.
• 90 degree weather can die now, please.
• Water bottles that kill you? We talk about SIGG, Naglene, leaching chemical water bottles, Bisphenol-A and BPA. We also suggest some alternatives to these water bottles including steel bottles.
• Podcast Peers Award Winner Spring 2008 “Best Geek Podcast“

Steve and Jason pick up the baton and keep running with the fitness discussion.

• Steve tries to stay in shape as a road-warrior (round isn’t a shape?)
• Jason is still walking 2.5 miles/day
• Steve and Jason discuss the game plan for taking the weight back off
• Hotel workouts when the available gym sucks

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Steve and Jason are back to discuss fitness, sharing tips and techniques and name dropping some of our favorite podcasts.

• Intro
• Steve working out on the “heart attack” setting
• Walks with Jason
• Weights and walking
• Saying fit and not going to a gym
• Love Long and Prosper Podcast
• Jason recording audio an video during his walks.
  • http://www.jasontucker.us
  • http://www.utterz.com
• Jason and Steve’s I/O
  • http://www.geekfit.com/category/jasonsio/
  • http://www.geekfit.com/category/stevesio/
• Sherwood Bulletin Board
• Hillary’s Yoga Practice
• Russel Turley – Fat Guy Radio
• Fat2Fit Radio
• J Smooth – ill Doctrine – Beating the little hater
• Procrastination
• Jason talks about his method to motivate himself to walk at lunch
• Steve’s Car repairs and walking in the cold

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• Intro
• Websites/Articles
  • Stop holding the handrail.
  • 31 ways to motivate yourself to exercise
  • Yoga
    • Yoga for geeks
    • Search for Yoga Teachers
    • 4 Simple Steps to Start the Exercise Habit
    • Voicemail from Elsie talking to male students in her yoga class talking about Yoga and Men.
    • Health Vault
    • Omron-HEM-790IT-Automatic-Pressure-Management
• Product Review
  • iPod Nano case – DLO Jam Jacket with cord management
• Food
  • Kitchen bug
  • Egg Muffin

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Show Notes:

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Show Notes:

• Intro
• Steve & Jason at PME2007.
• Websites & Articles
  • http://www.healthydiningfinder.com/site/
  • Workout stuff for kids: http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk
  • http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/mrxinu/
  • http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/abstrakone/
  • GeekFood Podcast – http://geekfood.wordpress.com/ Scott Johnson and Kim talk GeekFood. Their show was on pause for a while but now they are back. Scott does The Instance Podcast and Extra Life Radio.
  • Cool thing I found: Fitocalc
• Funny Stuff
  • Can’t feel teh buuuuurrrn
• Shout-outs & Plugs
  • Fast Food Freestyle: http://jetsetshow.com/ & http://ericrey.net/
  • Chrystal’s Food Log
  • Dani’s (Truth Seekers Podcast) kick-ass progress with the gym all week.
• Outro
• PodCamp SoCal, Thursday September 27th one day before Podcast and New Media Expo

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• Podcasting acoustics
• Website relaunch with new design
• Help us out by filling out our Listener Survey
• Health and fitness webapps – Traineo & Gimme20
  • Traineo needs to add a mobile website, Gimme20 as a great mobile site.
• Smoothies & Wraps
• Personal Trainer scoping out local food places for their clients
• Coke Zero recommended by Miss Elli
• MapMyWalk.com – Great website for maping our your walks online and sharing them with others.
• Workout update
• Tips for walking and making an “escape route”
  • Jason’s daily walk at lunch on MapMyWalk.com
• Pedometers, blah… Nike’s iPod Nano Sport Kit
• Mc Griddles
• Hot Sauce tactics
• Mongolian BBQ
• Jason’s workouts and food intake
• Flavor packets for water bottles
• Steve wants a Rambo headband (underarmour has one)
• UnderArmour
• Steve at PMNE
• Chrystal’s BackPackIt
• Steve explains how to use BackPackIt for Input/Output
  
• PodCamp SoCal, Thursday September 27th one day before Podcast and New Media Expo

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Show Notes:

• Healthy eating on a cruise liner?
• Walking at lunch
• GeekFit Traineo Group
• Geeks and Yoga
  • Elsie’s Yoga Kula Podcast
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