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"A little challenge that creates easy wins for you and builds momentum has a huge impact on you." - Rob Dionne on the March Madness Challenge
We are going to start a new challenge in March to help everyone begin creating new skills! Maybe you need an extra push to help keep your New Year Intentions or want to make better choices. The main point of this challenge is to help each other build healthy skills to a point where it becomes a lifestyle.
We'll begin on Sunday, March 5 and end on Saturday, April 1.
Each week, we'll be focusing on a different area of health and wellness using apps and tools:
Learn more and join this event by simply becoming a member in our closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group.
Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) is a sulfur compound that helps build proteins in the body and is easy to absorb. It is also known as DMSO, but DMSO is typically not for human usage.
MSM contains sulfur and is found in many places, but with the typical American diet, we don't consume as much as it as we could be eating.
Because our bodies really need MSM to create proteins, it can be super helpful to include MSM powder into your daily diet.
Rob uses Ultra Botanicals - MSM Powder 4000 mg. - Joint Support - 16 oz. (454 Grams), but there are many other brands out there.
If you prefer to not take MSM supplements, you can also eat the following vegetables for the same benefits. Just make sure to buy locally grown, organic, pesticide free vegetables for the full effect!
Each Saturday at 2pm PST you can join us for our batch cooking show! Last week we made chicken salad, chicken bone broth, and two different kinds of roasted almonds: spicy roasted and chile lime roasted almonds. These two dishes and 1 snack all in just 35 minutes!
To watch and learn how to make these easy, healthy meals each Saturday, just join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast group.
Why batch cooking? It’s a great way to prepare for the week by making nutritious, delicious meals in advance. In fact, this food should last you around 3-4 days!
That's right! We have a closed Open Sky Fitness Podcast group on Facebook where you and everyone have the opportunity to talk about your health and fitness goals in a safe environment. We post workouts and start discussions about how to be strategic around finding a healthier you. Check it out!
Download Results Tracker here!
Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.
Download the OSF Food Journal Now!
We love answering questions and getting feedback from you, our listener! If you have any questions to ask us, want to share a review of the show, or tell us any suggestions for guests/topics that you think would be great to have on the show, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or Devon at devon@openskyfitness.com or you can also leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review, ask a question in the closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group and even text OSFreview to 33444 to get the link.
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon
3:00 March Madness Week 4: Relationships
6:00 What is Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) and DMSO?
8:00 Getting MSM over the counter and what Rob uses: Ultra Botanicals
9:00 How MSM has helped Rob so much with joint pain
13:00 Why MSM really works to help heal pain in the body
16:00 The benefits of MSM powder in your daily diet
16:05 1) Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
17:20 2) Collagen Synthesis
18:00 3) Glutathione
18:50 4) Dissolves scar tissue
5) Decreases inflammation
6) Increases elasticity in the body (joints, tissues, connecting joints, blood flow in veins)
19:50 7) Improves digestion
22:50 8) Skin recovery
24:20 9) Muscle Recovery
26:00 How to use MSM powder
27:50 10) Cancer treatments (Breast Cancer specifically)
28:50 11) Allergies
29:10 12) Hair growth
30:55 Foods that naturally contain MSM
31:10 Why MSM supplements are better for you than vegetables with it if you're having digestive problems
32:00 Closing comments with Rob and Devon
34:20 Open Sky Fitness Closing
To Download Rob’s FREE workout templates click below**
Ask Rob a Question or tell him what is working for you: Email Rob@OpenSkyFitness.com
To leave a Review for Rob and the Open Sky Fitness Podcast CLICK NOW! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I read each and every one of them.
Contact our amazing sound engineer Ryan? Send him an e-mail here: info@stellarsoundsstudio.com
Thanks for Listening!
Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.
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And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!
Thanks for listening/reading Episode 139: 16 Fitness Hacks to Kickstart Your Health! We hope you have gained more knowledge on how to be a healthier you!
Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review
We are going to start a new challenge in March to help everyone begin creating new skills! Maybe you need an extra push to help keep your New Year Intentions or want to make better choices. The main point of this challenge is to help each other build healthy skills to a point where it becomes a lifestyle.
We'll begin on Sunday, March 5 and end on Saturday, April 1.
Each week, we'll be focusing on a different area of health and wellness using apps and tools:
Learn more and join this event by simply becoming a member in our closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group.
"Steroids change you for life and you have to be prepared for that decision. At 19 years old, like where I was, you are not equipped to make a decision that changes your life."
On this week's episode of Open Sky Fitness, a friend of Rob's agreed to do an anonymous interview about his previous experience with taking steroids. No longer taking steroids now, he gave Rob an inside look into how he got involved in steroids, why he decided to stop taking them, and what he learned from the entire experience.
Rob and his guest also spoke about:
And most importantly, how this person plans to use his experience to help other people who are going through the same situation.
Each Saturday at 2pm PST you can join us for our batch cooking show! Last week we made chicken salad, chicken bone broth, and two different kinds of roasted almonds: spicy roasted and chile lime roasted almonds. These two dishes and 1 snack all in just 35 minutes!
To watch and learn how to make these easy, healthy meals each Saturday, just join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast group.
Why batch cooking? It’s a great way to prepare for the week by making nutritious, delicious meals in advance. In fact, this food should last you around 3-4 days!
That's right! We have a closed Open Sky Fitness Podcast group on Facebook where you and everyone have the opportunity to talk about your health and fitness goals in a safe environment. We post workouts and start discussions about how to be strategic around finding a healthier you. Check it out!
Download Results Tracker here!
Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.
Download the OSF Food Journal Now!
We love answering questions and getting feedback from you, our listener! If you have any questions to ask us, want to share a review of the show, or tell us any suggestions for guests/topics that you think would be great to have on the show, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or Devon at devon@openskyfitness.com or you can also leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review, ask a question in the closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group and even text OSFreview to 33444 to get the link.
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon
3:00 March Madness Week 3: Mental Health
6:00 The Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group
11:30 How can you get enough nutritious calories during the day when you spend most of you day out of the house?
23:30 All About Steroids
24:00 When did you begin taking steroids? How old are you now?
24:26 Why did you start to take steroids?
26:00 His size before steroids vs when he took steroids to now without steroids
31:00 Did you ever face a moral dilemma before you started taking steroids?
33:00 Do you think steroids will ever become legal?
33:20 Participating in testosterone hormone replacement therapy
35:00 What types of steroids are out there? How do you take them?
36:50 Is there a limit to taking steroids? How do you know if you're taking too much?
38:00 Is there a negative impact if you take too many steroids?
43:00 Are steroids something to you can do a couple of times or is there a drop off point?
44:00 What were the side effects that your body went through?
48:00 If you could, would you go back and recommend taking steroids to your younger self? Do you regret ever taking steroids?
52:00 Do you think the media is responsible for affecting men's body image and perception of themselves?
56:30 How much did it cost you to take steroids?
58:00 How did you keep up with your steroid use?
1:00:00 When did you decide to stop using steroids?
1:02:00 Did your body take any additional hits because of steroids? Any areas such as your kidneys or liver?
1:03:00 Was it easy to find a hormone therapy doctor?
1:06:00 Did you experience any type of depression post steroid use?
1:09:00 How many people actually do steroids?
1:13:00 Does Hollywood make it easy for its actors to have access to steroids and specific trainers?
1:15:00 How was your temperament while on and off steroids?
1:16:00 What has life been like now that you're off of steroids? What difference do you feel? How long does it take until you feel like you need to take steroids again?
1:17:30 How do steroids affect your day to day life?
1:18:30 What's next in store for you?
1:21:30 Closing comments with Rob and Devon
45:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing
To Download Rob’s FREE workout templates click below**
Ask Rob a Question or tell him what is working for you: Email Rob@OpenSkyFitness.com
To leave a Review for Rob and the Open Sky Fitness Podcast CLICK NOW! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I read each and every one of them.
Contact our amazing sound engineer Ryan? Send him an e-mail here: info@stellarsoundsstudio.com
Thanks for Listening!
Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.
Do you have any questions (and would like to hear yourself on the Open Sky Fitness Podcast)? Click on the link on the right side of any page on our website that says “Send Voicemail.”
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!
Thanks for listening/reading Episode 139: 16 Fitness Hacks to Kickstart Your Health! We hope you have gained more knowledge on how to be a healthier you!
Please leave us a review at openskyfitness.com/review
"A little challenge that creates easy wins for you and builds momentum has a huge impact on you." - Rob Dionne on the March Madness Challenge
We are going to start a new challenge in March to help everyone begin creating new skills! Maybe you need an extra push to help keep your New Year Intentions or want to make better choices. The main point of this challenge is to help each other build healthy skills to a point where it becomes a lifestyle.
We'll begin on Sunday, March 5 and end on Saturday, April 1.
Each week, we'll be focusing on a different area of health and wellness using apps and tools:
Learn more and join this event by simply becoming a member in our closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group.
"Most people don't realize how little they have to do in order to start living a healthy life." - Rob Dionne
We're already on our second week of the March Madness Challenge! This week is all about fitness and Devon and I sharing 16 easy, simple hacks to help you get a jump on creating a healthier you.
Try to add 1-2 of these 16 fitness hacks to your routine each week to help you get healthy:
"You can create a community and surround yourself with a group of friends who want to do the same activities as you." - Rob Dionne
Each Saturday at 2pm PST you can join us for our batch cooking show! Last week we made chicken salad, chicken bone broth, and two different kinds of roasted almonds: spicy roasted and chile lime roasted almonds. These two dishes and 1 snack all in just 35 minutes!
To watch and learn how to make these easy, healthy meals each Saturday, just join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast group.
Why batch cooking? It’s a great way to prepare for the week by making nutritious, delicious meals in advance. In fact, this food should last you around 3-4 days!
That's right! We have a closed Open Sky Fitness Podcast group on Facebook where you and everyone have the opportunity to talk about your health and fitness goals in a safe environment. We post workouts and start discussions about how to be strategic around finding a healthier you. Check it out!
Download Results Tracker here!
Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.
Download the OSF Food Journal Now!
We love answering questions and getting feedback from you, our listener! If you have any questions to ask us, want to share a review of the show, or tell us any suggestions for guests/topics that you think would be great to have on the show, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or Devon at devon@openskyfitness.com or you can also leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review, ask a question in the closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group and even text OSFreview to 33444 to get the link.
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon: Learn about who Devon is!
2:30 Join our March Madness Challenge!
3:20 The Paleo Diet: What do you eat to follow it?
7:00 Facebook question: How do you find vegetables when you live somewhere where they're not available year-round (Alaska, Canada)?
12:00 16 Fitness Hacks to Kickstart Your Health Goals
12:45 1) Get your fitness out of the way and do it in the morning.
14:30 2) Schedule in your workout or other activity you want to accomplish
15:00 3) Keep your workout short if you're just starting out.
18:00 4) Do short workouts during commercials when you're watching TV alone or with your family
19:10 5) Make a date with your friends to hold yourself accountable
20:20 6) Drink a bit of caffeine i.e. coffee, green tea, matcha, maca powder, but not a pre-workout drink which has too much caffeine to help pick you up before a workout.
21:40 7) Do little workouts while completing tasks: calf raises in line, wall sits while your brush your teeth, park far from a store or your workplace.
23:00 8) Outsource and hire someone to help you: a professional nutritionist, personal trainer, or join a class
25:10 9) Stick to one program and see it through till the end.
26:50 10) Start simple workouts to get fit
29:15 11) Kill two birds with one stone: Listen to audio books or podcasts only when you work out.
31:15 12) Keep an extra set of workout clothes in your car to take advantage of the opportunities you have to go work out.
32:30 13) Combine cardio and lifting workouts together
34:20 14) Do a 10-20 minute cardio exercise right after you lift
35:50 15) Join a community that helps you stay on track with your fitness goals.
36:45 16) Sign up for something to challenge yourself: 5k, 10k, triathlon, etc.
38:00 Closing comments with Rob and Devon
45:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing
To Download Rob’s FREE workout templates click below**
Ask Rob a Question or tell him what is working for you: Email Rob@OpenSkyFitness.com
To leave a Review for Rob and the Open Sky Fitness Podcast CLICK NOW! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I read each and every one of them.
Contact our amazing sound engineer Ryan? Send him an e-mail here: info@stellarsoundsstudio.com
Thanks for Listening!
Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.
Do you have any questions (and would like to hear yourself on the Open Sky Fitness Podcast)? Click on the link on the right side of any page on our website that says “Send Voicemail.”
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!
Thanks for listening/reading Episode 139: 16 Fitness Hacks to Kickstart Your Health! We hope you have gained more knowledge on how to be a healthier you!
Please leave a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review
We are going to start a new challenge in March to help everyone begin creating new skills! Maybe you need an extra push to help keep your New Year Intentions or want to make better choices. The main point of this challenge is to help each other build healthy skills to a point where it becomes a lifestyle.
We'll begin on Sunday, March 5 and end on Saturday, April 1.
Each week, we'll be focusing on a different area of health and wellness using apps and tools:
Learn more and join this event by simply becoming a member in our closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group.
"Your relationship with food directly comes from your family. What you eat now is a mirror image of what kind of diet you had as a child." - Rob Dionne
On this week's episode of Open Sky Fitness, Rob and Devon discuss generational nutrition. They explore how parents can influence their child's future eating habits and what we can do as parents to help the entire family get healthy and make good choices.
Without even realizing it, our own eating habits may have been passed down to us from our grandparents and parents. What we ate as a child and maybe even now can go generations back. Fortunately, we have the awesome opportunity to stop the poor nutrition pattern and transition into something better.
"In American culture, we just think that when we're hungry, any type of 'food' can sustain us and that 'food' could be labeled as many things that are processed. But food is supposed to nourish you. It's supposed to feed you; it's supposed to give you vitamins, minerals, macronutrients, and micronutrients." - Devon Dionne
Our nutrition habits might not only be based on what our grandparents cooked for our parents. Time and convenience can play a huge role as well.
In a two-parent household where both parents work or a single-parent household, no one may have the time or energy to buy ingredients, prepare the meal, and clean up the plates. That's when convenient foods like ordering out pizza or picking up fast food can become part of the regular routine.
We can easily associate food with good memories or bad memories. A good memory might be baking cookies with your mom or watching someone prepare a delicious meal. A bad memory could be a parent who decides to drink alcohol rather than deal with their emotions and properly take care of themselves.
Child learn from listening and watching their parents actions. So depending on the relationship that they had with food and beverages, we either may have the same relationship or it impacts us in a different manner.
"Be realistic and give yourself self-love. It takes work and focus to change. It can be hard because this is a life change." - Devon Dionne
To start, don't be too hard on yourself because none of this is your fault. You may not have received the right information about health when you were younger, but now you can take action and turn your life around.
If you've followed yo-yo diets throughout your life, you need to realize that being healthy is for life. Be realistic and nice to yourself because it takes small steps and creating good habits to get in the best shape of your life. It doesn't happen overnight with a "magic diet or pill."
"You can't learn to be healthy unless someone teaches you how to do it." - Rob Dionne
"If you haven't learned to have a healthy mindset from your family or your school, where do you learn it from? Go seek a professional that can help. Choose someone who has spent time in school learning about how to teach people how to have a healthy thought process about themselves." - Devon Dionne
Each Saturday at 2pm PST you can join us for our batch cooking show! Last week we made chicken salad, chicken bone broth, and two different kinds of roasted almonds: spicy roasted and chile lime roasted almonds. These two dishes and 1 snack all in just 35 minutes!
To watch and learn how to make these easy, healthy meals each Saturday, just join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast group.
Why batch cooking? It’s a great way to prepare for the week by making nutritious, delicious meals in advance. In fact, this food should last you around 3-4 days!
That's right! We have a closed Open Sky Fitness Podcast group on Facebook where you and everyone have the opportunity to talk about your health and fitness goals in a safe environment. We post workouts and start discussions about how to be strategic around finding a healthier you. Check it out!
Download Results Tracker here!
Click To Download Home Workout Templates or text the word, "lifting," to 33444 to download the templates.
Download the OSF Food Journal Now!
We love answering questions and getting feedback from you, our listener! If you have any questions to ask us, want to share a review of the show, or tell us any suggestions for guests/topics that you think would be great to have on the show, just email Rob at rob@openskyfitness.com or Devon at devon@openskyfitness.com or you can also leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review, ask a question in the closed Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group and even text OSFreview to 33444 to get the link.
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon
2:30 Join our March Madness Challenge!
7:00 Family Trends and Generational Nutrition
9:00 How we can get caught up in an unhealthy cycle like our parents
12:00 New information can be exhausting, but you have to be willing to make the change.
14:00 Rob's nutrition and typical dinner when he was a child.
17:10 How do families begin to create these habits and what are they?
20:00 The eating habits Devon's family had when she was growing up
22:00 Why we need to teach children to eat nutritional foods
25:00 How our family relates to food
32:00 How do we change the course and start feeling valuable and that we deserve to be healthy?
33:45 Where to begin to get healthy
44:10 Closing comments with Rob and Devon
45:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing
To Download Rob’s FREE workout templates click below**
Ask Rob a Question or tell him what is working for you: Email Rob@OpenSkyFitness.com
To leave a Review for Rob and the Open Sky Fitness Podcast CLICK NOW! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show and I read each and every one of them.
Contact our amazing sound engineer Ryan? Send him an e-mail here: info@stellarsoundsstudio.com
Thanks for Listening!
Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.
Do you have any questions (and would like to hear yourself on the Open Sky Fitness Podcast)? Click on the link on the right side of any page on our website that says “Send Voicemail.”
And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!
Thanks for listening/reading Episode 137 with Autumn Calabrese: Moving Forward and Staying Strong! We hope you have gained more knowledge on how to be a healthier you!