According to the Arizona republic newspaper Heart Attack Grill spokesperson Blair River has died. The 6’8″ 575 pound former wrestler
died of “natural causes.’ Here’s the link to our recent interview with restaurant Founder Jon Basso
We have some exciting news to share around here!
Dr. Fitness and The Guy were recently announced as keynote speakers for FitBloggin’11 in Baltimore, Maryland!
FitBloggin’ is a conference that encourages bloggers to come together to share the desire to use technology, blogging and social media to motivate, inspire and foster a culture of health and wellness. Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy will be speaking on Saturday, May 21st, covering topics such as using the web to garner a large following, meeting and interviewing famous celebrities, and how they landed their book deal.
Tickets for the conference are still available and can be found on the official FitBloggin’11 site. To read more about the big announcement click here.
As everyone knows Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy were invited to the Healthy Living Expo in Knoxville, TN this past weekend. It was awesome. We got to hang out with some of our fans, some past guests and some of the vendors at the show.
On the night before the show began we connected with Dan Brady, who you might remember we interviewed awhile back about the NuStep Recumbent Cross Trainer that is featured on the Biggest Loser TV show. Dr Fitness, Dan, his colleague Ginny Kappler, our Producer Stone Payton and I decided to walk over to a dive Mexican restaurant called SoccerTaco for some margaritas, I mean dinner.
We have an awesome time…a lot of embarrassing stories and a lot of laughs. I mean we talked only about business stuff.
So on the first day of the show we interview Dan and Ginny and they do a great job telling us all about the NuStep. How it started in the rehab world and is now making its way direct to consumers. Listen for yourself here.
I don’t remember exactly how this happened but someone had the bright idea to do another interview but this time bring the NuStep machine to our booth and have Dr Fitness work out on the NuStep while we do the interview. You know Dr Fitness cannot pass up a chance to workout. It has been his dream since we started doing the show to workout while we do our show – and as the video attests his dream has come true.
So as you can see we had Dr Fitness sweating up a storm while we interviewed Ginny and Wes Franks from Provision Physical Therapy. Wes was familiar with the NuStep as he had used it before.
Listen To That Conversation Here.
Jack Lalanne was one of the founding fathers of the health and wellness industry. His wisdom has guided us in our journey to help people lose weight and get in shape. We were fortunate to interview Jack in 2007 (he even sang to us) and it is one of the most cherished memories we have. Rest in Peace Jack.
Great post on Freakonomics blog in New York Times about how little nudges like calorie count labels on restaurant menus, signs telling you how many calories you’ll burn walking from the last parking spot in a mall shopping center even stairs that play musical notes as you walk up and down them encourage healthy living.
Here’s the post – check out the photo’s by clicking on the link…
These stairs in Lisbon, however, address that problem by appealing to the calorie conscious.
Tags: Calorie Counter, calories, Freakonomics, restaurant
