41 Strength Care Is Health Care

The InForm Fitness Podcast

Strength care is health care! Building muscle throughout your lifetime has many more benefits than just burning fat so you can look good and maintain your functionality.

Mike Rogers shares intimate details of how building muscle can actually assist you in staving off disease and quite possibly even save your life.

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41 Strength Care Is Health Care Transcript

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

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SPEAKERS

Sheila, Tim Edwards, Mike, Adam

Sheila 00:05

Strength is health. It's just the truth. And with the whole thing going on with the health care system, you have to take your health into your own hands and this is something you can do for yourself. That's going to be such great benefit as you age. And it's not like taking over your life. You know, it's just like brushing your teeth, which Adam you know, has referred to before. And I'm always telling people this strength care we call it strength care.

Tim Edwards 00:40

Episode 41 of the inform fitness podcast with Adam Zickerman and Friends welcome inform nation. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network. Joining us across town at her place is Sheila Melody, the co owner of the Toluca Lake Burbank location of Inform fitness. Hello, Sheila.

Sheila 00:56

Hey, how's it going?

Tim Edwards 00:57

And of course, across the country, we've got Adam Zickerman, the founder of inform fitness with his general manager of the Manhattan location, Mike Rogers. So the four of us back together again. And before we jump into Episode 41, Adam, we received an interesting Facebook share from our last episode.

Adam 01:14

Yeah, this is cool. I really like this, I got excited about this. It says here, an excellent podcast by the guys that inform Fitness on why functional training is dangerous. What's great about this episode to me is that it makes clear that life is already fraught with danger, that every day every week, and every month, we are putting our bodies especially our joints and soft tissue in precarious positions. So by doing functional, quote, unquote movements in the gym, we are adding to the stress and risk not preventing it. Inside the gym, you want to be moving in the safest and most biomechanically correct way so that you can strengthen your muscles without further stressing your soft tissue. I've read and studied many great things over the years on the subject, but this 20 minute podcast is perfect for the average person who just wants to be healthy, doesn't want to injure themselves, and doesn't have the time and interest in all the underlying science.

Tim Edwards 02:07

That's great. We appreciate whomever did share that. And of course, we invite inform nation to, you know, follow us on Facebook go to inform fitness in your Facebook search bar, it'll come right up and you'll see a lot of great informative and entertaining posts in addition to every podcast episode

Adam 02:23

can I mention who's who sent this?

Tim Edwards 02:25

Of course Yeah, for sure.

Adam 02:25

I don't know the person's name. I guess I can figure it out. Oh, just the it's a Facebook post. who shared our podcast It's exercise dose, exercise dose on Facebook,

Sheila 02:40

is it a blog or another facility

Adam 02:43

he's uh, looks like he's a trainer in Tennessee or gym in Tennessee, in the Tennessee area.

Tim Edwards 02:49

Exercise dose, thanks so much for the share, we appreciate that.

Adam 02:52

Based on some of the friends that I see that we share, he's definitely involved in the high intensity world, I can tell. So he's been doing that he's a high intensity trainer or gym owner. And he's been listening to the podcast. So I appreciate that exercise dose, whoever you are

Tim Edwards 03:07

got them on their Facebook page. Now it said their banner says if it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. And we certainly subscribe to that. So appreciate the share there. Yeah, matter of fact, I'm looking at it right now. He shared it on his page or her page so much appreciate it. Team, how you been? It's been a few weeks since we've all been together here in summer Sheila, what you've been doing with your time?

Sheila 03:28

Well, as I was mentioning on our last podcast, I am in the midst of starting my own path with a nutritionist. And it's been four weeks. And it's been a journey. And you know, I can talk more about it. But on another podcast. It's it's definitely a journey. And I'm excited about it and already making some progress. So good news.

Tim Edwards 03:52

congrats. Looking forward to hearing more about that. And I know that Mike, we spoke the last time we were all together. Your dad was having some issues can ask how your father's doing?

Mike 04:00

Yeah, I'm glad you asked. Because it's part of why I want to discuss on this podcast today. It kind of echoes some of the things that we've talked about in the past in regards to cardio, and but I let me just give everyone a little bit of backstory about what's going on. Most of my dad, he's about to be 78 years old. He's had a tremendous amount of health issues throughout his life. He's actually had a triple bypass. He's had a FEM pop bypass. He's had diabetes, diabetic ulcers. He's had an aortic aneurysm. Recently, he has three heart attacks. I mean, this guy's the Iron Man. I mean, 30 years of alcoholism. 20 years of smoking, hip replacements, knee replacements. I mean, I hope he lives forever, but he kind of should have, you know, left us about 20 years ago. He keeps fighting and and he's actually not the Iron Man. He's actually his name is Steve Rogers so you could say he had, he's Captain America. But anyway, um, you know, today I spoke with him and you know, he's he's okay, he's relatively stable, but there's some, there's some issues at hand and, and it in some ways, it took a few beliefs that I have already had that we already know about. But it put it into super mega high def technicolour about the importance of strength training with supporting your body, and when it's under a tremendous amount of stress and when it needs when it needs its muscle. And sometimes I think we forget about the relationship between muscle and how it supports the rest of our body. So most recently, I'm not going to go into every detail, but he had a his third heart attack recently was a mild one, right after he had surgery for a an aortic aneurysm. And he needs a stent, he had a heart attack, he needs a stent, and he needs a va...