Cancer, Wellness, & The Cardio Myth – Alwyn Cosgrove
“Based on the research, aerobic exercise has a very negligible effect on body composition.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
Join us on Wellness + Wisdom 133 as we welcome sought-after fitness expert, author, and cancer survivor Alwyn Cosgrove. He shares his extensive knowledge on smart exercise, good nutrition, and how to build the internal and social support needed for our health to thrive.
Along with giving his proven strategies, Alwyn also helps us uncover our “deeper why” and core motivations to ensure we remain consistent and achieve incredible results.
Tweet ThisListen To Episode 133 As Alwyn Uncovers:
- Designing an enjoyable training program based on your personality type
- His love for boxing and background in competitive martial arts
- Spreading health through smart exercise, good nutrition, and social support
- Becoming proactive with our health care instead of waiting until we get sick
- His personal strategy for success as a trainer and gym operator
- Visualization techniques he used to recover from chemotherapy
- His journey and mindset through multiple bouts of stage 4 cancer
- How to develop a time-efficient training plan
- The power of focus and the law of attraction
- Exercise programming for introverts vs. extroverts
- How to train clients if they are logic vs. emotion based
- The most effective types of exercise to speed up metabolism
- Latest updates on cancer research.
- The importance of getting in touch with our deeper why
- How new members are integrated at Results Fitness
- Discovering our core motivations for exercise and weight loss
- How to build strong habits by starting with small achievable goals
- Implementing strategies so we don't rely on willpower alone
- The impact of steady-state cardio vs. “HIIT” training
- Learning how to redirect our negative thoughts
- The growing popularity of obstacle course races
Links From Today's Show:
- Alwyn Cosgrove:
- Results Fitness:
- Results Fitness University
- Results Fitness Internship
- T-Nation: Alwyn Cosgrove Articles
- Alwyn Cosgrove's Article “The Hierarchy of Fat Loss”
- Men’s Health: Alwyn Cosgrove Articles
- “Strong: Nine Workout Programs for Women to Burn Fat, Boost Metabolism, and Build Strength for Life” by Alwyn Cosgrove
- “Start With Why” by Simon Sinek
- Scott Iardella on Wellness + Wisdom
- The Affordable Care Act
- Usain Bolt
- Bedros Keuilian: Mastering The 4 Pillars of Happiness
- Cancer Statistics USA
- Rhonda Byrne: “The Secret”
- Brian Tracy: “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”
- The Myers-Briggs Personality Types
- Precision Nutrition
- TRX
- Spartan Race
- StrongFirst Kettlebell Certification
Power Quotes From Alwyn Cosgrove
“Find one thing you can focus on each week that takes your life to the next level.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
“Based on the research, aerobic exercise has a very negligible effect on body composition.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
“A program not followed is the same as no program at all.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
“I do very little other than things that move me towards my goals.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
“People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Alwyn Cosgrove
Alwyn's Book: “The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle“
Want to get more out of your workout and spend less time in the gym? Many guys devote so many hours to lifting weight yet end up with so little to show for it. In many cases the problem is simple: they aren't doing exercises based on the movements their bodies were designed to do. Six basic movements – the squat, deadlift, lunge, push, pull and twist – use all of the body's major muscles. And, more important, they use those muscles in coordinated action, the way they were designed to work.
The New Rules of Lifting, now in paperback and with more than one hundred photographs, gives you more than a year's worth of workouts based on these six basic movements. Whether you're a beginner, an experienced lifter looking for new challenges, or anything in between, you can mix and match the workouts to help you get bigger, stronger and leaner. In addition, the comprehensive nutritional information provided makes The New Rules of Lifting a complete guide to reaching all your goals. If you aren't using The New Rules of Lifting, you aren't getting the best possible results.
Alwyn's Book: “Strong: Nine Workout Programs for Women to Burn Fat, Boost Metabolism, and Build Strength for Life”
Forget the elliptical machine and the candy-colored Barbie weights. Female athletes are hungry for real fitness. They want to be Strong.
By now, it’s common knowledge that women can and should train the way men do. Today’s women want to be strong, with lean and athletic physiques. Fitness author Lou Schuler and renowned strength coach Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength and conditioning plan to help women burn fat and build muscle by getting them off the machines and revolutionizing how they work out.
About Alwyn Cosgrove
Born in Scotland and initially exposed to fitness training through an intensely competitive sport martial arts background, Alwyn Cosgrove began reading and studying any training related material he could get his hands on. This led Alwyn to formal academic studies in Sports Performance at West Lothian College and then progressed on to receiving an honors degree in Sports Science from Chester College, the University of Liverpool.
A sought-after expert for several of the country’s leading publications including a regular contributor to Men’s Health Magazine, Alwyn has co-authored five books in the “New Rules of Lifting” series and currently spends his time consulting on fitness training, training clients, training his staff at Results Fitness, speaking on the fitness lecture circuit, and coaching fitness trainers worldwide in their businesses. For the past 13 years, with his wife Rachel, Alwyn runs Results Fitness in Santa Clarita, California – which has been twice named One of America’s Top Gyms by Men’s Health Magazine, a gym which specializes in programs for real-world, busy people and prides itself on “changing the way fitness is done – period!”
