20 minute fitness by 20 Minute Fitness

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast, we have Andrew Herr, Founder & CEO of Fount. Before building his company, Andrew was running human performance & biotech strategy for the US military for 7 years, which is where the idea for Fount came from.

We're finally back on the pod with a brand-new episode! We had the pleasure to sit down with Rob Sebastian, Founder of Forward, and discuss everything healthcare. Rob and his co-founder started Forward 6 years ago with the massive goal of rebuilding healthcare for the entire world.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we are bringing back a conversation with Shane Heath, the Founder of MUD/WTR, a company that aims to change your usual morning ritual. Probably most of us drink one or two (or more) cups of coffee in the morning. However, coffee addiction and the hundreds of milligrams of caffeine consumed every day can really have a negative impact on your health and well-being. This is what Shane experienced as well as what led him to create a healthier alternative to coffee.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we go back to a conversation we had with the Co-Founders of a microbiome company that uncovers some very interesting but largely overlooked facts about the organisms in your gut. Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum and Afif Ghannoum, father and son, have built BIOHM together in the hope of educating people about the role that bacteria and fungi play in our microbiome, testing their microbiome health, and providing actionable recommendations.

Are you having trouble sleeping? Do you feel tired and low on energy during the day? Well, you came to the right place then, because this week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we are bringing back our conversation with Jeff Kahn, the Co-Founder & CEO of RISE.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we are revisiting a very special episode from 2020: a discussion with the Founder & CEO of WHOOP, Will Ahmed.

The question is why shouldn't you exercise, it is one of the greatest forms of self-improvement!  Doing physical activity has so many positive effects on both your mental and physical health and should be included in your weekly routine.

This week on the podcast, delivered part 2 of our Ins and Out of Nutrition for weight loss. Check out Part 1 if you haven’t already, in which we went over the basics (calculating TDEE, planning your diet, and macronutrients).

This week on the podcast we began our next 2 part series, this time surrounding the Ins & Outs of Nutrition From the Context of Weight Loss. In Part 1 we cover the very basics such as; what actually is weight loss, how to plan your diet for weight loss, and a few tips and tricks to make the ride easier.

As promised, today we're back with part 2 of our episode on circumference measurements. For anyone who has yet to listen to part 1, I would definitely recommend going back and doing so. For a quick recap this is what we covered in part 1:

I’m sure signing up for a gym membership or starting a new diet in the pursuit of becoming healthier sounds familiar to you all. Well, would becoming healthier make you look better? In fact what even is looking better?

This week we have a spectacular (pun intended 😉) episode of the podcast. We had the pleasure of welcoming Jason Belvill onto the show. Jason is the co-founder of BodySpec (more about their body of work later).

This week we have a very special episode of the podcast. We had the grand pleasure of welcoming Professor Viren Swami onto the podcast. He is a professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK and Perdana University in Malaysia, with his current area of focus being on body image and how we can promote healthy body image across the population.

This week on the podcast we were joined by Tom Kiss, CEO & Co-Founder of mindful food journaling app Ate (formally Youate).

This week on the podcast we welcomed Sam Cole - CEO & Founder of FitXR. FitXR is a fitness company that has been making use of the powers of VR technology to provide a completely immersive workout experience for the past 5/6 years.

This week on the podcast we welcomed Spencer D'Amelio, Chief Product Officer of Cronometer. As the CPO of Cronometer he is involved in everything from the design of new features all the way to executing sales to enterprise clients.

This week on the podcast we welcomed David Roddenberry, who makes it clear how you can make money through losing weight. David, a Harvard, LSE, and Oxford grad is the co-founder of HealthyWage, a company that gamifies getting in better shape. They paid out pound losers over $6 million in 2021 alone and $55 million since its inception.

Today we welcome Nick Rowe on the show. Nick is a good friend of the podcast and someone we’ve worked alongside for the past 6 months to structure some awesome fitness challenges, all for the sake of science!

This week on the podcast we spoke to Nick Shaw, co-founder and CEO of Renaissance Periodization. Nick is a former competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter with 10+ years of online coaching experience. He has coached world-class athletes, including CrossFit Games Champions, international medalists, Olympians, UFC fighters, professional athletes, and Navy SEALs.

This week on the podcast we talk to Herman Pontzer, who is an evolutionary anthropologist and a professor at Duke University. Within this field, Herman’s main interest lies in researching how our evolutionary past has shaped our bodies and how it affects the way our bodies work in today’s modern world.

This week on the podcast we talked to Dr. Ethan Weiss, an academic physician-scientist at UCSF. Dr. Weiss is specializing in cardiology with a focus on the prevention of disorders of the heart and blood vessels.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast Nick and Martin discuss Nick's month-long cutting phase challenge. Nick has been partaking in various month-long fitness challenges here at Shape, documenting his journey with ShapeScale.

This week on the podcast we had the pleasure to sit down with one of the most influential people in the science of human behavior, BJ Fogg. Growing up in a family and culture that revolved around optimizing yourself, BJ naturally became interested in behavioral science at an early age.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we're experimenting with a new format: a book review discussed between Martin and another Team Shape member, Nick. They talk about an extremely fascinating book, The Hungry Brain, which explains the foundation behind our neurological & physiological responses to food cues.

This week on the show we talk to Matt Fitzgerald, an endurance coach, author & nutritionist. Matt is a lifelong athlete who got into running at an early age as he was inspired by his dad. After college, he felt he completely burnt out and would never run again. However, his next career choice led him to as a writer with an endurance sports magazine, which got him back to running.

This week on the podcast we welcome Melissa Urban, who is the Co-Founder of the popular Whole30 program. Melissa Co-Founded Whole30 over 10 years ago now and has written 8 books on the topic. As you'll hear from our discussion with Melissa, the Whole30 program is not a diet and focuses on more long-term health and lifestyle improvements than weight loss.

This week on the podcast we're back with the 5th episode of Martin's transformation series. After he successfully hit his weight loss goals, Martin has changed gears in terms of fitness directions. However, before focusing on his Q3 objectives in more detail, we wanted to discuss a very important topic, which is body composition tracking.

This week on the podcast we had the pleasure to sit down with Dr. Bret Scher, who is the Medical Director of Diet Doctor and the host of the Diet Doctor Podcast. After Dr. Scher started practicing as a general cardiologist he quickly realized he wasn't having the impact he wanted to have and how broken our healthcare system was.

This week the podcast is all about tracking. Martin is a big believer in Peter Drucker's philosophy of " What you don't measure you can't manage" and hence tracking has played a major role in his transformation. Tracking has two main levels: 1) day-to-day tracking, which includes things like nutrition, exercising, and sleep; 2) benchmark tracking which is all about body composition and measuring your progress.

This week on the show we welcomed someone whose background is not in health, fitness or science but still ended up in the industry with his latest passion project. Jason Roberts, the Founder of NURVV, a smart insole company, is behind the one of the world's largest mobile case manufacturers, which interestingly enough led him to making a wearable.

This week on the show we're back with Martin's transformation story. In our previous episodes we talked about accountability, motivation and how he started his journey in 2020. And this time we will focus on his 2021 goals, and nutrition & exercising efforts.

This week on the podcast we welcome Dr. Joseph Antoun, who is the CEO & Chairman of the Board of a company behind a revolutionary fast mimicking diet. While most of today's healthcare is takes a reactive approach and tries to treat people after they are already sick, Dr. Antoun, MD, PhD has always been more interested in preventive medicine. After 20 years, his fascination with human longevity has led him to fasting and its great benefits and the founding of the first longevity product ProLon.

Today we're back to continue Martin's body transformation journey and this time the spotlight is on nutrition. As you can imagine Martin had a few unhealthy habits and dietary choices pre-weight loss that really contributed to gaining those pounds. Since nutrition is even more important when it comes to losing weight than exercising, he knew he had to change these.

This week on the show we welcome one of ShapeScale's earliest supporters and investors, Carel van Apeldoorn. Carel made some big changes in his life at the start of the pandemic, making a commitment to running for an hour every day.

This week we continue the story of Martin's body transformation along with the advice that he has to offer based on his personal experiences. In this episode, we talked about accountability, personal and more importantly various accountability groups as well as different types of motivators.

This week we welcomed back Robb Wolf on the show, but this time, the conversation revolved around a completely different topic: his book that he Co-Authored with Diana Rodgers, the Sacred Cow. Martin started off the conversation with a personal anecdote of his vegan years and why he had to transition back to an animal-based diet. 

This week on the podcast we have Abel James, the host of the well-known Fat-Burning Man podcast. Abel went through a body transformation after he changed his approach and diverted from what Western healthcare professionals and fitness magazines were suggesting to him.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we're introducing a new mini-series that will include a more personal element from our team. In this short series, Martin will be sharing his body transformation journey. He will talk about his personal experiences, what has worked, and what hasn't in nutrition, exercising, sleep, and other areas of lifestyle.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have Carlyn Rosenblum, who is a registered dietitian in New York City, has a Master's in Science & Clinical Nutrition, and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Sugarbreak. As a dietitian, Carlyn helps people to understand the connection between food, their lifestyle, and their health.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have Jeff Kahn, the Co-Founder & CEO of RISE, an app that creates useful insights for people to improve their sleep to become the best version of themselves. Jeff studied engineering at Northwestern University, but as he and his Co-Founder became intrigued by sleep, they got into their school's sleep science department as apprentices. Their goal from there on was to figure out how they could take all the consumer sleep science data and turn it into useful insights for people, which is what led to the building of RISE.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we were lucky enough to have Robb Wolf on the show, who is a two times New York Times and WSJ Best Selling author and runs the popular podcast, The Healthy Rebellion Radio. By training, Robb is a bio-chemist and had mainly done research in cancer & autoimmunity. Following a personal health crisis, Robb has done extensive digging and has found low carb, keto ancestral diet to be a solution for better health.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we had the pleasure to sit down with Dr. Brett Kirby, who is currently the Senior Scientist of the Human Performance Team in the Nike Sport Research Laboratory and is on the Scientific Advisory Board at Amp Human. Dr. Kirby has always been passionate about exploring the possibilities that can help people become better today than yesterday, which is what led him to this career path.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcomed the Co-Founder & CEO of Pendulum Therapeutics, Colleen Cutcliffe, Ph.D. Colleen has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Science from Johns Hopkins University, worked in a pharmaceutical company and an early-stage biotech DNA sequencing company prior to Pendulum. Colleen and her co-founders thought that the microbiome was an emerging and fascinating new space of health and they wanted to use their technical backgrounds to create a whole new family of products targeting the microbiome.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcomed Sally McRae, who is not just an everyday runner, but an ultra trail runner. After a few years in her professional life post-college, Sally was really missing the competitive spirit she grew up with as an athlete, so she started running regular marathons. Then, when she first read about ultra races, she was fascinated by the fact that the human body is capable of something like this and wanted to try herself out. She ran her first ultramarathon back in 2010 and has been on the Nike ultra trail team for the past 7 years.

This episode of 20 Minute Fitness is brought to you by Premium Jane, the CBD company for natural relief. To find Premium Jane’s full-range of CBD products, visit them at https://premiumjane.com and use coupon code 20FIT to get 20% OFF your purchase!

This episode of 20 Minute Fitness is brought to you by Premium Jane, the CBD company for natural relief. To find Premium Jane’s full-range of CBD products, visit them at https://premiumjane.com and use coupon code 20FIT to get 20% OFF your purchase!

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome not one but three guests. First up, we have Calum McGuigan, the Founder of Shape & Foster, a lifestyle development program. Calum is joined by Jass Stupak, a certified nutritionist, and Ty McDonald, an athletic trainer. Shape & Foster provides 6 experts, including Jass and Ty, to take you on a holistic journey of lifestyle development.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have Shane Heath, the Founder of MUD/WTR, a company that aims to change your usual morning ritual. Probably most of us drink one or two (or more) cups of coffee in the morning. However, coffee addiction and the hundreds of milligrams of caffeine consumed every day can really have a negative impact on your health and wellbeing. This is what Shane experienced as well as what led him to create a healthier alternative to coffee.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have the Founder & CEO of a fitness equipment company, Matthew Januszek. Matthew started Escape Fitness 21 years ago in the UK, back when he was a young bodybuilder. He started the company with his father who was an engineer and so Matthew's passion for fitness mixed with the right technical knowledge provided a solid basis for Escape Fitness.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcomed back Dr. Marcus Gadau to discuss a topic that is very relevant right now: New Year's resolutions. Marcus, who is a leading Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner in Germany, has been helping his patients with their New Year's resolutions for over 15 years now. Therefore, he knows the ins and outs of what makes people fail and how one can succeed when it comes to forming new habits.

While 2020 didn't really turn out as most of us would've hoped, we are still grateful for all the amazing guests that we had on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast and the knowledge that we could share with you. Join us for an episode where Martin & Lilla recap the highlights of everything they have learned through the show and the things they have personally implemented in their daily routine. We will touch upon everything from working out at home, sleep, diet and nutrition, and mental health. 

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome not one, but two celebrity fitness trainers. You might know Akin Akman and Angela Manuel-Davis from their always fully booked SoulCycle classes, but the two trainers have moved on since and started their own project: AARMY. AARMY offers a revolutionary coaching experience in a digital space that's built on the idea that everyone is an athlete and guided by the right methods and putting the work in will allow you to bring this inner-athlete out.  

On today's show, we had the pleasure to sit down with Dr. Gil Blander, the CEO, and Founder of Inside Tracker. InsideTracker is a company that provides the most personalized nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations based on a variety of data points including a long list of blood biomarkers. Gil himself has always had a personal fascination with the process of aging, which is also the area of his academic background. After spending several years at MIT, his passion has ultimately led him to the founding of Inside Tracker. 

This week's 20 Minute Fitness episode will be all about our skin. We sat down with Bethany McDaniel, the Founder of Primally Pure, a natural skincare brand, and talked about everything about skin health and skincare.

Today on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have the Founder of a company that is aspired to pioneer a 'food-first nutritional ecosystem' with the goal to improve our human & planetary health. Sara Cullen is the Founder of GEM, a multivitamin that is replacing traditional supplements with real food bites made from plants, algae, and herbs.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast, we welcomed Sean Dollinger, the Founder of PlantX, a plant-based community, and marketplace. Sean has been following a plant-based diet for about 10 years now, which, according to him, has made a truly positive contribution both to his physical and mental health.  This is why he has decided to build plants in the hope of helping people live a healthier and longer life.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast, we're entering the world of CBD with Kerrigan Behrens, the Co-Founder of Sagely Naturals. Kerrigan tells us how she used to suffer from chronic back pain that she had not been able to relieve with anything until someone introduced her to CBD. Despite having a variety of products available on the market, she couldn't really find any approachable and trustworthy brands, which has led her to the founding of Sagely Naturals.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we are bringing an episode to current and soon-to-be new parents. We had the pleasure to talk to Dr. Harvey Karp, a pediatrician and the author of the widely popular 'The Happiest Baby'  book and video series. We talked about everything from why sleep hygiene is important for both the infant and the parents, techniques for calming your baby, and of course, Harvey's latest innovation, SNOO.

On today's show, we're diving into a topic that some of you might not have heard about, but holds rather promising opportunities for mental health: psychedelic treatments. We have Kelsey Ramsden, the Co-Founder and COO of Mind Cure Health, a company with a goal to identify, develop, and commercialize products that enhance mental health.

This week on the 20 Minute Podcast the spotlight will be on a magical supplement drink that might cure some of our worst nightmares after a fun night out: hangover. We sat down with Sisun Lee, the Founder & CEO of More Labs, a company that makes science-backed supplements that combat modern-day stressors, like sleep fatigue, insomnia, and of course, hangover.

In today's show, we're discussing a topic that is rather unconventional: hypnotherapy. We sat down with Alex Naoumidis, the CEO & Co-Founder of Mindset Health, a company that offers hypnosis based digital therapeutics for chronic health conditions. Since hypnotherapy is not widely used by a mainstream audience yet, many people might be confused and have misconceptions about how this technique really works. But Mindset Health is here to change this.

Today on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have two intermittent fasting (IF) advocates discussing everything you should know about fasting. One of them, our host Martin, has been practicing IF for a few years now for its longevity benefits. And the other, Phillip Wayman, who is the Co-Founder of Fastic, started experimenting with fasting in his teenage years after a car accident.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have a follow-up interview with Dr. Ghannoum, the Co-Founder of BIOHM and a pioneer researcher in the fungal communities in the human body. During our first episode on the topic, we got a great overall understanding of the organisms living in our microbiome, how a BIOHM gut health test looks like and what you can do in general to improve your gut health. After the interview, Martin has decided to run the experiment himself and do a gut health test with BIOHM.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness Podcast, we're bringing back another one of our old-time favorites, a company that you should definitely check out if you want to spice up your at-home workout routine: FightCamp. 

Have you ever left the cereal aisle in the supermarket disappointed because you were not able to find a single box that was truly healthy? If the answer is yes, you're most certainly not alone. Gabi Lewis, the Co-Founder of Magic Spoon used to struggle with the same disappointment, which is why he ended up taking the matter in his hands and made his own healthy cereal.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have Dr. Ted Naiman, who is not just a primary care doctor, but also the author of the PE Diet. In today's show, Dr. Naiman talks about how during his medical practice he realized that the difference between the healthy and unhealthy people came down merely to diet and exercise. After experimenting with all the diets you could think of, he built his own, which led him to write the PE Diet.

In the current climate, we couldn't have had a more relevant company to bring on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast than Frame. Frame is a mental wellness platform that educates people about therapy and also makes it easier to connect with therapists both digitally and in person.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we're getting into a topic that we have not touched upon before: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Marcus Gadau on the show, a leading TCM practitioner in Germany who studied Chinese Medicine combined with Western Medicine in Beijing and then got his Ph.D. in Evidence-based Chinese medicine in Hong Kong.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast, we are looking at the same topic, metabolic health, from a slightly different angle. The Founder of Lumen, Daniel Tal, tells us everything about the first real-time feedback loop on nutrition that they built with Lumenn and how their device helps to change people's nutrition for the better to support their healthy metabolism.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we're turning all of our attention to glucose monitoring with the Co-Founder of Levels, Josh Clemente. While monitoring blood sugar levels has been a frequently used technique among diabetic patients for a long time, the main goal of the Levels team is to bring this measure as well as metabolic fitness to a mainstream market.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have a real recovery master, Anthony Katz, the Founder of Hyperice. Anthony founded Hyperice, which according to him started simply as an R&D project, about 10 years ago now. While he wasn't always as educated about recovery as today, being married to a professional athlete, he really started to wonder how the recovery techniques used by athletes could be introduced to everyday people.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast, we're bringing you back one of our 'Why I Built This' episodes with none other than Bruce Smith, the Founder of Hydrow. 

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome an expert in an extremely important topic for both physical and mental health: hydration. John Sherwin is the Co-Founder of Hydrant, a company that is on a mission to help people stay properly hydrated. With their raid hydration mix, Hydrant delivers all the essential electrolytes that a human body needs to better absorb and hold the water that you consume during the day.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we were lucky enough to catch the Founder & CEO of WHOOP, Will Ahmed, in between two press conferences. If you're interested in the fitness world, chances are that you have heard of WHOOP before. The company's mission is to unlock human performance and to reach this mission their products are designed to measure the human body continuously. While WHOOP is mainly centered around providing its users with sleep, recovery, and strain data, recently they have also made some pretty awesome discoveries in detecting COVID-19.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome the Co-Founders of a microbiome company that uncovers some very interesting but largely overlooked facts about the organisms in your gut. Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum and Afif Ghannoum, father and son, have built BIOHM together in the hope of educating people about the role that bacteria and fungi play in our microbiome, testing their microbiome health and providing actionable recommendations.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome Kent Yoshimura and Ryan Chen, two Co-Founders of Neuro, a nootropics company. If you haven't heard of nootropics yet, they are natural supplements and other substances that enhance focus, memory, and energy levels.

This week on the podcast we welcomed Max Mikhaylenko, the Co-Founder of Snap Supplements, a natural supplements brand. The foundation of a long and happy life will always be a healthy lifestyle. However, if you have established a regular exercising regimen and a healthy nutritious diet, but you feel like your body and/or immune system is still missing a little boost, it's time to turn to natural supplements.

This week on the podcast we welcomed back Matteo Franceschetti, the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep to catch up about what's been happening at the company since we last had him on the show. Eight Sleep, the innovative smart sleep technology company has set out a mission to make the world a "sleep fit" place. And in line with this mission, they have now launched 3 generations of products that don't just give you insights but also act upon these insights to improve your sleep night by night.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcomed the latest member to the smart at-home workout machine founders' club: Trent Ward. Trent is the Co-Founder & CEO of FORME Life, a soon to be launched high-tech device that offers a variety of exercises, together with personalized coaching and real-time tracking.

Today we have a special guest on the podcast, who is very close to our heart: Jenn Pattee, the Co-Founder of Public Recreation & Workout Daily. We had Jenn on the podcast over a year ago now, when their community-based outdoor workout classes just started to catch on fire in San Francisco. But a lot has changed at the company since, and Jenn and the team have shifted their focus from in-person to digital.

Today on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we have Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and author of the New York Times bestseller 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'. In addition to her clinical practice, Lori writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications. Using her wide range of experience and interesting background, we dive into a number of different topics related to our psychological and mental health.

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we welcome back Aly Orady, the Founder of an at-home digital strength training machine, Tonal. We first had Aly on the podcast about a year ago, when Tonal was still very new on the market. Since then, there is probably not many people in the fitness community, who have not tried or at least heard of Tonal before. But its growing popularity is not the only thing that has changed around Tonal!

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness podcast we're trying to provide our listeners with some useful insights and practices around the novel COVID-19. Charlie is hosting the episode with his dad, who has been a General Practitioner for over 35 years. He is currently a family doctor and physician and is at the frontline during the current pandemic.

As we've been closely monitoring the development of the novel COVID-19, we also wanted to support the #stayhome movement. Therefore, this week we're bringing you a series of at-home workouts that can help you keep active while not leaving the house and practicing social distancing. Listen to the first one today!

This week on the 20 Minute Fitness Podcast we had the pleasure to talk to Susan Neal. Susan has an MBA and a Master's in Health Science and has been a certified yoga teacher for over 7 years. She has written 7 books, some directed more at yoga whether others are centered around improving your diet by eliminating refined carbs and sugar from it.