Plant Trainers Podcast - Plant Based Nutrition & Fitness

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Margot Freitag about how a plant-based diet healed her asthma as well as her seasonal allergies. Even more importantly, she was able to heal her son's asthmatic issues too which is a huge relief for any mother. You'll also hear about ways to kick the cheese habits and how to adopt a brand new mindset. Margot is certified in plant-based nu...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk about ways to create healthier more sustainable schools. As you can imagine, Shoshana makes sure to have a voice in the decisions that are being made in their children's school. Everything from nutrition, fitness, mindfulness, and waste is important to us in our family, and we want our children having those values carried over into their schoo...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Dr. Zilia Goreshnik and Aviva Goreshnik who are both experts in the biotechnology of redox molecules. Redox signaling molecules are being studied in many big universities across the United States. Nutrition plays a HUGE part in impacting our cellular health. We need to recognize that we live and die at the cellular level and our cells liv...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Henry Howard, who interviewed us for his running blog a while black. This episode is a little different, as he is not fully plant-based. Henry has been researching the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle for a long time and is still working his way to becoming 100%. We thought it would be interesting for those who are not quite there yet...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Amber Allen, a mother of three, zero waste activist, YouTuber, author, and speaker. Amber is deeply passionate about sustainability, gentle parenting, gardening, healthy plant-based living and helping our world by going low waste (zero waste). She lives in Windsor, Ontario, with her children, husband and rescue dog. She enjoys long hikes,...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Jeff Tritten, once BBQ Chef and now plant-based advocate. Jeff shares his story of how after losing 80 lbs in 100 days he became alerted to the science behind a plant-based diet and it changed his life forever. Being a BBQ chef, he had quite the romance with meat, but he still gave plant-based a try. The only thing he had to lose was a wh...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Australia and Canada's influential animal rights activists, James Aspey and Carly Taylor. This was a fun one since Adam had just hosted James and Carly at his school a few months ago. So we got to talk about the impact that one speech has made so far amongst the staff and students. We cover a lot from Australia's "heart-healthy" recommend...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with​ Nalida Besson about her plant-based journey, how it's helped her family and of course, making whole food plant-based simple. She is a wife to a professional musician and they are the parents of three wonderful children who have various special needs including blindness, autism spectrum disorder, learning disorders, and intellectual disab...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with James Wilks, a mixed martial artist best known for winning Season 9 of The Ultimate Fighter and one of the producers of The Game Changers. He also serves as a combative trainer for government agencies including the US Marshals, US Marines, US Army Rangers, and US Navy SEALs. James is an intense, but friendly guy and is very knowledgeable...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with our kids Russell and Sage all about being vegan and plant-based. It's really interesting to get their perspectives on what each of those means considering it's not exactly something they learn in school and we don't often talk about it matter of factly at the dinner table. Often they overhear conversations, videos, podcasts, and piece tog...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk all about the lives we have touched and the life we have created through podcasting. This has been an incredible journey that we are super excited to share with you. 4.5 years ago we started our podcast because we wanted to get our message out. That eating plant-based could keep others from going through the health traumas we did. The problem...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, Adam and Shoshana give you 5 steps to get you back into the fitness game (ok, mostly Adam with some comments from the peanut gallery). Maybe you are completely new to a fitness regime, or maybe the long winter or short summer got you out of your routine...Either way, you will find that these tips and tricks will help you as long as you take some actio...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana talks all about erectile dysfunction. There, we said it. Sex is not a normal topic for the Plant Trainers but it has come up in many episodes especially with the cardiologists we speak with. As you may know, erectile dysfunction can be the first sign of heart disease. As you may also know, a plant-based diet is the best way to help prevent an...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana talks all about 7 powerful plant-based books you should put on your reading list. The truth is it was really hard to narrow it down to 7. It seems like every time we turn around there is another amazing plant-based book coming out. Not to mention all the books that focus on the environment and veganism as well as plant-based cookbooks. But we...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, we were grateful to have the opportunity to share our story on CJAD 800 AM News Talk Radio in Montreal. Corrie Sirota and Matt Del Vecchio interview us about Adam's health journey and pick our brains on ways people can start incorporating more plant-based meals into their life. If you are not familiar with our story, this is a great brief overview. We...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana talks all about 5 amazing transformational stories that have been featured here on our podcast. The truth is since we made this video we have had so many more amazing transformational stories. These stories keep getting better and better. Each one is unique from demographics to size to how they decided it was time to make a change and what to...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana talks all about five emergency snack ideas. It doesn't matter if you're 5, 50, or 95 you like snacks. Sometimes snacks are easy to find when you're out and about but when you're particular about what you put in your body it's a little bit harder. Sure vegan snacks can be found from head to toe of grocery stores these days but the Integrity of...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana shares 5 tips for eliminating animal products from your diet. Whether you are just starting out with a plant-based or vegan lifestyle or are seasoned and are trying to help others, this episode will provide you with the tools you need. We know how overwhelming it can be to actually say goodbye to meat and potatoes or cheese...trust us we were...

In this episode of the Plant Trainers Podcast, Shoshana talks all about breakfast ideas and how to put the fast into breakfast. There are two things that have happened to breakfast. The first is that people have stopped eating it as a way to cut back calories to lose weight or because they simply don't have enough time. The second is that people take breakfast a little bit too seriously 7 days a w...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Clint Paddison about ways to heal rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is so prevalent these days and you hear about it all the time even in young children. Clint not only helps people manage their RA but he is a rheumatoid arthritis warrior himself. Despite the severity of the disease, this is a quite fun and entertaining episode....

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Jason Cohen about the impact of change and Big Change The Film. If anyone knows change, it's Jason. At the age of 27 Jason found himself weighing almost 300 lbs and realized that he had to turn his health around. Over the next 7+ years Jason lost over 120 lbs, has become an athlete, and recently ran the Leadville Trail 100 mile race. He s...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Dr. Dean Ornish, about Stress, Abuse, and Relationships. Stress is something that affects us all but to varying degrees. Dr. Ornish explains how stress in a family can affect the children as adults. We spend some time on the idea of how children who are abused in one way or another are more likely to become sick as adults and even die pre...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Marco Borges about impacting the world through The Greenprint. You're going to want to listen to his story about dropping out of school and changing direction to creating 22 Days Nutrition and writing his book The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World and the implications that had on his future, or so it would seem. It is...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk All about what to do if you have fallen off that plant-based lifestyle wagon, need to recalibrate and get back to your healthy active self. And don't worry if you haven't yet hit your plant-based lifestyle high yet. There's lots of great information here to help you get there. This year, more than any other year, we are hearing about people wh...

In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Rich Hubbard about his amazing transformational story from over 350 pounds to a lean, mean, muscle machine. Well, he's lean, and nice, and having a blast training for his half marathon and building muscles. We ask him some of the hard questions about finally losing the weight, keeping it off and how his vision of himself changed. You'll h...