Podcast – Functional Meatheads
FUNctional MEATHEADS is a weekly training & health podcast that discusses holistic, psychological and more esoteric aspects of training and health. It also dives into the inner monologue of the personal trainer. Hosted by Froy Sanchez and Mark DiSalvo, both CPTs in NYC.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2016
#108: Steve Maxwell Returns
Steve returns to Functional Meatheads to talk with us about world travel and how cultures and people live their “healthy” lives differently across the globe, jiu-jitsu, eating habits, poor mental ac…
#107: More Nutrition & Lifestyle Talk/Reflections
Mark & Froy talk about recent musings and observations on nutrition and lifestyle habits in their own lives, the lives of those they’ve come in contact with, and more.
#106: The Braverman Test (and why you may want to take it)
What’s the Braverman test? A short spoiler alert: it’s easy to take and it may give you some insight into your health that you’re not even considering.
#105: Are You Training The Way Your City Wants You To?
Many complain about the limitations of their physical location as it relates to training, from weather and traffic to lack of opportunity, but what advantages are you missing in dismissing your curr…
#104: Personal Reflections from an Aggressive Weight Cut
Froy “interviews” Mark in an effort to get into his brain on what it was like to go through a 5 week weight cut that saw him drop 10 lbs to make weight for a jiu jitsu tournament. Besides the obviou…
#103: Meathead Musings on Nutrition
Mark & Froy talk about how they’ve come to think about eating over the past few years. Other topics are mused on, you know the drill!
#102: What is an Athlete?
We muse today on athletes. What does it mean to be an “athlete?” The answer may surprise you.
#101: HRV / Heart Rate Variability, Pt 2
Today we talk about HRV, or Heart Rate Variability. It’s a great piece of technology, maybe one of the most powerful and affordable of any fitness evaluation tool created. What’s it all about? Find …
#100: What Trauma Does Your Body Store?
An un-ceremonious episode 100! We kick it the same way we got to 100: musing on the deep issues. We talk about many topics: the mind-body connection, how we’d work with certain cases and how to put …
#99: The “Psychology” of Moving Your Life Forward
We often make things harder than they have to be, but the fundamentals of progress in health, fitness, and life in general are often much simpler than we make them. Froy & Mark talk about ways to h…