June 14, 2014

Get Health and Fitness Tips with 11 Free Audio & Video Resources

Get health and fitness tips with this list of 11 free audio & video resources. Optimize your health plan with a talk from Tim Ferriss on the 4-Hour Body, recharge your exercise goals with ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes, or get regular health advice from the Jillian Michaels Show. We also include lectures designed to help educate you on your road to wellness, including an Intro to Human Anatomy, Mini Medical school of lectures from UC-San Francisco, excerpts from Oprah’s Health Channel, and commentary from the author of You: the Owner’s Manual. Sometimes it’s hard to start a new health exercise routine. Let this list be your gateway to a new, healthier, happier lifestyle:

1. Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime

Start your week off with some sound health advice from professor Christina Economos of Tufts University as she delivers this hour-long lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. First she addresses some of the health issues facing the United States focusing primarily on obesity and the improper balance of bone, muscle, and fat as people age. She then talks about actions individuals can take in regards to their nutrition and physical activity that can lead to dramatic improvements in all areas of one’s health. Professor Economos references many studies and provides specific recommendations for the human body’s need of exercise and nutrition. She recommends strength training, fruits & vegetables, and many other natural ways for people to live healthy into old age. This lecture is available on streaming video and MP3 download from FORA.tv.

2. The Jillian Michaels Show Podcast

Personal trainer Jillian Michaels is best known for being a trainer on the TV show The Biggest Loser where she pushes obese people to lose a significant amount of weight. This is a podcast of Jillian’s radio show where she talks about a number of topics related to diet & nutrition along with health & fitness. She also provides some personal growth and motivational advice. In these 45-minute shows she talks off the cuff with another host named Janice and the shows are entertaining and informative. The last 15 minutes of the show she answers questions from callers. Enjoy these podcasts from this popular personal trainer.

3. Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss presents some of the findings in his latest book The 4-Hour Body in which he used himself as a guinea pig to find out the fastest way to the best results when it comes to the human body. He talks about his diet & nutrition as well as his fitness best practices. He also covers how he dealt with insomnia and the impact of cell phone use on male sperm count (which generates a lot of questions in the Q&A). Ferriss also addresses some of the skeptics when it came to his first bestselling book The 4-Hour Workweek. This talk is available on streaming video from FORA.tv.

4. Oprah.com’s Health and Wellness Channel Podcast

Oprah has always been a tireless champion of personal growth and in this audio & video podcast she talks to some of her most trusted health experts as they field questions from viewers of the webcast. She has a 90-minute talk with one of her personal trainers Bob Greene with whom Oprah co-authored the book Make the Connection. Greene provides weight loss advice and healthy meal plans. In the next podcast Oprah has a 90-minute talk with Dr. Mehmet Oz who lays out a health checklist covering everything from vitamins to probiotics to soy milk. And the last podcast on the feed is an hour long Q&A for women on hormones and menopause with Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. All the podcasts are available on audio and video.

5. Authors@Google: Dean Karnazes on Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days

In this inspirational talk ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes speaks about his book 50/50 in which he writes about his experience of running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days. Karnazes tells motivational stories from his experience and the ups and downs that he faced. In the Q&A he gives info about his weekly running and workout routine, what he eats on a daily basis, and many other fascinating tidbits about his mega endurance. Asked what he does while he’s running for so long, he responds that he listens to music, dictates his writings into a voice recorder, and listens to audio books! For anyone pursuing goals, this is a great motivational talk that will help you to seek to defy your limitations. The 45-minute talk was delivered at Google and is available on streaming video from YouTube.

6. Introduction to Human Anatomy

Learn about your body with this lecture delivered by Professor John K. Young on the axial skeleton of the human. Professor Young starts the lecture with some definitions of basic human anatomy terms. He then proceeds to cover the axial skeleton of a human starting with the cranium and proceeding down the spinal cord with many interesting tidbits along the way. Professor Young proves that studying human anatomy doesn’t require diagrams as we have our own human anatomical specimen right at our fingertips. He points out many of the bones along the way which you can touch while listening (just keep one hand on the wheel if you’re driving!).

7. Dr. John Ratey on Spark

We all know exercise is great for the body, but in this lecture Dr. John Ratey talks about the many ways neuroscience is discovering how great exercise is for the brain. His book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain lays out the research and amazing case studies that show how exercise can improve brain function. In this 50-minute talk at Google Dr. Ratey summarizes his findings showing how exercise improves performance in schools and the workplace and its effectiveness at overcoming disorders like ADHD, depression, Alzheimer’s, and more. Learn the latest findings on exercise and the brain with bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey.

8. Fitness Workout – Twin Peaks

Jump start your week with this free 20-minute workout from iDownloads2go.com. This workout features short bursts of exercises, including power walking, jogging, shuttle runs and star jumps. A motivational personal trainer guides you through the exercises with nice Latin music in the background. This excellent free MP3 download was published through our TeachOutLoud service.

9. UCSF Mini Medical School Audio Podcast
UCSF Mini Medical School Video Podcast

In this series from the University of California, San Francisco, faculty members and other nationally-recognized experts give the latest findings on a variety of health and medical related topics. Topics include “Fad Diets: Do They Really Work?”, “Nutrition in a Bottle: A Scientific Review of Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements”, “The Biology of Depression: How Stress Affects the Brain and the Body”, “Staying in the Now: Maintaining Mental Health Through Mindfulness”, “The Science of Healthy Aging: Living Better Not Just Longer”, “Back Pain and its Management: Myths and Misconceptions”, and many more interesting lectures. Learn the latest in medical research from the University of California, San Francisco with these audio & video podcasts.

10. You: The Owner’s Manual with Dr. Michael Roizen Podcast

Start your week off with health advice from Dr. Michael Roizen, co-author with Dr. Mehmet C. Oz of YOU: The Owner’s Manual. These 40-minute podcasts are radio shows featuring Dr. Michael Roizen along with a few other doctors, discussing a variety of health issues. They also call doctors from around the country to discuss topics ranging from diet to disease to weight loss, and much more. The weekly podcast is a 2-hour radio show that they’ve split up into each hour for the podcast. They’ve cut out the commercials and usually announce at the top of the hour what topics they’ll be discussing and when they are going to be discussing each topic. Scroll down their list of over 150 podcasts from 2009 to 2012. They haven’t posted podcasts since a year ago but the information is still very up-to-date. Find a topic that interests you and learn from this bestselling author and health expert. Note: It might take a moment to load the page as the podcast feed is very long.

11. Healthy Living Radio Podcast

Browse over 400 podcasts covering just about every imaginable aspect of health! This podcast from the Cooper Aerobics Center and Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas features over 400 healthy living podcasts going to back to 2005. Many of them feature Dr. Ken Cooper, also known as the “father of aerobics”, who introduced the world to the concept of aerobics with his 1968 book Aerobics. Since that time he’s authored dozens of books and created the Cooper Aerobics Center and Cooper Institute for health and wellness research. This podcast features numerous members of the Cooper Institute including Dr. Cooper, Dr. Tedd Mitchell, Dr. Abram Eisenstein, and Dr. Nina Radford talking about a wide variety of topics including cancer prevention, vitamins, exercise, weight loss, heart disease, depression, and many, many more health topics. They also interview a lot of experts on health. For example on Oct. 8, 2007 they interviewed Dr. John J. Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. And on Feb. 27, 2006 they interviewed Dr. Daniel G. Amen on brain health. Dr. Amen authored the bestselling book Making a Good Brain Great.