The AMP (Al Mega Podcast) – Fitz Koehler

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Al Mega welcomes Fitzgerald Kohler, one of America's most prominent and compelling fitness experts, to the show and they discuss her journey, how to inspire others to stay healthy, and how simple it can actually be. Kohler is originally from Fort Lauderdale, but moved to Gainesville, Florida for college and stayed there for graduate school. She grew up on the west side of Broward County, North Lauderdale, and was very scrappy. Kohler believes that staying healthy does not have to be a complicated process and can be quite simple. She is passionate about teaching others to stay healthy and live a more fulfilling life.

The speaker grew up in a neighborhood that was not particularly wealthy but was full of kids who got into some trouble but were mostly good. They didn't have the burden of having their antics documented like kids do today. The speaker got into fitness when they blew out their knee playing soccer and their physical therapist recommended they join a gym. They lied about their age so they could join a women's gym and fell in love with the atmosphere. They quit their job at Cinnabun and applied to Spa Lady, where they got hired and asked to teach a class the same day. They found their passion and moved to the US where they taught classes at the student rec center.

Fitz is a fitness instructor who started out teaching classes in college. He then took a job teaching on a cruise ship, which allowed him to travel to a variety of countries. After coming back to Gainesville, he auditioned and was hired as a fitness show producer. Through this experience, she learned he had transferable teaching skills and was able to help people through the show. This made her realize she wanted to reach a larger audience, so she started writing magazine articles. She was also a competitive kickboxer for 10 years, and this led to magazines featuring her. She reached out to a martial arts magazine and wrote an article titled How to Kick People in the Head, which incorporated strategy, strength, and flexibility. After the article was published, a man from Kentucky wrote her a letter thanking her for helping him kick someone in the head. This inspired Fitz to turn all of his focus on TV, radio, books, magazines, and keynote presentations.

Fitness expert Tim Ferris outlines a simple approach to achieving a healthy lifestyle. Her advice is to move your body, watch what you put in your mouth, get good quality sleep and remove the cranky. She suggests avoiding any product labelled ‘diet’ or ‘weight loss’ as they are usually scams. She recommends moderating your food intake, and suggests visiting his website fitness.com for his free article on ‘Exact Formula for Weight Loss’. He advises a little of strength, cardio, flexibility and balance training every day, and suggests 8 hours of sleep as a goal. She also recommends naps as a great way of getting quality rest.

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Timestamps

0:00:02 Interview with Fitness Expert Fitzgerald Kohler 0:03:06 Conversation with [Name], Fitness Professional: Exploring the Journey to Fitness 0:04:29 Conversation with Fitness Expert Fitz Koehler on Teaching, Traveling, and Impacting Strangers 0:08:47 Conversation with Fitness Expert on Achieving a Healthy Lifestyle 0:10:50 Conversation with Health and Wellness Expert, Dr. Jennifer Landa, on Weight Loss, Cancer Comeback Series, and Living a Healthy Life 0:13:47 Heading: Reflections on Making Good Decisions During Cancer Treatment 0:14:47 Interview with Fitz Koehler: Discussing His New Book, "Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong" 0:20:03 Interview with Author and Self-Publisher, [Name] 0:21:47 Heading: Interview with Fitness Expert Fitz Koehler on Health, Fitness, and Race Announcing 0:26:48 Heading: Interview with Fitness Expert and Author, Al Mega 0:28:35 Interview with Fitzness: Empowering Cancer Patients Through Supportive Resources and Positive Attitude

Highlights

Oh, gosh. So I got involved. I'm a sport performance expert. So I was teaching clinics at a major run series, and their race announcer said, gosh, you're so engaging and fun. You would be great at this. Do you want to announce a race with me in California in a few months? And so I connected with the race director. He said you're hired. I went over there. It's OC marathon in California. That was May of 2014. And that first year, I think we had 30,000 people, and within an hour of yelling, go, on, marathon morning, the race director came over and said, can you come back next year? Absolutely. So if you control those health factors that you can exercise, nutrition, quality, rest, you will make yourself more likely to hit remission, which leads to the cure, I think they say you're cured after you're cancer free for five years, but we're aiming for no evidence of disease. Exercise nutrition is proven to help you get there, and it is also proven to help prevent recurrence. And that's a big deal, is not having it come back, because having cancer once is plenty. I would say how much control you actually have. I mean, when someone looks you in the eye and says you have cancer, your whole world goes into spin cycle. It feels like everything's spinning out of control. But patients actually do have more control than you'd imagine. My first chapter of this book is called Control, and I guide people on Lassoing, the things that they can have control over. Through exercise and nutrition, you can actually make your body a hostile environment for cancer. So I'm not suggesting apples and oranges are the cure for cancer. You certainly should use western medicine because it's a highly effective, proven way to beat up cancer. But can you help that along? Exercise, it's nutrition, it's quality rest, it's complimentary care. How do you manage acupuncture massage therapy? Some people need sexual health counseling because their body has been changed or their partners are scared. And so this is the one. This is the one I want to put in the hands of every cancer patient on earth because I hit rock bottom. I was a weak, sickly skeleton at one point. And a little over a year after finishing chemo and all my other treatments, I ran the Boston Marathon. But this book takes all of my fitness expertise and all of my cancer experience and helps people rebuild their body well, a stop the decline. So once you're diagnosed, things start getting worse through fitness and nutrition, you can slow down that decline. And then of course, if you hit rock bottom or whatever goes on with cancer, you're going to have to do some work to get back to normalcy, to fitness, to health, to vibrancy and energy.

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