Favorite Fitness And Science Podcasts

I enjoy listening to a variety of podcasts from science and exercise to arts and current issues. While listening to podcasts transfers information a bit slower than a quick read of a book chapter or a web page, the discussions and often interviews can be very enlightening.

Selected Favorite Podcasts

Fitness Rocks – Evidence Based Medicine. Discussions and interviews with medical authors on current literature and issues. Great and through discussions. Monte Ladner, M.D. has amassed over 130 podcasts in the past 3 years, but has recently stopped producing them. I recommend listening to his old ones while waiting for Dr. Monte’s next step. Visit his website and drop him an email after listening to a few of his podcasts.

The Fitcast – Discussion of fitness, focusing on strength training and wise diet. Main host: Kevin Larrabee. Also features Leigh Peele, Jonathan Fass among others. Makes a bit of fun of cardio, but you can ignore that. Even Kevin has come around to realizing that low level cardio can be helpful in a mix. (Of course low level, steady state cardio is not what many, if not most runners feel is something to be done day in and day out, despite the “urban legend” that it is all runners do.)

Science Friday - Ira Flatow from NPR is the regular host. Touches on a variety of science issues and topics.

Ask Leigh – Leigh Peele – Leigh is a certified trainer. She is an expert in athletic nutrition and fat loss. One of her maxims is the short secret on how to lose body fat and unwanted weight. “Eat less, Move More”. But Leigh is much more than the sum of any simple description. Visit her new website at leighpeele.com and try out her new podcast.

Selected Miscellaneous Podcasts:

Beach Walks With Rox – Roxanne Darling. Video Podcast. 3 minutes to chill to. Rox walks with Lexi along a beach, Shane films,  and they all provide mellow wisdom on life from Hawaii.

Diane Rehm – Book reviews and discussions by Diane Rehm on a wide variety of topics. Good listening while traveling or commuting. If people enjoy being interviewed by Larry King, I believe they would enjoy being interviewed even more by Diane Rehm. Informative and gently probing and personal interviews.

There are other podcasts I often listen to and enjoy including 360, Fresh Air, Science Magazine’s weekly podcast  and “The Instance” and  “World of Warcast”.  Some of these go on for a considerably long time and listening to all of them would keep you in your chair and away from exercise for far too long a time.  But give them a try if the topics interest you.

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