Four Pillars of Good Health
Good health is not complicated. Focus on these four Pillars, and better health will follow.
Aug 31, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 32
A Healthy Life, a Fit Father of Four Who Talks About Health, Fitness, Parenting, Marriage & Money
This is a show about making fitness, family and life simpler so you can achieve more. The chances you succeed in your life goals are directly correlated to how straightforward and simple you make the process. Don't be misled - simplicity does not mean it's easy, but it can be one heck of an awesome journey.
Along with fitness, the podcast also covers relationships, marriage, parenting, career, business and life in general.
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Episodes
Whole Person Health
Health and fitness are about more than just your physical body. If your health plan is making you miserable, you need to embrace a renewed mindset.
Aug 19, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Eat This, Not That
Little changes in your diet can make a big difference in your health. Just one or two substitutions could be the breakthrough you're looking for.
Aug 11, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Getting to a Place of Complete (Almost) Control Over Body Composition
When you create sustainable healthy habits, you can eventually attain the ability to have almost complete control over your body composition - gaining or losing body mass as you decide. That is a fun place to be, but it doesn't happen with a 60 or 90 day program. It happens as a result of long term sustainable healthy habits. Listen to this episode for tips on how to get there.
Aug 10, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Don't Be Afraid to Lift Weights (Special Focus on the Ladies)
Lifting weights is empowering. It turns your body into a calorie burning machine, and it makes so many activities in life easier. Some women worry that they're going to bulk up if they start lifting. In this episode, Rachel talks about how unlikely that is and some of the awesome benefits - like defined arms - that are more likely to happen.
Aug 05, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Health Is About Feeling Good
Being healthy is about much more than avoiding illness and decrepitude. It's about feeling good - body, mind and spirit. If that's your goal, there are a lot more reasons to get up and workout.
Jul 30, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Stay Fit During and After Pregnancy
Today, Rachel takes the lead in the discussion and talks about staying healthy and fit during and after her four pregnancies, which ranged from being 26 to 38 years old and from being a runner to lifting weights and doing high intensity interval training (HIIT).
Jul 28, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Taking Rest Days Without Blowing Up Your Routine
Rest days are an important part of your health and fitness program, but for some people they are filled with guilt; or one day turns into a week and derailment from their fitness program. Listen to this episode to learn how to avoid both.
Jul 27, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 27
The Benefits of Working Out Together
My wife Rachel joins the show today as we discuss the ways working out together has blessed our relationship - as well as our health. Also, be sure to listen to the next episode when Rachel will be talking about staying in shape during and after her four pregnancies.
Jul 22, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Little Habits Create Big Results
Episode #24 (I think...) Back from a quarantine hiatus, I discuss how good health and fitness is all about good habits - and that's good news. Come back for more episodes as we are moving to a new format with Scott and Rachel discussing health, fitness, family, relationships and just life in general as they drive to and from the gym each day.
Jul 21, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Strength Training Gets Results Faster
Simply Scott is about getting great health and benefits through sustainable life habits. Strength training needs to be part of your fitness program. It yields better results in less time than cardio, and I say that as someone who spent over 20 years running competitively. Check out this episode to learn more about the benefits of adding strength training to your fitness program.
Feb 19, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Choosing a Good Meal Replacement Supplement
Spending half a day shopping at farmers markets and fancy grocers is one way to have a healthier diet, but that's not simple or sustainable for most people. Supplements are an alternative way to "supplement" a healthier diet and achieve your health and fitness goals. To spend your money wisely, you need to know what to look for in a supplement. That's the goal of this episode.
Feb 12, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Most Important Thing You're Probably Not Doing - Mobility Work
This was a tough episode to record, because body position and movement are critical to understanding mobility, and that is hard to convey with just audio. Still, if I do nothing more here than make you aware of how important it is to improve your range of motion and to enjoy the freedom of moving your body where and how you want without pain, then this episode is worth it. Please take time to check out the other video resources I mention in the podcast, and find the one that works best for you.
Feb 11, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Create a Healthy Work Environment
You spend 8+ hours a day, five days a week, at work. Little changes in how you spend those 2,000 hours per year can have a big impact on your health and fitness. Check out this episode of Simply Scott for ideas on how to create a healthier work environment.
Feb 05, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Breaking Through Weight and Fitness Plateaus
If the title of this episode resonates with you, that means you have started your journey to better health and fitness. Hurray! The bad news is, you may have stopped seeing progress. You are not alone, and there are several common reasons people hit a plateau and stop seeing results or even start to feel they're slipping backwards. Check out the reasons covered in this episode to see if one of them might be holding you back. Or, if you haven't plateaued, listen to avoid these common progress kil...
Feb 03, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Working Out Together Is Relationship Gold
The title of this episode says it all, working out with your significant other is relationship gold. If you've never tried it, find something you're both interested in doing and commit to giving it an honest effort.
Jan 30, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Encouraging Kids to Be Physically Active
This episode addresses healthy ways to encourage kids of all ages to be physically active. Developing a love of exercise, sports or active play as a child helps create a lifelong positive relationship with fitness. Start young, but start right.
Jan 27, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The Best No-Equipment Upper Body Exercise
People don't give the push-up enough credit. Its simplicity, and the fact that we all did them in grade school P.E. class, can make it easy to discount the incredible benefits and variety of this movement - not to mention the fact that you can literally do push-ups almost anywhere. After you listen to the podcast, check out these links for videos my wife and I made about push-up technique and progressions, from beginner to superfit and looking for a more challenging push-up movement. Beginner: h...
Jan 27, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Simple Diet Changes for Big Results
Rachel and I made one change to our diet that brought us better results than anything else. We stopped eating bread and pasta, and we focused on eating more protein and veggies. This was a tough change for former distance runners, who grew up during the time of carb loading and grains being the base of the food pyramid. How extreme was this change? Let's just say I kept a food diary for my track coach in college and got a thumbs up for having 70% carbs in my diet. Cutting out bread and pasta was...
Jan 23, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The Single Greatest Lower Body Exercise - No Equipment Required
Feel free to disagree - everyone is entitled to be wrong - but lunges are the single greatest lower body exercise that you can do without equipment. No other movement works your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves - did I mention glutes? - and isolates each leg the way lunges do. So crank it up and enjoy this episode about how to incorporate lunges into your fitness plan. If you are looking for video instruction, check out the YouTube channel my wife and I made and pick a video with lunges in t...
Jan 22, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
There Is Only One Way to Lose Body Fat
If you want to lose body fat, you have to burn more calories than you consume. That's it. That's the secret. Otherwise, your body is going to store those extra calories as fat. In this episode I discuss ways to make achieving that daily calorie deficit simple - so that you can actually achieve it and see results!
Jan 20, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Baby Got Back - Don't Neglect Your Backside
Strength. Speed. Power. Athleticism. Good posture. These are all heavily dependant on the muscle groups on the backside of your body, but because we don't see those as easily in the mirror, they're often neglected. Don't neglect this key element of fitness and health. Check out this episode for great core exercises to strengthen muscle groups on your posterior.
Jan 17, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 12
If You Enjoy It, You'll Do It - Finding Exercise You Enjoy
It's really hard to make yourself do something you don't enjoy. Exercise that feels like a chore is not sustainable, which means you won't get results. Listen to this podcast to discover ideas for finding exercise you enjoy.
Jan 17, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Simple Healthy Eating on Purpose
Just like exercise, your eating plan and habits need to be healthy AND sustainable. In this episode I share some tips on planning ahead to avoid unhealthy eating - including how to stop yourself from eating those between-meal snacks that sabotage so many people's otherwise reasonable and healthy diets.
Jan 16, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Sleep Affects Everything
It's simple. Most of us - me included - need to sleep more. Increasingly, research and anecdotal accounts from famous successful individuals are starting to confirm what we all intuitively know: If you get enough sleep, you have a better attitude, be less stressed, be less prone to injury and illness and generally achieve more in your endeavors. Listen to this episode, and accept the challenge to go for a full week with 8 hours of sleep per night. See if it's not worth giving up this TV shows yo...
Jan 14, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Childcare Solutions While You Workout
I have to thank a friend from high school that gave me the idea for this episode. As my children have gotten older, childcare during workouts has become much easier, but it took a bit more effort and coordination when they were too small to stay home alone. In this episode, I discuss several possible solutions for people with young children that want to workout. If this isn't you, still give this a listen so you can empathize with someone else in your life and maybe offer to lend a hand with chi...
Jan 13, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Fitness Is About So Much More Than Just Your Body
You are one being - a body, a mind and a spirit all wrapped into one whole person. If your health and fitness goals are just about achieving a certain appearance or fitting into those jeans, or even getting your blood pressure down, you need to know that there is so much more to be had. Take it to a higher level, or you are going to miss out on something so much more fulfilling and sustainable. If you're ready for something a little different, give this a listen, and let me know what you think.
Jan 13, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The Single Most Versatile Piece of Exercise Equipment
If you want to know the single most versatile piece of exercise equipment, then this podcast is for you. I could probably list 50+ exercises that you could do with this piece of equipment, but here's a shorter list to get you started with dumbbells: bench press []overhead press []curls []tricep extensions []squats []lunges []deficit push-ups []turkish getups []bent over row []bent over fly []lateral raises []front raises []shrugs []box step overs []thrusters []cleans []snatch []renegade row []st...
Jan 12, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Working Out With a Friend Will Boost Results
Looking back on my fitness journey, that really got started in 1992, I saw a common factor throughout the years - I enjoyed working out more, worked out more consistently and saw better results when I worked out with other people. In my marriage, working out together has been an amazing way to make an already good marriage even better. I hope this podcast encourages you to find a workout partner and for both of you to find more joy and better results on you fitness journeys!
Jan 11, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Something Is Better Than Nothing
In my younger years I would have spat at the title of this podcast. Then I was introduced to real life of career, marriage, parenthood, homeownership - you know, adulting. It became apparent to me that I needed to change my philosophy and accept that some days a 20 minute workout was all I had time to do, and that is better than doing nothing (not to be confused with intentional rest days, which are important. So check it out, and if you are running short on time and need a quick and effective w...
Jan 11, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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