Heres a Q&A I did with Mike Matthews of Muscle For Life, I am regularly reading Muscle For Life which is a great source of information on training, nutrition and achieving your goals! Q. Please can you tell us about yourself and muscleforlife? Im a health and fitness author and through my books, Ive been able to help thousands of people lose weight, build muscle, and get healthy. My goal is to turn that number into hundreds of thousands, and ultimately into millions. Muscle for Life is my blog, and also a forum and watering hole for people that are interested in learning how to not only achieve their genetic potential, but live long, healthy lives. And Muscle for Life is where I attempt to enlighten and entertain readers with my books, articles, videos, and podcasts. Q. What got you into training/nutrition and ultimately coaching? Well I started lifting when I was 17 and at that time it was mainly about impressing girls, haha. I also grew up playing sports, however, and wanted to stay active and in shape and going to gym was an easy way to do that. Like most guys, I had no clue what I was doing when I started out. I turned to magazines for help, which had me spending a couple of hours in the gym every day and wasting hundreds of dollars on worthless supplements each month only to make mediocre (at best) gains. This went on for years, and I jumped from workout program to workout program. I tried all kinds of splits and routines, exercises, rep ranges, and rep timing schemes, and while I made some gains (its impossible not to if you just keep at it), I eventually hit the dreaded plateau. My weight remained stuck for over a year, I wasnt really getting stronger, and I had no idea what to do with my nutrition beyond eating clean and making sure I was getting a lot of protein. I turned to various trainers for guidance, but they had me do more of the same. I liked working out too much to quit, but wasnít happy with my body and didnít know what I was doing wrong. I finally decided that it was time to really get educated. You know, to throw the magazines away and really learn the physiology of muscle growth and fat loss, and what it really takes to build a big, lean, and strong body. So I got serious about doing real research. I searched out the work of top strength and competition coaches, talked to scores of natural bodybuilders, and read hundreds of scientific papers and a very clear picture emerged. The real science of getting into incredible shape is very, very simple. Much simpler than the health and fitness advice and supplement industries wants us to believe. It flies right into the teeth of almost all the crap that we hear on TV, in magazines, and in the gym. Along the way, my friends noticed the improvements in my physique, and I began training them. I took hardgainers and put 30 - 50 lbs on them in a year. I took people that were absolutely baffled as to why they couldnít lose weight, and stripped 30 lbs of fat off them and helped them build noticeable muscle at the same time. I took people in their 50s, who believed their hormones were too bottomed out to accomplish anything with their bodies, and helped them turn back the clock 20 years in terms of body fat percentage and muscle definition. After doing this over and over for years, my clients (I never asked for money I just had them come train with me) started urging me to write a book. I dismissed the idea at first, but it began to grow on me. What if I had such a book when I had started training? I thought. I wouldve saved an untold amount of money, time, and frustration, and I wouldve achieved my ideal physique years ago. I really enjoyed helping people with what I had learned, and if I wrote books and they became popular, what if I could help thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people? That got me excited. So I started with publishing Bigger Leaner Stronger in early 2012, unsure of what to expect. Within a few weeks of its release, readers were emailing me with high praises. I was floored. I immediately started on my next book, and outlined several more. Ive now published several more books and sold over 200,000 copies, and I get scores of emails and social media messages every day from readers who are blown away by the results theyíre seeing. Theyre just as shocked as I was years ago about how simple it is to build lean, healthy muscle, and lose as much fat as you want without ever feeling starved or miserable. Look out for my next post where I ask Mike about his favourite workout routines and how to build muscle.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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