Episode Details

I am joined by a member of our Wits & Weights Facebook community, Matthew Spiewak, to chat about training and nutrition, including flexible dieting, compound lifts, pain and injury, and programming.

Matthew is an ACSM-certified Personal Trainer in the Chicagoland area with a degree in Kinesiology.

He loves helping people feel and look better and transform their health through his hands-on work in the gym as a trainer, so Matthew has both the educational and practical experience to help you succeed.

Matthew also hosts a 30-minute Instagram live every Tuesday at 5pm Central time in the U.S. and brings on new guests every week.
 
Topics discussed in this episode:

• How and why Matthew got into fitness
• Flexible dieting and who benefits from it
• Whether anyone should NOT use flexible dieting
• Whether people should squat and deadlift, benefits, how to incorporate in training
• The best rep ranges for strength, hypertrophy, and physique
• Bench press form (and getting the entire body involved)
• How to avoid low back pain
• How to deal with an injury
• Why programming is so important to get better results
• How to start and stick with a training routine
• and lots more

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• Find Matthew on Instagram
• Matthew's website
• Watch the episode on video here
• Join the Wits & Weights Facebook community

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