Off The Gym Floor

Train hard or train smart, finding the balance is hard so in this episode the boys talk about optimising your performance, results and health by focusing on recovering properly after training. We also discover that although Matty's hair is always perfect his teams performance isn't after their white wash results over the long weekend......🤦‍♂️

Matty and Mark are glad to be back after a series of unfortunate events kept them apart and prevented the podcast being recorded. They return to talk about Footware and the importance of a stable foundation when building a stronger healthier body.

This week Mark and Matty discuss the use of lifting belts, knee sleeves and wraps and wrist wraps. The discussion will give you an understanding of the benefits and when to use them and when not to use them. Mark also mentions his upcoming holiday to cairns where he wants to eat crocodiles..... ?

This week Mark and Matty discuss there observations on the Gym Challenge they are involved in and the success and challenges their participants have faced while changing their lifestyle and exercise habits to meet their goals.

Mark and Matty go through some ideas to help you bump up that bench. If you have stopped seeing progression in you're bench press numbers you need to listen to the 6 rules of over coming a plateau!

This week the guys look to the classic chin up, an exercise many people struggle to perform. Mark and Matty discuss their own methods of progressing from the basic lat pull down to full body weight chin ups.

This week we keep it a little shorter and focus in on the deadlift. We discuss the Pro's, con's, helpful cues to setting up and progressions/regressions on how to develop a strong and safe deadlift. Also keep your pen and paper handy to tally up all the times Matty says "ok?" before Mark can't contain himself anymore!

This week we celebrate hitting double digits with episode 10 by discussing HIIT training. How the energy systems work, how to structure a session and what the benefits are. We hope you enjoy!

This week Mark and Matt discuss one of the most popular topics in the gym world Hypertrophy. They go into detail on optimal training variables and different methods to stimulate muscle growth during your training.

Welcome back to Off The Gym Floor Podcast in 2021! The guys hope you missed the pod as much as they missed creating them! This Pod is about Sled Training but before we get to that we have an apology from Matty, an explanation of the love hearts he has been sending mark, we discover what bag jelly is and more.