Today’s episode is a recast from a recent episode of the podcast This Life Ain’t for Everybody with Chad Belding, with Matt as a guest.

If you have something you’re passionate about, give it the amount of time and attention it deserves.

Getting featured in a magazine like Muscle & Fitness doesn’t happen overnight. It took Chad and Matt years of labor and dedication. If you haven’t yet read the article, you can click this link: https://www.muscleandfitness.com/athletes-celebrities/pro-tips/fowl-life-star-chad-belding-always-hunt-training-edge

Health and fitness allow you to do what you love. For Chad, that means not getting winded when hunting. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. What preparations are you making for your own luck to find you?
3:00 - Spending time on what you’re good at
13:00 - Getting into Muscle & Fitness magazine doesn’t happen overnight
18:00 - Health and fitness allow you to do what you love
22:00 - Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
33:00 - “Functional” fitness is relative fitness
42:00 - Practical recovery
52:00 - Mental stability and routine work toward goals
1:06:00 - There are no absolutes to your fitness

3/26/2020

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Is your multivitamin making you fat? Yes, of course that statement is a bit facetious, but the point is this: If you consider all of your bases covered because you take a multivitamin, are you still thinking of that salad? Are you still going to be taking in good, whole food sources? Or, as is often the case, once you’ve taken that multivitamin do you think you’re free to eat whatever else you want?

6:00 - Why do we need vitamins?
13:00 - If your supplement works for you, that’s great
19:45 - Multivitamins don’t cover all you need
26:00 - Nutrient content in real food vs. pills

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3/23/2020

Training harder doesn’t always mean training better. Every training day can’t be a “hard” day; you’ll end up burning out and the days that need to be more quality won’t be.

5:00 - Set your goal date and work backward from there
9:30 - Training harder doesn’t always mean training better.
15:30 - Practice doesn’t make perfect; perfect practice makes progress
20:00 - How to plan your training session
26:00 - It’s not how much you lift, it’s how well you lift
34:00 - Anything you train comes at the cost of something else, so choose wisely
37:00 - “Overtraining” may just be under-recovering

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3/19/2020

Do you get anxious before being put to the test, or is it really excitement? The two can seem similar, but the latter will serve you more positively. Anxiety is a necessary element in human evolution. The difference in the modern world is we (well, most of us) don’t have things like lions stalking us everywhere we go ready to eat us. Yet we still have the mental and emotional responses as if those lions are right here. So listen in and learn how (and why) you can turn your anxiety into excitement

1:00 - Turn your anxiety into excitement
6:30 - The difference between motivation and excitement
10:00 - If you’ve failed, get excited and try again
15:00 - What you focus on is what you feel
19:00 - Everybody has stressors; find ways to minimize them

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3/16/2020

If you're sore afterward, does that mean it was a good workout?
Do you plan to be sore? How sore should you be after training? What’s too much, and conversely, what’s not enough?
If you’re getting sore all the time, that’s an indication your progress may be slower than it needs to be. Because if you’re really sore, really often, your hard days won’t be hard enough; this may stem from your easy days not being easy enough.

00:00 - 9:00 - Intro
10:00 - Soreness can be a good thing
15:00 - How to segment your training
20:00 - Over-soreness can keep you from training enough
27:00 - Extreme muscle soreness can even be dangerous

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3/12/2020

Do things in your life always go as planned? Well if you’re like the rest of us, probably not. It’s in those times of challenge and surprise that it’s essential to practice mental flexibility, or in other words the ability to adapt your mentality to your situation.

Pendola athlete for many years, Les Naisbitt, coined the phrase “there’s no hill for a climber, but it’s a mountain for a quitter.” Basically, it means if you’re at the bottom of a hill you aren’t sure you can run up, start climbing. Change the way you see the hill and find a way to overcome.

00:00 - 7:00 - Intro
7:00 - What’s so important about mental flexibility
10:00 - “There’s no hill for a climber, but it’s a mountain for a quitter.”
21:30 - How do you see yourself?
26:00 - Most things worth attaining won’t go according to plan. Adapt.

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3/9/2020

You've either asked this question or heard it: "How many calories should I take in?" Well, if only there was a simple answer. However, after listening to this episode you will have the knowledge needed to make the right caloric decisions for yourself, without having to buy any expensive supplements.

00:00 - 3:00 - Intro
4:30 - Calories in vs. calories out
9:00 - Losing weight is not the same as losing fat
12:00 - For bulking, extreme protein increase isn’t good either
17:30 - How much protein should you consume?
22:00 - Your daily caloric intake should fluctuate with your activity levels
24:30 - Is your fitness watch really accurate?
33:00 - Your training session isn’t where most of your calories are being burned
35:00 - Tips for taking control of your calories

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3/5/2020

With the popularity that still surrounds the keto diet there are also lots of misconceptions. For example: Is your keto diet actually doing what you think it is? Are there people who really do perform better on a low-carb, high-fat diet? To help break it all down we are joined by Billy Haug, M.S. in Human Nutrition.

1:00 - Keto. Yes, it’s still a thing
2:30 - Keto may not be what you think it is
6:00 - Beware the shiny object
9:45 - Keto could perform the same, or worse, than other methods for some people
12:00 - There are no “bad” macros
15:30 - Your body knows what it needs
18:00 - High intensity athletics and keto don’t mix well
19:30 - If it works for you, great, but don’t try to recruit others

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3/2/2020

This episode was inspired by an intimate and brave email we received from a listener. There's an invisible war in the world of fitness that doesn't get enough coverage: Eating disorders. Issues like body image and caloric restriction for aesthetics are far too prevalent in our industry, and it's time to take off the blinders and talk about them.

0:00 - 4:00 - Intro
8:00 - Many modern health problems are attributable to nutrition
9:00 - Be careful with where you get your nutrition information
12:00 - Your coach may not be the best source for nutrition information
13:30 - The invisible war in sports: Eating disorders
17:00 - Weighing less won’t necessarily make you better
24:00 - There is no ideal body type for performance; it’s relative
30:00 - Negative habits learned early on can lead to lifelong damage
33:00 - Learn healthier ways to think about food
44:00 - Extra weight, if it comes from muscle, can be a good thing

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2/27/2020

Your mindset can either help you, or hurt you; which will you choose? In this episode, we discuss the power of positive visualization. Believe to achieve.
3:00 - Your mindset can either help or hurt you
6:00 - Don’t focus on your past failures
8:00 - It’s not a failure if you learn from it
13:30 - Tune in what matters, tune out what doesn’t
19:30 - What to do when the negatives pop up
23:30 - Don’t let impostor syndrome set in

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2/24/2020