151. How My Client Lost 50 Pounds And Won Against Back Pain with Matt Selph
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It's never too late to get in shape and reap the health benefits of physical fitness.
In fact, increasing physical activity later in life results in the same risk reduction of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality as being active from adolescence through adulthood, the study's researchers said.
So, while getting fit after 40 is about easing into specific exercises tailored for success, it's also about understanding your underlying motivation for doing so.
The success factor is an ability to connect the dots between one's diet and exercise routines and their ambitions in life.
At 40, Matt Selph decided to embark on a journey of weight loss, muscle gain, and beating back the chronic back pain that had plagued him since childhood.
When he was a teenager, he was diagnosed with a lower spine deformity, which caused him to stop being active and playing football.
He managed his pain with painkillers, but by the time he was in his 30s, he realized that it wasn't a long-term solution for him. By the time he married, he had put on a lot of weight.
He has a sedentary job, which means he spends the majority of his time in the office sitting at his desk for around 9 hours a day. His weight went up to 217 pounds, and his back pain returned intensely. He realized that this wasn't helping.
Matt's life was turned upside down when he witnessed his mother suffer from osteoporosis as a result of her advanced age. He was well aware that he needed to take charge of his life and his health in order to avoid ending up in the same situation.
He then began working with me and received one-on-one instruction from me for the next several months.
Assuming he would be hindered by his back condition, he was cautious. Resistance training, on the other hand, miraculously eliminated the long-term backache he had been experiencing in just 2 weeks!
By concentrating on his correct food and nutrition, as well as his regular fitness routine, Matt shed an astonishing 50 pounds in just 72 weeks of program participation.
At 194 pounds and with more muscles than ever, Matt looks and feels great while still being able to think clearly because he spends time outside and hiking with his family, among other things.
Check out this episode with Matt Selph as he shares his incredible journey of how losing weight and getting fit can help you overcome chronic back pain even if you're already in your 40s, allowing you to be free of all anxiety about getting old age-related diseases.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Chris Gethyn and I've been voted the world's number one trainer on platforms such as |
| 0:07.6 | bodybuilding.com, the governing body PT Academy. I am the co-founder of caged supplements. I am the co-founder |
| 0:16.6 | of the Chris Gethin Jim's franchise and I'm the co-founder on my online coaching platform. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm also a hybrid athlete, a pro natural bodybuilder, competed in many different events, |
| 0:29.9 | such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, and what I aim to bring to you with this podcast is inspiration, motivation from clients, testimonials, biohacking, anti-aging, everything that will allow you to evolve as a human being. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello, everybody. This is the Chris Gethin podcast, and we have a client spotlight where we often talk about one of my clients' transformations. |
| 1:01.0 | We discuss the struggles, the barriers that they've gone through in order to achieve the success that we talk about today. |
| 1:07.8 | Of course it's difficult. Of course it's hard. It's not supposed to be easy. |
| 1:12.4 | And you have to prioritize some of those sacrifices in order for you to feel that success. |
| 1:17.4 | And one of those people that is witnessing that success right now is one of my clients, Matt Self. |
| 1:23.8 | Thank you for coming onto the show, sir. |
| 1:26.2 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:28.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.5 | Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Now, obviously, you know, I've got your stats right in front of me. You know, you're around, I think, is £217, was it, to begin with? |
| 1:41.4 | Yeah, right out about $27, 220 to start with. |
| 1:45.0 | And then we got down to like 167 at your lowest. |
| 1:50.3 | And then, you know, we've reversed dieted out of there. |
| 1:52.9 | So you're current weights, which is about 194 because the goal is to actually put on muscle now during this stage. |
| 1:58.8 | So what had happened in order for you to contact me and reach out, |
| 2:03.5 | you know, things happen in life. We understand, you know, but had you been an active individual |
| 2:07.8 | before or did something happen in your life where you just kind of like started a spiral to |
| 2:13.7 | bad intentions or bad habits? Can you give us a little bit of a background on that? |
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