EFR 566: Your 30-Year Diet and Fitness Plan - MUSCLE FOR LIFE with Mike Matthews

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Chase Chewning

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5 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Personal trainer and author Mike Matthews returns to talk about his newest release, Muscle for Life: Get Lean, Strong, and Healthy at Any Age!.

Best known for his book Bigger Leaner Stronger and its female-focused counterpart Thinner Leaner Stronger—both released in 2014—Mike has now trained his focus onto longevity for both men and women in their 40s and above who are relatively new to strength training.

Mike is a staunch promoter of making fitness a lifestyle instead of a program. In his own words: “Instead of a 30-day plan, I want to show people how to create a 30-year plan.” Creating that 30-year plan for yourself requires going back to basics.

Mike invokes the 80/20 rule, in which 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes. The rule certainly applies to fitness, where a few fundamental principles—four in particular—can be responsible for the majority of results.

Those four fundamental principles, which he dives into in today’s conversation, are controlling your calories, eating a high-protein diet, consuming relatively nutritious and unprocessed foods, and working out three-to-six hours a week.

Asked for his overall view of the role of fitness in one’s life, Mike says, “I try not to make fitness my life, an end unto itself.” Instead, he looks at fitness as a tool that he uses in service of the things that really matter, such as relationships and career.

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Episode resources:

Save 20% on your entire first purchase with code EVERFORWARD at www.LegionAthletics.com
Get Mike's new book Muscle For Life at https://amzn.to/3JTz6VM
Ep. 292 "Training and dieting basics"
Ep. 460 "Why you don't need supplements"
Learn more at https://chasechewning.com/podcasts/episode/565

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to your bonus episode this week. I wanted to sneak in a third episode for you because well
0:06.4	Mike is a friend of mine. I love Legion Athletics their friends their homies their partners here of the show on mine and you know what he's got a
0:14.0	powerhouse new book out that I just couldn't wait to get this interview out to support so you're
0:18.8	in for a real treat Mike is now a three-peat-time here guest on the show.
0:24.0	I'm going to go ahead and link his last two interviews on the show
0:26.9	now pretty much year after year.
0:29.3	He has dropped a new book and he has carved out some time to sit down with me and you and really peel back a few layers and get specific on ways to train harder, train smarter, to get the most out of your training, your nutrition, and like today in the conversation
0:45.0	about building muscle for life, how to get lean, strong, and healthy at any age.
0:50.4	And really the take-home message here today that Mike and I kind of kind of just molded in our conversation was what does it take in terms of the mentality, the mindset, the habits, the fitness and the nutrition to map out the next 30 years of your life in a plan that is going
1:05.8	to serve your goals and you can be adherant to no matter what happens.
1:13.0	Welcome back everyone.
1:16.0	This is your number one source
1:18.0	for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose
1:21.0	to their passion and truly living a life ever forward.
1:25.0	Conversations and messages that will take your fitness, nutrition, and mindset to the next level.
1:32.0	I am your host, Chase Chuning. This is Ever Forward Radio. From the best-selling fitness author of Bigger Leaner Stronger and The Shreaded Chef,
1:55.0	Muscle for Life Mike's latest book reveals a science-based blueprint for eating and exercising that
2:01.0	anyone can follow at any age and fitness level.
2:05.0	This is based on time-proven principles produced by decades of hands-on experience
2:10.7	and thousands of hours of scientific research that you don't have to do.
2:15.0	Micah has done it for you here in this conversation and in this book.
2:18.0	Muscle for life will give you a plan for transforming your body faster than you ever thought possible.
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