Off The Gym Floor

This week the boys are back with a Q&A from listeners and members. They answer what is the best core exercise to do, what is the best time to train and what is the best form of cardio.

This week Mark and Matty decided to chat nutrition inspired by Matt's recent consultation with a nutritionist. Find out what Matty learnt about his diet, his experience of intermittent fasting, great tips to make healthy eating easier.

With Matty returned safe and sound to the podcast the guys delve into how to structure a workout from first to the last exercise in your routine and explain exactly why exercise order as well as selection is important for the best results!

This week Mark was abandoned by Matty! Leaving Mark to fly solo and talk about the Push Up Challenge that both he and Matty are part of to raise money and awareness for mental health. Mark shares the facts he's learnt since being a part of the push up challenge as well as some personal experience of suffering from poor mental health himself. We hope to make you all more aware of the impact mental health can have on you and those around you as well as give you some of the proven methods to improve your own mental health to help you live a long and happy life!

Welcome back to another fantastic episode where we bring in another guest who shares her weightloss journey. Michelle who is Matt's client shares how she has over come weight gain caused by numerous operations, a severe heart condition, anxiety and a bad relationship with food to having lost over 16kg of fat in 9 months while still gaining a kilo in muscle and improving her strength and overall fitness. Her journey puts things in perspective and helps us to see how we can all be doing a little more to improve our own health and quality of life.

If you run, want to start running or used to run and looking to get started again this is the episode for you! Running is always a big part of your training but what are you not including that will help your performance, improve the elements of your fitness the running alone doesn't address and reduce your risk of injury.

This week the guys talk about arm training, how frequently you should train, when you should train them, what techniques you have to target different areas of your biceps/triceps and share there favourite arm exercises.

We are honoured to have Alycia Jaffrey on the podcast to bring her expertise about women's health. She busts some myths and open the guys eye's to new and important considerations when training with their female clients. Whether you're male or female this episode is a worthwhile listen full of great value and fun!

The guys are back with another topic sent in by a listener who was curious to know about how you can maintain your health and fitness with seated exercise if you have lower limb restrictions. So the boys put their head together to give you some great ideas on how to maintain strength and cardiovascular strength without the use of your lower limbs!

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.

Matty and Mark are back after a 2 week unexpected absence with top tips on how you can stick to your new year goals! They also reveal why the podcast hasn't ran the last 2 weeks as well as investigating Matt's suspicious stain on his work shorts....... download, listen and enjoy!

A subject close to Mark's heart is lower back pain. After admittedly not having good technique both in the gym and on the rugby field in his younger years Mark suffers from lower back pain. Both him and Matty discuss common causes and solutions to general back pain.

This week the guys talk about kettlebells and all the benefits they bring to your training regime. Matt also raises the subject of Mark's gym budgy smugglers....

This week Matty and Mark discuss how to select a good personal trainer or fitness coach. Also discover the mystery of why Matty struggles to pay his rent because of hand lotion.....

Slightly longer episode this week we discuss the results from our teams in the grand final. Matty wears a skirt and enjoyed it. We discuss warm ups and finish with an in depth discussion on weight loss.

Week 2 and Mark and Matty chat about how their rugby clubs are going head to head in the grand final this weekend. Mark shares why he was trying on dresses in the op shop before recording the podcast. And eventually the pair get down to business and discuss core strength, what is it and how to get it and non specific knee pain, causes and solutions.

Welcome to the first ever Off The Gym Floor podcast! We are excited to share with you our experience and knowledge to help you live an active and healthy lifestyle. In this episode we discus squat variations and how to develop this exercise and what calorie and protein density is and how you can use that to eat correctly for your goals.