Mike Matthews Biography
Mike Matthews is the best selling health and fitness American author and creator of Muscle for Life and Legion Athletics. He found his calling of writing in his early 20’s. He first applied it to building employee training programs for companies, mainly healthcare professionals, before moving into the health and fitness space.
His mission is to give everyone that opportunity by providing time-proven, evidence-based advice on how to build muscle, lose fat and stay healthy.
Mike Matthews Age
Matthews was born on 13th June 1984. Mike’s birth sign is Gemini. He is 35 years old as of 2019. Matthews’s Zodiac Sign is Gemini.
Mike Matthews Workout
Matthews has been training for more than a decade. In that time, Mike read thousands of pages of scientific literature and tried just about every type of work out program. Like most people who get into weightlifting, he had no clue what he was doing when he started out. He turned to fitness magazines for help. Mike spent hours in the gym every day and hundreds of dollars on pills and powders every month. After he did this for years, he jumped from diet to diet, workout program to workout program and supplement to supplement only to make mediocre progress and eventually got stuck in a rut.
Mike turned to personal trainers for guidance, but they had him do more of the same. After spending thousands of dollars with them he didn’t gain any more than muscle and still had no idea what to do with his diet and training to reach his goals. At this time, Mike didn’t look bad by any means, but that wasn’t exactly what you’d expect from working out 1500 plus hours with no extended breaks.
Mike Matthews with his son Lenox
He finally decided that something had to change. Matthews started with learning the physiology of muscle growth and fat loss. So he threw away the magazines, fired the trainers and got off the internet forums. He searched out the work of top strength and bodybuilding coaches, talked to scores of natural bodybuilders, and started reading scientific papers.
Mike Matthews bigger leaner stronger
Mike always thought, “Why isn’t there a book out there that actually teaches you what you really need to know to eat right and build muscle”. After a couple of years later, people started urging him to write a book. He dismissed the idea at first but eventually began to warm up to it.
Mike wrote Bigger Leaner Stronger and published it in 2012. It sold maybe 20 copies in the first month but within a couple of months sales were growing and he began receiving emails from readers with high praise. Mike started making notes on how to improve the book based on feedback and outlined ideas for several other books that he could write.
Mike Matthews Supplements
Below is Mikes’ normal supplementation routine when he’s cutting.
Pre-workout (Lifting, fasted)
- 11/2 servings of LEGION FORGE
- 1/ serving of LEGION PULSE
- 1 serving of LEGION PHOENIX
Post-workout
- 2 Scoops of LEGION WHEY+
- 1 serving of LEGION RECHARGE
- 1 serving of LEGION GENESIS
- 1 serving of LEGION FORTIFY
- 4 grams of fish oil
- 5, 000 IU of vitamin D
With Lunch
- 1/2 serving of LEGION TRIUMPH
Pre-Workout (cardio Fasted)
- 11/2 servings of LEGION FORGE
- 1/2 serving LEGION PULSE
- 1 serving LEGION PHOENIX
With Dinner
- 1/2 serving of LEGION TRIUMPH
Mike Matthews Other Books
Matthews has published a number of books. A book for women (Thinner Leaner Stronger), a “flexible dieting” cookbook (The Shredded Chef), and a deep dive into the science and art of motivation (The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation). All his books have sold over a million copies and his work has been featured in a number of publications like Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Muscle &Strength. Elle, Esquire, and many more.
Mike got scores of emails and social messages from readers and followers who thank him for his work. Many of Mike’s readers are blown away by the results they are seeing. That is why Matthews continues to write books and articles, record podcasts and Youtube videos, and generally, do everything he can to be as helpful as possible.
Mike Matthews Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting (or “IF,” as it’s commonly called) is kind of a misnomer. It sounds like a diet wherein you fast (eat nothing for extended periods of time) at irregular intervals (intermittently), but most protocols have you fast on a regular schedule.
For instance, one popular IF diet (Leangains) has you fast for 16 hours per day and eat during the remaining 8 hours. Another calls for 20 hours of fasting with a 4-hour feeding window, and yet another entails alternating between days of normal and no eating whatsoever.
Now, I mentioned that fasting involves eating nothing for long periods of time, but it’s a bit more than that. When you eat food, it gets broken down into various molecules that your cells can use, and these molecules are released into your blood.
Insulin is released as well, and its job is to shuttle the nutrients into the cells. Depending on how much food you eat in a meal, your insulin levels can remain elevated for several hours (anywhere from 3 – 6+).
When your body is digesting and absorbing what you’ve eaten, it’s in a “fed” or “postprandial” state (prandial means “having to do with a meal”). Once it has finished processing and absorbing the meal, insulin levels drop to a “minimum” low (or “baseline”) level, and your body enters a “fasted” or “postabsorptive” state.
Every day your body moves between “fed” and “fasted” states, and the purpose of intermittent fasting is to extend the amount of time spent fasting. Most people start eating food around 8 AM and stop around 9 PM, with at least a few hours in between each meal.
That is, they eat food intermittently for about 13 hours and then eat nothing for about 11 hours, with a portion of those hours spent in a truly fasted state (the fasting doesn’t technically begin until the final meal of the day has been processed and insulin levels have dropped).
With this traditional setup, the average person probably spends an average of about 6 or 7 hours per day in a fasted state. Intermittent fasting flips this around, allowing you to easily double the number of hours that you fast.
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Mike Matthews Wife
Matthews married his teenage sweetheart Sarah. Matthews and his wife Sarah have a son named Lenox.
Mike Matthews Training
As a result, Mike learned and completely changed his approach to eating and exercising and his body responded in ways he couldn’t believe. His strength skyrocketed, his muscles started growing again and his energy levels went through the roof. Surprisingly, he spent fewer hours in the gym, did less cardio, and eat foods he actually liked.
Along the way, Mike’s friends and family noticed how his physique was improving and began asking for advice. He became their coach. He took hard gainers and put 30 pounds on them in a year. People were baffled as to why they couldn’t lose weight and stripped away piles of fat. He took people in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s who believed their hormones and metabolisms were beyond repair and helped them get into the best shape of their lives.
Mike Matthews net worth
Matthew’s net worth is Under Review. There is no updated information on Mike’s net worth.
Mike Matthews Ambitions
First, Matthews wants to help a million people get fit and healthy.
Second, He wants to lead the fight against mainstream health and fitness pseudoscience.
Third, Mike wants to reform the sports supplements industry.
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Mike Matthews PodCasts
https://www.muscleforlife.com/the-simple-system-i-use-to-find-choose-read-and-remember-great-books/