OLD SCHOOL vs. NEW SCHOOL: Did Fitness Actually Get Better? | Ep. 2

We know more about fitness than ever. But are we actually better at it?

Before influencers, wearables, exercise optimization and endless studies on the “perfect” way to train, most of us learned differently. You watched the biggest guy in the gym, read Muscle & Fitness and FLEX, copied workouts from people you wanted to look like, and occasionally did some absolutely ridiculous shit because a magazine said it worked.

In Episode 2 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're going old school vs. new school.

Ron takes us back to the late '90s, when bodybuilding magazines, gym culture and trial-and-error were basically the internet. Matt came along about a decade later, as fitness information moved from magazines and forums to YouTube, evidence-based training and eventually today's information overload.

And both roads produced plenty of questionable decisions.

Ron admits to doing an eight-hour arm workout because FLEX said it could add half an inch to his arms. Matt remembers doing curls and ab rollouts between video-game loading screens chasing the Abercrombie bod. We get into ridiculous training volume, ego lifting, body-part splits and the fitness rules we once treated like gospel.

Then there's the nutrition: eating every two hours to “stoke the metabolic fire,” the anabolic window, carbs after dark, fasted cardio, low-glycemic everything, and Ron eating enough tilapia during contest prep to make his house permanently smell like fish.

Some of it was nonsense.

But the old-school guys also got a lot right.

Train hard. Get stronger. Eat your protein. Take creatine. Track your workouts. Learn your body. Show up consistently. Stop searching for the perfect program and do the work.

Modern exercise science has absolutely made fitness better in many ways. But somewhere between bro science and optimization culture, there's probably a sweet spot.

We talk about how our training has evolved, what we've completely changed our minds about, why more information doesn't always produce better results, and what the old-school meathead mentality can still teach us.

Old-school experience. New-school science. A lot of mistakes in between.

Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life.

Whatever comes up, we're talking about it.

Life keeps coming. So do we.

INCOMING.

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>Dr. Matt Eichler: IG: drehealth

https://www.drehealth.me

Coaching with Matt at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler

>Det. Ron Parmeter: IG: @ron_parmeter

Coaching with Ron at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron