Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING
OLD SCHOOL vs. NEW SCHOOL: Did Fitness Actually Get Better? | Ep. 2
BROKEN, NOT DONE: Injuries, Recovery & Staying Capable as You Age | Ep. 1
by Ron Parmeter & Dr. Matt Eichler
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. *FIND US* >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
What happens when the body you've always relied on suddenly stops cooperating? In Episode 1 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're talking injuries, recovery, getting older, and what it actually takes to stay physically capable when life starts beating the hell out of you. And between the two of us, we've got some experience. Ron has broken his back, tailbone and ribs, collapsed a lung, ruptured a biceps tendon, torn both MCLs, torn a hamstring, broken his foot, undergone hernia surgery, and accumulated plenty of other wear and tear along the way. Matt's injury résumé includes countless ankle sprains, stingers, a torn abdominal muscle, major hamstring injuries that changed the trajectory of his athletic career, shoulder injuries, a torn pec, a lumbar disc herniation, and plenty more. But this episode isn't just about comparing scars. We get into Ron's 2002 motorcycle accident that left him with a broken back, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a broken tailbone, and how that eventually became part of the path that led him to bodybuilding. Ron also tells the story of completely rupturing his biceps tendon in the middle of contest prep, and we talk about something that doesn't get discussed enough: sometimes the hardest part of an injury isn't the physical pain. It's what the injury takes away from you. Your sport. Your job. Your independence. Your training. Your identity. We also dig into what people get wrong about pain and recovery, including why pain doesn't always perfectly reflect tissue damage, why an ugly MRI doesn't automatically mean you're broken, why complete rest isn't always the answer, and how intelligently training around an injury can become part of the recovery process. Then we zoom out. At 37 and 47, what does staying athletic actually look like? What changes as you age? What can you preserve? And what should you be doing now if you still want a strong, mobile, capable body decades from now? We cover: Pain vs. structural findings What asymptomatic MRI studies actually show Training around injuries instead of automatically stopping everything Blood-flow restriction and cross-education Fear avoidance and gradually rebuilding confidence Strength, muscle, power and aerobic capacity as we age Why hip extension and thoracic mobility matter Ron's approach to training differently at 47 And one police story involving a drunk guy, Ron doing his best impression of Terry Tate, and some unfortunate friendly fire FIND US Dr. Matt Eichler: drehealth.me IG: @drehealth Det. Ron Parmeter: Coaching with Ron at Pro Physique IG: @ron_parmeter #IncomingPodcast #FitnessPodcast #MensHealth Getting hurt doesn't mean you're done. Getting older doesn't mean becoming incapable. Life keeps coming. So do we. INCOMING.
Welcome to Episode 0 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING. So how does a retired police detective and natural pro bodybuilder end up starting a podcast with a chiropractor, health coach, and former physique competitor? Apparently, it starts with a bad neck, a random conversation in the gym, and 100 squats outside in the Florida heat. In our first episode, we're introducing ourselves, telling the story of how we met, and giving you a taste of what INCOMING is going to be. Ron spent 20 years in law enforcement before retiring to Florida, with a career that included tactical work, police training, narcotics investigations, and plenty of stories we'll probably get ourselves in trouble telling. He's also a lifelong athlete and former natural pro bodybuilder who competed for more than a decade. Matt is a chiropractor, health coach, movement educator, former competitive physique athlete, and lifelong athlete who has spent more than a decade helping people move better, get stronger, and stay capable. We're ten years apart, but we've realized we see a lot of life the same way. In this episode, we get into training, getting older without giving in to getting old, why physical capability matters so much to both of us, identity, discipline, coaching, sports, police stories, chiropractic stories, and some of the ridiculous shit that happens when two friends sit down with microphones. And that's really what INCOMING is. Life is always incoming. Injuries. Careers. Relationships. Family. Success. Failure. Getting older. New challenges. New opportunities. You don't control everything that's coming. You do have a say in the person standing there when it arrives. Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life. Sometimes educational. Sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes serious. Always real. Whatever comes up, we're talking about it. Welcome to INCOMING. Subscribe and come hang out with us every week. CONNECT WITH DR. MATT Instagram: @drehealth Everything Dr. Matt: drehealth.me Dr. Matt's Website: DrMattEichler.com Free Chiro-Companion Mobility Guide: ElementXHFC.com COACH WITH RON Instagram: @ron_parmeter Ron Parmeter — Pro Physique Coaching: Work With Ron DET. RON & DR. MATT: INCOMING Two Guys. No Filter.