Thursday, April 16, 2020

Melty Cheese Omelette



Today we are going to show you how to make my personal favorite omelet blend. Eggs are awesome you can make so many various dishes with them on top of that, eggs are quick.

Ingredients:



(Option to add I go back and forth with this one)


For those seeking to understand what a dash, pinch and smidgen means in measurement form:

Cracking Some Eggs:

Take out a small bowl crack three eggs into the bowl. Feel free to remove the egg yolks if you would like to cut down on the fat, but I recommend leaving at least one yolk.


Now We Add the Seasonings:

Time to add the cheyenne pepper, paprika, turmeric, garlic and sweet basil to the eggs in the bowl. Once you are done grab a fork. You are going to take the fork and whisk the eggs, in turn blending the seasoning.

It’s Dicing Time:

Dice the cherry tomatoes up. You slice the onion up to be about the same amount as the cherry tomatoes. I like to do this while I’m cooking the eggs to save on time.

Set Up The Frying Pan:

Take out your Red Copper Pan or any frying pan you choose to use, nonstick is preferred. Spray cooking spray on the pan. You want to keep the flame on medium low. At this point you will add the beaten eggs.

Tomatoes and Onions:

As the eggs start to solidify this is the time you are going to add the tomatoes and onions to one side of the pan. Give it about another minute.

Cheese and Flip:

Lay the slices of cheese evenly across the tomatoes and onion side. Before the flip, you will need to loosen all the edges of the eggs on the pan. Once you have accomplished that you are ready to flip it. Take the side that doesn’t have the cheese slowly raise it up with a spatula. (I personally prefer thicker spatulas for this.  Once the egg half it’s up on the spatula you will quickly flip that side on top of the cheese side. Now that it is flipped and looking like an omelet use the spatula to loosen up under the omelet, cover and let it cook for another minute or two so the cheese can melt.

Final Touch:

The omelet is cooked now you might not get the flip part right the first few times, but it will always have the same great taste. The finally sprinkle some black pepper lightly across the top, Enjoy.


How Creatine Monohydrate Can Increase Muscle Mass, Boost Memory and More!



Creatine Monohydrate 

I am not a personal trainer that believes in pushing supplements onto my clients. In fact, I tell clients you really don’t need any supplements. Very few supplements have the scientific backed benefits that creatine monohydrate has.

What is Creatine Monohydrate

Creatine monohydrate is a substance found in your muscle cells that helps the muscles to produce energy, while doing high intensity based physical activities such as weightlifting. To put it simple it gives your body extra energy, when it comes time to use your muscles.

Creatine can help to improve health and athletic performance by boosting the amount of phosphocreatine stored in the muscle. Additional stored phosphocreatine can then produce more ATP which is the key energy source for intense exercised and weightlifting

ATP is the body’s energy currency, when you have more ATP the body can perform better during exercise (1).

The Benefits

  •       Increased energy means you can increase the volume of your workouts. In turn boosting your muscle growth
  •      According to this study, it can increase satellite cell signaling. Which can help aid in muscle recovery and new muscle growth (2)
  •      Studies have shown a rise in anabolic hormones, such as IGF-1 after taking creatine (3) (4) (5)
  •       It may reduce muscle breakdown, in turn you may keep more your total muscle mass (more research is needed, attached is the study.) (6)
  •      Studies are showing creatine can lower myostatin levels. Elevated levels of myostatin can slow or totally inhibit muscle growth. Lowing these levels can increase muscle growth potential. (7)
  •      Taking a step away from exercise. Creatine as been shown to increase phosphocreatine in the brain which has been shown, to improve brain health and prevent neurological disease (8) (9) (10) (11)
  •      Vegetarians diets often don’t get close to enough creatine since they avoid eating meat, this should help muscle growth and brain health dramatically in vegetarians.

Increased Cell Hydration

I wanted to make a special section for this. Creatine increases the water content within your muscles which causes a cell volumization effect that may play a role increasing muscle size. This however will be in the form of water retention, not actual muscle growth.

This is my personal experience with creatine. When you first start to use creatine for a  first few weeks, until your reached full absorption creatine can slightly dehydrate you. When are you are slightly dehydrated you more susceptible to cramping. I urge you if you are using creatine for the first time to drink extra water and don’t us it right before a workout instead do it after working out.

Different Types of Creatines Other Than Monohydrate

The Creatine I Personally Use
The most well researched creatine remains to be monohydrate. Supplement companies are constantly making various versions with promises to be the next best type of creatine while jacking up the price tag on it. The research always proves false on these hyped creatines.

Don’t get scammed by supplement companies falsely claimed overpriced creatines. Creatine monohydrate is the best creatine and has remained so for years with science backed studies. Best of all it is cheap.

Final Notes

Creatine is one of the cheapest most scientifically backed supplements you can take. It supports quality of lift in older adults, brain health and exercise performance.  Creatine monohydrate is still the best version.

Sited Sources

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Maintaining Bodyweight


So you got to the weight that you want

First off congratulations on hitting your goal weight. If you haven’t already you should really take the time to let that sit in, awesome job. So you've gotten to the point that you truly feel comfortable with the weight that you are at. How are we going to keep it for good, is the question? This is how and you will be please to know, it's much easier to maintain than it was to lose or gain weight.

The Five Low, Five High

I like to call this the rule of five. Meaning five below your ideal weight or five above your ideal weight. Our weight fluctuates it will never be the same number. Once it goes above 5lbs or below 5 lbs you will know it’s time to take a little action again to get your weight back to it's ideal weight. 




Setting Up Macros to Not Gain

The weight on the scale will always move a little bite. If you aren’t trying to gain weight you need to set your calories to not gain or lose weight. A nice macro split of 50% Carbs 30% Protein and 20% Fat. This tends to be a really good start, once you know the right amount of calories you need to maintain weight.

Exercise the Same But Drop The Cardio

Personally I drop cardio when I’m maintaining. I feel cardio is best served as a tool for fat loss. If you use cardio all the time you won’t be able to utilize it in your fat loss arsenal if you will. When I am maintaining
I will still do my workouts the same way, minus the cardio. I generally don’t need to drop my calories despite the cardio leaving because I am maintaining at this moment not trying to lose weight.

Friday, October 19, 2018

At Home Coreball Glute Hamstring Workout


The best thing about this routine is that it can be done quickly and at home. It's a great quick workout, best of all you only one thing for it a coreball. Check it out.






Saturday, August 18, 2018

Zucchini Lasagna


Lots of us love lasagna, bake ziti and all the other wonderful casserole dishes. We also don't like to balloon up as result of all those carbs. The solution zucchini! This idea came to me by complete accident. During the summer plant vegetables and garden just to see what grows, I don't take it to serious. It saves at the grocery store plus it is real organic. Well my zucchinis went a little insane in both quantity and size.

Me holding one of my monster size zucchini's I grew

Now having an over abundance of zucchinis. First I gave a lot of them away, to the point nobody else I knew wanted anymore. I needed to figure out something to use them for, so they didn't go to waste. I came up with a lot of dishes one was Zucchini Lasagna.

Ingredients

Zucchini (however many you want to use)
Garlic
Basil (preferably real basil not dried)
Thyme
Fresh mozzarella
Pasta sauce
Red Pepper Flakes (Only if you like a little spice)
Olive Oil or Cooking Spray

Other Potential Added Ingredients (I didn't use them but I feel they might be a nice additive)
Ground turkey
Mushrooms (I tend to grow my own)

The Process

I used a frying pan that had some depth to it, that was oven safe. It was a red copper pan to  be exact which I can't say enough good things about it. I imagine you could use a casserole dish as well.

I don't think they make casserole dishes this long!
Setting Up The Zucchini

If you have a smaller zucchini I suggest cutting it length wise You are free to go the longer way as well with a huge but huge zucchini but to me so it really wasn't feasible. Instead I sliced the zucchini like bread but little thinner. Regardless how you decide to slice it, this is going to serve as  your pasta layer.

Prepping The Dish

Whatever you decide to use the first step is coating the bottom of the dish with a little olive oil or cooking spray to ensure nothing gets stuck.

At this point you will put a layer of Zucchini down followed by some pasta sauce. On top of that I like to put a small layer of garlic, basil leaves and thyme. Once again you will repeat this process with another layer of zucchini. At this point you will cap it off with a layer of fresh mozzarella.

This part is optional and dependent on you palette I like to add some basil leaves on top and red pepper flakes

Cooking

I don't recall the exact temp I had the oven set at but I believe it was 375 degree for about 20 minutes. A better technique to know when the dish is done would be the toothpick test. Simply take a wooden tooth pick and stab the zucchini, if it goes in with little pushing it is cooked.

In the end

In the end it should look like this enjoy =)









Saturday, June 2, 2018

Testimonial By Shaun

Meet Shaun:

Shaun got over a bad back and neck injury from a car accident while training with me. It was a very slow process. Shaun ended up having such a drive and passion for exercise after getting over his injury that he I made him exercise partner. For a short while we tried making Q&A fitness youtube videos. Later on as I got over booked with clients I would call upon Shaun to assist me with personal training some of my clients.

Shaun's Words:

"Hi, My name is Shaun. I just wanna tell you people out there that my life has changed for the better. I was once a kid that was really small when I was growing up. I have tried everything to gain lean muscle over the years and nothing ever worked. I realized that I was doing things wrong until Mathew started training me. I learned that hard work and dedication can take you very far in anything you do in life. My nutrition and diet was very important so he made a chart for me. I never would have thought I would be squatting 300 pounds. Elevation in the mind made me focus on building up my attributes such as confidence,focus, and intensity through the strict regimens bodybuilders achieve. My goal is to be the best athlete I can possibly be. The more I train, the more I feel healthy and energized to handle all the rigorous obstacles this world offers. So that the beauty of peace and longevity nourishes the body, mind, and soul. I wish everyone luck and I hope this inspires others." -Shaun

Shaun's Video Testimonial


Monday, May 21, 2018

Testimonial By Joel

Meet Joel

Over the years Joel has become a good friend as have most of my clients. Joel is unique in that his story wasn't about losing weight, he just wanted to get in better shape.  Physically, he was my weakest client and today, with the help of my training methods, he truly is the strongest client. As I like to say Joel is a deceptive power house.  Based on the feats he has accomplished, he lives up to the saying, 'age is nothing but a number'. My personal hope & goal is to be as strong as hm when I get older. I find it funny that I train him yet somehow he has become my inspiration for what I want to achieve in the years to come. I'm starting to realize that as I'm typing out his intro, that even though Joel is writing a testimony for me, it sounds like I'm writing a testimonial for him. itone for me. I truly feel thankful to have met and trained him.

Joel's Words

"I've never thought I could get back into shape. With Matt's expert guidance, I've been able to lose weight, meet my goals and gain far more strength then I imagined possible. Matt takes a personal approach, designing a program to meet your goals. I am continually impressed with his depth of knowledge, and ability to adapt the fitness program around my personal goals and needs. He combines health and fitness passion, knowledge of physiology and how the body responds to exercise. Matt's a rare and uniquely skilled trainer who I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone looking to get into shape"  -Joel Plaut 

(For a real trainee's perspective on what it's like training with me you can email Joel  Joelplaut@gmail.com)

Joel's Video Testimonial

Joel was kind enough to make a video testimonial for me as well