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- You wanna lift with your lower back
and your lower back only in a fast jerky motion.
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(beep) People who are like actual trainers
are gonna tear me apart.
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Hey, what's up everybody?
I'm Matt Rife and today I'm gonna show you how I work out.
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I really got into fitness about, I'd say five years ago.
I've always been a naturally very skinny kid.
Like I've always had a hard time
putting on weight or maintaining it.
I realized how much of a release it is
for your mental health, more than even just your physical.
Get that stress off of you,
get the endorphins going a little bit,
wake your body and your mind up a little bit,
so it became pretty quickly addicting.
And then after you start to see the physical results,
it becomes even more addicting.
You go, how hard can I really push this thing?
Most comedians I would say
aren't that into the fitness world.
You have the Kevin Harts, the Preacher Lawson,
Tom Segura is getting a lot more into it.
Bryan Callen, there are a handful,
but I think Kevin Hart's really the only one
who's made it like a prominent part of his person
and his business, which I can really respect.
I started working out way after I was doing standup.
I've been doing standup for about 12 years now.
Yeah, a little over 12 years now.
I will say, I don't think it helps you by any means.
I mean people don't wanna laugh
at like physically attractive people.
Like you don't wanna walk on stage and have people looking
at your arms rather than listening to your jokes.
I think it just makes me work that much harder
on the material and the jokes that I'm trying to tell
to get people to focus on the real show at hand.
You know, you don't have to zoom down for the legs
(laughing) if you don't want to.
By no means do you have to-
(grunts) Do you have to zoom in on the legs?
I've always had a theory,
you don't work your legs too heavily
'cause it makes other things look bigger in comparison.
An ideal week of training,
I would say Monday we start with a push day.
We do chest and tris.
Tuesday, pool day back and biceps.
Wednesday, shoulders, Thursday legs.
If I can squeeze it in, I really love to box on Fridays.
I'd love to box Harry Styles.
High stakes, loser gets kissed on the mouth, straight up.
Bring your A game or don't whatever.
I'm taking a dive in the second round, regardless.
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Today I'm gonna show you one of my favorite workouts
from each one of my ideal structured days
from push days, pull days, shoulders, abs, cardio, legs.
Starting with push day.
We're gonna go chest focused.
I like a good incline chest.
Building a chest is so important to just
the overall structure of your physique.
You want to have the chest of a grown man
and not a 12 year old girl.
Nothing wrong with being a man with some strong yitties.
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So moving over to a pull day, your back is essential.
You want to create a nice formidable V physique.
You're not just a pencil.
A bit of a visible physicality to you
and wide grip, I feel like I get a lot more
lapped engagement.
Some people want to go all the way
to just having a super massive gorilla toned back.
I just want a back strong enough
that if I go to prison, it's not easily getting blown out.
You know what I mean?
Up next, we have arms, obviously the most essential workout
to every man going to the gym.
You gotta have some 28 inch pythons on you
if you can get 'em.
I'm working with some garter snakes right now,
but you take what you can get, okay?
I try to work arms two to three times a week at least.
It's one of those muscles that
you have to destroy it to get any kind of growth whatsoever.
I do abs every single day.
I do a 10 to 15 minute routine
just a little circuit of a bunch of different exercises.
A couple of 'em right now that work the obliques,
work the center right here,
build lower abs and top.
Discipline really starts to come into play
where you have to be dedicated
to the amount of time you use to workout.
Getting enough sleep, the foods you eat,
what you're putting into your body plays a massive part.
There's so many different factors that come into play
that you really have to make sure
you're disciplined enough to stay on track for.
And for legs, my most hated workout in history.
Just a single leg propped up
split squat with dumbbells in each hand.
They're gonna burn like crazy.
But if you enjoy boxing like myself,
it's a stance you have to be used to.
You have to get used to putting weight
and shifting it onto each individual leg
to be able to move around.
So, it's one I try to incorporate to every leg day.
So we'll give that our best shot.
All right guys, that's it for me.
I've been Matt Rife.
Thank you for taking an inside look at my workout routine.
I wish you the best of luck.
Get in the gym, just move around for 20, 30 minutes a day.
Get your endorphins going, get your blood pumping.
You'll be a much healthier, happier person, I promise you.
Send me the results. Let's see.