Comedian Matt Rife Breaks Down His Weekly Workout Routine

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Comedian Matt Rife shares the moves he does weekly to help keep him in shape and performing at the highest level, on and off the stage.

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 You wanna lift with your lower back

00:07 and your lower back only in a fast jerky motion.

00:10 Yeah, people who are like actual trainers

00:12 are gonna tear me apart.

00:14 Hey, what's up everybody?

00:15 I'm Matt Rife and today I'm gonna show you how I work out.

00:18 (upbeat music)

00:28 I really got into fitness about, I'd say five years ago.

00:32 I've always been a naturally very skinny kid.

00:34 Like I've always had a hard time

00:35 putting on weight or maintaining it.

00:37 I realized how much of a release it is

00:39 for your mental health more than even just your physical.

00:42 Get that stress off of you,

00:43 get the endorphins going a little bit,

00:45 wake your body and your mind up a little bit.

00:46 So it became pretty quickly addicting.

00:48 And then after you start to see the physical results,

00:50 it becomes even more addicting.

00:51 You go, wow, how hard can I really push this thing?

00:54 Most comedians I would say aren't that

00:56 into the fitness world.

00:57 You have the Kevin Harts, the Preacher Lawson,

01:00 Tom Segura is getting a lot more into it, Brian Callen.

01:02 There are a handful, but I think Kevin Hart's

01:05 really the only one who's made it like a prominent part

01:07 of his person and his business, which I can really respect.

01:10 I started working out way after I was doing standup.

01:13 I've been doing standup for about 12 years now.

01:15 Yeah, a little over 12 years now.

01:17 I will say I don't think it helps you by any means.

01:21 I mean, people don't wanna laugh

01:22 at like physically attractive people.

01:23 Like you don't wanna walk on stage

01:24 and have people looking at your arms

01:25 rather than listening to your jokes.

01:27 I think it just makes me work that much harder

01:29 on the material and the jokes that I'm trying to tell

01:30 to get people to focus on the real show at hand.

01:33 You know, you don't have to zoom down for the legs

01:36 if you don't want to.

01:37 By no means do you have to,

01:39 do you have to zoom in on the legs.

01:43 I've always had a theory,

01:44 you don't work your legs too heavily

01:45 'cause it makes other things look bigger in comparison.

01:48 An ideal week of training, I would say Monday,

01:50 we start with a push day.

01:51 We do chest and tris.

01:53 Tuesday, pull day, back and biceps.

01:56 Wednesday, shoulders.

01:57 Thursday, legs.

01:59 If I can squeeze it in, I really love to box on Fridays.

02:02 I'd love to box Harry Styles.

02:04 High stakes, loser gets kissed on the mouth, straight up.

02:08 Bring your A game or don't, whatever.

02:10 I'm taking a dive in the second round regardless.

02:12 (bell dinging)

02:13 (laughing)

02:15 Today I'm gonna show you one of my favorite workouts

02:17 from each one of my ideal structured days

02:19 from push days, pull day, shoulders, abs, cardio, legs.

02:22 Starting with push day, we're gonna go chest focused.

02:25 I like a good inclined chest.

02:28 Building a chest is so important

02:29 to just the overall structure of your physique.

02:32 You wanna have the chest of a grown man

02:34 and not a 12 year old girl.

02:35 Nothing wrong with being a man with some strong yiddies.

02:38 (upbeat music)

02:40 So moving over to a pull day, your back is essential.

02:51 You wanna create a nice, formidable V physique.

02:54 You're not just a pencil.

02:55 A bit of a visible physicality to you.

02:58 And wide grip, I feel like I get a lot more lat engagement.

03:02 Some people wanna go all the way

03:03 to just having a super massive gorilla tone back.

03:07 I just want a back strong enough that if I go to prison,

03:10 it's not easily getting blown out.

03:12 You know what I mean?

03:13 (gun firing)

03:14 Up next we have arms.

03:16 Obviously the most essential workout

03:18 to every man going to the gym.

03:19 You gotta have some 28 inch pythons on you

03:22 if you can get 'em.

03:23 I'm working with some garter snakes right now,

03:25 but you take what you can get, okay?

03:26 I try to work arms two to three times a week at least.

03:29 It's one of those muscles that you have to destroy it

03:32 to get any kind of growth whatsoever.

03:34 I do abs every single day.

03:35 I do a 10 to 15 minute routine.

03:37 Just a little circuit of a bunch of different exercises.

03:39 A couple of 'em right now that work the obliques,

03:41 work the center right here, build lower abs and top.

03:44 Discipline really starts to come into play

03:46 where you have to be dedicated

03:47 to the amount of time you use to work out.

03:50 Getting enough sleep, the food you eat,

03:52 what you're putting into your body plays a massive part.

03:54 There's so many different factors that come into play

03:56 that you really have to make sure you're disciplined enough

03:58 to stay on track for.

04:00 And for legs, my most hated workout in history,

04:04 just a single leg, propped up split squat

04:08 with dumbbells in each hand.

04:09 They're gonna burn like crazy.

04:12 But if you enjoy boxing like myself,

04:13 it's a stance you have to get used to.

04:15 You have to get used to putting weight

04:16 and shifting it onto each individual leg

04:18 to be able to move around.

04:19 So it's one I try to incorporate to every leg day.

04:22 So we'll give that our best shot.

04:24 All right guys, that's it for me.

04:28 I've been Matt Rife.

04:29 Thank you for taking an inside look at my workout routine.

04:31 I wish you the best of luck.

04:32 Get in the gym, just move around for 20, 30 minutes a day.

04:35 Get your endorphins going, get your blood pumping.

04:37 You'll be a much healthier, happier person, I promise you.

04:40 Send me the results.

04:41 Let's see.

04:41 (electronic music)

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