Matt Percia

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11/23/2025

Sometimes the biggest wins aren’t at the finish line. This race taught me that true strength is listening to your body and honoring your limits. Not every journey ends as planned, but every step shapes us.

02/21/2025

Back at it.

Full throttle, with eye sites on May 4th

Let's go.

05/08/2022

Happy mother's day to one of the best ones out there; we couldn't, or wouldn't want to be a family without you.

05/11/2021

Floor pressing for strength.

Currently working on building my bench press, there is a lot of volume and intensity that happens through-out the three focused weekly workouts.

Too much benching crushes my shoulders, but this variation helps in building triceps and delts while reducing stress in the shoulder joint.

Use a grip about shoulder width apart, or slightly wider.

Crush Five sets of triples at 80%-90%.

Refuel with an excellent post workout shake or snack.

Repeat weekly.

05/08/2021

Mental fitness. Mindset matters.

In February 2020, I had the opportunity to talk to a group of HS kids about mental health.

This was prior to the pandemic.

At that time, I couldn't imagine what was going to happen only a month or so later - a shut down of almost out entire world.

Reflecting back, I can only hope this chat prepared them for what would come.

Mental health has been such a hot topic of late due to a variety of different reasons, but it's nothing new.

In order to stay mentally healthy, its important to work on mental fitness.

Mindfulness, positive thoughts, affirmations, intentions, emotional process, etc.

Just like physical fitness, there are a lot of components to it.

Before we get started, what do you do for your mental fitness?

05/06/2021

Each part of the journey is important.

The highs, the lows.

The wins, the loses.

The struggles.

It's how we learn and grow.

Stay the course focusing on your intentions and goals.

See the path to success.

Stay the course.

05/05/2021

Build strength on a solid foundation.

To be super strong, you need a solid base, or foundation.

In order for a foundation to be stable, it needs to be balanced.

Balance from side to side is extremely important when developing strength.

Attempting to build on muscle or strength imbalances result in port movement quality or movement patterns.

This can result in chronic overuse injuries, which leads to pain, then leads to disengagement in workout sessions and decreased motivation.

How to you avoid this?

By doing single leg /arm exercises.

For every bilateral movement, incorporate at least one unilateral movement: set for set.

Check out my cool single leg good morning.

It's super light weight, and sometimes super boring, but it's also SUPER HELPFUL in developing the muscles that stabilize your joints.

Sometimes doing the little, boring stuff is what will help you get to the next level.

05/04/2021

Vacation mode.

Most people go on vacation and think about all the relaxing they'll be doing.

Me, I think about all the different fun workout activities I can do.

Exhibit A - throwing shot put on the beach.

I was never a "thrower".

I tried throwing javelin in high school; however I never actually made a meet because I had a bad elbow from a little league injury that sidelined me (don't get me started there).

I threw a discus once directly into the cage in the total wrong direction and decided that was enough.

I never learned how to throw a shot put because I was too small, about 130lbs max....bit I decided to buy one off of Amazon one day to just play around.

Right now I'm pretty bad, but it's fun.

Gives me something to get stronger for; and something cool to do on vacation while on the beach.

A new skill to develop, a new way to get stronger.

04/22/2021

Beach mace flow on vacation mode.

Rocking the band to get primed before a session filled with skill based movement.

Here is an easy one --- a single hand 360, reverse 360, into a flippiddy-dippiddy climb the ladder hand switch (yes, that's the technical name).

03/14/2021

Steel mace swings + Vitamin D.

This is a great tool for many different uses, it's extremely versatile.

I've got 3--- 7lb, 10lb, & 20lbs

Here is how I typically use each one:

7lbs - randomly throughout the day to add in movement and keep the shoulders mobile; you can get really creative with light weights and test out new movements.

10lbs - for a "mace" specific workout, can do all the same movements as with the lighter weight but at a greater intensity; great for a 10-20 minute workout.

20lbs - finisher at the end of strength workouts, stick with the "basics" for an added dimension after hitting the upper body with heavy weights.

When was the last time you mixed up your workout.

Teaser - I've got some fun workout toys coming in the mail soon! Stay tuned.

03/12/2021

Explosive Rotational Power.

Frame by frame look at what a rotational med ball toss looks like.

Not only is it a great way to add a little more power to your movements, it's fun to just throw things sometimes.

The difference between right to left is crazy.

I'm naturally a left but do a lot of things, like golf, righty.

Even considering, throwing from the right felt so much more awkward.

It makes me wonder if I should switch to golf lefty.

Food for thought ..

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Isle Of Palms, SC
29451

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