Hi, I’m Matt Bear.
I am a NASM certified personal trainer, corrective exercise and sports nutrition specialist, and stretching and flexibility coach.
My goal is to give people the guidance I wish I had getting started. It took me a few years to become even slightly competent in the gym. I had people giving me advice that I didn’t know was bad or dangerous. I didn’t know where to start! I have spent a lot of time learning in school and out of school about weight training, physiology, nutrition, and myself. I am always trying to learn more and expand my knowledge. What I hope to do for you is help you get farther faster. There isn’t a magic formula for instant results, but you may get there faster if you start productively. I made very little, if any progress my first year of training because I had no structure and no concept of proper form. That structure is what I want to give to you.
About BSSC
This business is dedicated to spreading freedom. There is great freedom in knowing the limits of your body and mind; even more so, in the knowledge that you can raise those limits.
Tool of Choice: Barbell
The barbell is possibly the most effective instrument of health next to diet and knowledge. It is a safe, consistent, and simple tool that allows one to progressively and measurably increase the load placed on the body. A barbell can be used to train virtually every muscle in the body using compound movements the mimic normal movements we do every day.
About Training
The trainer’s job is to gradually and comprehensively give a client the tools needed to independently live a healthy life. There are four primary goals for each client. These goals are:
Learning proper form in order to optimize performance and prevent injury.
Learning how to structure a program that lays out specific short term goals. This program will lay out what the training will look like for a specified period of time leading up to the desired goal.
Learning what a balanced diet looks like and how to eat based on short and long term goals.
Becoming passionate about your health and always trying to better yourself.
Why Strength First?
Strength is the base of everything you can do. Speed is the rate at which you can use your strength. Agility is your ability to use strength quickly and change the direction in which you are producing force. Endurance is how long you can continue to produce force under fatigue (this can be cardio respiratory endurance or muscular endurance). Most areas of physical capability can be optimized by increasing strength. That is why it is my mission to give you the strongest starting place for anything else you do in life. If you are strong first, the other activities you practice will be even more powerful and efficient.