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Matt Veigl

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Practice. Games. Travel. Repeat. 🔁

In-season life doesn’t leave much room for the weight room and that’s exactly where most athletes start to slip. Strength fades, recovery suffers, and by playoffs you’re running on fumes.

That’s why we built VFit Online Elite strength & conditioning programming you can take with you to the team hotel, the home gym, the empty hallway before practice. Wherever you are, we’ve got you.

✅ Year-round programming
✅ Gym + no-equipment options
✅ Video demos + coaching feedback
✅ Nutrition + weekly coach check-ins
No excuses. Just results.

Link in bio to get started! taken in Lexington, Kentucky by @mattv31

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4 months ago

INTRODUCING: VFit Online Coaching for Athletes 🏆

Youth sports never stop. Neither should your training. Between back-to-back seasons, travel ball, and tournaments every weekend, getting to the gym feels impossible. But strength training is what keeps you healthy and on the field.

That’s why I built this. 💪

VFit’s new online coaching app delivers:
✅ Year-round programming built for YOUR sport
✅ Nutrition plans to fuel your performance
✅ Game-day prep workouts + recovery sessions
✅ Weekly Zoom calls with the VFit team
✅ Video analysis on your movement & lifts
✅ A community of athletes pushing each other

Game tomorrow? We’ve got a workout for that. Sore and beat up? We’ve got that too. Whatever the season throws at you, we’ve got you covered.

Link in bio to get started.

#personaltraining #onlinetraining #youthathletes taken in Lexington, Kentucky by @mattv31

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4 months ago

When you are disciplined and consistent towards a focused target you will improve.

It will not always be easy.

You will make mistakes.

But you will, over time, improve.

@brent.littleton knows this first hand. And it shows.

We want to empower you to achieve your maximum potential.

DM for details on how we can help you. by @mattv31

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3 years ago

Your body doesn’t care whether 100 lbs comes from a machine, a dumbbell, or the grocery bags you’re hauling inside, because it only understands stress and adapts to whatever you consistently give it.

You don’t need a gym full of gadgets to get stronger, you need a structured plan, and we build those for the VFitFam in person here in Lexington and anywhere you travel through our online coaching app.

DM me to learn more! by @mattv31

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Different goals, different ages, different starting points. Same room, same standard. by @mattv31

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6 days ago

Most people who need a deload don’t take one because it feels like going backward. It isn’t. If you’ve been pushing heavy for weeks, the fatigue is stacking up whether you feel it or not, and at some point you either choose to back off or your body chooses for you.

A deload doesn’t have to mean stopping. It can be lighter loads, fewer sets, three days instead of five, or swapping the barbell for a kettlebell for a week. For some people it’s a full week off, and that’s fine too. The right version depends on how hard you’ve been going and what the rest of your life is asking of you right now. Work stress, a new baby, poor sleep, all of that counts against the same recovery budget your training does.

In our online programming, you don’t have to guess when to do it. Every time you finish a block and move into a new program, the first week naturally slows you down. New movements, lighter weights, learning the pattern before you load it. That’s a deload built right into the transition, so you come back fresher instead of just grinding through.

Link in bio if you want programming that plans your recovery for you. by @mattv31

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Gifts of God. The Matts. by @mattv31

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Here is the truth: age matters a lot less than proficiency. I do not care if you are 4 or 40. If you cannot squat correctly, we should not be loading it heavy.

Light loads can teach the movement. Different loads or different placements can help correct a fault. But the weight comes after the mechanics, not before.

We call it training age. I have 15 year olds who are amazing lifters and 50 year olds who have no idea how to do a push up.

Before we add weight, complexity, or intensity, we want to see mastery of the movement, control of your body in space, and a plan that is safe and effective for you.

Experience over age. Every time.

#personaltraining #gymlife #weightlifting by @mattv31

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20 days ago

SAVE THIS ONE 💪🏼 This is one of my favorite upper body workouts from Better Balance Strength!

What I love about this workout is that your core is working basically the ENTIRE time. You’re training your arms and shoulders, but so many of these movements force your core to stabilize your body at the same time. And I can tell such a difference in my core strength since training this way.

PHASE 3 UPPER BODY WORKOUT 👇🏼

Warm Up
A1: ½ Kneeling Overhead Press — 3 x 6–8
A2: Renegade Row — 3 x 8 each side

Superset:
B1: Bear Tricep Extension — 3 x 12–15 each side
B2: Split Stance Bicep Curl — 3 x 12
B3: TRX Pike — 3 x 10 (you can use a stability ball instead!)

Superset:
C1: Lateral Crab Walk + Toe Tap — 3 x 5 steps each direction with 5 toe taps at the beginning and end
C2: Lateral Crawl — 3 x 15 yards each direction
C3: Starfish Plank — 3 x 20 reps each side

This is just a little preview of Better Balance Strength — the 12-week strength program my personal trainer @mattv31 and I created together.

It’s 3 progressive phases over 12 weeks, so instead of doing random workouts and hoping they work, you have an actual plan that builds on itself and gets you stronger week after week through progressive overload.

I’ve been doing these workouts for the last few months and I’ve seen SO much muscle growth, leaned out, and gotten noticeably stronger — especially through my core.

And this is exactly why I wanted to create this program. I wanted you to basically have a personal trainer in your pocket for 12 weeks without paying personal-training prices. The entire 12-week program is $99. 🤍

And I’m starting the entire program back at Phase 1 this Monday (9/14) so we can do it together!!

Join me! 💪🏼 Link in bio for Better Balance Strength. by @mattv31

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24 days ago

Most of the people I work with don’t get stuck because they aren’t training hard enough. They get stuck because they never let the work catch up to them. Your body doesn’t get stronger in the session, it gets stronger in the hours after it, and if you never give it those hours you’re just accumulating fatigue and calling it progress.

Here’s what a real rest day looks like in my programming. You still move, just without the intensity. A walk, some easy mobility, a stretch flow. You still eat like you trained, because recovery costs energy too and under eating on off days is one of the fastest ways to feel flat when you get back under the bar. You still sleep like it matters, because it does.

What you don’t do is turn your rest day into a “light” workout that’s secretly just another workout. If you’re planning your off day around how you can still get after it, you don’t have an off day, you have a slightly quieter training day.

Build them in on purpose. That’s the whole point. by @mattv31

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25 days ago

75 Hard will get you moving. But will it still be working for you on day 76?

Starting is great. Momentum is great. But no program worth doing should only last 75 days. A strong, successful life comes from habits that last forever, not white knuckling it, not beating yourself up over one missed day, and definitely not walking barefoot in the ice to get your outdoor work in.

What actually works:

✅ Start small
✅ Set reasonable goals
✅ Get a coach or an accountability partner
✅ Check in, then set new goals as you hit the old ones

If you need help, VFit would love to be part of your journey. Send us a message and let’s build a path to results that stick. 💪 by @mattv31

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