Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING

About Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING

Life keeps coming. So do we. Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING brings together two longtime friends from different generations with a shared obsession: getting everything they can out of life. Ron Parmeter is a retired police detective, former tactical instructor, natural pro bodybuilder, husband, and father. Dr. Matt Eichler is a chiropractor, strength coach, movement educator, and lifelong athlete. Together, they bring decades of hard-earned experience from the gym, the street, the clinic, sports, relationships, setbacks, successes, and everything in between. No lectures. No pretending to have life completely figured out. Just two guys who train hard, play hard, care deeply, refuse to settle, and can talk about damn near anything. Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life lessons. Real talk. Sometimes educational. Sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes serious. Always real. Because getting older doesn't mean you stop getting after it. Whatever comes up, we're talking about it. Incoming.

Publisher

Ron Parmeter & Dr. Matt Eichler

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episode

28 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Oct 2026

   Keep Your Priorities Straight: p3 - Real World Coaching | Ep. 5

   Everybody wants the perfect workout, the perfect diet, and the fastest results. But what happens when real life gets in the way? In Episode 5 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're wrapping up our Get Your Priorities Straight series by putting the Training and Nutrition Priority Pyramids into practice. What does coaching look like when someone has a demanding job, family responsibilities, old injuries, and a schedule that refuses to cooperate? We break down the coaching process: understanding the person, building realistic habits, choosing exercises, setting nutrition targets, tracking progress, and adjusting when life gets in the way. Because knowing what works and making it work for YOUR life are two different things. WHAT WE GET INTO: The Coaching Process: Why goals, lifestyle, and limitations come before the workout. Habits & Consistency: Building momentum without overhauling your life overnight. Smarter Training: Frequency, intensity, progressive overload, recovery, and why more isn't always better. Exercise Selection: Squats, hinges, pushes, pulls, carries, and alternatives. Calories & Fat Loss: Energy balance, sustainable deficits, and understanding the scale. Protein & Macros: Supporting muscle, performance, and body recomposition without obsessing over food. Flexible Nutrition: Tracking, weekends, vacations, and bouncing back from setbacks. Coaching Adjustments: When to push, when to back off, and why accountability matters. And because this is INCOMING, we take a few detours. Ron revisits his old-school bodybuilding mentality, we discuss injuries and aging, and he tells an unbelievable story about being T-boned by a truck, rescuing people trapped in the wreckage, and experiencing the power of adrenaline. Fitness education. Life experience. A few rabbit holes. THE BIG TAKEAWAY: Effective. Efficient. Sustainable. Stop majoring in the minors. The best plan isn't the most complicated one. It's the one you can execute and adjust. CONNECT WITH US DR. MATT EICHLER Chiropractor | Health & Fitness Coach | Movement Educator Website: https://www.drehealth.me (https://www.drehealth.me) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/ (https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/) Coaching: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler) DET. RON PARMETER Retired Police Detective | Natural Pro Bodybuilder | Fitness Coach Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/ (https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/) Coaching: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron) MEDICAL & HEALTH DISCLAIMER This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only, not individualized medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or nutritional counseling. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before changing exercise, nutrition, or supplementation, especially with medical conditions, injuries, or medications. Individual results vary. Life keeps coming. So do we. #INCOMINGPodcast #FitnessCoaching #StrengthTraining #Nutrition #FatLoss #BodyRecomposition #FitnessPodcast

2. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Get Your Priorities Straight p2: What REALLY Matters with Nutrition (Body Composition Goals) | Ep. 4

   What REALLY Matters for Fat Loss & Body Composition | INCOMING Ep. 4 Everybody wants the secret to fat loss. The perfect diet. The ideal macros. The best supplement. But what if we're obsessing over what matters least while ignoring what matters most? In Episode 4 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're back with Part 2 of GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, breaking down the Nutrition Priority Pyramid and what actually drives sustainable fat loss, muscle retention, and better body composition. WHAT WE GET INTO: Habits & consistency: Why the best diet is one you can maintain. Energy balance: Calories in vs. calories out, BMR, NEAT, and metabolism. Macros: Protein, carbs, fats, and how they affect performance and body composition. Food quality: Why weight loss and optimal health aren't the same thing. Meal timing: The anabolic window and nutrition myths. Supplements: Creatine, protein powders, fat burners, and what's worth your money. Real life: Weekends, vacations, pizza, cravings, and flexibility. Plus, Ron's legendary 23-Krispy-Kreme-donut police-shift challenge, high-protein food hacks, and questionable bodybuilding-era nutrition decisions. No magic diets. No eating chicken and broccoli six times a day. Just principles that work in real life. THE TAKEAWAY: Stop majoring in the minors. Build the foundation, get consistent, and optimize the details later. CONNECT WITH US DR. MATT EICHLER Chiropractor | Health & Fitness Coach | Movement Educator Website: https://www.drehealth.me (https://www.drehealth.me) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/ (https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/) Coaching: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler) DET. RON PARMETER Retired Police Detective | Natural Pro Bodybuilder | Fitness Coach Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/ (https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/) Coaching: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron) MEDICAL & HEALTH DISCLAIMER This podcast is for education and entertainment only, not individualized medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or nutritional counseling. The hosts share professional knowledge, experiences, and opinions. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before significantly changing exercise, diet, or supplements, especially if you have medical conditions, take medications, or have health concerns. Individual results vary; no outcomes are guaranteed. Life keeps coming. So do we. #INCOMINGPodcast #Nutrition #FatLoss #BodyComposition #FitnessPodcast #StrengthTraining #Protein

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Get Your Priorities Straight: What REALLY Matters in Training | Ep. 3

   Are you making fitness WAY more complicated than it needs to be? Perfect exercises. Perfect rep ranges. Perfect rest periods. Perfect programs. Everybody has an opinion about the best way to train. Social media has made it easier than ever to get lost in the details. But what if you're prioritizing the wrong stuff? We see it all the time. In Episode 3 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're kicking off our two-part series, GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, starting with TRAINING. We're breaking down what ACTUALLY matters when it comes to building muscle, getting stronger, and creating a fitness routine you can sustain. Inspired by the training-priority pyramid popularized by Eric Helms, Matt breaks down the hierarchy of effective training while Ron brings decades of bodybuilding and real-world coaching experience to the conversation. The biggest takeaway? The best training program in the world is worthless if you can't consistently follow it. IN THIS EPISODE: • Habits & Consistency: Why successful training starts outside the gym. • Volume, Intensity & Frequency: Understanding the variables that drive results. • Progressive Overload: Getting stronger without constantly beating yourself into the ground. • Exercise Selection: Why no single exercise is mandatory for building muscle or strength. • Rest Periods, Tempo & Technique: Important details, but NOT your foundation. • Individualization: Building a program around YOUR goals, schedule, recovery, and limitations. • Training for Real Life: Why 45 minutes of consistent effort beats a perfect two-hour workout you never actually do. We also tackle motivation, self-sabotage, fitness influencers declaring exercises "invalid," and why obsessing over optimization can actually hold you back. And because it's INCOMING, Ron wraps things up with a ridiculous police story involving an early-morning search warrant, a battering ram, and one hell of an unexpected entrance. THE BOTTOM LINE: Stop majoring in the minors. Build the foundation. Show up. Train hard. Progress intelligently. Repeat. Fitness isn't about having the perfect plan for two weeks. It's about building something that works for YEARS. COMING NEXT: PART 2 — NUTRITION. FIND US Dr. Matt Eichler Website: https://www.drehealth.me (https://www.drehealth.me) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/ (https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/) Coaching with Matt at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler) Det. Ron Parmeter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/ (https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/) Coaching with Ron at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron) Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life. Whatever comes up, we're talking about it. LIFE KEEPS COMING. SO DO WE. INCOMING. #StrengthTraining #BuildMuscle #ProgressiveOverload #WorkoutProgramming #Hypertrophy #MuscleGrowth #FitnessPodcast #IncomingPodcast

4. 

   4 Oct 2026

   OLD SCHOOL vs. NEW SCHOOL: Did Fitness Actually Get Better? | Ep. 2

   We know more about fitness than ever. But are we actually better at it? Before influencers, wearables, exercise optimization and endless studies on the “perfect” way to train, most of us learned differently. You watched the biggest guy in the gym, read Muscle & Fitness and FLEX, copied workouts from people you wanted to look like, and occasionally did some absolutely ridiculous shit because a magazine said it worked. In Episode 2 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're going old school vs. new school. Ron takes us back to the late '90s, when bodybuilding magazines, gym culture and trial-and-error were basically the internet. Matt came along about a decade later, as fitness information moved from magazines and forums to YouTube, evidence-based training and eventually today's information overload. And both roads produced plenty of questionable decisions. Ron admits to doing an eight-hour arm workout because FLEX said it could add half an inch to his arms. Matt remembers doing curls and ab rollouts between video-game loading screens chasing the Abercrombie bod. We get into ridiculous training volume, ego lifting, body-part splits and the fitness rules we once treated like gospel. Then there's the nutrition: eating every two hours to “stoke the metabolic fire,” the anabolic window, carbs after dark, fasted cardio, low-glycemic everything, and Ron eating enough tilapia during contest prep to make his house permanently smell like fish. Some of it was nonsense. But the old-school guys also got a lot right. Train hard. Get stronger. Eat your protein. Take creatine. Track your workouts. Learn your body. Show up consistently. Stop searching for the perfect program and do the work. Modern exercise science has absolutely made fitness better in many ways. But somewhere between bro science and optimization culture, there's probably a sweet spot. We talk about how our training has evolved, what we've completely changed our minds about, why more information doesn't always produce better results, and what the old-school meathead mentality can still teach us. Old-school experience. New-school science. A lot of mistakes in between. Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life. Whatever comes up, we're talking about it. Life keeps coming. So do we. INCOMING. *FIND US* >Dr. Matt Eichler: IG: drehealth (https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/) https://www.drehealth.me (https://www.drehealth.me) Coaching with Matt at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/matt-eichler) >Det. Ron Parmeter: IG: @ron_parmeter (https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/) Coaching with Ron at Pro Physique: https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron (https://www.fitprocessing.com/coach/ron)

5. 

   24 Sept 2026

   BROKEN, NOT DONE: Injuries, Recovery & Staying Capable as You Age | Ep. 1

   What happens when the body you've always relied on suddenly stops cooperating? In Episode 1 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING, we're talking injuries, recovery, getting older, and what it actually takes to stay physically capable when life starts beating the hell out of you. And between the two of us, we've got some experience. Ron has broken his back, tailbone and ribs, collapsed a lung, ruptured a biceps tendon, torn both MCLs, torn a hamstring, broken his foot, undergone hernia surgery, and accumulated plenty of other wear and tear along the way. Matt's injury résumé includes countless ankle sprains, stingers, a torn abdominal muscle, major hamstring injuries that changed the trajectory of his athletic career, shoulder injuries, a torn pec, a lumbar disc herniation, and plenty more. But this episode isn't just about comparing scars. We get into Ron's 2002 motorcycle accident that left him with a broken back, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a broken tailbone, and how that eventually became part of the path that led him to bodybuilding. Ron also tells the story of completely rupturing his biceps tendon in the middle of contest prep, and we talk about something that doesn't get discussed enough: sometimes the hardest part of an injury isn't the physical pain. It's what the injury takes away from you. Your sport. Your job. Your independence. Your training. Your identity. We also dig into what people get wrong about pain and recovery, including why pain doesn't always perfectly reflect tissue damage, why an ugly MRI doesn't automatically mean you're broken, why complete rest isn't always the answer, and how intelligently training around an injury can become part of the recovery process. Then we zoom out. At 37 and 47, what does staying athletic actually look like? What changes as you age? What can you preserve? And what should you be doing now if you still want a strong, mobile, capable body decades from now? We cover: Pain vs. structural findings What asymptomatic MRI studies actually show Training around injuries instead of automatically stopping everything Blood-flow restriction and cross-education Fear avoidance and gradually rebuilding confidence Strength, muscle, power and aerobic capacity as we age Why hip extension and thoracic mobility matter Ron's approach to training differently at 47 And one police story involving a drunk guy, Ron doing his best impression of Terry Tate, and some unfortunate friendly fire FIND US Dr. Matt Eichler: drehealth.me (http://drehealth.me) IG: @drehealth (https://www.instagram.com/drehealth/) Det. Ron Parmeter: Coaching with Ron at Pro Physique (https://www.prophysique.com/coach/ron?utm_source=chatgpt.com) IG: @ron_parmeter (https://www.instagram.com/ron_parmeter/) #IncomingPodcast #FitnessPodcast #MensHealth Getting hurt doesn't mean you're done. Getting older doesn't mean becoming incapable. Life keeps coming. So do we. INCOMING.

6. 

   18 Sept 2026

   A Bad Neck, 100 Squats & the Beginning of INCOMING | Ep. 0

   Welcome to Episode 0 of Det. Ron & Dr. Matt: INCOMING. So how does a retired police detective and natural pro bodybuilder end up starting a podcast with a chiropractor, health coach, and former physique competitor? Apparently, it starts with a bad neck, a random conversation in the gym, and 100 squats outside in the Florida heat. In our first episode, we're introducing ourselves, telling the story of how we met, and giving you a taste of what INCOMING is going to be. Ron spent 20 years in law enforcement before retiring to Florida, with a career that included tactical work, police training, narcotics investigations, and plenty of stories we'll probably get ourselves in trouble telling. He's also a lifelong athlete and former natural pro bodybuilder who competed for more than a decade. Matt is a chiropractor, health coach, movement educator, former competitive physique athlete, and lifelong athlete who has spent more than a decade helping people move better, get stronger, and stay capable. We're ten years apart, but we've realized we see a lot of life the same way. In this episode, we get into training, getting older without giving in to getting old, why physical capability matters so much to both of us, identity, discipline, coaching, sports, police stories, chiropractic stories, and some of the ridiculous shit that happens when two friends sit down with microphones. And that's really what INCOMING is. Life is always incoming. Injuries. Careers. Relationships. Family. Success. Failure. Getting older. New challenges. New opportunities. You don't control everything that's coming. You do have a say in the person standing there when it arrives. Fitness. Health. Mindset. Sports. Life. Sometimes educational. Sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes serious. Always real. Whatever comes up, we're talking about it. Welcome to INCOMING. Subscribe and come hang out with us every week. CONNECT WITH DR. MATT Instagram: @drehealth Everything Dr. Matt: drehealth.me (http://drehealth.me) Dr. Matt's Website: DrMattEichler.com (http://DrMattEichler.com) Free Chiro-Companion Mobility Guide: ElementXHFC.com (http://ElementXHFC.com) COACH WITH RON Instagram: @ron_parmeter Ron Parmeter — Pro Physique Coaching: Work With Ron (https://www.prophysique.com/coach/ron?utm_source=chatgpt.com) DET. RON & DR. MATT: INCOMING Two Guys. No Filter.

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