The Truth About Creatine, Belly Fat, and Getting Shredded! Jeff Cavaliere (The Muscle Expert)

**Jeff Cavaliere** (0:00)
Taking creatine can increase muscle and strength, but also improve brain health and performance in sleep deprived and high stress states. But there's some new research coming out showing its ability to slow, prevent things like.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:14)
Jeff Cavaliere is the physical therapist and strength coach. Trusted by the NFL, MLB, WWE, and even Sylvester Stallone. He's built a global reputation for science-based training that delivers.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:25)
What do people want?

**Jeff Cavaliere** (0:27)
When we poll our followers, I found that for men, they want their six-pack abs, getting bigger arms, develop their chest. For women, they want to have better legs and well-developed backsides. So, we'll get into those exercises. But the biggest problem most people have is the struggle to get started. In doing so, become paralyzed by an activity and say, I'm not going to do anything at all. I get emotional, but it's sad when people don't ever find that drive and motivation. Because the detrimental effects that prolonged sitting can have on your body, they call it the new smoking.
Like, if I take away your health, you're done. So finding the drive to get yourself on track with pursuing optimal health is everything.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:04)
So if I was one of those people struggling to get the ball rolling, where would you start with me?

**Jeff Cavaliere** (1:09)
I would start with...

**SPEAKER_3** (1:10)
And I'm not done yet. Lower belly fat. How do I get rid of that? Calories in, calories out. What's your view? You say that there are five key exercises to maximize your longevity and quality of life. Can you show me these workouts?

**Jeff Cavaliere** (1:21)
Sure.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:21)
And then why did you bring the skeleton with you with the bow tie?

**Jeff Cavaliere** (1:24)
This is Raymond and I use him to show one of the most fascinating areas of training that has yet to be uncovered.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:35)
You're very much known as the king and the OG of online fitness, training, advice, support. In terms of the mission that you're on in particular and how your perspective differs from other people out there in the market, what is it that you think makes your perspective different, unique and more important potentially than a lot of the perspectives out there as it relates to how to build up our muscles, how to have a strong, healthy body, and how to prolong our health span.

**Jeff Cavaliere** (2:08)
Everybody that, for the most part, that's out there trying to put information out, they should have a level, there's a level of respect I have for everyone doing that because they're all trying to help people get better or improve themselves. I think where I was really heavily focused was on a more comprehensive, more multi-faceted way to do that because my background wasn't just in, let's say, strength training or in aesthetic appeal of training, but also as a physical therapist and having a physical therapy background, I understood the importance of not sacrificing the body in the process of trying to aesthetically improve the body.
So I believe that when people understand the why and they do become empowered to sort of make this their own journey, the benefits are so far-reaching. It's not just the gym or the aesthetic appeal that you improve. It's so many facets of life that improve because fitness improves. Like mental health is directly related to people's physical health.
If you look better and feel better about yourself, your mental health improves too. Like every element of life is improved, I think, with improved levels of fitness and health. So my why has always been to just use my platform to try to get people to understand that even the smallest investments, it doesn't have to be every bit I do. And I try to stress that in all my videos, especially when we start to talk about nutrition. Like you don't have to eat the way I do to get as lean as I am to still benefit from being lean.
You could have body fat levels much higher and still see the immense benefits in terms of overall health. So you don't have to do it exactly how I do it. But take the information and apply it to yourself. That to me is the most rewarding part of it. Because if I can show you how to do it, it's a whole thing teaching a man to fish, right? If I could do that, then I think I've done something right. I say all the time, I could take everything away from you. I could take all your money. I could take houses. I could take everything away. I could take even relationships away. Because we could always find another relationship, potentially. If I take away your health, you're done. Health is everything.