ESPN SHOW

Please experience the culture of Poe's Gym by watching the show that focused on the Poe's Gym Culture and Matt Poe. This video will give you exposure to some "inside" at Poe's Gym.

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ESPN delivers a true comeback story about an elite, American athlete, Matt Poe, who overcame the odds of recovering from a NORMALLY CAREER ENDING back injury to use his battle and to use his passion for the Pushpress as an inspiration to anyone who has ever had any type of injury and was told, “you will never perform again”.

IN October Of 2018, At age 46 (16 years after his prime and traditionally lifting at 255 pounds), Matt was contacted by ESPN’S producers of the show, Gymratts, and was given 4 weeks of preparation to execute his signature, overhead, barrel lift and another unique overhead lift, the timber lift, for The Gymratts premier episode that later aired in 2018/2019 and was distributed to 88 million ESPN viewers.

The world-famous Poe’s Gym also is featured as one of the coolest underground gyms in America as the host, Farb, conquers the Gymratts challenge.

“We found Matt on YouTube…”, said Honan. “We felt like we captured lightening in a bottle!”. “We thought we could use his story as our debut show of Gymratts on ESPN that will hopefully convince ESPN to want more shows to form a series”. 

 “The decision to film the debut episode at Poe’s turned out to be an easy one,” said creator and producer Marc Honan. “As we did our research, everything just kept coming back to Matt and his gym. He has a unique set of members, rules and his popularity in the strength and fitness world really lent itself to a program like Gymratts.”

As result, the show was a success! Marc Honan consummated an extended contract for additional shows with ESPN!!!