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Norman local chiropractor achieves personal victory

By Joy Hampton
The Norman Transcript

NORMAN — Dr. Matthew Spaulding, a Norman chiropractor, participated in his first body building competition ever Oct. 29 and won first in his division, light weight novice.

“It was a lot of fun,” said Matt Spaulding following the event.  But the long hard road to get there was anything but fun. It was filled with challenges.  “It is about health,” Spaulding said of his reason for competing. “When I was in chiropractic school, we had a lot of ex-athletes and body builders.”

Those athletes made an impression he never forgot and he decided he wanted to set a good example of fitness and health for his patients.  “It’s a picture of health. If your nutritionist is 50 pounds overweight, you may not think he knows what he’s talking about,” Spaulding said. “There are plenty of doctors around that aren’t in shape.”

Doctors care for people’s health, but may not be physically active and in-shape despite that concerns about nutrition and weight-loss are of high interest nationally these days. Spaulding believed committing himself to the self-discipline of body building would help him integrate concerns about health and dieting into his practice.

“There’s so much fat loss and diet and exercise. I get a lot of questioning about that,” Spaulding said. “I’ve always kind of wanted to do that (body building), but didn’t know if I had the right genetics.”

Spaulding started training with friend Wayne Buck in order to get fit.  “He told me it (body building) was about the diet and discipline.”  Buck also told him it would be hard. But Spaulding doesn’t mind a challenge and he had the perfect motivation. Spaulding lost his middle brother Tim and dedicating this goal to Tim was the ideal to challenge himself while honoring Tim’s memory in his own way.

“I’ve had to spend two hours a day on the step mill which is basically stairs as a treadmill … that’s a long time. You want to give up every few steps,” Spaulding said. “My brother Tim’s deal was, he never gave up on anything. He may have failed a million times, but he never gave up on it.”

Tim tried multiple times to get into dental school, but once he finally made it, he got a scholarship. Tim’s motto in life is enshrined on his gravestone: “Dream big, live large, never, never never give up.”

When things got tough, Spaulding thought of his brother and kept up the challenging diet and hard work because he didn’t want to let his brother down. He said preparing for the body building competition was one of the most challenging things in his life.

“It’s the second hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Spaulding said, with losing his brother the hardest.  Spaulding believes it was a challenge Tim would have approved — Tim ran track and high-jumped in college and was really fit.  It’s common these days for Spaulding to hear, “You look so much more like Tim now,” from family and friends.

“That’s been really special to me,” he said.  Spaulding started working toward the body building competition last February.  “I’ve learned a lot more than I thought I would from it,” he said. “I’ve lost right about 40-45 pounds this year. It’s good for me to do something like this and accomplish it.”

The training method first builds an athlete up to build muscle mass. Once the athlete has put on that heaviness, the weight is stripped down so that body fat is minimal and muscle mass is optimal.  “Sooner Relief was key to my workout.  Applying Sooner Relief before workout and immediately following relieve muscle soreness and I believe helped my muscles recovery sooner.”

“It’s definitely a process,” he said.  Spaulding was mentored by Dr. J. G. Smith of Norman since he was about 5-years-old.  He and his oldest brother, Dave, and his father were in a 3-wheeler accident that dislocated his father’s shoulder and injured Spaulding’s back. Dr. Smith worked with their injuries and Spaulding was impressed.

In 6th grade, Spaulding played football and jammed his neck. Once again, Dr. Smith helped.  “All of his patients love him,” Spaulding said.  Spaulding attended Community Christian School. His degree came from Oklahoma  University.

Spaulding had the goal to establish a practice in Norman before the age of 25.  “That was my dream,” Spaulding said. “By the grace of God, it worked out, and I made my goal.”  Now this determined chiropractor has achieved another goal. It’s a goal he hopes would make his brother Tim proud.

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