A Marriage Every Day® experience
Healthy Husbands
Care for your health with practical fitness and nutrition guidance that fits everyday life. Healthy Husbands helps you develop habits that support your energy, strength, and ability to be present for the people and responsibilities entrusted to you.
- Begins
- November 1, 2026
- Cost
- Included with membership
- Where
- Inside Marriage Every Day
Why it matters
Your health is part of how you show up for the people you love.
Marriage asks for your presence: at the table, on the weekend, through the hard stretches. Caring for your body is one practical way to keep giving it. This is ordinary stewardship, the same care you would want for your wife and kids.
Start where you are, with habits that fit your abilities, responsibilities, and everyday life. Men of every age and starting point belong here, and your worth as a husband has never depended on a scale or a stopwatch.
Energy after work
Walking in the door with enough left for dinner, conversation with your wife, and the evening that follows.
Saturday with the family
Keeping up on a hike, carrying the cooler, or getting on the floor with the kids without paying for it on Monday.
Meals you can actually plan
Simple food choices for real weeks, including the ones with late meetings and a grocery run squeezed in.
Habits that survive busy weeks
Routines small enough to keep when work, travel, or a new baby takes over the calendar.
What steady care for your health can support
- Energy for daily responsibilities and time with family
- Strength and mobility for an active life
- Sustainable routines during demanding seasons
- Confidence and follow-through with personal commitments
- Thoughtful stewardship of your time and health
- Capacity to take part in parish and community life
- A practical example of caring for yourself and others, including for husbands who are fathers
First featured coach
Launching with Matt Fitzsimmons.
Matt is a fitness and nutrition coach and the founder of Fitz Performance Coaching LLC in San Diego, California. He is Catholic and a 2017 graduate of The Catholic University of America. He wants to serve men who are living the vocation of marriage.
Certification
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
In progress
Working toward the NASM Certified Nutrition Coach credential
Matt’s clients, including husbands and fathers, have lost fat, built muscle, and built habits that last. Having lost more than 40 pounds himself, he understands the work of building routines that fit everyday life.
Expect realistic next steps, plain explanations, and patience with wherever you are starting.
- Navy service
- 6 yearsActive duty as a trumpet player with Navy Band Southwest.
- Fitness leadership
- 4 yearsAssistant Command Fitness Leader, helping sailors train and meet fitness standards.
- His own path
- 40+ lbsLost more than 40 pounds and built habits he could keep.
Fitness leadership in the Navy
During four of his six years in the Navy, Matt served as Assistant Command Fitness Leader. He trained sailors to meet Navy fitness standards, led group fitness classes, and helped sailors improve their movement and train without pain. He also coached sailors in the Navy’s Fitness Enhancement Program, helping those who had fallen behind work toward meeting the standards.
Performing
As a trumpet player with Navy Band Southwest, Matt performed for a sitting U.S. president and heads of state. He also performed for Pope Francis.
Matt's initial programming
November 1, 2026, through January 31, 2027.
Matt's initial community programming is included with Marriage Every Day membership at no additional cost. Healthy Husbands carries on after these three months. Here is what Matt's first run is planned to include.
Where it happens
Husbands Fellowship and a dedicated Healthy Husbands space inside Marriage Every Day.
Included with membership
Practical fitness and nutrition tips
Weekly habits and challenges
Workout demonstrations
Polls and member conversations
Live teaching and Q&A
Meal ideas and practical food choices
Every week
A weekly rhythm
The plan is a steady week-to-week pattern: a habit or challenge to work on, some practical teaching, and time to ask questions and compare notes with other men. The day-by-day calendar is still being set, and specific dates and times will be shared with members once they are confirmed.
You can ask Matt questions, learn alongside other husbands, and apply the guidance at your own starting point. Nobody needs to be in shape before joining in.
- A habit or challenge to work on
- Some practical teaching
- Time to ask questions and compare notes
- Then again the next week
November · Monthly Alignment Focus
Mission, Witness, and Service
November's programming connects to this month's focus with a practical idea: intentional care for our health can help us have more to give, at home, at church, and in the community.
December
Monthly Alignment Focus
January
Monthly Alignment Focus
Through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year, the aim is steady progress. No shame about a big meal, and no all-or-nothing rules.
Optional coaching
Want individual support? Matt will also offer personal coaching.
Everything above is part of your membership. For members who want a plan built around them, Matt will also offer exclusive member coaching through his own business.
Optional, purchased separately
Personal coaching with Matt
For members who want a plan built around them, online from anywhere in the country or in person around San Diego.
Provided and billed by Fitz Performance Coaching LLC, independently of Marriage Every Day.
Online
Virtual coaching
Work with Matt online from home.
On site
In-person coaching
Train with Matt in person around San Diego.
From a client
Hear from someone Matt has coached
One of Matt's coaching clients shares, in his own words, what working with Matt has been like.
Virtual
Coaching across the U.S.
In person
Near San Diego
Included with membership
Healthy Husbands community programming. Tips, weekly habits, demonstrations, live teaching, and conversation with other men inside Marriage Every Day. No extra cost. You do not need to buy coaching to benefit from Healthy Husbands.
Join in
Take care of yourself, so you have more to give.
Caring for your health is one practical way to serve God, love your wife and family well, and give more of yourself to your parish and community. Healthy Husbands is an ongoing part of Marriage Every Day membership, and Matt's initial programming begins November 1. Join today, or sign in if you are already a member.
Healthy Husbands shares general fitness and nutrition education. It is not medical advice and does not replace care from your physician or another qualified health professional. Check with your doctor before starting a new exercise or nutrition plan, especially if you have a health condition, injury, or concern.
Matt Fitzsimmons is a certified personal trainer, not a physician or registered dietitian. His certifications and military service describe his background and do not imply endorsement by NASM, the U.S. Navy, or the Church. Marriage Every Day is an initiative of The Marriage Group LLC. Optional personal coaching is offered independently by Fitz Performance Coaching LLC.