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More Bad Advice From Personal Trainers
Dear Friend,
Over the past few days we filmed and edited a product
I'll be releasing very, very soon. You'll definitely want to
"stay tuned" as this thing is H-O-T.
On a separate note, I received a letter from up north in
Canada - and wouldn't you know it, just like the U.S. -
Canada has their fair share of dimwit personal trainers.
Read below and see what I mean:
Matt,
My wife Kelly was talking with me last night about her workout in
the gym earlier in the day. She mentioned that while working out,
doing Hindu Squats, one of the women trainers came over, and at
this point I interrupted; "Let me guess - the trainer said what you
were doing was bad for your knees."
My wife said "Yes" and the trainer asked what she was doing, and
my wife replied proudly, "Hindu Squats."
The response: "Oh - do you mind if I give you some correction. That
is terrible for your knees. The body mechanics of it is not good at all -
especially for women. And coming up onto your toes is really bad for
you! You shouldn't do exercises like that."
I told my wife I had read about this kind of "uninformed" advice at
your website multiple
times. Can you help alleviate some of my wife's concerns.
Shawn
M.F.: Normally I would go on a rant here, but I have been over this
so many times I just shrug and smirk about now. If Kelly was doing
Hindu Squats before the trainer offered her advice, she shouldn't have
a problem doing them after. Especially when the trainer wasn't hired by
your wife to give her advice.
Reminds me of the guy in a mall over here in China, who approached
me when I was in a store.
"Excuse me sir, may I have your name."
"No," I replied.
The guy didn't know what else to do other than shove off.
Now, to those of you who have never traveled deep inside the Chinese
culture, you may not understand why I responded this way. A number
of years ago I was less cautious - and I thought my wife's advice was
petty. Turns out it wasn't.
My son, Frank, 5, has this mode of answering down as well. May even be
genetic - afterall, he's part Chinese. Here's what I mean. Today I took him
to get a foot massage with me. While the lady worked on his feet she began
to pepper him with questions. This is common as they know they can't get
much out of me - so they figure a 5-year old will be an easy target.
Want the blow-by-blow. Here tis:
Lady: Where are you from.
Frank: England.
Lady: Where is your mother from.
Frank: Uh, I don't know.
Lady: What does your father do for work.
Frank: My dad doesn't work.
Lady: Where in town are you staying.
Frank: Uh, at a hotel.
Lady: What hotel.
Frank: You sure ask a lot of questions.
Now, the above may appear to be off-the-point, but it's not. The personal
trainer began with a question and your wife opened the door and gave her
room to assert her "authority."
If she's going to continue to do Hindu squats, this won't be the last time
someone will give her bad advice, so here is an example of how to
handle herself next time around:
Trainer: What is that you're doing.
Kelly: It's an exercise that thousands of years old and has helped
people all over the world get into awesome shape.
Trainer: Oh - do you mind if I give you some correction.
Kelly: Does it look like I'm asking for correction.
Trainer: Well, I'm a personal trainer and I'm certified to teach fitness.
Kelly: I'm sure you are.
Trainer: What do you mean by that.
Kelly: By what.
Trainer: By saying, 'I'm sure you are.'
Kelly: Did I say that. Oh, I'm sorry. I guess it's sort of an automatic
reflex when someone interrupts my workout to give me advice that
wasn't asked for, on a subject the person knows nothing about.
I think this is a far better thing for your wife to do than be an idiot's
victim.
Bottom line: Despite all the crying, pissing and moaning about Hindu
squats being done with "knees over the toes" - and how this somehow
"shears" the knees - the trainers and others who spout this advice have
yet to produce a single shred of evidence of proof. In fact, one doctor I know searched more than 50 years back and the
ONLY thing that could be found, was a ridiculous rat study.
Yes, not kidding.
These incredible scientific researchers strapped weights onto a rat's
back and had the rat do "simulated squats."
Don't know about your power of observation skills, but on first sight
it is clear to this Fure-Cat, who kills rats for a living, that rat's have
four legs, not two. Not only that, but rats legs have a slight difference
structurally than human's. They're a wee-bit shorter and thinner. Not
only that, but rat's don't stand on two legs and do squats.
Conclusion of this ground-breaking study was that barbells squats
done with knees over toes ... MAY cause knee shearing.
This was the best the researchers had to offer.
Meanwhile, Hindu squats are NOT done with weights on your back. They
are done freehand.
Moreover, knees over toes free-hand squats, in the Hindu fashion or otherwise,
have NEVER been proven to shear knees.
Not only that, but we have testimonials from men and women of all ages whose
knees recovered and recuperated from these so-called dangerous squats.
As I wrote six years ago in my international best-seller, Combat Conditioning Hindu squats work.
Are they for everyone. No. There are some people who cannot and should
not do them because their knees are already destroyed. But MOST people
can do them.
Also, like any exercise, there are Hindu squats modifications to be made for
those who go into a program with pre-existing injuries. I teach those
modifications in
Combat Conditioning. Thing is, though, once again, MOST people do NOT need
to modify because they simply need to exercise. They simply need to get off
their duff and "do something."
In a day or two I hope to put up some pics of me teaching Hindu squats to
an 89-year old lady here in China.
Onward.
My brother Sean goes to a very large gym to workout, and he told me that he never
sees any of the PT's work out. The gym is open 24/7 and he is in there at
different times and they have a large number of PT's, and he has never seen one
of them actually working out, or doing the exercises they are teaching others.
That's interesting, isn't it.
I'll tell you this, if you put me in a room with 100 personal trainers, inside of
5 minutes I'll have 99 of them begging for mercy. That's what happens when
you give "advice" all day. And bad advice at that.
As for the one survivor of the 100 .. he'd be the guy or gal with a dog-eared
copy of Combat Conditioning and a set of the DVD's to boot. If you don't have
them, get on the schtick. Got a set waiting to be sent to your address. Claim
yours by going here.
Kick butt - take names.
Matt Furey
P.S. I also received a letter from my home state of Iowa. (Go Hawks)
Matt,
After 10 broken bones and severe arthritis I thought all was lost.
Doctors wanted to replace my knees, and my shoulders were shot
from weight lifting.
I had reached a very high proficiency level in martial arts, and was
thinking about going pro.
That's when the arthritis hit. I couldn't work out, sat around, ate, and
went from a buff 175 to a fat 260.
I have been doing the Royal Court from Combat Conditioning DVD's.
I didn't believe it would really work for me. I started out with 20 Hindu
Pushups, and a real pathetic excuse for a bridge. Yesterday I did 60 Hindu
Pushups fairly easily. I plan to get to 150 quickly.
My bridge is less pathetic, but it is getting easier and feels more natural.
I have to modify the Hindu Squats because my knees require a lot of
recuperation. If they become strong and stable it will be a bonafide miracle.
Who needs bionic joints when you can create your own.
I will let you know when I can run 50 MPH and jump over houses.
Shawn Smith
M.F.: Make sure you get some film of that, dude. I wonder what a personal trainer
would have to say about this.
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