Today’s question comes from L.D. My comments will follow:

Hello Matt,

Thanks for your wonderful fitness information. I have to say I have not been good using that info. Anyway, my question is concerning doing exercises as an amputee. I have had my left leg amputated just below the knee. I’m currently in rehab, so still have sometime for healing and building skills for a prostheses.

Can I utilize any of your exercises once I’m healed, to get stronger, etc.? Thanks for your all you do to help people stay fit.

–L.D.

M.F. Thank you so much for writing and for the positive feelings you exude. Being an amputee is an opportunity for you to get stronger and fitter than ever before while being an inspiration to others.

I encourage you to watch YouTube videos of some of the amputee wrestlers and other athletes who have done the remarkable and seemingly unfathomable.

There are double-amputees who took up the sport of wrestling and kicked ass. I’m confident that with your ability to transcend and overcome circumstances, you will do extraordinarily well.

The key is going to be focusing on the small steps – not the big ones.

Take each day, each breath, at a time. Overcome feelings of frustration and discouragement by realizing you are BIGGER than the limb you lost.

Also, keep in mind that you are indeed LOVED – and this thought alone will get you wherever you need to go.

By the way, I started a YouTube channel myself before the New Year. Now that I’m back from China, I’ll be putting up more videos on a regular basis I encourage you to subscribe to my channel.

Last night I put up a video of el Furecat doing Tai Chi in China – mostly due to the encouragement of my wife, who finally, after five years of practice, told me I was “pretty good”.. and wondered out loud why I didn’t post this particular sequence on YouTube.

Well, it’s up now. Take a gander by going to https://youtu.be/33YKMeBYR9M

Kick Ass – Take Names,

Matt Furey

P.S. Also, tons of new content is up and more will be going up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle – including how I dropped my weight back to what it was 21 years ago, when I won the world championships in Beijing, China.

You haven’t heard from me in awhile.

And I have a valid excuse.

I was in China, kicking my ass off.

I trained in tai chi for more than five hours each day.

I skipped rope for 1,000 to 2,000 reps. I also did pushups, squats and joint loosening exercises.

If that wasn’t enough, I walked five miles per day.

And at almost 56 years of age, I’m feeling younger than I was at 36.

My joints feel awesome. My balance is off the charts. And my ego runneth over – but that’s nothing new.

Shameless Plug: You can view the new videos I shot in China on the Matt Furey Inner Circle membership site.

More videos from the trip as well as the results I want to discuss with you will be going up soon.

By the way, when I left for China, I weighed 198 pounds; the same weight I competed at in 1997, in Beijing, when I won the world championship.

Guess what?

I made some major changes that are LASTING in order to get down to that weight.

No, I’m not a vegetarian or vegan or fruitarian or raw food guy.

I eat crap loads of meat everyday.

And my digestion has NEVER been BETTER.

I’ll be telling you all about it soon.

In the interim, make sure you’re part of the Matt Furey Inner Circle, so you get to see what the Fure-cat is doing.

Also, be looking for a Fure-cat Fitness seminar later this year.

Until then…. don’t ever forget to…

Kick Ass and Take Names,

Matt Furey

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been blitzing some of my fat friends, calling them names and hurting their feelings.

But it was well worth it because every last one of them now has his “game face” on and is kicking ass, the old-fashioned way.

One is down more than 20 pounds already. Another just sent me photos of his flabby body along with a picture of himself on the scale – a good 30 pounds over his ideal. He’s ON IT and changing his life for the better.

These people are getting leaner over the Christmas holidays whereas almost everyone else is gaining weight and lying around lazy as hell.

Then, when the New Year arrives, a so-called New Year’s resolution is supposed to come to their rescue.
HA!

Personally, I went on a mission this month, dropping my weight to the same as it was when I weighed in for the world Kung Fu championships in Beijing, China, 21 years ago.

Yesterday, I weighed in at 197.4 pounds. Keep in mind I was 220 when I shot the cover for Combat Conditioning, so we are truly talking about kicking ass.

And I intend to continue onward, demonstrating to my followers the true secrets of leanness.

You better be following what I’m doing in the days and weeks and months ahead – a get involved.

You can start by getting my international best-seller, ​​​​Combat Conditioning NOW (it’s free).

I’ve also started a revolutionary YouTube channel that will be growing by leaps and heaps. You can count on a video or two almost every day – and prepare yourself beforehand because there will be shock-value – for those who don’t have thin skin, you should be able to handle it.

Here are the links to watch the first two:

Be sure to watch, like, subscribe and pass around to all your friends and cohorts on social media.

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey

P.S. One last thing: More updates just went up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle site today. Get more details on “Shaking the Illnesses Out of the Body” as I demonstrate for you.

Hey, hey, hey – what a great, great day.

In addition to giving Combat Conditioning away for free – I’ve also started a totally kick-ass YouTube channel that’ll have you shifting your mind with ease.

Beware of my rough language though.

Here are the links to watch the first two videos:

Be sure to watch, like, subscribe and pass around to all your friends and cohorts on social media.

Let’s go!

Matt Furey

P.S. One last thing: Updates going up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle site today as well. Lots of mind blowing information.

Yesterday I announced that I’m currently giving my international best-seller, Combat Conditioning, away. That’s correct. You can get it NOW for no charge.

And let me tell you, since I made the announcement, the in-box here at Furey Central overflows with testimonials such as this one:

Thank you! I first bought your book in 2007 prior to deploying with the US Navy. While deployed some of my shipmates and embarked Marines followed it religiously. We even assigned individual exercises to playing cards and randomly chose from the deck during PT sessions. My copy is now worn and tattered‎. Fast forward to today, I am old, fat, and retired. When I saw your offer I had to download it. I’m taking it as a sign! Thanks again.

Respectfully,
JGV

Always good to see that I re-inspired someone to get back ON the wagon. Who cares if you fell off the damn wagon? Don’t pout about it, just get your ass back on.

Claim your free copy of Combat Conditioning NOW.

Yes, you do need to submit your name and email address to the new page in order to receive your book. If that’s too much to ask then I feel very sorry for you. You’re the one who’ll be missing out, not me.

Get the book and let’s burn some fat and build functional muscle and strength together.

Matt Furey

My Early Christmas Gift for You

If it’s the season of giving, I guess you could say I’ve gone over the top.

After nearly 20 years of SELLING my internationally acclaimed, Combat Conditioning, you can now download it for no charge whatsoever.

Yes, I’m GIVING it AWAY.

But only for a limited time.

Think I’m joking?

Then go to CombatConditioning.com and see for yourself.

Cheers,

Matt Furey

Yesterday I spoke to a 17-year old baseball player who’s been lifting weights for the past couple years in order to improve his performance.

He’s been stuck, so his father hooked him up with me in the hopes of making him a better, bigger, stronger, faster player.

At first the boy was resistant. He’d bought into the silly idea that weight training is the key to athletic success, regardless of the sport.

And being he’s surrounded by weights and people espousing the glories of them everywhere he goes, it’s only natural for him to “buy into” the “it must be right because everyone else is doing it” mentality.

Anyway, I taught the boy a series of bodyweight exercises that are NOT in Combat Conditioning (but will be in a forthcoming book). I didn’t tell him to stop lifting weights. I just left that topic alone.

Well, waddya know?

The boy went from deadlifting 315 pounds wherein he thought he might hurt himself (due to lack of flexibility), to an easy 425-pound deadlift, with no fear.

Now, I never bothered telling the boy that deadlifts are far and away the WORST exercise you can do to improve your baseball. Same goes for tennis, golf, or any other coiling action sport.

If you play a coiling action sport, what in the hell are you thinking when you prescribe push-pull exercises? It’s the dumbest, most insane prescription I’ve ever heard or seen.

Years ago I was sitting in a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, in between rounds of the Arnold Classic. At the table with me were a few other notables, one of whom was a world champion kick boxer. Another was a fitness author who proudly proclaimed, “Deadlifts are the very best single exercise anyone can ever do.”

I turned to the world champion and asked him if he’d ever done any deadlifts.

“Never,” he said.

“Then how’d you generate the power to knock people out?” I continued.

“A kick is a whip,” he replied. “It’s not a deadlift.”

My Cheshire Cat grin can still be seen on the walls in that restaurant, me thinks.

A kick is a whip. So simple. So true.

It’s coiling action at its finest.

But the “old stuff” is out-dated.

Bring in the ‘roid boy trainers who’ve never thrown a pass, ball or javelin (at least not well); who’ve never hit a golf ball square, much less a tennis ball or ping pong ball; who’ve never knocked someone on his ass with a punch, kick or slap.

Meanwhile, el Furecat sits around watching the rate of injured athletes accelerate, especially injuries to the tendons and ligaments.

It’s scary stuff.

Yet, when most people look back at all their serious injuries, it’s hard to find one of them to a muscle.

So tell me, how you going to prevent injuries to tendons and ligaments? By building your muscles?

That’s not going to do it, my friend. It’s not going to do it.

In fact, the more you shorten and tighten the muscles, the MORE likely you are to cause injuries to the tendons when playing a sport BECAUSE you tightened the tendons, too.

Hmmm, I’ll be dawg-goned.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

MattFureyInnerCircle.com

P.S. By the way, the exercises I taught the ballplayer, in total, took him five minutes a day in the beginning. Now he spends 10-15 minutes. He’s throwing and hitting the ball harder than ever, too. Just imagine what would happen if he gave up the deadlifts.