A while back I read a book about a dunking expert (as in dunking a basketball), who didn’t warm up properly before taking a leap toward the basket. 

The result that day: He ruptured his achilles tendon. 

He was in his mid-40’s when it happened. Yet, one year later, he was on the court jamming the basketball again. And by the way, he’s only 5’8″ tall. 

Want to know how he recovered from his injury? 

Did he go to the weight room? He did not. Did he sit around and rest for a year? Not a chance. 

What he did was what I have advocated for more than 20 years.

He began training his tendons and ligaments. 

How did he train them? With various postures and stances that de-emphasized the muscles in favor of the tendons. Well, well, well. Imagine that!

It’s truly amazing and mind-blowing to discover that the way to strength, mobility, longevity, recovery, health, explosive speed and power, ain’t what the scientists are telling you.

And this is why I never get tired of sending reminders about my ground-breaking, earth-shattering, record-busting online program – Power Postures.

If you want to integrate this program into your other strength training regimens, that’s fine.

If you want to follow this program and nothing else – that is also a great idea.

But whichever way you want to go, you WANT to be training your tendons and ligaments. This method won’t guarantee that you’ll never get injured – but it will so dramatically shift the odds in your favor of being injury free, that it will feel as though you are “bullet-proof.”

Want stronger tendons so that your chances of injury are reduced to almost nil – then click this link NOW.

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, the dunk master’s name is Kadour Ziani, and he’s known as the GoatFather of Dunk.

Here are a couple questions I recently received along with my answers:

Question from Gaurav D

I’d like to share an interesting experience. As I’ve started incorporating Hindu squats into my routine, I’ve noticed an improvement in my ability to hold the horse stance. What’s intriguing is that I feel a surge of internal power during both Hindu squats and the horse stance. My question is whether this sense of internal power in both exercises is similar to what’s often associated with fighting energy. It appears distinct from the energy I experience when performing Hindu pushups. Matt, I’d greatly appreciate your insight on whether this observation is accurate or if it might be a misconception.

MF: The energy from Hindu squats and the horse stance activates a rising and a grounding energy within. The bubbling spring point in the bottom of the foot sends healing and transformative energy throughout the body. The bubbling spring energy with Hindu squats is not so much a watery energy, it is springy in a metallic sort of way.

Hindu pushups have more of a grounding, earthy energy, especially when done with the details I teach. All of these exercises translate to fighting energy, increased speed, mobility, strength and the unparalleled ability to focus and concentrate.
Question from Shawn Zemba

Matt,
I’m just wondering, as there are many “martial skills” that you teach and practice, what ratio of your training is practicing those skills vs building internal power specifically?

Or is it that you’re at the point where they are the same?

What do you recommend for those earlier on the path ratio wise?

MF: Everything I do has an internal component. There are no ratios. The Power Postures exercises I teach develop internal power with the least amount of movement. Hindu squats and pushups are much, much bigger movements, but if you do them the way I teach, not anyone else, you definitely develop internal as well as external power.

If you have questions you want to see covered in future emails, send them my way. Would love to hear from you.

Matt Furey

P.S. I have room for one more person at my Power Postures-Tiger Tendons Seminar being held October 5-7, in Kalispell, Montana. If you have the basic course and you are interested in attending, email me. Keep in mind you will be vetted, and you will not find information on this event without getting the private link directly from me, which I only make available to those whom I want to work with. 

Last night, the beginning of Aaron Rodgers dream season with the Jets turned into a nightmare. 

On his fourth play of the game, the future Hall-of-Fame quarterback got sacked by Bills defensive end, Leonard Floyd. Rodgers sat on the field waiting for trainers to assist him. He left the field, the game and the stadium.

An MRI this morning confirmed what everyone connected to the Jets feared. Rodgers is out of the season – and there’s a good chance, the 39-year old will never play another down of football.

It’s sad to see something such as this happen to a great athlete. Or to anyone, for that matter.

A ruptured Achilles tendon is not something you would ever wish on anyone. Yet, this injury confirms what I’ve been saying for over 20 years. The majority of severe injuries are not to the muscles. Most injuries are tendons that tear, get severed, or rupture.

This is why I continually stress that a strength training and conditioning program that exclusively focuses on the muscles, is doomed.

Weight training and lifting has its benefits – but it also has major detriments, namely, shortening and tightening of the muscles and tendons instead of lengthening and strengthening them.

Instead of shorter and tighter, set a goal to be longer and stronger.

This is positive situation you create when you follow the exercises I teach in Power Postures. You stretch and strengthen from the inside out. You make your body more elastic, more pliable, more resistant to injury.

You learn to recharge, recover and rejuvenate.

If you have aches and pains you want to put into the trash bin, I encourage you to read about what happened to the strongest Russian weightlifter in history. A man who hoisted more weight overhead than anyone in the world, winning two Olympic gold medals.

His body was invincible and supposedly “bullet-proof.

It wasn’t.

If you want to do everything you can to avoid the worst happening to your joints, tendons and ligaments, click here NOW.

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, my Power Postures Seminar in Kalispell, Montana, from October 5-7, is almost full. I have room for two more people who already have the basic course. If you are interested in participating in this “stronger and longer” event, email me here. 

Herb Brooks, head coach of the 1980 USA hockey team, shocked the world when his team knocked off the USSR for the gold medal in the 1980 Olympics. 

One of Brooks’ favorite sayings was, “the legs feed the wolf.” 

This was more than a catchy saying for Brooks. He proved he meant it by having the team run what we (wrestlers) used to call “rat races.” In other sports you’ll hear them called “gassers,” or “suicides.”

Whichever name you prefer, what you do is sprint 10-15 yards, immediately spin around and sprint back to the start… turn around again and sprint 20-25 yards… spin around again and haul ass to the start… and even though you’re now gasping for oxygen, you spin around yet again and gallop 30-40 yards… then you make one final spin… and finish strong.

After you’ve completed the first “rat race” you rest long enough to catch your breath, then you do another round, and another, until your workout is finished. 

Note: The distances listed above are relative. If you don’t have 30-40 yards to play with, you can shorten the distances to 5, 10 and 15 yards. 

When you do this sort of workout, you’ll EXPERIENCE the idea of what “the legs feed the wolf” truly means. 

Your legs are often considered your “second heart.” And you’ll find out that they are from workouts such as “rat races,” because within four-to-six weeks, you will get into mighty fine condition. 

But what about the upper body? 

Is there an equivalent, or perhaps an even better exercise, for feeding the wolf? 

Indeed there is. In fact, there are two that I would classify as, “the arms feed the grizzly.”

Although a grizzly bear is much larger than a wolf, it, too, can run fast. A grizzly can also keep going, for long periods of time, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles in search of food. This means the bear is not only big, strong and fast, it also has tremendous endurance. 

If you get down on all fours and do bear crawls, especially as a “rat race,” you will quickly discover why I say, “the arms feed the grizzly.” Moreover, you’ll also realize that it isn’t just your arms that are getting worked; it’s your whole damn body. 

The second exercise that feeds the grizzly would be the one I made famous over 20 years ago, in my international best-selling book and DVDs, Combat Conditioning. It’s an ancient exercise done by Indian wrestlers, that my teacher, Karl Gotch called Hindu Pushups.

You could say that Hindu squats, “feed the wolf” and Hindu pushups, “feed the grizzly.”

You are challenged in my book and DVDs to work up to 500-straight Hindu squats in a row, and at least 50 Hindu pushups (100 is even better).

When you can do both, rest assured that your cardiovascular system is kicking butt. You’re no longer a human being coach potato when you can do so.

You’ve transformed yourself into a human-animal – one that is part wolf, part grizzly, in terms of strength-endurance.

How about that?

Here’s the link to click to get involved in this best-selling program: Combat Conditioning book and DVDs. 

Matt Furey

P.S. If you already have my book and DVDs and want to go to the next level, I suggest you become part of my online coaching program by visiting the Furey Faithful. 

Been busy as a cat in a rat factory, lately, writing away late into the night/morning.

A couple things:

1. My new book will arrive next Tuesday – my apologies but the printer, who normally has a 72-hour turnaround, is “swamped.”

When I went to sign off on the proof, the place was a zoo, with eight people binding big, beefy manuals, perhaps for the bag-to-school rush. Its one of those “time of year” situations I didn’t expect.

Anyway, in the interim, I’m beefing up my Theatre of the Mind YouTube channel.

Here’s a short clip that will rock your whirld. Enjoy.

Matt Furey