30 years ago I was sitting in a Zig Ziglar seminar, as he exclaimed, “You need a check up from the neck up.”

This meant that you needed to change your thoughts from negative to positive.

Well, today I’m here to tell you that a lot of negative thinking will “just go away” if you exercise your neck in a natural way on a regular basis.

The brain fog will often clear as well – along with feelings of tiredness and fatigue.

You may start feeling as though you’re ON TOP OF THE WHIRLD.

The key word to keep in mind when it comes to training your neck is “natural.”

This means, unequivocally, that machines are out. Neck machines are ridiculously dumb.

All you need to effectively train your neck and thereby energize your brain and body, is your own bodyweight.

And if you’re unable to do the bridging exercises I have in Combat Conditioning, or cannot do so due to a medical condition, then you may be incredibly delighted to hear that the neck training I currently teach requires no bridging whatsoever.

Yes, bridging is great for you, provided you’re orthopedically sound, but it is also limited in terms of the number of directions you can train your neck. This means, as great as it is, I now teach something ever better, that you can add to your bridging – or do on its own, for your entire life.

It’s called Neck Qi Gong. It’s on the Matt Furey Inner Circle member’s site.

Go get some.

You’ll be damn glad you did.

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, if you’re only on this email list to get free tips and have no intention of ever getting a product, or you are offended by the fact that I have something to sell, then just go away. Believe me, I won’t mind at all.

There are a couple pictures I want you to take a look at on my Instagram page – @mattfureysays.

In the first one you will see me sitting without a chair. In the other, I have my heels in an elevated position so that I will strengthen the tendons in my feet and ankles.

In both poses, my hands are in a position that opens up the meridians in my body, increasing the flow of blood and qi.

These are definitely worth your time to examine.

And if you want more, I’ll be covering them in the Matt Furey Inner Circle, with a LOT more details on how to use them and when.

In the interim, the next time you hear statements such as, “Sitting is worse than smoking,” I suggest you grab yourself a cigar (cigarettes are for losers) and have a seat, in the postures I’m showcasing. Make the best of both worlds and you’ll be all the better for it. HA!

Here endeth the lesson!

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, if it upsets you that I plug my products and services in these emails, then do yourself a favor and opt-out. I’m unapologetically proud to tell you about what I have to offer, and if that offends you, that’s on YOU, not me. Here’s another shame-free PLUG.

Instagram plug – @mattfureysays

A few days ago I put up a video on Instagram – @mattfureysays – wherein I show the way some people do pushups, and how it’s the laziest, wimpiest and weakest way to do them.

I explain it all in Chinese, but I think you will get the drift of what I’m saying via body language alone.

The alternative I demonstrate is a tremendous way to do pushups because you activate the tendons as well as the muscles. You’re not going for a beach boy pec pump. Instead you’re going for functional, honest-to-goodness real world strength, power and endurance.

The boys who go for the muscle look, whether by using steroids or doing muscle-building only exercises, tend to end up with torn tendons and ligaments. It’s a sad reality for them to face, but when your connective tissue cannot keep up with the strength of the muscles, something has got to give.

Tearing connective tissue can happen to anyone, but if you want to put the odds in your favor, rather than against, you learn to train your tendons. This is what Chinese martial artists understood eons ago – and western strength trainers still are not even close to catching up.

For in-depth explanations of the pushups I recommend and how to work your tendons, you’ll find that information within the confines of the Matt Furey Inner Circle.

Matt Furey
Instagram – @mattfureysays

You may be startled by what I’m about to tell you. But it’s the honest to goodness truth.

If you’re never angry about your condition, the shape you’re in, the way you look, how you fit into your clothes, and so on, you’ll probably never do something about it.

Anger is valuable energy, provided you turn it into focused zeal.

The moment your anger is transformed into zeal, you have POWER. You have FOCUS and CONCENTRATION.

Most importantly you have high levels of ENERGY.

You’re red hot, fired up and ready to do something about your condition.

Show me a person who never transformed anger into focused power and I won’t be showing you a winner.

If you want to win – start with anger. Turn your anger into passion – and you’re off to the races.

Matt Furey
FureyFaithful.com

Ever wake up feeling shittee?

Or not on top of your game just yet?

Well, you’re not alone.

Yesterday I was listening to an interview with a best-selling author in the self-development field, and to my amazement, he admitted that he’s often depressed and battles anxiety regularly.

His battles with anxiety – a fancy word for “fear” – start as soon as he gets up each day.

Holy dawg piles.

That really sucks.

At first I couldn’t relate to the author whatsoever. But then I got to thinking, “Wait a second, Fure-cat. You used to wake up grumpy as hell. It used to take you a couple hours to find your groove.”

Tis true.

All this changed, however, when I began doing loosening exercises before getting into the thick of the day.

No, I did not say stretching exercises.

Loosening exercises are not the same as stretching – because with loosening you are primarily working on the joints of the body as opposed to the muscles.

Over 25 years ago, a kung fu and tai chi teacher told me, “Everyone works on stretching the muscles, but it’s the joints that need to be loose. If the joints are loose, the muscles will go along for the ride.”

True statement, but he forget to tell me other part of the story.

The mind-blowing reality of loosening the joints, though, is NOT that your joints get looser. It’s that you start FEELING GREAT as your joints are exercised.

There’s a huge psycho-physical reaction that takes place when you exercise your joints in a free flowing manner.

If I were you, I’d get on it. You’ll be in awe at how it changes your life.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

P.S. If you want me to guide you in HOW to loosen your joints, it comes with your membership in the Furey Faithful. Those
of you who are already members and may have overlooked this section – look for the heading… 8 Joint Loosening Set.

P.P.S. Also, the Neck Chi Kung Set helps a ton with getting into the FEEL GREAT STATE of MIND.

And so do you.

You already know where the first one is located – but what about the second?

Your second heart is located in your legs. In fact, if you picture both legs, from the feet up – you get the idea.

For the majority of people we see in society today, they pay almost no attention to this second heart.

They sit around most of the day. They don’t walk, run, jump, stretch or squat – all of which are vitally important for the second heart to do its job of supporting the first heart by pumping blood through the veins and arteries of the body.

This is precisely why there’s a Chinese saying,

“Ren lao, xian lao tui.”

The meaning, “When a person gets old, the legs get old first.”

Ain’t it the truth?

Well, the good news is that you can activate your second heart faster than ever before by doing two things:

1. Hindu squats – or any of the other variations of squats I teach – you can observe some gratis on Instagram – @mattfureysays

2. Jumping rope – this is another exercise that works the legs in such a way that the entire body is flooded with blood and
oxygen. Also, due to the coordination of hands and feet, due to the timing and rhythm required to execute specific patterns, the brain gets a tremendous workout, too.

Yes, you can go about your life believing you only have one heart. But think about how much your life and your health would rebound by imagining and acting as though you have two.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey
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Last night I put a short video up that shows me introducing Hindu squats (in Chinese).

Quite a few people commented about the technique – how it is either different from what they were doing – or how it appears different from what they think they remember me doing on the original Combat Conditioning DVDs.

Truth is I have a number of variations of Hindu squats, in terms of speed.

Plus, I have improved the technique, both externally and internally.

I’ve improved my explanation and execution of the exercise, including the breathing, the alignment of the body, what you focus on… and much more.

I’ll be going into illustrious detail on these key  points with fresh videos on the Furey Faithful member’s site.

Let’s go.

Matt Furey

P.S. The video referenced above appears on Instagram – @mattfureysays

When I was in high school, I had no interest whatsoever in “mind power.”

I thought the keys to my eventual success came down to the following key factors:

1. Strength
2. Stamina
3. Superior Technique

Notice that all of the above are PHYSICAL.

As a freshman on the University of Iowa wrestling team, a powerhouse unit that won 15 NCAA team titles in 21 years, my thinking was permanently altered about the role of the mind in sports… and for the better.

That was in 1981.

So today, when I see coaches who think that success in sports is all about mastering the physical, I shake my head in disbelief.

How can they be that far behind?

Are they ignorant or stubborn or both?

Or have they never been exposed to it, so they don’t know?

Frankly, I learned these winning ways so long ago that I am stunned when I hear fellow coaches scoff.

Adding further to my disbelief is the fact that I began studying martial arts in 1991. In my study of all these exotic “eastern” arts, my knowledge about the mind/body/brain connection went to another level.

I learned how it’s not just the mind and the body. There is another component that is not only most readily accessible to all of us – it is also the most important in helping an athlete acquire the “intangibles” that no one else can accurately point out.

If you are thinking it might have something to do with breathing, you would be correct.

But it is not “just” breathing. If it were, there would by nothing much to it and nothing to teach or discuss.

Fact is…

The way you breathe influences your ability to relax as well as your ability to rev up the engine, to be focused and “motivated.”

How you breathe helps you get stronger, faster, quicker and move with more agility or flexibility.

How you breathe affects your balance, your coordination, timing and rhythm.

How you breathe can lighten the stress you feel – it can transform fear and self-doubt into purposeful power.

This is why you are going to see more information on this subject in the Furey Faithful over the next several months.

And quite possibly, a full-blown seminar on this subject very soon.

Take a deep breath – let it out – and have a butt-kicking week.

Matt Furey

Here’s what I’ve been thinking….

If you’re a man and you want to ramp up your estrogen levels and become “unmanly,” then eat chicken that was fed soy and
injected with hormones and antibiotics.

Not hard to do, either, because almost all chicken fits the order given above.

This is why I sometimes dream of a whirld wherein all the major religions conspire and collude to simultaneously ban chicken.

The heinous comments above make it official.

I am a bonafide chicken hater.

Same goes for eggs.

Unless…

you can source them for me and prove that they were not fed soy, and weren’t stuck in the flesh with antibiotics and growth hormone.

I would also add that the birds I eat must be free-range – but that goes without saying if you take care of the other factors listed above.

My bottom line opinion is this: if you want more testosterone, give the bird to the chicken and go on your merry way.

Oh, and by the way, if chicken is working out for you – keep munching. No need to write me and tell me how wonderful chicken is because I’m only telling you what I think.

Matt Furey

Yesterday I was listening to an interview with former NFL running back and MMA fighter, Herschel Walker.

He was asked how many pushups he’d done so far today.

Walker replied: “1,500 pushups this morning and 2,500 situps.”

I’ve long championed Herschel Walker as a prime example of bodyweight exercises.

And today, while many of his contemporaries are out of commission, he’s still going strong.

His body isn’t ruined from weight training. He doesn’t have torn tendons and ligaments from overuse and/or steroid usage.

And he’s still kicking ass.

Gotta love Herschel Walker.

Matt Furey

P.S. Get on the bodyweight training system that shook up the world – Combat Conditioning, plus a whole lot more.