Yesterday I put a short clip up on Instagram – @mattfureysays.

I am on the monkey bars, brachiating backwards. It’s not that hard to do – if you are willing to imagine different. If you are willing to give it a whirl.

When you do the monkey bars in reverse, you break away from the “should” programming that is served to us daily on a shiddy platter.

Doing what you have always done is not the way to set yourself free. Doing what everyone else is doing is the wrong approach to life. Doing what you think you should do so that other people will approve of you, is the worst.

When you train in reverse, you unplug yourself from the so-called real whirld. And that, my friend, is a good thing. A damn good thing.

The brain and nervous system benefits of moving in reverse are abundant.

You clear cobwebs from your mind. You increase feelings of well-being. You increase the release of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin.

And because you are using your hands to guide yourself on this pathway, you are given a mega-dose of IGF1 (insulin-like growth factor) – the hormone that keeps you young and vitally alive.

The main thing stopping someone from moving in reverse is fear.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of what the neighbors (or other gym members) will think. Fear of looking stupid doing something different.

Over 20 years ago, when I first saw a man in China moving in reverse, I thought it was weird. From my disadvantage point, the window I was peering through, I inwardly scoffed: “What in the hell is this guy doing?”

Within a few milliseconds, I caught myself and corrected course. How would I truly know anything about what he was doing unless I did it myself.

I went downstairs and met with the man. He explained to me what he was doing and how to get the best results.

I didn’t just observe him and take notes. I did “the thing.”

Oddly enough, one of his maxims was to go slowly. The slower the better.

Again, my initial reaction was, “That’s dumb.”

I intercepted that thought as well, and began to imitate his movements. Within a few minutes I had entered uncharted terrain. This terrain, though, was not of this earth. It was surreal.

My hands tingled. So did my feet. And my body felt larger than life.

Overtime I discovered that this way of moving was considered shamanic. It bestowed upon practitioners a calmness, a clarity, a peace of mind. It made blood percolate and memory banks unlock. It activated the healer within all of us.

Years later, I realized that this way of moving unplugged you from negative emotions, even ones that are troubling, such as grief. It also unplugs you from the worries of the world, the fear-pornaganda.

When you’re moving forward, it is difficult to see the big picture. You’re moving into the screenplay, becoming a part of the program.

But when you take a step back, everything changes. You break from the chord that binds you.

You can experience this for yourself when you move along with me.

My Dao Zou course will show you the way.
It will teach you the benefits of backwards day.

Who wants to ride along and see?
I trust you’re saying, “Me, me, me.”

Matt Furey

There’s are many reasons that traditional martial artists have historically shied away from weight training. 

One of the most commonly stated reasons is that they don’t want to be tight or “musclebound.” 

Another reason is that the bigger your muscles, the greater the likelihood, especially when you get older, that you will suffer from insufficient qi flow to the vital organs and extremities. 

But there’s one reason you’ve probably never heard before. It is this: Weight training strengthens and tones the muscles by shortening them whereas isometrics stretch and strengthen the tendons and ligaments. Therein lies the most valuable reason of them all. 

When the body begins to break down, it is usually when the tendons and ligaments cannot handle the pressure being exerted. The muscles may be able to handle the stress, but something somewhere has to give. 

Oftentimes you start off with aches and pains, then the pain becomes chronic and turns into tendinitis. After this you get tears or ruptures. Sometimes the tear or rupture is the first sign of something gone seriously wrong.

Achilles tendons, patella tendons, medial collateral ligaments, ulna collateral ligaments, torn rotator cuffs… these are some of the more common injuries that happen to “the best of the best” and the strongest of the strong. 

But your chances of incurring these type of injuries are minimized dramatically when you plug isometrics into your workout regimen. 

There are many forms of isometrics, but the most advantageous form of them is getting into specific postures or stances and holding them for time. 

Take the traditional horse stance posture, for example. You lower your buttocks as though you are mounted on a horse, and you stay there until your legs are shaking and quaking. Truth be told, most people cannot hold a good horse stance for one minute without trembling. The same is true of the wall-chair position. 

But when certain postures and stances are practiced over a period of several weeks, your tendons and ligaments get stronger and you are able to hold for longer periods of time. This increased tendon strength then lends itself to greater speed, power, mobility and springiness. 

I was a freshman in college when I first learned the horse stance in a class on “relaxation techniques.” Despite being a collegiate wrestler, I was unable to hold the position very long. But over a period of weeks I was able to hold a low horse stance for two minutes, and this led to me becoming super fast and explosive.

​​​​​​​Twas a shock to witness my ability to shoot in on an opponent and take him down with ease going to the next level. At the time I didn’t realize what gave me this explosiveness, but years later, when I began training in martial arts, I got the answer. And that is why, at almost 60 years of age, I am still quick, nimble and explosive.

When you practice isometric postures and stances, instead of relying solely on your muscles to push and pull, you teach your tendons to take over, giving you a coiling, whip-like springiness that others cannot muster. As the bodies of the weight trained get bulkier and tighter, you become much more agile and mobile, capable of exerting strength in positions that others cannot generate any force in. 

You can fall to ground and spring off it, even from your belly or back while the muscle-bound are still struggling to get into position. 

This whiplike springiness is what you develop in my new Power Postures program. And it pays huge dividends regardless of your age, your current level of physicality, or what sport or martial art you practice. 

Currently I am accepting 17 more students at the current fee for this course, then it is going UP. 

So spring into action NOW, my friend. Grab your share of the health that is waiting for you.

Get your spring on – and keep it going.

Go to PowerPostures.com and order NOW. 

Matt Furey

We human beings are remarkable in so many ways: we can walk, run, jump, swim, do backflips, throw, catch, hit,  roll over, and so on.

We can also ride horseback, shoot arrows, punch, grapple, kick, spin and climb.

Additionally, we can do our best imitations of animals and incorporate their movements into our heatlh and fitness regimens.

There isn’t a single animal on the planet who can duplicate ALL of the skills listed above.

Animals have limits based upon whether they are crawlers, climbers, runners, leapers, or waddlers.

Dolphins and whales can swim, as can humans, and boy can they jump from out of nowhere – but they cannot put on a pair of skis and glissade down a mountain – or don a pair of rollerblades and stroll down the street.

Even so, no matter how great the toughest fighter, would you bet on him versus a tiger, bear, wolverine or primate?

Would you bet on five or more of the world’s strongest people against one gorilla?

Would you bet on the two fastest people alive in a race against a cheetah?

By using our brains we human beings can figure out ways to overcome and outduel the animal via the use of weapons and technology.

But we cannot match the animal without those tools. We cannot match the animal’s strength, speed or agility when matched skill for skill.

Wisely, in days gone by, the ancients observed the animals and learned from them. They didn’t scoff and think they were superior because of weaponry.

They learned to model the animal’s movements, and in so doing, tap into a level of strength, speed, flexiblity and health they wouldn’t normally have.

The human no longer sought after human strength. Instead he worked to acquire animalistic strength, the type of wiry strength that humans stand no chance against.

Bodyweight exercises as taught in my int’l best-sellers, Combat Conditioning and Combat Stretching, get you moving with greater animalistic ease than ever before.

Start with three foundational exercises that hit all the major muscle groups – and grow into greater skill from there.

Simultaneously increase your strength, speed, power and endurance.

Your flexibility, too.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

In the olden days we had turkey necks and pencil neck geeks.

Today we still have those – but we’ve added something else. Let’s call it…

smartphone (or texting) neck.

Having a smartphone neck not only looks bad, it leads to chronic neck pain and headaches.

It also reduces blood flow to the brain – not good for your memory – and affects the functionality of your body in too many
ways to list here.

You may may think the above is “no big deal” – but I assure you, your head and your life is falling off a cliff if you have a smartphone neck.

The good news is you can shift gears and put your head back on the mountain top, where it belongs, even if it’s currently
suspended in mid-air.

The Neck Qi Gong exercises I teach members of the FureyFaithful.com website go a long way in correcting
smartphone neck, but…

very soon I’ll be adding more exercises to the site that not only fix texting neck in the fastest time humanly possible, but
also lead to improved overall fitness.

Make sure you enroll NOW to reverse the flow of vital energy and power that’s been leaking out of your body instead of into your brain.

Click here NOW.

Matt Furey

Our family has a little black dog who weighs about 13 pounds.

He’s the friendliest dog you can imagine – and used to prove it by jumping on everyone who visits.

To control himself, the dog came up with a plan: when he goes to the door to greet you, he bites onto a slipper or sandal and runs around you until you acknowledge his presence.

In this way he doesn’t upset the visitor or get admonished.

As a dog’s friend, you come to realize how often the canine will stretch its limbs.

The dog has only one stretch – but that’s all it needs because it’s a powerful stretch.

This dog or cat’s stretch is not for the muscles, though, even though the muscles do get stretched.

Primarily, an animal’s stretch is for strengthening and stretching the tendons and ligaments.

The dog or cat’s stretch is not designed to build big, bulky and tight muscles.

It’s designed for functional strength and flexibility.

It’s designed to give the animal running and jumping speed, agility and power – as well as to maintain a connection to the center.

A baby is similar, until he or she loses what came naturally, and that doesn’t take long.

But a dog (or cat) never loses its center, never loses its core connection.

Which begs the question, if a dog or cat suddenly forgot to do its powerful stretch each day – or was not allowed to do so –
would the animal remain as connected?

I doubt it.

The next question: Can a human being regain his or her connection to the center, to the core, to the trunk of the body?

Yes, and the way to do so is through exercises that stretch and strengthen the tendons and ligaments of the body.

I’m going to be putting many of these exercises up on the FureyFaithful.com membership site in the near future, so you can learn and practice them each day.

Once you begin doing them, chances are you’ll do the same as the dog and cat. You’ll make sure you do them every single day. You wouldn’t feel normal or natural without them.

Do they take a long time to do?

Each stretch take about as long as a dog or cat takes to stretch, which last time I checked, was a few to several seconds.

For now, you can do some Hindu Pushups from my best-seller, Combat Conditioning, to get the idea of the dog and cat.

Combat Conditioning, as well as many of my other books, are available for an immediate down load when you become a member of the FureyFaithful.com site.

That’s all for today, my friend.

Remember to stretch before you leap.

Matt Furey

Last week I met with Frederic, a local pastor, whom I’ve been coaching, who has dropped well over 100 pounds.

Frederic’s now down to 282 pounds after being at an all-time high of 420+ (estimated) el-bees.

You may wonder why I used the word estimated in parenthesis.

It’s because Frederic stepped on a scale that nearly broke at 400, and he figured, based upon sound effects and how much weight had to fall off for him to reach 399, that he must have been 420-440 smackers.

I currently coach three men who were once Leviathan – with a capital L.

Now they’re happier and healthier than ever and they radiate power and confidence in every step.

All of these gents follow the programs I teach on the Furey Faithful Member’s Site.

They also religiously follow a food program I call… The Horrendous Diet.

As I tell them, if other people who are not so slim themselves, tell you that your diet is HORRENDOUS ..

then you’re probably on the correct path.

Or, if the person scolding you has never been more than 5-15 pounds overweight in his or her life – then this person is disqualified from giving you guidance as well.

The Good News for Frederic, other than the pounds dropped, is the fact that his blood sugar is now stable, for the first time in YEARS.

You can view Frederic’s testimonial on the Furey Faithful homepage.

He’s not at his target weight YET – but he’s enjoying the JOURNEY – and it shows in the positivity he EXUDES.

Instead of expecting happiness to come AFTER reaching a goal – Frederic understands what I preach.

Happiness is enjoyed on the way to the goal – ALL ALONG the WAY.

Matt Furey

Here’s a little story about a man named Dale,
First time I saw him, he’s big as a killer whale.

I made not one single mention about his big ole belly,
Or how much he loved to drink beer and slam jelly.

Then one day he yells and calls out to me,
Yo, Furey-cat, here’s someone you gotta see.

I did a double-take as I turned round and round,
I recognized the voice, but the body skipped town.

“It’s me. It’s me. Look here you stupid ass,
Forgive my cursing, you know I’m from Mass.”

Dale?
Big Dale?

It’s me,
Can’t you see?

What the hell happened to you?
Did you fight a silverback at the Orlando zoo?

Haha, Fureycat, you’re always so charming.
Can’t you tell, I’ve been eating different farming?

I definitely see a big difference, that’s a fact, my friend,
But there’s no way in hell you didn’t move your rear end.

Right on, per usual, you’re definitely above smoking pot.
I gave up beer and starches, then did hundreds of Hindu squats.

Congratulations, my friend, you’re now an elite member,
of the Furey Faithful group, from now through December.

In fact, I believe your journey is so darn compelling,
I’m betting your story will do most of the selling.

Whatever I can do to help spread your message,
Just promise me now you’ll spare the old adage.

I’m 50 years young, I’m not over the hill,
Helping your members will be a great thrill.

I’ll tell them, when they train with the Furey-cat,
they can truly expect to lose their unwanted fat.

The first time you saw me – you saw a big whale.
Now, I’m so grateful – when you see me as … Dale.

*The above poem written by Ma Tai – the alter ego of Matt Furey, best-selling author of Combat Conditioning and many other books on fitness, martial arts and self-image psychology.

Enroll in the Furey Faithful and follow the truly life-changing system that is working for Dale and so many others.

We are now less than ten days away from The Undiscovered Secrets Seminar – an event wherein Ted Nicholas and myself will be teaching you how to be FAR more than a best-selling author and a professional human being.