And it came to pass…

that a long-time elite follower of Combat Conditioning, whom I’ll call Ebenezer, got himself into a rut. He didn’t just fall off the wagon, he went into a deep hole.

By and by, as the years passed, he wasn’t doing much more than sitting on the couch, watching the NBA, which, oddly enough, had also fallen into the abyss.

Ebenezer noted how the glory days of real hoops with Michael Jordan were over.

There was no more defense.

There were no more fights with Larry Bird and Dennis Rodman.

There was no more driving to the basket.

It was now a boring game of supposedly superior athletes flopping, whining and complaining as they jogged from three-point line to three-point line, and sat out games with phantom injuries or the perceived need to manage their load. It was now a game where traveling, double-dribbling and technical fouls were rarely called, even though they happen all game long.

The more basketball this man watched the more depressed he became, and seemingly without his consent, his physical condition deteriorated.

One fine day, he re-read Combat Conditioning and watched my DVDs again, and assuming he could jump-start his routine where he left off, he discovered to his dissatisfaction, that he could no longer do the exercises that he had previously mastered.

He got angry with himself. He got MAD. And he decided to do something about it.

Ebenezer started with the Royal Court. His numbers were staggeringly low. At one time he could hammer out 500-straight Hindu squats and 300 Hindu-pushups. Now, he could barely do 10 squats and five pushups.

After a few months, Ebenezer’s numbers rose and he was starting to see glimpses of his former physique.

At this point he got in position to do a 1-arm pushup. In the past he could do this pushup on either side with ease, now he felt as though he had nothing in the tank.

Ebenezer had lost the feel for the exercise, along with a lot of motor units.

I told him what to do to regain that “feeling in your bones.” This is the feeling that “knows” you can do something before you begin.

Recently, I posted my advice to Ebenezer on a YouTube video, and it’s blazing a trail for you to follow along with him.

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Matt Furey

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