Yesterday’s email, The Mystery of Internal Strength v. Weightlifting Strength, caused more than a SPLASH.

One reader wrote to ask questions about my early childhood, attempting to ‘psychologize’ why I would have the desire to acquire internal power. Something strange going on, he muses.

But the funny thing about his desire to question me is that he missed the fact that I became intensely interested in this subject in 2007 – waaaay past early childhood, when I had my own children to raise. I suggest he study himself and find out why he feels it necessary to delve into other peoples’ lives – when he has plenty of material to work with in his own.

Another reader demanded proof when he read the following:

“As a result of this type of training, I am more energetic, more flexible, more mobile, more powerful, and quicker than ever before.”

Proof is very easy to produce, and I have given plenty of it over the past few years, with many people who have come to train with me. Many of these men have been getting my products for over 20 years, and have witnessed and felt, first-hand, the evolution in my training and in my abilities.

Being able to prove I am more energetic is easy. I go to bed most nights after 3 AM and am up four to six hours later. Never in my life has that been the case, before embarking on this type of training. In the past I slept eight to nine hours per night. So I got that going for me.

​​​​​​​Being more flexible and more mobile is also incredibly easy to prove. My joints have a much greater range of movement than I had when I put out Combat Conditioning in February of 2000. And yes, I can still do the splits – as well as a number of stretches, going much deeper into them than ever before. This is another slam dunk.

More powerful? YES, as I am specifically writing and talking about INTERNAL POWER, which I did NOT have at the level I have today (not even close), when I created my other products (all of which are great, I must add).

How about quicker?

Of course I’m quicker, as I now move with whole body integration, and at a level and in directions, I was never able to before.

I have many ways of testing and verifying my improvements, all of which are valid – and none of which involve ways of measuring that the detractors have even thought of. They can only verify by running a 40-yard dash, or lying on a bench to press some weights, or doing a deadlift.

I haven’t been timed in the 40-yard dash since I ran a 4.7 in college. I haven’t been timed in the mile since I ran a 5:32 in college, which I did AFTER not running for three weeks, as I was nursing a sprained ankle.

I haven’t done a bench press or deadlift in over 20 years – and have no intention of every doing one again.

Even so, I can have a very strong weightlifter push on me and get nowhere – then find himself uprooted and catapulted backward.

Hmm.

So easy to prove.

And I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunities to do so at my 3-day seminar in Montana in a couple weeks.

In the meantime, if you want more of what I can prove, go here.

Matt Furey