Earlier today I did a coaching call with a man who has a habit of working out for three weeks straight. Then, for some unknown reason (to him), he runs out of steam and takes three months off.

Then he jumps all over himself for being a lazy slackoid, begins another program, and finds the same situation being reactivated.

Sound familiar?

You bust your rumpus in the beginning, going full throttle. Then you run out of gas, lose momentum, and end up becoming absent-minded about exercise – and other matters.

Ever wonder why this happens?

You might think it’s because you lack will power.

You might think it’s because you are lazy.

You might think it’s because you haven’t found the ideal program yet.

The reality is that you’ve probably bought into the notions that tell you:

a. to train to failure
b. to always give 110 percent
c. to push until you puke

Over the years, I have followed these same ideas, to my detriment.

And whatdyaknow, all these ideas I bought into as a youth, or later on in life, I’ve proven that there is a better way.

But first…. keep the following in mind:

Training to failure harms your brain and nervous system.

Second, there’s no such thing as giving 110 percent just as there’s no such thing as “massive action.” Remember, no matter how hyped up you are for massive action, you can only take one step at a time.

Third, stopping long before you feel fatigue or before you puke will give you much better results than giving it all you’ve got.

el Furecat, who does nothing extreme in his workouts, who isn’t banging his head against the Great Wall, with ideas of training to failure or fatigue, or achieving the unachievable ideal of 110 percent – continues to kick ass.

I never miss a day of training. Every day I am exercising. On most days I exercise three times. And I continue to be amazed at the progress I am still making, even when I don’t look as through I’m “trying.”

The other day someone told me about his experiences with my Dao Zou program. He told me that he’s never done a workout that made him feel so good with so much ease.

When he finishes his Dao Zou routine, he is energized and relaxed, almost beyond belief. He feels his calves, glutes and hips in a way that cannot be reached with weight training or any other type of exercise. And he is blissed out for hours after he finishes.

There are many reasons this happens. One of the biggest is that you unconsciously give up the caveman, “me give 110 percent” mentality, when you perform Dao Zou.

When you leave caveman mode behind, you turn off the reptilian part of your brain and nervous system. This means you’re no longer in fight, flight or freeze.

Once this happens, your central nervous system is working FOR YOU instead of against you. Anger, angst, nervous tension and other gloomy negative emotions evaporate.

You get results that seem unfathomable.

And you do this without giving 110 percent. Or 100 percent. Or 75 percent.

In fact, your best results often come when you give it 50 percent, or less.

I know this goes against the grain of the caveman mentality, but I’m telling you, it’s true.

I’ll be putting up a few videos in the members site this week, showing how this works for me each day. You will be stunned at what you personally discover when you implement my suggestions.

That’s it for today.

Kick Ass (at 50% or less) – Take Names,

Matt Furey

P.S. Dao Zou is now available via digital download as well as on DVD.

Take a listen. Tune into peoples’ conversations. 

Here’s what you’ll notice: Almost everyone complains about aches, pains and injuries. 

If it’s not their lower back, it’s their neck. If it’s not their knees, it’s their shoulders. If it’s not their wrists or elbows, it’s their ankles and feet. 

Pain sucks. It really does. 

Exercising the wrong way can lead to injuries. So can playing sports, practicing martial arts or doing yoga. And as you get a few years past 40, you might notice something incredibly odd. 

What oddity is that?

It’s the dumbfounding reality that you can injure yourself while sleeping. 

How the hell does someone go from a young child who could bounce on cement and not get hurt, to someone who sustains a shoulder or neck injury while taking a rest?

One of the main reasons for so many injuries is improper breathing. People tend to hold their breath while exerting effort, and this causes the muscles and tendons to shorten, and this leads to tears, strains and sprains.

Two of the keys to remaining injury free as long as possible, as well as getting out of pain, are:

1. to think in terms of getting longer and stronger rather than shorter and tighter.  

2. to inhale and exhale deeply to release the tension from your body as you train.

Every fitness program I have ever created works toward the goal of making you longer, stronger… and better. 

Recently, I began promoting Lt. Col. Eric Guttman’s Healing Isometrics program, because it not only fits what I’ve been teaching and preaching for more than 20 years, but it is a program that Eric has lived. 

As you can imagine, Eric has had his share of injuries from being in the military, and from being a lifelong athlete. Although being injured is never fun, there is value in it if you’re willing to learn what your body is trying to tell you. There’s even more value when you learn how to heal your own aches and pains, and you create a program based upon your methods that works wonders for others, too. 

That’s why I’m so big on Healing Isometrics. It’s much better than a program put out by a physical therapist who was never seriously injured. It’s a program created by someone who has truly felt pain, at a deep level; and figured out a unique way to get rid of the ill feelings without drugs, surgery or a bunch of rehab exercises that don’t work so well. 

At the present time, Healing Isometrics comes with a specially bonus program, Maximum Mobility in Minimum Time, but only for a short while. Both of these programs come to you digitally, so you can download them instantly, no matter where you live in the world. 

These two programs will be separated eventually, but for now, they are a 2-for-1 that cannot be beaten. 

Jump on this special offer NOW, my friend, and start saying goodbye to pain. 

KATN.

Matt Furey

P.S. Got a few copies of Combat Conditioning left. Once they sell out, they are gone forever. 

It was around 2003. I was listening to a guy talking about how his method of training was better than bodyweight exercise.

I remember calling my friend, Jon, after hearing him speak.

Jon remarked, “How can anything be better than a bodyweight exercise?”

’tis a great question.

Bodyweight exercises are the greatest non-invention known to man.

That’s correct.

There is no inventing with bodyweight exercise. You can only discover what is already here – or what was previously known, discarded and forgotten.

The exercises in Combat Conditioning are nothing new. They’ve existed for thousands of years. But for the majority of the world, they never existed until I came out with my book and DVDs. They were in fact, NEW to them. They were in many ways, life-changers.

So I repeat, in slightly different words, although you can never invent anything new in regard to bodyweight exercise, you can only innovate and/or rediscover what is/was already here.

When you personally discover for yourself, the uncanny power of the different pushups, squats and bridging exercises I teach in my book and DVDs, you will be amazed, and your life will change for the better.

You’ll get stronger, faster and leaner. You’ll increase your flexibility, power and endurance. You’ll become more elastic in all your movements.

And if you’re an athlete or martial artist, you’ll probably see yourself moving to the top.

You can bulk up all you want with weights, but when the fighting starts, be careful about betting on the guy or gal with the ripped abs, striated muscles and bodybuilding beach look. Bet on the one with the natural and “loose” look.

That’s what Combat Conditioning gives you, my friend. A natural and loose look.

A look that truly does…

kick ass and take names.

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, only 40 copies of the last-ever print version of the current Combat Conditioning are left in stock. This book, along with the free autographed martial arts magazine I’ll be sending you, are bonafide collector’s items.

P.P.S. One more thing: If you want to increase your desire and discipline to make damn sure you get your workout in each day, then you’ll want to hang these posters on your wall.

As you get out of bed and begin navigating through your day, start paying attention to the way other people stand, sit, walk and run.

You’ll find some people whose upper torso is in a constant state of tension. Their trapezius muscles are unconsciously flexed and their shoulder joints are raised upward, on one or both sides.

Reminds me of a client I trained when I lived in California. Whenever he was listening to instruction, he would raise his right shoulder toward his ear. In order to make him aware of this, I would rest my palm on his shoulder. He would immediately see what he was doing to himself, and would soften the shoulder and relax it. After awhile, all I had to do was look at his shoulder and he got the message.

He learned to relax and let go of unnecessary tension.

Letting go is not something you do once and you’re reset for life. It’s a constant battle you need to be engaged in.

Human beings are magnets for piling on physical and emotional tension that we don’t need. We carry emotional burdens in our shoulders, worries in our stomach, fears in our kidneys, anger in our liver, hatred in our hearts and sadness in our lungs.

Our lower backs ache when we worry about survival. Our feet and knees trouble us when we are uncertain of stepping into the future. Our neck gets tight when we are mentally inflexible.

Getting rid of this excess tension is not just a matter of “working out.”

HOW you workout really does matter.

If you don’t have an exercise method in your repertoire that helps reduce the physical and emotional tensions of everyday living, then you’re a definite candidate for frozen body part syndrome.

Perhaps you cannot come close to touching your toes when you bend forward. Or you can’t sit on the floor and keep your back straight when your legs are opened wide. Or you can’t sit in a deep squat without falling over backward.

All of the above are symptomatic of frozen body part syndrome.

No one on this planet is immune to tension. At the same time, all of us can effectively rid ourselves of tension on a daily basis.

Over the years I have taught you to rid the tension, to start your day off with a bang, through a series of spherical and rotational exercises I’ve collected from various teachers over the years. I’ve also taught various isometric exercises that not only increase strength, but flexibility as well.

Now you can enjoy the value of both of these tension-melting training modalities as a 2-for-1 discount, with Lt. Commander Eric Guttman’s Healing Isometrics and Maximum Mobility programs.

That’s correct: These two ground-breaking courses that I wholeheartedly endorse, are currently available for the cost of one. But not for much longer.

And that’s exactly why it’s a grand idea to jump on this offer NOW.

Remember, these courses help you rid yourself of frozen body part syndrome; they help you rid your mind-body of excess tension, and they help you start your day off with a bang by giving you the exercises that command and instruct your body to get better, to get healthier, to feel energized again.

Let’s get it on.

KATN.

Matt Furey

If you get up in the morning and you’re still half-asleep as you walk from room to room, you need exercises that wake your body-brain up BEFORE you do anything else.

Yes, you could drop down and begin cranking out pushups and squats, as I teach in Combat Conditioning, but you’d be well advised to start slowly and allow your body to find its groove. Don’t force nuthin. If you force your body before it is wide awake, you’re asking for trouble.

For well over 25 years, I’ve been teaching my clients and customers a simple way to “start your day off with a bang,” using spherical, spiraling and/or coiling exercises. When you move this way, you supercharge your brain-body because you move the stagnant energy out of the joints and replace it with vital life force.

Droopily walking across the room when you awaken is a sign that you better get your body, blood and breath moving. As you do so, you not only lose the morning lull, you fill your body with vital energy that helps you glide through the rest of your day without resistance.

Rotational, spiraling, coiling movements fill your gas tank so you can get up and go, and keep going, with ease.

In and of themselves, spiraling movements are incredible, but when you combine them with the exercises in Combat Conditioning, Primate Power, Healing Isometrics, Gama Fitness or any of the other exercise regimens I recommend, they take on an entirely different level of power and significance.

The cool news is this: You can download an entire array of rotational exercises (Maximum Mobility in Minimum Time) as a bonus when you order Healing Isometrics NOW.

That’s correct. With your order, you’ll be getting two full-blown courses for the amount of one.

Jump on this NOW, my friend, as this special incentive will not last much longer.

Matt Furey