It’s Friday and I have a lot of coaching calls to do today.

And before I do them, I want to make sure I reach out to you and tell you how important it is to continuously work on your flexibility.

Grease up your joints. Give them plenty of lubrications. Don’t let your body rust out from within.

Make sure you’re continually moving in a circular way.

This is the key to flexibility, mobility and agility.

I cover it in detail in Combat Stretching.

Take a look. You’ll be ecstatic you did.

Matt Furey

There’s a greatness inside of you, and it cannot be locked down.

No matter where you are, in your home, your office or a hotel room, this greatness arises each morning and takes care of business. No matter what is going on in the whirld, no matter how insane it is, this greatness prods you to get up and get going.

You walk, you run, you jump. Regardless of the weather, or other factors, this greatness makes no excuses.

This greatness realizes what the Great Gama knew. If you give me nothing but a bare floor (or a pit of sand), I will make the most of my body. I don’t need fancy equipment. I can get all the exercise I need with my own bodyweight. My own body is a gym in and of itself.

That’s what the Great Gama understood. That’s how he lived.

And this is why I created Gama Fitness, a program that champions the type of exercises the Great Gama did to have an unbeaten 5000-0 record. I think his record stands for itself, and makes you want to do the same type of exercises that he did. If it worked for Gama, it works for me.

Best,

Matt Furey

Your body needs variety. It needs change. It needs to go where it’s never gone before.

This is why I have a variety of exercises to choose from along with workouts that keep my mind-body in a constant state of adaptation.

None of my workouts take long.

Dao Zou is about 30 minutes.

Combat Conditioning will give you all you need within 15 minutes.

A couple of my workouts are two minutes long. Sometimes the two minutes is constant while at other times it is cumulative.

For example, there’s an exercise in Primate Power you can do for two minutes without stopping, but ONLY when you have the advanced strength of a monkey or, even better, an orangutan.

But to build up to it, you start with 20 or 30 seconds, and you repeat those 20-30 seconds of that specific exercise throughout the day, rather than all at once.

That’s all you do for the day – and it works big time. You can do other exercises if you want, but when you choose wisely and cause the adaptation response, you need to do far less than you might think to get RESULTS.

Keep this in mind: It’s not how long you train. It’s what you train.

Want some orangutan strength to come your way? Then jump on Primate Power and see your overall strength soar.

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey

How about this? How about you start to mentally picture yourself being an old man who is still young and still kicking ass?

Teenagers and 20-somethings come around, thinking they can out-quick you, out-strength you and out-maneuver you. But little do they realize, they can try all they want, and it will be for naught.

Why? Because you’ve got wisdom that goes with your years. You recognize when to showcase your powers and when to hide them. You’ve nothing to prove, but if a youngin gets a bit cocky with you, you can easily subdue him and put him in his place.

This type of imagery leads to you doing something positive with your future. It’s far better than seeing your future self as a weak, frail person. Instead, you visualize yourself as robust, vigorous and strong. And this imagery leads you to take the proper actions that will turn you into someone who embodies the notion of being “old man strong.”

When I say “old man strong,” I’m referring to a concealed type of energy, one that is undetectable through observation alone.

With this type of strength, if you’re in a park, wrestling room or MMA-style dojo, young martial artists and fighters who are training take note. You’re the 70, 80 or 90-year old guy who gladly tosses people around, and does so with ease.

What you do doesn’t seem physically possible to them. Yet, with a light touch, they are bounced away.

Despite the young athletes big muscles, ripped and chiseled physiques, they can’t do anything to you because they don’t have the secret strength that you embody.

Unbeknownst to these youngsters, they spent all their time working on the wrong system – the muscular system. Meanwhile, you invested your time in the training of your tendons, ligaments and fascia, something they were never taught.

As a result, despite your chronological age, internally, you are full of vitality and power.

The younger crowd studies videos of you in action. They watch you in slow motion, forwards and backwards. They take still shots of what they believe to be your secret. They draw diagrams and begin to instruct others in the “proper” way to move. They even create products that will help others move the correct way.

Yet, in spite of all their analysis, they still cannot duplicate what you do because they cannot observe what you are doing internally.

And what you are doing internally makes all the difference.

One of the secrets to training yourself internally are the timed-holds demonstrated in Gama Fitness and Primate Power.

Good news: You can NOW get both of these courses immediately via digital download (or we can ship the product to you). Either way is fine by us.

Both courses are currently available at a substantial discount, which means you’ll not only save big, you’ll be in a much better position to…

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey

P.S. Yes, I’ve met old men in their 70’s and 80’s with the old-man internal strength I’ve written about in this email. What they can do is downright frightening. That’s why I think having a vision of being the one in the park with similar strength, is a worthy ideal. It sure beats letting yourself deteriorate or beating yourself into submission with the wrong way of training.

Several weeks ago, I tweaked my lower back in one of those weird ways. It was during a brief early morning jumping workout that I leaped into without any warmup whatsoever.

I was kicking ass and taking names, at first, then from out of nowhere, I felt a twinge. Next thing you know I’m walking crooked.

When I looked in the mirror, I could see that everything was off. My hips, spine and shoulders resembled a see-saw.

This told me that NOW was a good time to visit a chiropractor, acupuncturist and/or deep tissue massage therapist.

After getting treated, I definitely experienced relief, but something was still off. That’s when I decided it was time to sink to a whole new level.

I stood before a full-length mirror and began to observe my posture. I breathed deeply, stretched my spine in both directions and gradually opened up my joints. Then I made sure my energy, or the weight of my upper body was sinking down my spine and into my hips and pelvis.

Within a couple minutes the “see-saw” look was beginning to dissipate. I could feel my nerves relaxing and my structure realigning.

I stood for five minutes then took a five-minute break. I repeated this three times. And when I finished, there was no more pain or tightness.

Incredible.

After sinking I immediately began doing the joint loosening exercises I teach in Combat Stretching. Ten minutes later, energy pulsated through my veins. I was perked up and ready to roll, feeling euphoria taking hold of me.

Sometimes when we feel tightness and pain, lengthening the body is the key. At other times, circling and rotating work. And then there are those moments where you heal yourself by sinking to a whole new level. Yes!

In Combat Stretching, you’ll learn all of these ways.

Many people double their flexibility in one evening following my instructions; others get rid of frustrating aches and pains.

Lengthen, loosen, rotate and sink.

And remember to breathe deeply.

You’ll learn all of this in Combat Stretching.

Best,

Matt Furey

There’s a way of walking that helps calm your nerves. A way that helps rid your mind-body of negative emotions and feelings, so you can be more active and effective in the present.

This way of walking unwinds your mind, helping you de-stress. It brings a feeling of joy to your face and puts more spring in your steps.

In China, this way of walking, called Dao Zou, is said to improve your overall health, including the health of your brain and nervous system.

The basic idea of this program is 2,000 steps per day – far, far less than the average daily step count of 5,000 or the recommended 10,000.

The 2,000 steps are not rushed or hurried. You are NOT trying to set a speed record or better your time. You are not working hard. In fact, the goal is to continually remind yourself to go slower rather than faster.

This way of walking is an active form of positive meditative movement with your eyes open; not the passive kind meditation most people think of, i.e. sitting cross-legged with eyes closed.

Sitting to meditate for a short time can be helpful, but for extended periods of time, there are many potential side effects: harming the joints and connective tissues of the lower body, disrupting blood flow and so on.

Dao Zou, on the other foot, may improve your health in a dramatic way. Your eyes are open. You breathe deeply. And without any effort to influence a change in your emotional state, your mind-body calms down.

This calming down not only feels good, it increases your vibration.

Many people feel the shift taking place after only 200 steps. After 500 steps, if you stop for a moment and pay attention, you may experience sensations in your body that you’ve never felt before. It’s almost as though there was a long line of cars that was stopped on the freeway, and these cars are now moving again at an accelerated pace.

It’s truly amazing.

By slowing down and walking the way I teach in Dao Zou, what needs to calm down, calms down – and what needs to speed up, speeds up.

The practice of Dao Zou, convinced me that our mind-body truly is connected to a Divine Intelligence. And this Divine Intelligence knows what to do if we will agree to stop blocking ourselves, open the doors and allow it to work.

You can get Dao Zou NOW as a digital download – or on DVD.

It’s a life-changer, in so many ways, I can’t stop raving about it.

Best,

Matt Furey

P.S. From time to time someone will write to ask if the practice of Dao Zou runs counter to his or her Christian beliefs. My answer: Dao Zou will only enhance your Christian beliefs. Period.  The people who need to worry about it are those who don’t believe in a Creator. In their case, they may become believers as a result of the practice.

Almost 30 years ago, a kung fu master ‘splained to me that the flexibility of your joints is more important than how far you can stretch your muscles.

If you doubt me on this, all you need to do is take a look at the number of joint replacement surgeries taking place and compare them to the number of muscle pulls that require surgery.

Chances are excellent you have friends or family who’ve had at least one joint replaced.

Aside from someone’s joints being replaced, can you picture anyone who has joint pain? It’s usually not hard to remember someone because MOST people today have pain in one or more of their joints.

The solution we are usually given for joint pain is a supplement of some kind. Although some supplements may help alleviate pain, there is nothing better than learning to increase the flexibility of your joints.

When you “grease up them joints”with the proper kind of exercise, you increase the flow of blood and synovial fluid in those areas, which helps reduce pain by moving vital energy or qi through the body unobstructed.

Moving the joints, in and of themselves, is a way to alter your mind and your mood. If you wake up in the morning in a foul mood, take a few minutes to follow the joint loosening exercises I lay out for you in Combat Stretching. Without even thinking about it, you start feeling better. Your disposition and attitude improve. You feel good for no reason whatsoever, other than the fact that you recognize the physical benefits of keeping your body loose and limber.

Going through your day with tight, stiff or painful joints is no fun. It can make you feel downright grumpy. After a few minutes of joint loosening, though, you just might be amazed at how different life is for you NOW.

Best,

Matt Furey