If you want to be fitter than you’ve been in years, or even fitter than you’ve ever been – then pull up a chair and picture what I have to say.

The more mainstream you are in your thinking, habits and routines – the greater the chance you’ll live a mediocre (or worse) life.

For example, mainstream society eats three meals (or more) per day.

Mainstream eats from ALL the food groups.

Mainstream goes to a gym to workout.

Mainstream runs on treadmills and uses electronic gadgets instead of your own bodyweight.

Mainstream says to avoid meat and eat grains instead.

Mainstream takes meds.

Mainstream says to cut down on protein and avoid fat.

Mainstream relies on technology to remember.

Mainstream watches television for an AVERAGE of 21 hours per week (and that’s an old, understated figure).

Mainstream doesn’t read.

Mainstream eats candy and drinks soda.

Mainstream thinks you need to eat breakfast because it’s supposedly “the most important meal of the day.”

Mainstream is on a diet.

And mainstream is fat, unfit and unhappy. Not to mention SICK.

Meanwhile, el Furecat is a total badass.

At damn near 56, all things considered, he moves better than he has ever moved. And he looks awesome.

And he’ll help you do the same – IF you’re willing to abandon some of your mainstream mental images, beliefs, ideas, actions and habits.

If what you’re currently doing ain’t workin’ – then follow the Furecat, for he’s made all the mistakes ahead of you, and knows the way out of this mess.

Matt Furey

P.S. Be the contrarian you were born to be. Don’t fit it. Be YOU. Be the fittest, baddest ass YOU that YOU can be. Follow Furecat – NOW.

I can already hear the uproar. It’s coming from all corners of the planet.

Did you see what el Furecat wrote today?

He said, “Weight training is bad for the brain.”

Yes, I did, and here’s the rest of the story.

Weight training can benefit the brain… a bit. You’re using your hands to push and pull, and this alone has benefits to the brain.

You’re learning to move your body in various ways, you are increasing blood flow and you’re breathing a bit deeper.

All of the above benefit the brain.

But the reason I say that weight training isn’t good for the brain is because, relatively speaking, you can train someone who has very little brains to do it.

Push – pull and do so in a straight line.

How hard is that?

Or lie down on this machine and push. Or sit on this unnecessary gizmo that costs thousands of dollars, and pull.

The real brains in weight training are those who are continuously figuring out how to make expensive equipment – and selling it by the truckload. They’re the smart ones.

Now, I’m not saying that people who train with weights are stupid. Far from it.

What I’m saying is weight training, relatively speaking, doesn’t benefit the brain anywhere close to what training with your own bodyweight does. And that’s why it’s bad. It’s bad when you compare it to other exercise methods.

Go outdoors and walk backwards and your brain will benefit far more than pushing and pulling a bunch of iron or lounging on machines. I taught this years ago in my Dao Zou program – which I recently updated in China – and scientific studies now back me up.

Learn tai chi or another physically complicated martial arts routine, and the benefits to your brain and nervous system are off the charts. Each and every movement comes with a never-ending ocean of details you are to remember and work on.

Compare that to a set of preacher curls.

What did you have to remember? How taxing, memory wise, was the movement pattern to your brain and nervous system?

As for the bodyweight exercises I teach in Combat Conditioning and in my other books and videos available to members of the Matt Furey Inner Circle, in terms of the brain benefits, it’s so far ahead of weight training that I’ll stick with my stock answer: It’s not even close.

Don’t believe me? Think I’m full of it? A shyster?

Then take the following test: Go into a gym, sit on a chair in front of a military press machine and do a set of however many reps you want. How much thinking or reorganizing of your nervous system was involved in that?

Now grab a set of dumbbells, stand on your feet, and do the same exercise. Which do you think involves the brain and nervous system more?

Last of all, find a wall, kick up into a handstand and do a set of pushups with your heels to the heavens.

Hmmm.

I think we have a winner.

And it ain’t the machine or the dumbbells.

Give your body-brain the training that benefits it most.

Anytime, anywhere, anyplace, your body is your own gym.

Use it so you can use it.

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey
Matt Furey Inner Circle

When I was training in Chen Village in China over the first 40 days of this year, a young man from Europe, who was part of our group, got sick.

He wasn’t handling the cold very well – and was only able to train a few days out of the first few weeks he was there. By his own admission, every joint in his body ached.

The Chinese were freaked out because he didn’t eat meat or consume any animal products.

Moreover, he’d go to the store and return with various citrus fruits, a jar of peanut butter and a few coconuts.

Living in a cold climate and eating as though he’s residing in the tropics.

Pure insanity.

Meanwhile, the Furecat is eating deer. lamb, rabbit, chicken, beef, pork and eggs. On top of that, he’s drinking kefir and yogurt. He’s even drinking raw goat milk, seconds after the goat was milked.

He wasn’t sick for a single second of the trip.

The Chinese would offer him rice, noodles and white buns – and he refused 100 percent of the time. As strange as they think it is, encountering someone who doesn’t eat starch, it’s even more bizarre to meet a vegan. They don’t understand that at all.

“How you going to keep warm?” they remark.

But keeping warm isn’t an issue if you refuse starches. In fact, it makes keeping warm far easier because your circulation is better. Additionally, your body isn’t inflamed and your gut isn’t bloated.

Additionally, the healthy fats from the meats, the kefir and yogurt lubricate your joints so you’re not in pain. They flood your brain with the nutrition it needs to function at your best.

I told the 23-year old if he ate nothing but meat for a few days, especially fatty meats, he’d probably regain his health.

“But I haven’t eaten meat since I was 15,” he quipped.

“What an opportunity to change your life,” I replied.

He turned and walked away.

Diets are a religion. Truly.

Diets attract true believers and nothing short of death will rid a person of dietary beliefs – unless the person is truly open to answers.

Many dieters aren’t.

Some people have written me to ask if I’m following this diet or that.

The answer is “no.”

I’m not following a diet, even though I think there are many fine, dandy and admirable diets out there.

What I follow is a way of eatin… and not eating.

And hear me out on this: Even though I don’t eat starchy foods, if I HAD to in the case of an emergency, I could and would.

If I was ill for 30 days out of 40 and someone suggested I make a change to see what happens, I would make that change to find out.

I would make the change instantly.

Life isn’t about already having all the answers. Life is about making adjustments along the way. It’s about admitting you don’t know it all, and never will, on any subject under heaven.

That’s just one of the reasons members of the Matt Furey Inner Circle love coming back for more. They always want to see what the Furecat is up to now.

One thing is for sure, there’s always something new – and it’s life-changing.

Come and get it.

Kick ass – take names,

Matt Furey

Today’s question comes from L.D. My comments will follow:

Hello Matt,

Thanks for your wonderful fitness information. I have to say I have not been good using that info. Anyway, my question is concerning doing exercises as an amputee. I have had my left leg amputated just below the knee. I’m currently in rehab, so still have sometime for healing and building skills for a prostheses.

Can I utilize any of your exercises once I’m healed, to get stronger, etc.? Thanks for your all you do to help people stay fit.

–L.D.

M.F. Thank you so much for writing and for the positive feelings you exude. Being an amputee is an opportunity for you to get stronger and fitter than ever before while being an inspiration to others.

I encourage you to watch YouTube videos of some of the amputee wrestlers and other athletes who have done the remarkable and seemingly unfathomable.

There are double-amputees who took up the sport of wrestling and kicked ass. I’m confident that with your ability to transcend and overcome circumstances, you will do extraordinarily well.

The key is going to be focusing on the small steps – not the big ones.

Take each day, each breath, at a time. Overcome feelings of frustration and discouragement by realizing you are BIGGER than the limb you lost.

Also, keep in mind that you are indeed LOVED – and this thought alone will get you wherever you need to go.

By the way, I started a YouTube channel myself before the New Year. Now that I’m back from China, I’ll be putting up more videos on a regular basis I encourage you to subscribe to my channel.

Last night I put up a video of el Furecat doing Tai Chi in China – mostly due to the encouragement of my wife, who finally, after five years of practice, told me I was “pretty good”.. and wondered out loud why I didn’t post this particular sequence on YouTube.

Well, it’s up now. Take a gander by going to https://youtu.be/33YKMeBYR9M

Kick Ass – Take Names,

Matt Furey

P.S. Also, tons of new content is up and more will be going up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle – including how I dropped my weight back to what it was 21 years ago, when I won the world championships in Beijing, China.

You haven’t heard from me in awhile.

And I have a valid excuse.

I was in China, kicking my ass off.

I trained in tai chi for more than five hours each day.

I skipped rope for 1,000 to 2,000 reps. I also did pushups, squats and joint loosening exercises.

If that wasn’t enough, I walked five miles per day.

And at almost 56 years of age, I’m feeling younger than I was at 36.

My joints feel awesome. My balance is off the charts. And my ego runneth over – but that’s nothing new.

Shameless Plug: You can view the new videos I shot in China on the Matt Furey Inner Circle membership site.

More videos from the trip as well as the results I want to discuss with you will be going up soon.

By the way, when I left for China, I weighed 198 pounds; the same weight I competed at in 1997, in Beijing, when I won the world championship.

Guess what?

I made some major changes that are LASTING in order to get down to that weight.

No, I’m not a vegetarian or vegan or fruitarian or raw food guy.

I eat crap loads of meat everyday.

And my digestion has NEVER been BETTER.

I’ll be telling you all about it soon.

In the interim, make sure you’re part of the Matt Furey Inner Circle, so you get to see what the Fure-cat is doing.

Also, be looking for a Fure-cat Fitness seminar later this year.

Until then…. don’t ever forget to…

Kick Ass and Take Names,

Matt Furey

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been blitzing some of my fat friends, calling them names and hurting their feelings.

But it was well worth it because every last one of them now has his “game face” on and is kicking ass, the old-fashioned way.

One is down more than 20 pounds already. Another just sent me photos of his flabby body along with a picture of himself on the scale – a good 30 pounds over his ideal. He’s ON IT and changing his life for the better.

These people are getting leaner over the Christmas holidays whereas almost everyone else is gaining weight and lying around lazy as hell.

Then, when the New Year arrives, a so-called New Year’s resolution is supposed to come to their rescue.
HA!

Personally, I went on a mission this month, dropping my weight to the same as it was when I weighed in for the world Kung Fu championships in Beijing, China, 21 years ago.

Yesterday, I weighed in at 197.4 pounds. Keep in mind I was 220 when I shot the cover for Combat Conditioning, so we are truly talking about kicking ass.

And I intend to continue onward, demonstrating to my followers the true secrets of leanness.

You better be following what I’m doing in the days and weeks and months ahead – a get involved.

You can start by getting my international best-seller, ​​​​Combat Conditioning NOW (it’s free).

I’ve also started a revolutionary YouTube channel that will be growing by leaps and heaps. You can count on a video or two almost every day – and prepare yourself beforehand because there will be shock-value – for those who don’t have thin skin, you should be able to handle it.

Here are the links to watch the first two:

Be sure to watch, like, subscribe and pass around to all your friends and cohorts on social media.

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey

P.S. One last thing: More updates just went up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle site today. Get more details on “Shaking the Illnesses Out of the Body” as I demonstrate for you.

Hey, hey, hey – what a great, great day.

In addition to giving Combat Conditioning away for free – I’ve also started a totally kick-ass YouTube channel that’ll have you shifting your mind with ease.

Beware of my rough language though.

Here are the links to watch the first two videos:

Be sure to watch, like, subscribe and pass around to all your friends and cohorts on social media.

Let’s go!

Matt Furey

P.S. One last thing: Updates going up on the Matt Furey Inner Circle site today as well. Lots of mind blowing information.