I’m always amazed at how many people do nothing but watch tee-vee when the weekend comes.

Aren’t you learning something new? Got any hobbies? Have any interests other than work, work, work?

One of the keys to mental and physical health is continually stimulating your brain-body with something new, especially something that you have never studied before.

When you learn something new, you light up your brain. You turn the lights on within. Not only does this make you happier, it makes you healthier.

And that’s why I’m continually giving you something new (and practical) to work on.

The latest is the Healing Isometrics program, created by Lt. Commander Eric Guttman. Let me tell you, this program works wonders for people. Why? Because although most people can flex their muscles, damn few have a clue as to how to get them to relax.

A relaxed muscle has many advantages over a muscle that is tense. For starters, when a muscle relaxes, it can recover, it can recuperate, it can heal.

Imagine if you were never able to sleep; not a single wink. Do you think you’d be better off than the person who can work as well as rest?

I don’t think so.

Just as the sun comes out each day, so does the moon.

An inhale is followed by an exhale.

Exertion is supposed to be followed by rest and relaxation.

Sadly, many people have lost touch with the ability to relax. But that reality can be shifted with Healing Isometrics.

I encourage you to grab this program NOW, because at the present we are still offering a 2-for-1, by gifting you a copy of Maximum Mobility in Minimum Time.

Both programs, independently, are life-changers, and this makes this offer a STEAL.

Order Healing Isometrics NOW and experience the difference it makes in your life.

Matt Furey

Can you relax for two minutes?

Funny question, eh?

But the truth is that after the age of four, most people never experience the thrill of true relaxation ever again. Over the years, our bodies get filled with more and more mind-body tension. I gotta do this. I hafta do that. 

In my training over the years, I search for methods that aren’t MAD. I look for and participate in activities that increase strength, flexibility and power while fostering greater relaxation.
The two appear to be unrelated, yet they aren’t.

When you witness the greatest athletes and martial artists pulling off phenomenal plays or maneuvers, you are witnessing poetic license in motion. You are seeing someone who is so damn good that the movements appears effortless.

The hallmark of a professional is someone who makes his or her job look easy.

You wouldn’t want a surgeon operating on you who has unsteady hands, would you? So why go through life filled with unnecessary tension?

Tension not only begets more tension, it leads to inflammation and inflammation leads to pain.

How much more could you do with your body-mind if you were pain free? I am guessing, A LOT.

And that’s why I recently launched our newest pain eliminating fitness program, Healing Isometrics.

This new program, created by U.S. Naval officer, Eric Guttman, gives your brain, body and nervous system the relaxation it craves, which allows you to better your previous best.

It also helps your body recover, recharge and rejuvenate itself, freeing you to move around with relative ease.

Isometrics are a proven way to get super strong. They are also a way to heal, but only if you avoid the ones that tell you to flex and tense your muscles at 100 percent. That idea is utterly ridiculous for many reasons which I will cover in the future.

For now, heed my words: If you are banged up, if you have injuries or pain, especially in the joints and tendons, contracting your muscles at 100 percent is a definite no-no. The same can be said of contractions at 50 percent.

How much do you contract then?

The answer is found in Lt. Commander Guttman’s Healing Isometrics. He had to figure it out – and he did, after years of pain caused from playing sports, engaging in martial arts and going on more than a few REAL combat missions.

The breakthrough for Guttman happened when he took a vacation along the beach. His prayers were answered as he discovered a way to relax that almost nobody knows.

Here’s some extraordinary news: When you latch onto Lt. Commander Guttman’s Healing Isometrics NOW, you’re getting a double-benefit because you’ll also be getting another program of his, Maximum Mobility in Minimum Time (MMMT), for zero additional charge.

MMMT will not be offered as a bonus in the near future as testimonials will pour in for both programs. When that happens (not IF), each program will be separated.

This means you are getting a 2-for-1 when you grab your copy of Healing Isometrics NOW.

How bout that?

Seize the DAY NOW, my friend.

And look back upon this day as the pivotal moment when your body began to recharge, rejuvenate and renew itself.

Matt Furey

A couple days ago, we launched our newest kick-butt fitness program, Healing Isometrics, with Lieutenant Commander Eric Guttmann.

This new program, gives your brain, body and nervous system the input it craves, so that you begin to destress and heal.

Isometrics are a proven way to gain super strength and athleticism. But if you’re banged up and have injuries or pain, contracting the surrounding muscles at 100 percent is a definite no-no. It makes no sense at all. So throw the 100% muscular contraction idea on isometrics into the scrap heap where it belongs.

On the other hand, the polar opposite, learning to deeply let go and relax, training your tissues to sink and melt through the unnecessary aggravation and tension… aaaah, now that’s an idea about isometrics who time has truly come.

And that’s why I’m thrilled to be releasing Healing Isometrics.

Even so, here’s some waaaaaaaay better news: When you latch onto Healing Isometrics NOW, you’ll be benefitting doubly because you’ll also receive another stellar program, Maximum Mobility in Minimum Time (MMMT), at zero additional charge.

MMMT will NOT be offered as a bonus in the near future as testimonials will pour in for both programs. When that happens (not IF), both programs will be separated and charged accordingly. This means, for all intents and purposes, you are getting a 2-for-1 when you order Healing Isometrics NOW.

So jump on this opportunity, my friend.

It’s HUUUUUUUUGE!

Matt Furey

P.S. Also, remember that I’m down to less than two cases of the LAST printing of Combat Conditioning. After this printing is gone, the current book will only be available digitally. As a special bonus for those who JUMP ON THIS immediately, I’m also enclosing a copy of Kick Ass Take Names as well as an autographed copy of one of the “cover story” martial arts magazines that I appeared on (and in).

Here we go again. Just heard another person saying something that I would think he would have proven wrong by now, via his own experience and evaluation of it.

He says, “You want to know the secret of suceess? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s called HARD WORK. That’s it. That’s the secret.”

“Bull friggin roar,” I reply. “Take a look at your life, pal. You telling me the key to getting ahead is burying your head in the sand and pushing it further and deeper with each passing day?”

“Huh?” he grunts.

I continue to question: “You telling me your biggest breakthroughs weren’t ways to do something faster and easier and with less effort?”

“Yes, but hard work was the key,” he continues.

“Hard work is a good idea in the beginning, but eventually you are supposed to move on to a master’s degree and Ph.D. You’re not supposed to keep taking high school over and over again.”

The above is a reality I believe in because I’ve proven it to be true over and over. Every area of my life in which I got good at something, followed this same pathway of finding a smarter, easier and faster approach to accomplishing an objective. And every area where I continued to “work hard,” never amounted to a hill of coffee beans.

Does this mean I am opposed to “hard work?” Not at all. What I am opposed to is the lockdown mentality of thinking that hard work is a secret, or the only key. It’s not. Far from it.

Dan Gable said, “Constantly strive to make your wrestling as easy as possible.”

These are the words of an Olympic gold medalist and Olympic coach, who also believed in hard work. Even so, he worked hard at finding an easier way.

One of the biggest secrets of success that many people cannot wrap their minds around is the importance of REST. People truly think that if they rest they will miss out, fall behind and lose their skills. Yet the truth is that REST is usually where the gold lies. The answers to all your problems can be found when you STOP working hard all the time and spend more time playing.

This means you will almost always get your best ideas in the shower, while out for a walk, while sleeping or napping, or in between activities when you are NOT thinking.

When you are able to turn your “hard work” into PLAY TIME, you will make improvements, and sometimes these improvements are immediate.

You may not realize this, but in the original contract for Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr. Maltz’s projected title had the word “play” in it.

In sports we are encouraged to “play ball.” In life we are better off with this same mentality.

Take the scowl off your face. Un-furrow your brow.

Imagine a smile emanating from the “face behind your face.” Breathe deep and let your exhale go.

Keep an inner smile and a deep breath going as you “work.” In so doing, you’ll begin to get a glimpse into the act being prepared behind the curtain.

Notes:

1. Tomorrow I will be making an announcement about a new product that helps you to get more strength and healing out of your workout, with LESS work than you ever imagined.

2. For those of you who want to own one of the last printed copies of Combat Conditioning (two boxes left), make sure you do so NOW. Once all remaining print copies are gone, it will only be available digitally.

As a bonus for ordering NOW, I am also enclosing, at no additional charge, a copy of Kick Ass Take Names as well as one of those martial arts magazines in which I graced the cover. The magazine will be autographed with a blue Sharpie, my favorite color.

Anyway, time for me to run.

I’ll rap with you later.

Matt Furey

Last night I watched a documentary on the life of Vasily Alekseyev, the Soviet weightlifter, who set 80 world records and won gold medals in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. I remember watching him destroy his competitors when he hoisted 255 kilograms (562 pounds) overhead in the clean-and-jerk.

It’s hard to believe that a man with so much might and power, in his latter years (he died at age 69), needed assistance getting to his feet. In one scene, after getting a massage as he laid on the ground, it took three grown men to help him up. Reminds me of the saying, “A strength overextended becomes a weakness.”

Alekseyev was one of my heroes growing up, even though he was on the wrong team. He was all I had to model when I began training with weights at age 13. At the time, there were no books or videos on how to do the Olympic lifts. Nor any coaches. The imagery I had in my memory banks was all I had to go by when I hoisted a barbell from the ground and pressed it overhead.

It’s been decades since I lifted weights – and this alone has saved me a lot of misery. But there have definitely been some aches and pains over the years, mostly from wrestling injuries I sustained, that I have had to battle from time to time.

As I told you last week, I’m getting ready to make a recommendation for a product that may prove to be immensely helpful to many, many people, especially those who have joint, muscle and/or tendon pain.

Perhaps the biggest reason this product is so important is the simple fact that MOST people who are training regularly, are constantly working around a number of injuries. Sometimes it is one big injury; but oftentimes there are numerous aches and pains that affect what you’re able to do.

Take the average runners you see beating the streets. Every step they take showcases the difficulties they are silently suffering with.

Same goes for people out for a leisurely stroll.

And then there are those who are in the gym, religiously pumping iron or dancing around in aerobics classes. You might not realize it, but the fact is that most of these people have aches and pains that they are attempting to PUSH through.

Ultimately, the injuries magnify and there comes a day when the pain is so great that working out is no longer an option. It’s sad.

One of the keys to being pain free is the bodyweight calisthenics I showcase in my best-selling Combat Conditioning book and DVDs. The other is what I am going to reveal within the next day or two.

It’s a form of isometrics that my friend, Eric Guttmann, a Naval officer, figured out while reading my Gama Fitness course, in search of what to do to finally heal himself of the aches and pains that often accompany “the game.” In Eric’s case, he sustained numerous injuries, first as a collegiate track and field athlete, then as a martial artist as well as on various operations and missions with the Navy.

When Eric sent me the program that he figured out and field-tested, I was stunned. I encouraged him to put together a course that would help people of all ages and backgrounds, from the Olympic weightlifter to the average couch cushion, recover from the pain they’ve been dealing with. He set out to do as I recommended, and let me tell you, his course is a GOLD MEDAL WINNER.

I will have more information for you very soon.

In the interim, for those of you who want to own one of the last printed copies of Combat Conditioning (two boxes left), make sure you do so NOW. Once all remaining print copies are gone, it will only be available digitally.

As a bonus for ordering NOW, I am also enclosing, at no additional charge, a copy of Kick Ass Take Names as well as one of those martial arts magazines in which I graced the cover. The magazine will be autographed with a blue Sharpie, my favorite color.

Anyway, time for me to run.

I’ll rap with you later.

Matt Furey

When it comes to health and fitness, to strength training, to athletic and martial arts performance, the tiniest of secrets open the biggest of doors.

I often marvel at how the slightest change in how you sit, stand, walk, run, move and breathe, can lead to major breakthroughs. Those who think there are no secrets, other than hard work, miss the magic that is revealed to you when you take a rest.

Hard work is important, but so is being open to the fact that no one has all the answers.

The definitive or ultimate book of anything, is always far from it because you cannot capture everything that can be known, no matter how hard you try.

That’s why I enjoy going over what I’ve learned and taught in the past, and refining it. The idea that “a punt is only a punt and a pass is just a pass,” is far from accurate. Similarly, a pushup and a squat is not just a pushup and a squat. There are many variations of the same theme. Some good, some not good at all.

Hindu pushups and squats are not just pushups and squats. They take you into realms within realms. What appears simple goes as deep as you choose to explore.

The above is one of the reasons I have a membership site, as I can give updates on a regular basis. What began over 21 years ago is still fresh as the morning sunshine.

Yet, you must start somewhere, and for me, it was with the Combat Conditioning book and DVDs, which are international best-sellers.

And here we are today, with only two boxes left of the final print version. Once they are sold out, Combat Conditioning will only be available digitally, as I am eager to explore the publication of other books and courses, one of which will be out next week.

If you don’t yet have a printed version of this collector’s item, make sure you jump on this NOW.

As a special bonus for those who order from the remaining supply, we will also throw in, gratis, a copy of Kick Ass Take Names, as well as an autographed copy of a martial arts magazine that featured me on the cover.

All for now.

Have a kick butt weekend.

Matt Furey