“There are two kinds of viruses:
there’s the external virus that seeks to invade

our field, get into our body and wreak havoc.

And then there’s the internal virus, that’s already there.
It’s in our mind, weakening us, making us feel afraid,
making us think fearful thoughts, making us succumb
to worry, self-doubt and fear.

Make sure on a daily basis, you rid yourself of the
internal virus, just as much as you watch out for
the external virus.”

Matt Furey
aka el Furecat

The above is an except from a video posted to my Instagram and Facebook group page.

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I came home late from school. My Mom wasn’t happy about it.

“Where the hell have you been?” she asked.

“Nowhere,” I replied.

“If you want to be a son, you need to get home on time,” she scolded.

Funny, eh?

Perhaps you’ve been wondering where I’ve been as well, especially when it comes to sending out emails on a regular basis. Some of you have written to inquire. I’ve been hush.

But I’ll let you in on a big secret, which I don’t normally do in matters such as this.

I’ve been saving my bullets.

Normally, I write emails when my journalistic energy is highest. Whatever is left in terms of creativity, goes into other endeavors.

But I got to thinking…

What if I reversed the way I’ve been doing things? What if I put my highest vibrational energy into writing a homerun (or grand slam) instead of an email?

That, my friend, is precisely what I’ve been doing.

Everyday, el Furecat plops his rumpus in a chair and flexes his imagination, putting words on paper that may rearrange the neurons of the whirld.

When I finish with my daily writing task, I go about my day, checking off other priorities on my victories list.

Lately, instead of knocking out an email or two, I recharge and prepare for another savage word-fest… tomorrow.

This morning, however, whilst in a deep R.E.M. state, I heard my mother’s voice shouting, “Where the hell have you been?” And at that precise moment I realized I better drop you a note and let you know what I’m doing.

My current pace on the new book is steady. I’ve written books fast and I’ve written them faster. This time I’m more focused on hitting a daily bullseye of 1,000 words.

What’s the book about?

I’ll let you know as time treks along – but believe me now and read me later, this book is probably going to be the greatest of all times. At least it will be for me.

You’ll definitely want to be feasting on it when it comes out.

In the interim, if your appetite needeth something NOW, you can visit one or all of my three main websites, all of which are listed below.

If you are on all three lists, you’ll receive this message three times. Sorry, but that’s the way the system worketh.

I’m saving my bullets.

As my creative energy rises and my writing muscles get back into tip-top condition, I will probably have spare bullets for the book and for regular emails. But for now, I’m not taking any extra chances.

All for now.

I’ll be in touch within a week (or so), I reckon.

Matt Furey

Ten years ago, I was sitting in a comedy club inside a Las Vegas hotel/casino.

And I heard one joke that was worth remembering: “When you’re young, you hurt yourself playing sports and doing dumb stuff. When you’re older, you get hurt from sleeping.”

And so it is with many shoulder injuries. Go to bed feeling fine, wake up injured. What giveth?

Perhaps you’re sleeping in the wrong position. Yes, this may be a contributing factor, but damnit, you’ve slept in that position for 150 years and it was never a problem before. Why now?

There are a number of exercises that may save your shoulders, provided you haven’t reached the point of no return.

These exercises are not the bench press, the pec deck or dumbbell flies.

Nor are they lateral raises, trap bar exercises or deadlifts.

In fact, the movements I generally recommend are not even bodyweight calisthenics such as pushups.

Well, what do I recommend then?

I recommend a combination of joint loosening exercises and isometrics. Nothing fancy. Just what works.

Isometrics allow you to directly target specific areas of weakness that you cannot reach with weights or any other type of fitness gadget. In many cases, isometrics employ the use of a towel, strap, rope, bar or stick.

One of my favorite shoulder exercises is an isometric rope pull. When you do it with light to moderate exertion, one repetition takes 10 to 30 seconds. That’s it. And you can definitely feel it working.

I also enjoy stick isometrics, whether with a bamboo pole or a Taiji bang. And as I wrote yesterday, I believe in doing isometrics before you get out of bed in the morning, and not with that other stick.

Yes, I’ll be covering more on the subject of saving your shoulders – and I’ll be doing so inside the “Burly Gates” of the Matt Furey Inner Circle.

Come inside. Train with me and you will definitely understand why I tell you to..

Kick Ass and Take Names,

Matt Furey

Last week a big, buff weight-pumper happened to question me, “How in the hell can you say that pushups build strength? The only thing they’re good for is endurance.”

I agreed. Or so it seemed.

As the weight-pumper watched I kicked into a handstand and did one repetition in slow motion.

“Are you strong enough to do one of these?” I asked.

Crickets.

Then I fell on my back, folded my legs, put my palms by my shoulders and pressed my body into the air.

How about this one?

“Uh, I don’t have the flexibility to do that one,” he said.

I pulled out a book showing a Shaolin monk doing a handstand on two fingers, i.e. the index fingers only. “Can you hold this position and do a pushup?” I asked.

His jaw dropped.

“Don’t feel too bad,”I smiled. “I can’t do it either – and neither can this monk. But I assure you, if he, you or I could, it ‘s not endurance.

The power of pushups can be denied, but not in the face of reality.

And that’s why I’ll be putting more and more examples of them up in the Matt Furey Inner Circle.

Get in NOW and start 2020 out with a BANG – and a little PUSH.

Matt Furey

A couple days ago I wrote about sitting – and how it’s NOT the boogie man the media makes it out to be, so long as you know how to train your body the proper way.

That said, there are some ways of sitting that enhance energy flow and some that lead to energy stagnation. The point isn’t whether or not you should ever sit – it’s HOW you sit.

For example, a good friend of mine, John, speaks highly of his “old man’s” daily routine.

John’s Dad is 79 years of age and still reads the daily newspaper, does the dishes and works in a factory, which he owns. He prides himself on lifting heavy boxes and hoisting them onto the truck each day. He insists on doing everything “by hand.”

The key element in this story though, is HOW grandpa reads the daily newspaper. He sits toward the front of the chair and places both feet on the ground. He doesn’t sit back or slouch. He doesn’t use a lazygramps.

Sitting on the edge of a chair is ideal and having the soles of your feet on the ground is also advisable. This position, my friends, is where you can do plenty of exercise for your feet – and you can do so as you read a newspaper, a book or while listening to someone prattle on about his/her life.

Keep in mind that your feet are the gateway to your brain and nervous system.

Your feet are the foundation for strong ankles, knees, hips and more. As important as your hands are, your feet are even more important. I believe that pumping your feet up each day increases brain waves, memory, creativity and overall body strength.

Your feet are akin to pumps that suck vital energy or qi into your body.

Sadly, your feet do NOT benefit if you sit for hours each day in the lotus position to meditate. In fact, the lotus position can cause some major problems in your lower body.

Getting into the lotus position as a stretching exercise is fine by me. But sitting in it for hours, in my opinion, is not good.

Yet, hold on.

If you exercise your feet the way I teach, you can still sit in the lotus position to meditate – and you’ll probably be alright.

The same goes for those who are cry-babying about their shoes. I don’t care if you’re compelled to wear high heels or combat boots. I don’t care if you wear shoes with thick pads or rice sandals (aka Sakai Yusai, the marathon monk I met in Japan in 2007 and brought to the U.S. back in 2008). Sakai Yusai ran 1,000 marathons through the mountains of Mt. Hiei in Kyoto. And yes, he ran them in “rice sandals” that often fell apart during the daily trek.

If you want to be declared a Living Buddha, as Sakai Yusai was, you don’t bitch about your archaic footwear. You learn to make your feet strong. Superhuman strong.

Truth: If you exercise your feet each day – you’ll probably find yourself far better off than the person who insists on going barefoot.

And… if you’re exercising your feet all day long, even as you sit, stand and walk around – ah, so much the better.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t wear the best shoes you can find and afford for your feet. What it does mean is this: live without excuses, stop being a crybaby. The biggest problem isn’t the shoe companies and their demonic designs that aren’t good for your feet. The big, Big, BIG problem is that people aren’t exercising their feet.
Period.

By the way, I just put up five new videos in the Matt Furey Inner Circle, and two of them go into detail on how you can do 5,000 or more reps per day of the most important foot exercise there is – and do so without investing one second of extra time.

If you want the deeper answers to the deeper questions, enroll NOW and start kicking ass and taking names at a whole new level.

Matt Furey