No, that’s not what I meant.

I’m talking about longer, faster, flexible and explosive muscles.

Not thicker, slower, non-functional beach muscles.

The other day, when a FB friend saw a video of me doing a bodyweight exercise called “the Plough” – he remarked that he was surprised by my flexibility. This in spite of having flexibility programs on the market for over twenty years.

Yes, I realize that looks can be deceiving. Genetically, I was given a stocky body to work with. For many years I thought the ideal was to make a stocky body even stockier. But for the past 20-some years, I’ve been all about lengthening my muscles, loosening my joints and gaining more and more FUNCTIONAL and USEFUL STRENGTH.

Today, I’m all about lengthening life, energy and muscle – simultaneously.

Why shorten your muscles and tendons? So you can tear them?

Lengthen and strengthen. That’s the message.

And as you lengthen your muscles in the proper way – you also strengthen them.

You strengthen your muscles as well as your life force.

Provided, of course, that your approach to this is the correct one.

Extreme methods are not for me.

If you agree, then wrap your mind around the concept of longer, leaner and life-giving rather than thicker, slower and stodgier.ey

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

P.S. You can view some teaser videos on Instagram – @mattfureysays – as well as my Facebook group – Matt Furey Combat Conditioning+.

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Sifu Shi Yan Ming is a Shaolin monk who came to the United States in 1992. He was the most skilled and beloved monk who participated in the first-ever demonstration of Shaolin kung fu on American soil.

He toured with his fellow monks, performing before sold-out crowds in several cities.

After the team’s final performance ended in San Francisco, he told his government handlers that we was going outside for a few minutes to snap a few pictures. Once outside he hailed the first taxi he saw – and was G-O-N-E.

He disappeared into the night.

The taxi driver soon realized that his passenger not only didn’t speak a word of English, he also had no idea where he was going. As destiny would have it, the driver took the master to the police, who took him to a Chinese restaurant. From the restaurant the monk contacted a friend in Chinatown, who helped him hide in his home for about a week.

The monk’s next move was a flight to New York City – and from there he worked on getting green card status. Months later he opened his own version of a Shaolin Temple in New York, and from there he altered some of his lifelong, supposedly “spiritual” habits.

First, he no longer practiced celibacy. That’s understandable.

And second, he began to eat beef – a definite no-no for Buddhist monks.

Sifu Shi Yan Ming jokingly refers to beef as “American tofu.”

Don’t you just love the imagery of that?

To the master, every day is Happy New Year.

Life is so good that he wants you to live life with gusto eight days a week; 366 days a year. Yes, you read that correctly.

Having a sense of humor is just as important as having a sense of purpose.

Life is worth living, every minute, every second, of every day.

Just as I’ve been saying for quite some time, Sifu Shi Yan Ming says that meditation is movement. Yes, you can mediate while sitting, but what if you made everything you do part of your on-going daily meditation.

Every exercise you do is performed with awareness of your breathing, your mental images, your self-talk.

Each day you’re looking for the humor within the agony. You’re looking for ways to transcend silly rules and ideas that may have been forced upon you long ago, even from well-meaning adults who were simply following the follower.

Every time I replay the words, “Beef is American tofu,” I laugh. The phrase is absolutely perfect.

It’s so good, in fact, that when I give a video update in the days ahead, on the way I’ve been feeding myself lately, and the incredible results I’ve been getting, I am definitely going to incorporate “American tofu” into the discourse.

At 55 years young, I’m getting younger, despite the white whiskers in my beard.

Eating spongy, estrogenic tofu is definitely not on my menu. You couldn’t pay me enough money to eat it. I prefer beef – and by that, I do not mean the leaner, lower-fat variety.

Give me the fattest of the fat.

Again, I’ll be covering my story very soon. I’ll even refer you to some hot-shot beef-guzzlers who can advise you, if you so choose. I will not be advising. I’ll only be telling my story.

It’ll all be going down on my Furey Faithful member’s site sometime next week. Be there.

Here endeth the lesson,

Matt Furey

Instagram – @mattfureysays

Here’s the latest from Furey Central.

I’m eating more fat than ever before.

Not fats from so-called healthy oils, either.

No.

I’m going straight to the animal itself.

And my joints and muscles are loving me for it.

My flexibility runneth over. People half my age are ready for the scrap heap.

I’m not an expert – nor am I giving expert advice.

So don’t follow me or what I’m doing personally.

But for those who are curious, I will be telling my story in detail on the Furey Faithful member’s site very soon, just for the fun of it. Not to advise.

I’m also putting up videos of me doing insane things at age 55.

If you follow my exercises alone and ignore all this crap about eating fat that I’m talking about – you’ll do wonders for yourself.

Finished.

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey

P.S. Follow me on Instagram – @mattfureysays

A few weeks ago I wrote about eggs and chicken, and how I was ridding myself of eating them.

Well, I am here to report that I have not eaten either in five weeks – and damnit, I feel good.

My reason for giving up both eggs and chicken was simple. Chickens are nervous animals, which is exacerbated by feeding them soy, perhaps the worst food ever fed to any living critter.

I realize some who read this will write me to say, “Stick with exercise. You know nothing about nutrition.”

And to them I say, “Thank you very much. You are correct. I know nothing about nutrition and am not advising anyone in any way.”

With this in mind, I might actually be telling a tall-tale when I say that soy is estrogenic. And eggs that come from chickens that are fed soy, well, perhaps those eggs aren’t too good for you.

That’s my “theory.”

Yes, I realize I can get chicken and eggs from organic, non-soy fed farms, but I chose to experiment to see what would happen if I stopped eating both, regardless of the source.

My anecdotal evidence causes me to believe ’twas a good choice. For me.

Now, a few weeks after I gave up eggs and chicken, I decided to make some other changes – and anecdotal evidence once again suggests that this was a major positive.

I’ll be covering some of these changes with Furey Faithful members very soon. If you’re already a member, be sure to take a look at the most recent videos I put up on Persian Pushups and much more.

Also, although not instructional, you can get some clues by scrutinizing my videos on Instagram – @mattfureysays – just keep in mind that whatever you see me doing and whatever you THINK I”m doing, is FAR from being the whole story.

At 55 years of age, I am kicking ass and taking names at a level that most will never accomplish – especially if they’re eating soy, hehe.

In closing, I’d love to encourage you to join the Furey Faithful, but that might upset some snowflakes on this list, who joined it thinking that all I would ever do is give out a ton of free information so they could live off the dole and never have to pay nuthin for no-thing.

So, I guess I’ll cower in fear and not tell you to become a superhero in your neighborhood. Or the person everyone wants to ask, “Hey, how’d you transform your body over the past couple months?”

Moral of the story: Be who you are and see who hangs around. Those who stay – awesome. Those who leave – so much the better.

Now go Kick total friggin ass – and take names!

Matt Furey

Copyright, 2018, M

When you first begin to learn the Way of Hindu Squats, you may be surprised to hear that the breathing method reversed.

When Karl Gotch taught this to me, for a moment, he was no different than a tai chi master. Why? Because he told me that the most important part of the exercise is the breathing.

Breathing is primary – even though proper technique is still incredibly important. Focusing on the inhale and exhale, though, helped make the technical aspects much easier. This is something that virtually no coaches in western sports understand – to this day.

Reminds me of the words of Laozi, from the Tao Te Ching:

“The space between heaven and earth is like a bellows.
The shape changes but not the form.”

There are many reasons for utilizing a reverse pattern of breathing when you do Hindu Squats – as well as when you do Hindu Pushups.

One is because this method gives a deeper massage to the internal organs, helping them do their job more effectively,

Another reason is that reverse breathing is believed to increase internal power.

Yet another is the idea that it will help you “turn back the clock.”

Perhaps most importantly, it clears the mind and helps you to relax and flow.

This past weekend I shot a couple new videos that detail the “ins and outs” of reverse breathing – and the way to easily apply it when doing the Royal Court, as well as many other exercises I teach.

I did this because everything I’ve ever read on the subject of reverse breathing and how to do it, either explained it improperly or left out essential details.

Luckily, due to the training I’ve received in China, I discovered a Way to help people get the feel and hang of this method quickly – and to do so without strain.

Come and get it at the Matt Furey Inner Circle. You’ll be blown away by the difference it makes in your life.

Matt Furey

P.S. The newest videos on this deep breathing methodology will be going up later this week.

30 years ago I was sitting in a Zig Ziglar seminar, as he exclaimed, “You need a check up from the neck up.”

This meant that you needed to change your thoughts from negative to positive.

Well, today I’m here to tell you that a lot of negative thinking will “just go away” if you exercise your neck in a natural way on a regular basis.

The brain fog will often clear as well – along with feelings of tiredness and fatigue.

You may start feeling as though you’re ON TOP OF THE WHIRLD.

The key word to keep in mind when it comes to training your neck is “natural.”

This means, unequivocally, that machines are out. Neck machines are ridiculously dumb.

All you need to effectively train your neck and thereby energize your brain and body, is your own bodyweight.

And if you’re unable to do the bridging exercises I have in Combat Conditioning, or cannot do so due to a medical condition, then you may be incredibly delighted to hear that the neck training I currently teach requires no bridging whatsoever.

Yes, bridging is great for you, provided you’re orthopedically sound, but it is also limited in terms of the number of directions you can train your neck. This means, as great as it is, I now teach something ever better, that you can add to your bridging – or do on its own, for your entire life.

It’s called Neck Qi Gong. It’s on the Matt Furey Inner Circle member’s site.

Go get some.

You’ll be damn glad you did.

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, if you’re only on this email list to get free tips and have no intention of ever getting a product, or you are offended by the fact that I have something to sell, then just go away. Believe me, I won’t mind at all.

There are a couple pictures I want you to take a look at on my Instagram page – @mattfureysays.

In the first one you will see me sitting without a chair. In the other, I have my heels in an elevated position so that I will strengthen the tendons in my feet and ankles.

In both poses, my hands are in a position that opens up the meridians in my body, increasing the flow of blood and qi.

These are definitely worth your time to examine.

And if you want more, I’ll be covering them in the Matt Furey Inner Circle, with a LOT more details on how to use them and when.

In the interim, the next time you hear statements such as, “Sitting is worse than smoking,” I suggest you grab yourself a cigar (cigarettes are for losers) and have a seat, in the postures I’m showcasing. Make the best of both worlds and you’ll be all the better for it. HA!

Here endeth the lesson!

Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, if it upsets you that I plug my products and services in these emails, then do yourself a favor and opt-out. I’m unapologetically proud to tell you about what I have to offer, and if that offends you, that’s on YOU, not me. Here’s another shame-free PLUG.

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A few days ago I put up a video on Instagram – @mattfureysays – wherein I show the way some people do pushups, and how it’s the laziest, wimpiest and weakest way to do them.

I explain it all in Chinese, but I think you will get the drift of what I’m saying via body language alone.

The alternative I demonstrate is a tremendous way to do pushups because you activate the tendons as well as the muscles. You’re not going for a beach boy pec pump. Instead you’re going for functional, honest-to-goodness real world strength, power and endurance.

The boys who go for the muscle look, whether by using steroids or doing muscle-building only exercises, tend to end up with torn tendons and ligaments. It’s a sad reality for them to face, but when your connective tissue cannot keep up with the strength of the muscles, something has got to give.

Tearing connective tissue can happen to anyone, but if you want to put the odds in your favor, rather than against, you learn to train your tendons. This is what Chinese martial artists understood eons ago – and western strength trainers still are not even close to catching up.

For in-depth explanations of the pushups I recommend and how to work your tendons, you’ll find that information within the confines of the Matt Furey Inner Circle.

Matt Furey
Instagram – @mattfureysays

You may be startled by what I’m about to tell you. But it’s the honest to goodness truth.

If you’re never angry about your condition, the shape you’re in, the way you look, how you fit into your clothes, and so on, you’ll probably never do something about it.

Anger is valuable energy, provided you turn it into focused zeal.

The moment your anger is transformed into zeal, you have POWER. You have FOCUS and CONCENTRATION.

Most importantly you have high levels of ENERGY.

You’re red hot, fired up and ready to do something about your condition.

Show me a person who never transformed anger into focused power and I won’t be showing you a winner.

If you want to win – start with anger. Turn your anger into passion – and you’re off to the races.

Matt Furey
FureyFaithful.com