We left Sioux City, Iowa, yesterday morning at 9:20 and headed into South Dakota, another state I haven’t been to since 1983.

I remember driving to Rapid City with the “Great One,” Randy Lewis, on the way back from a wrestling camp we worked in Ashland, Oregon. Randy was an Olympic Gold Medalist in 1984, and one of the most exciting wrestlers I have ever had the privilege to watch. 

Randy’s dad took us out on a lake where I waterskied for the first and only time. And no, I didn’t get hurt.

Our mission yesterday was to visit Custer State Park, just outside of Rapid City, and watch the buffalo roam.

As we headed toward Sioux Center, South Dakota, we had serious doubts about going to Custer as it appeared to be a dismal, dreary day. The clouds were almost on the ground, it appeared, as the fog was dense. It was also a freezing cold 62 degrees (hehe).

Well, whatdyaknow, as we got closer to Sioux Center, the fog lifted and it began to warm up. En route we saw a hundred Wall Drug signs, telling us we could get a famous 5 cent cup of coffee, as well as numerous souvenirs.

Before getting to Wall, we saw a sign for the Badlands, so we drove through them, stopping a few times for photo-ops I can use in my newsletters. The Badlands trailed looped around, taking us into Wall, where we stopped to examine the chain saw art, including a Sasquatch statue that I couldn’t resist posing alongside.

Then we walked into a restaurant and had ourselves some grass-fed ribeye steaks, before heading over to Custer.

Upon entering Custer we stopped at the Visitor’s Center to get the details on where the buffalo would be roaming, as well as which directions to Needles. We headed toward Needles first, but as it was getting dark, I turned around and took the wildlife scenic loop.

We drove that loop, thinking we would see buffalo immediately, but not a one was in sight. We figured we had missed out and were debating whether to stay the night, get up early and try again.

But I would not be deterred. I kept on driving, thinking they got to be here somewhere. A few minutes later I spotted a solo buffalo eating grass. I stopped to take a photo, thinking this bull might be IT. My wife was laughing at how we’d seen numerous deer and ONE buffalo.

A few minutes later she spotted several walking up a hill. We then assumed the buffalo were retiring for the night, heading for the space behind the hills.

And then, just when all hope appeared to have vanished, there those sumbitches were, on both sides of the road, as well as ON the road.

A number of cars were pulled over, and no one was a stupid as the people you can see in Yellowstone, who get out to take close-up selfies, only to get gored or impaled by these “cute” beasts. How anyone can think a buffalo won’t do you harm is beyond me. Yes, they are stunning to look at, but never forget, they are WILD and temperamental, and unpredictable.

Anyway, we got plenty of footage of the buffalo, roaming, eating grass, and loitering in the middle of the road. And thank goodness none of them went coo-coo as we SLOWLY, respectfully passed them by.

The drive back to Rapid City was beyond dark. No reflectors, no lights, no paint dividing the road. But we made it, found ourselves a hotel, and camped inside for the night.

We’re off to Wyoming soon, where I’ll have myself another ribeye, grass-fed.

In the interim, TODAY is Zhannie and my 30th Wedding Anniversary. How cool is that?

She’s done one whaleuva job looking out for me.

And to celebrate, we want to include YOU.

So we’re having a $30 discount on many of my products.

Be sure to click here and take advantage of this special offer.

I haven’t had a sale in a LONG time, so NOW is the TIME to jump on this.

All the best!

Matt Furey

We were on the road a bit after 10 AM, driving through Florida as far a Marianna, then veered north through Alabama, then upper Mississippi, straight through Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansas.

After driving for 16.5 hours and logging 900+ miles,  we pulled into Little Rock, Arkansas, at 1:20 AM, and got some sleep, only to begin again bright and early Tuesday morning. With Arkansas now checked off my list, I only have four more states in the U.S. to visit.

While I was driving, Zhannie called her brother and told him how long I had been behind the wheel. “Waaaah,” he said. “What kind of energy does he have. If I drive for a few hours I’m exhausted.”

I laughed and gave him my stock answer, “I used to be that way, too. But when you train the way I do, you can accomplish anything.”

On Day 2, we drove 602 miles from Little Rock to Omaha, had steaks at Sullivan’s Steakhouse with my longtime hometown friend, Mike Fay, and his girl friend.

After pounding a Wagyu muscle from Idaho, we walked back to our cars as I contemplated whether or not to stay the night. It didn’t take long for me to say, “I think we’ll drive to Sioux City and spend the night there.”

It’s been 42 years since I set foot in Sioux City, Iowa, and it feels good to be back. I have many memories here, visiting our cousins as well as competing against some of the best athletes and teams in the state.

Tomorrow we are headed into the Badlands of South Dakota. Never been through them before, so this will be fascinating.

It’s an amazing journey to see the country this way.

The peak of our travels be in Kalispell, Montana, where I’m having a three-day training with a group of mighty fine people, who want more details from me on the energy-enhancing methods contained within my Power Postures course.

They are definitely going to witness the energy, the strength, the flexibility and the power. They will be astounded.

Now let me tell you, driving cross country is one of the many ways I can prove the benefits of the Power Postures training. I don’t know many people, regardless of their age, who can drive so many hours, then get up and do it again, with energy to spare.

It’s now 12:59 AM CST. Time for a little bit of rest, then we’re off to the Badlands.

More updates to follow.

In the interim, if you want to enhance and upgrade your energy, go here.

Matt Furey

Yesterday’s email, The Mystery of Internal Strength v. Weightlifting Strength, caused more than a SPLASH.

One reader wrote to ask questions about my early childhood, attempting to ‘psychologize’ why I would have the desire to acquire internal power. Something strange going on, he muses.

But the funny thing about his desire to question me is that he missed the fact that I became intensely interested in this subject in 2007 – waaaay past early childhood, when I had my own children to raise. I suggest he study himself and find out why he feels it necessary to delve into other peoples’ lives – when he has plenty of material to work with in his own.

Another reader demanded proof when he read the following:

“As a result of this type of training, I am more energetic, more flexible, more mobile, more powerful, and quicker than ever before.”

Proof is very easy to produce, and I have given plenty of it over the past few years, with many people who have come to train with me. Many of these men have been getting my products for over 20 years, and have witnessed and felt, first-hand, the evolution in my training and in my abilities.

Being able to prove I am more energetic is easy. I go to bed most nights after 3 AM and am up four to six hours later. Never in my life has that been the case, before embarking on this type of training. In the past I slept eight to nine hours per night. So I got that going for me.

​​​​​​​Being more flexible and more mobile is also incredibly easy to prove. My joints have a much greater range of movement than I had when I put out Combat Conditioning in February of 2000. And yes, I can still do the splits – as well as a number of stretches, going much deeper into them than ever before. This is another slam dunk.

More powerful? YES, as I am specifically writing and talking about INTERNAL POWER, which I did NOT have at the level I have today (not even close), when I created my other products (all of which are great, I must add).

How about quicker?

Of course I’m quicker, as I now move with whole body integration, and at a level and in directions, I was never able to before.

I have many ways of testing and verifying my improvements, all of which are valid – and none of which involve ways of measuring that the detractors have even thought of. They can only verify by running a 40-yard dash, or lying on a bench to press some weights, or doing a deadlift.

I haven’t been timed in the 40-yard dash since I ran a 4.7 in college. I haven’t been timed in the mile since I ran a 5:32 in college, which I did AFTER not running for three weeks, as I was nursing a sprained ankle.

I haven’t done a bench press or deadlift in over 20 years – and have no intention of every doing one again.

Even so, I can have a very strong weightlifter push on me and get nowhere – then find himself uprooted and catapulted backward.

Hmm.

So easy to prove.

And I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunities to do so at my 3-day seminar in Montana in a couple weeks.

In the meantime, if you want more of what I can prove, go here.

Matt Furey

When you see an Olympic weightlifter pull a heavy barbell off the ground and press it overhead, you’re witnessing a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring skill.

At the age of 13, I modeled the incredible Vasily Alekseyev, a two-time Olympic gold medalist from the former U.S.S.R., who set 80 world records. After watching him I would go to my basement and practice as best I could, and my body thanked me for it.

But as impressed as I was at that time, I was even more impressed, and intrigued, by seeing little guys in the martial arts world, who could not come anywhere close to hoisting 500 pounds overhead, manipulate and move weightlifters, powerlifters (and wrestlers) around with remarkable ease.

Being a wrestler myself, and a champion no less, I was stunned at how someone who did not appear to be strong, was incredibly forceful in a hand-to-hand situation. I wanted some of this type of strength in a big sort of way.

So I began to dive as deep into these internal martial arts masters way of training. What were they doing differently? What exercises gave them the strength to move people around as though they were a chair you could slide away from you?

Turns out that “furniture” was the word these martial artists used to describe the bodies of those they moved with remarkable ease. This meant that their externally strong bodies, were stiff and robotic. (Picture the bodybuilder walking around with “sun-burned armpits” and you get the picture of them being furniture.) 

Even a heavy piece of furniture can be moved with ease with the proper leverage and force. A big tree can be toppled easily if you can get to its roots.

Those who have witnessed the devastation of a hurricane, have first-sight knowledge of what I’m talking about. Back in 2018, as I drove along Interstate 75 here in Florida, I saw huge oak trees laying sideways, roots exposed, on both sides of the road. Amazing!

This gives you an idea how subtle, invisible-to-the-naked-eye-energy, can take down massive structures with ease.

The word subtle gives you a clue as to what type of strength these INTERNAL martial arts masters are using. The weightlifter or wrestler has obvious strength. You can see the muscles before he or she moves, and draw conclusions.

But with subtle strength, you have no clue as to how much power is in the tank.

So the question remains: How do you train to acquire this subtle strength and power? 

Well, it’s not by practicing big and long movements with speed. It’s quite the opposite.

Instead of training throughout a full range of fast, external movements, you train your INTERNAL body. You train slowly, so you can feel every muscle and sinew being turned on, being activated.

You train your body in various postures and stances that awaken the sleeping giant within.

By training this way, you flip the switch from outward muscular force, to relax-and-explode electrical energy, the type of energy that moves people around as though they are furniture.

The best part about this type of training, however, is that you’re tapping into a seemingly LIMITLESS supply of energy that is still available as you get older. Internally, your body keeps getting stronger and stronger – with a different type of force, and this force doesn’t begin to deteriorate as you get older – the way Vasily Alekseyev’s strength did.

This is why I champion the cause of this type of training. I respect and admire other ways of training, and engage in them occasionally. But the grand majority of my training today is designed to activate and empower the subtle force within the body. I could care less how much weight I can lift. I want to know how much juice I have internally for moving someone around, with ease.

As a result of this type of training, I am more energetic, more flexible, more mobile, more powerful, and quicker than ever before.

At 60 years of age, that’s saying something, isn’t it?

Want some?

You’ll find it HERE.

Matt Furey

Being able to look into the future and make predictions is something I enjoy doing. Especially when it comes to sports.

From time to time I enjoy “betting” friends who think my predictions are “nuts.” It’s great when these people lay their wallets on the line, figuring it would be an easy couple hundred bucks… for them.

Boy, did I relish collecting those hundred-dollar bills.

When it comes to exercise, my predictions aren’t based on looking into the future. They are based upon observing what took place within my own body, then wondering what would happen if I passed my knowledge onto someone else.

After I “tested” to see if the person I taught experienced the same results, I did, I went a step further and tested more people. Same result.

At this point I thought to myself, I wonder if this result is predictable. Will it happen the same way to everyone who follows my exact instructions?

Thus far, the answer is “YES.”

One of the things I have taught in my Power Postures program, is that flexibility increases from loosening your joints. I have also taught that when you RELAX your body in these postures, your body becomes more mobile, even if you’re not stretching regularly.

Yesterday a man in his mid-60’s wrote to tell me that he’s had back and neck stiffness for years. So much so that when he’s backing up in his vehicle, he uses the side mirrors so he doesn’t have to turn his neck (the old fashioned way) to look.

Oddly enough, this man was shocked when he became aware that he was turning his neck once again to look at cars behind him, and he feels no stiffness or pain.

How about that?

This story may sound trivial to you – but for this man in his 60’s, it was huge.

I’m happy for him. In fact, I’m excited. Even though his results are “predictable,” they are also monumental because remarkable things happen within the body when you let go of excess tension.

You get stronger without trying. You get quicker, too.

And you increase your flexibility and mobility.

Predictable results – if you’re willing to follow the plan.

Want more strength, power, speed, mobility and so on without engaging in brutal workouts?

Then click here and join in the fun.

Matt Furey

Here’s something wild for you to ponder.

Whenever you’re feeling run down and you want an instant pick-me-up, instead of walking or running to recharge your energy levels, do nothing of the sort. 

Don’t lift weights or do a bunch of calisthenics either.

Instead, do what animals do every single day to recharge. 

What do animals do every day?

They sit, stand and recline in various energetic postures – what I refer to as Power Postures. 

And the reason that animals do this is not because they are lazy. It’s how nature designed them to regather the energy they need for the chase, the hunt, the getting of their daily meat. 

What about humans who are always on the go? 

Same, same. 

Plug your feet into the ground as though they are chords being placed into electric sockets. 

Once your feet are connected, align your body through the top of your head. 

When you do this the way I teach, inside of one minute you will feel an electrical buzz inside your body. You may feel it in your palms and fingers first. Or perhaps you will feel your feet prior to your hands. But mark my words, you will feel something incredible.

Once you’re recharged, your workout is over. Or you can choose to go for a walk or run. Or lift weights or do calisthenics. 

This is the type of training I learned from my many martial arts teachers – and I have streamlined the process so you FEEL it much, much FASTER.

It’s fascinating how this method works. It’s an extraordinary game changer. 

You feel WILD inside – yet you’re totally in control.

Same as the animals who can run almost as fast as the wind, and leap fences without effort.

Click here to get yourself some of that natural energy that is available to all of us-if we will take the time to “Plug into it.”

Matt Furey

P.S. If your body feels ready for the scrapheap, you can follow along from a chair. And the same sort of recharging will happen. 

There’s a wise ole adage about “working smarter, not harder.”

Some people never figure out how to do so, or flatly refuse to do so. And they pay a heavy price for their unnecessary effort.

“Working smarter, not harder” also applies to exercise, but with a slight twist that I call “train smarter – get stronger.”

When you train, you want to improve. You want to be able to demonstrate increased strength, flexibility, endurance, speed and power. You want to get BETTER.

But at some point, you will not only need to train smarter, you will need to WISE UP.

Wising up is coming to the realization that there will come a time in your life, (and hopefully it is a long way off) where you cannot run any faster, jump any higher, stretch any further, or lift anything heavier.

In the physical world, there are limits.

Many of these limits are self-imposed – but those are not the limits I am writing about.

The limits I am referring to are the physical limits that are placed upon you by nature, or Father Time, or some other factor that we are not totally in control of.

There comes a day when Usain Bolt cannot run as fast as he once did, no matter how much he trains or how much he improves his technique.

There comes a day when Michael Phelps cannot swim as quickly as he once did, no matter how many superfoods he eats.

There comes a day when Babe Ruth can no longer knock the ball out of the park.

And there comes a day when your greatest physical feats can no longer be matched or broken (by you).

You might think this is negative news – but it is actually positive.

Here’s why: When you shift your focus from the physical body to the internal, neurological body (and you do this when you train smarter), you have breakthroughs that you never experienced before – and these breakthroughs are in many ways, superior to the physical. In fact, they may extend your physical abilities much, much longer than you or anyone else ever dreamt possible.

For example, I was at the gym at 1 o’clock this morning – and after doing a series of exercises on the monkey bars, I took a seat on the floor and began to do a series of animalistic postures and stretches.

In the distant past, when I practiced these postures and/or stretches, whenever I felt pain, I would figure out a way to bypass that signal, so that I could make progress. I often pushed myself for more, more, more.

Then one day, I reflected on the “don’t scare yourself” message I learned many years ago at a martial arts seminar. And I shifted my thinking about how to train, no matter what kind of training it was.

How’s it working?

It’s working incredibly well. Last night, at the age of 60, I set two personal records doing something that appears physical, but is, in large part, mostly mental.

How did I set these personal fitness records?

By training neurologically.

By listening to the signals my brain-body sends me as I train.

I used to ignore these signals. I would over-ride them. Now I don’t. I use them as feedback that will help me keep improving what I am doing, even though it appears that I am not trying to improve.

That’s the best part. I spent decades doing it the other way.

Now that I’ve WISED UP, I’m wondering where I would be if I had this approach sooner.

Well, I can’t go back in time – but I can continue to learn and guide others along the path I’m following. It’s a fascinating one.

If you want to get more out of your body, from the inside-out, and for far longer than you’ve ever thought was possible, click here.

Matt Furey

I got it wrong, according to some, in regard to the legendary Bruce Lee.

One writer wrote to tell me that Lee did not get enough training from his “Wing Chun” instructor, Yip Man.

But then there was this message I got this morning from Robert Bartkowski, author of Become a Walking Weapon!

Good Morning Sir,

Just wanted to say that I loved your email on Bruce Lee the other day, everyone knows he came to Seattle but very few people even know of his time spent training with Fook Yeung for 5 or 6 years learning the Red Boat style of Ving Tsun as well as other things, so it was super cool to hear that mentioned. And it was refreshing to see someone spell Wing Chun the way my lineage (Wong Shun Leung) spells it too, VING TSUN aka the “right way!” Just wanted to say kudos on a great email. 

M.F. Thank you, Robert. Glad to see you also have the inside-scoop as well. You probably already know that in The Complete Book of Yiquan, by C.S. Tang, he also noted Bruce Lee’s early training in Hong Kong. And what was that training? Holding postures and stances.

As stated in my previous email, Bruce Lee engaged in many training modalities. But it was his training in various postures that gave him internal power.

Over the decades, many people have become infatuated with Bruce Lee’s “one-inch punch,” where he would knock people back eight or more feet. There is a dirty little secret to this punch that Lee never revealed – and then there’s the reality that I will do my best to “man splain.”

And that is…

You don’t need one inch. 

When you have the internal juice, you don’t even need a millimeter. The blow can be delivered without any space between yourself and your opponent.

I learned this firsthand from Master Liu, when I was training with him in China nearly twenty years ago. He put his palm on me and without punching, sent me sailing backward 20 feet.

It felt as though a cannon went through my chest. My spine buckled as my torso bent forward.

I had a delirious look on my face. I was nervously smiling from ear-to-ear… with an expression of shock, awe and fear.

I asked Master Liu how much power he used to accomplish this feat. He put his thumb and index finger a needle’s-width apart and said, “Yidian dian,” which means “a tiny bit.”

After this happened, I jumped “whole hog” into the study of INTERNAL POWER and STRENGTH, something I began learning in the 1980’s, but didn’t understand… and more importantly, had never experienced from the hands of a true master. 

One the past 30 years, I have studied and learned from many instructors. I asked a lot of questions.

And I trained my ass off in order to “get the feel.”

I “ate bitter,” day after day.

And then I figured out how to train and obtain this internal power in a different way; a way that gave me results much faster. Results I could FEEL and UTILIZE.

I tested what I uncovered with my students, and to their delight, and mine, they got results far faster than I did when I was eating bitter.

Within sixty seconds, I could have them feeling an electrical charge within their bodies. They could FEEL the tingling in their palms and feet that told them they were “CONNECTED.”

At this point I knew I was onto something BIG.

Initially, I only taught this information to my private clients. The more I taught them, the more I learned. So I decided to learn even more by teaching more people the material that I once thought of as “sacred.”

That’s when I decided to put out my course, Power Postures – the basic program that gives you advanced results far faster than the long-term traditional approach I was taught.

\My approach is unique.

It incorporates various loosening exercises followed by postures and stances – but more importantly, it also teaches the use of subtle spiraling energy, which all athletes and martial artists and regular folks need more of, but don’t know how to find.

This subtle spiraling energy is the key to balancing out your system so you can continually improve your skills while recharging your mind and body.

This means, you don’t push yourself so hard that you go numb in your feet or legs from holding a position for longer than it is practical or useful.

When you train the way I suggest, your body is similar to the leaves and branches of a tree. The branches and leaves may appear to be “just standing there,” but they are, in fact, always moving, growing and getting stronger.

As the saying goes, “There is movement in the stillness and stillness in the movement.”

It’s a unique, revolutionary and extraordinary method for getting the most from your body, helping it heal itself, helping you get stronger, more flexible and more mobile, from the inside-out, without appearing to be doing much of anything.

If you want to follow me on this journey, where you truly get access to the secrets of internal strength, power and athleticism, click here

Matt Furey

There are many things I could say about the legendary Bruce Lee and how he trained. 

He did bodyweight calisthenics. He ran. He lifted weights. 

But perhaps his biggest secret to his incredible skill is NOT that he trained in a bunch of different martial arts, other than Ving Tsun, and did a lot of different exercises. 

It is that he trained in the methods of INTERNAL POWER and STRENGTH that I have been advocating for many, many years – but previously only taught to my private clients.  

What were those methods?

Traditionally, they were the holding of various animal and martial postures for long periods of time.

In fact, those in the know in the internal martial arts world, will tell you that the postures and stances that Bruce Lee held were kept secret because his instructor from China, who lived in Seattle, where Lee lived, did not want fame and notoriety. He did not want a bunch of students, just a chosen few.

Bruce Lee was fortunate to be one of them. 

As it turns out, the Chinese method of internal strength and power has a major “eat bitter” element to it. It is similar to the western model of “train to failure” or “no pain-no gain.”

The way I see it, “eating bitter” is one approach, and I followed it in the past – but for me, it’s not the way to go. 

That’s why I have a unique approach, one that incorporates various postures and stances – but more importantly, also applies the use of spiraling energy and movement. 

This helps regulate your system so you can improve and recharge your mind and body.  The key is not too much, not too little. 

The approach I advocate also ensures that the energy in your body is continuously flowing in a connected way.

This means, you don’t go numb in your feet or legs from holding a position for longer than it practical or useful. 

When you train the way I suggest, your body is similar to the leaves and branches of a tree. They may appear to be “just standing there,” but they are, in fact, always moving. 

There is movement in the stillness and stillness in the movement. 

That’s the way I teach it in my Power Postures program – a unique and extraordinary method for getting the most from your body, helping it heal itself and get stronger from the inside-out, without appearing to be doing much of anything. 

If you want to follow me on this journey, where you truly get access to the secret of secrets, click here. 

Matt Furey

Several years ago, while attending a martial arts workshop, the master told a story about the day he was pushing himself so hard on a stair-stepper machine, that his teacher came up to him, patted
him on the shoulder and whispered, “Don’t scare yourself.”

At the time, being younger and greener, this future master didn’t understand what his teaching, a grandmaster, meant.

Then one day he figured it out.

What the grandmaster meant was this: When you train excessively hard, when you engage in extreme fitness regimens, especially when this is your normal way of training, you are frying your brain
and nervous system, the very organ you need on your side when push-comes-to-shove.

Once the master figured out what the grandmaster meant, his life changed for the better.

He stopped doing the EXTREME all the time. He trained at far less than his maximum most of the time. And every two weeks, he would push himself hard, to test his limits.

What was the result?

To his amazement, he made FAR MORE PROGRESS.

His brain and nervous system were on his side, working for him instead of against.

Recently, a well-known fitness celebrity, one who championed EXTREME workouts, the ones where you push yourself to failure, told his followers why he appeared to age 30 years in a short period of time.

Turns out he has a nervous system disorder. He has trouble with basic balance, even when walking.

Does he train to the MAX anymore?

No.

His body will no longer let him.

Did his workouts lead to the breakdown he experienced?

Based on what I have come to realize, I think there’s a good chance of that being the case. Regardless, I wish this man well and sincerely hope his situation improves in a big
way.

Now, regarding my current approach to health, fitness, and internal strength, which are covered in my Power Postures program, I am aware that some people scoff and laugh.

They think, you cannot possibly get stronger by sitting, standing or even lying still, in various postures.

But those who follow this program are getting the last laugh. They aren’t scaring themselves. They aren’t frying their nervous systems.

They are awakening the internal strength and power with their bodies, from the inside-out, with no extreme training at all.

Instead of getting out of their comfort zones, these people are FINDING their comfort zones, and they keep getting better and better and better.

Imagine that.

If you want to get fit by learning the postures I teach, ​​​​​​​click here.

Matt Furey

P.S. The guy mentioned earlier is Tony Horton.