I’m really trying to keep my composure, hehe.

I’m doing my best to not laugh so hard I blow a gasket.

But sometimes, even el Furecat cannot control his emotions, even if he has nine lives to do so.

Yesterday, after sending out my email entitled, 3 Pushups a Day, I received a ton of replies, most of them positive.

If I speak about the positive ones, though, that’s no damn fun.

So, on with the negatory:

S.S. writes:

“That’s a funny one! 3 Pushups a day, would take a million years to see results, then you added each last about a minute, now how slow are you moving!”

el Furecat: Yes, it will take a million years to see results, if you are unwilling to give it a go because of your ill-advised doubt.

Olympic weightlifters can and do build incredible strength and power doing ONE REP.

Many Yoga practitioners often do only ONE REP of each exercise.

I advocate many different types of training: one-rep, no-rep (seriously) and hundreds of reps.

My approach is flexible and variable.

Three reps done super slow will change your body in many ways – and it won’t take a million years, especially when you know what you’re looking for.

Each rep takes a minute – and if you can go even longer than a minute, that’s even better.

If you’re not able to make one repetition a minute long, then your tendons are weak.

I cover all this on the MattFureyInnerCircle.com members site. Get thee in there and you’ll see what el Furecat is cooking. 

By the way: Sunday is my birthday, and I’m fixing to have a superlative weekend extravaganza, which will quite possibly feature a number of products that y’all have been begging me to put back on the market. Be on the lookout for my emails on this.

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey
aka el Furecat

Instagram – @mattfureysays

Somedays I do three pushups. That’s it.

But each pushup takes about a minute.

30 second down – 30 seconds up.

Many seemingly well-meaning coaches in the world of fitness actually think that this method of training will make you slower, so they’ve become the equivalency of Quick Carl from the Marathon candy bar commercial (“My name is Quick Carl and I do everything fast.”)

Yet, moving slowly, even moving slower than slow, teaches you body control and balance. It also puts you in touch with your muscles and your proprioceptors at a level where you can command MORE of them to do your bidding. And this means you get FASTER instead of slower.

Anyone can slop through an exercise, equating speed with prowess. But slop is slop, anyway you slice it.

As I wrote on a recent Instagram post – @mattfureysays – Slowliness is Wholeliness.

Do I limit my pushups to three per day, everyday?

No.

Somedays I do 50. Other days 100.

And then there are the days wherein I only hold a position for time.

When you use slow motion, super-slow motion and no motion, your body learns to think.

And a thinking body is a body that gets results FASTER.

YES.

So slow the hell down, would you? Pay attention to your breathing, your body and your big self – the one who thinks good thoughts and attains great results.

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey

P.S. This is the sort of thing I’ll be covering in illustrious detail at my Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar, June 13-15 in Tampa Bay, Florida. Would be great to have you there.

There’s this idea that after you turn 40 or 50, life goes downhill.

Your hormones shift.

You go into man-o-pause or menopause.

Everything you eat seems to make you phat.

You workout longer and harder and have little to show for it.

But hold the smart phone…

All of the above can actually be reversed – and it can be reversed without a trip to the M.D. to get shots that will supposedly balance out your hormones.

Your body has an intelligence residing within.

It knows how to make seemingly miraculous changes, regardless of your age.

But if you keep feeding your mind and body mainstream advice and methods,  you’ll never be able to take advantage of what your body can do for you.

Your body knows what to do to help you regain your youthful vim and vigor.

And the truth is:

You can regain your flexibility and strength.

You can eliminate joint pain that limits what you can and cannot do.

You can crank up your metabolism.

You can burn fat and build muscle.

You can increase your energy.

You can become vitally alive again.

It’s all about being exposed to the truth.

Knowing the truth – and living it – will set you free.

Matt Furey

P.S. My Fast Fitness and Flexiblity Seminar, this June 13-15, in Tampa Bay, Florida, is filling up. Interested in attending? Then go here and I will hook you up

Did you know you can increase your body’s natural production of GH (growth hormone) by over 500%, by incorporating sprint training into your workouts?

I first read this in the book, Ready, Set Go! by Phil Campbell, a book I highly recommend, along with his follow-up book, Sprint 8 Cardio Protocol.

This will give you some idea as to why I’ve recommended sprint training from the get-go – in my very first book, in fact, The Martial Art of Wrestling (1996).

Even without the “science” at the time, the evidence was clear and convincing to me. When I regularly ran sprints, especially hill sprints, my body changed so quickly it was almost fiction – yet it wasn’t.

This same tendency of el Furecat to observe reality and make anecdotal  conclusions, based on personal experience, that later proves to be backed by science, is quite remarkable, indeed.

A couple more examples of this trend are the role backward walking plays in the improvement of memory. Hmmm. Twas almost a century ago, it seems, that I began recommending backward training for THAT reason as well as many others.  Perhaps I’ll have to reintroduce my Dao Zou product in the very near future.

Well, as if the above isn’t enough for me to hang my hat on, here’s more hype (tis what my detractors call truth).

Since 1991, I’ve been recommending some form of fasting to my clients and customers. [Admittedly, I forgot to do it myself for a number of years, and it showed.]

Well, sure enough, science has now caught up with the uncanny world of fasting.

Recently, in the 17 Hour Fast, by Dr. Frank Merritt, he mentioned a study that showed a 2,000 percent increase in growth hormone, as a result of fasting.

The benefits of fasting, however, extend way beyond increased growth hormone production.

Your body will also endogenously create more testosterone and more stem cells, not to mention burning off fat while preserving muscle mass.

This is NOT something you can do with a diet. Any diet.

The benefits of fasting are so friggin powerful and my experience with it so grand that I have this thing wired at a level most scientists cannot yet fathom.

There are many, many types of fasts – and I believe I’ve nailed which ones are best … as well as where and how to get started… as well as WHO should NOT do it.

But the truth is that everyone fasts every day, including those who immediately say, “I can’t do that.”

Well, big fella, you actually can and you’ve done it every single day of your life, thus far, without even knowing you were doing it.

There’s a reason we call one of most peoples’ daily meals… break…fast.

Personally, I don’t eat breakfast (in the morning). It’s the worst meal of the day. It’s not good for you and does far more harm than good.

But I do eat breakfast around 12 noon or 2 PM – or later.

What do I eat?

All the worst foods. All the foods that the propagandists have told you NOT to eat. All the foods that, oddly enough,  truly do your body good.

Hint: It’s not rabbit food.

Next week I turn 56 – yet I am YOUNGER than I’ve been in 22 years, when I won the world championship in Beijing, China.

I am kicking ass and taking names at a level I’ve only dreamt of before.

And it is my great desire to pass my knowledge on to YOU, this June 13-15, in Tampa Bay, Florida, at my Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar. 

I’ll be teaching you my discoveries, some of which, once again, may actually be ahead of science.

Armed with this information, you can attain success in all areas of your life, at the quantum level.

If this is something you want, go here…

Best,

Matt Furey

Nearly half-full…

for my Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar taking place June 13-15 in Tampa Bay, Florida.

This is the one where you’re going to learn how to quickly drop excess flabbage while getting fit, flexible and fast. by becoming… animalistic in origin.

Yes, you’re going to acquire the Eye of the Tiger – and keep it.

You’re going to learn why animals in the wild are not fat – and how you can do the same from the comfort of your own home.

No dilly-dallying with ridiculous diets – or thinking you’re being smart by cutting calories to drop a pound a week (or a month). Ugh.

Click here to express your interest in this event.

It’s going to…

Kick ass and take names,

Matt Furey

Summer is damn near here.
There’s nothing for you to fear.

Time to get your guts in gear.
Time to kick yourself in the rear. 

el Furecat will get you shredded.
Burning fat you’ve always dreaded. 

His pushups, bridges and squats,
remove the pain and the knots. 

Breathe deep and let your body flow,
and off to the races your.will be go. 

Just do his exercises and you will see,
your body transformed tremendously.
Matt Furey

P.S. Back by popular demand, the Combat Conditiong book and DVDs – along with some electric extras.
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Morning {Woody}.

As a Chinese wise man allegedly said, “Never trust a man who doesn’t wake up with an erection.”

Men are supposed to know when their health is vibrant and vitally alive… and when their energy is low. And one of the BIGGEST indick-ators is whether he wakes up with morning wood. Better yet, was there midnight wood, 1 AM wood, 2 AM wood, and so on, ad infinitum, ad penisorum (my word).

Wood is where it is for men.

No wood, no life.

But there’s something you can do to regain your testosterone, naturally, and it has NOTHING to do with seeing a doctor to get shots, pills, patches or anything of the sort. It also has nothing to do with finding a steroid drug dealer.

Believe me now and believe me again later, a man can make his testosterone levels rise and fall by what he does, by what he thinks and by how he eats

For example, if a man wants his testosterone levels to rise, he starts doing more things with his hands – one of which is writing with a pen (add two letters and you get the idea why this works) in hand. But instead of writing in a way that leads to dyslexia (that would be printing), the man writes in cursive.

He creates waves with his writing. He creates circular strokes. And he works on making his writing beautifully powerful while including the richest vocabulary he can currently muster.

This is one of the biggest steps a man can take to regain his man-wood.

It’s also one of the biggest and best things a woman can do.

Cursive handwriting is brain writing… and your brain is a pharmaceutical factory for creating hormones.

Just by putting a pen in your hand, male or female, your brain begins acting in a very different way, a way that cannot be matched by typing on a keyboard.

This doesn’t mean you abandon typing.

It does mean that if you want to cause a shift in your hormones, start with your hands. After that go to your feet. Then stop eating so friggin much.

Abandon the five or six meals per day nonsense. Stop eating breakfast. Go longer periods without eating and your brain will get the message to ramp up testosterone and growth hormone levels.

These are facts, my friend.

And I’ll go into far more detail about them at my seminar in June, giving you the illustrious and bonafide (bonerfide) details.

In the interim, here’s a great one, written by hand a long, long time ago:

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west:
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine to five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small-
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!

She sends’em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

— Rudyard Kipling
from The Elephant’s Child

There you are, my friend. A few hints as to what you can do to raise your testosterone, naturally.

By the way, the same idea works for women, too.

Especially women who want to…

Kick ass and take names.

Matt Furey

P.S. If a man gets pissed reading this message, he probably has Low T.

“You’ll NEVER GET LEAN AGAIN. You’ll NEVER LOSE WEIGHT. YOU’LL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER….”

Before you go off the rails and get angry with me for what you just read, what if someone telling you that you will NEVER do something was the GREATEST MOTIVATATIONAL SPEECH YOU EVER HEARD!

My experience shows that it’s oftentimes the best thing someone can say to you.

Being told NEVER makes the hair stand up on the back of a person’s head.

Being told NEVER will motivate you to prove the other person wrong. 

So, let me tell you… when a fellow martial artist looked at my ripped, lean cover photo for Combat Conditioning, he literally uttered the most positively motivating words I have ever heard.

“YOU will NEVER see that weight again,” he predicted. 

“Thank you for the motivation,” I replied. “Now WATCH ME!”

Off to the races I ran.

Every single day I replayed this man’s words in my mind, determined to prove him wrong.

And I didn’t just drop my weight to 198 pounds within a month. I’ve done even better since then. I’m leaner and more muscular… I’m stronger and more flexible … I’m more energetic and ALIVE. I’ve improved every area of my life.

Bottom Line: “If and when” someone says you’ll NEVER do something – or you can’t do something – or that it’s impossible to do something – smile and thank the person for give you the greatest motivational speech of all times.

Kick ass – take Names,

P.S. By the way, the gates are now OPEN so you can enroll in my Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar, being held this June 13-15 in Tampa Bay, Florida. Enroll NOW so we can overcome the NEVER PEOPLE together.

Back in 2010 I put out a product called The Fastest Way Humanly Possible to Burn Fat.

The DVDs showcased me running sprints all over the world.

In China, France, Italy, Switzerland, Malta and the good ole USA.

I ran up the Eiffel Tower.

I ran up Mount Etna in Sicily.

I ran and ran and ran.

The program kicked ass in a big way – and creating it helped me get into kick butt condition.

Sprinting does something for the body that cardio cannot match.

It increases growth hormone production and causes the body to build muscle and burn fat.

The upside is HUUUUUUGE – but there is a downside.

Injuries.

Friends of mine who hadn’t sprinted since their football days, thought there was nothing to it, and ignoring my admonitions, went out and tore hamstrings and Achilles tendons with their headstrong stupidity.

In addition to the possibility of injury to those who do too much, too soon, the reality is that many, many, many people today are so heavy and so obese, that sprinting outdoors is out of the question. So is running on treadmills or using any equipment wherein excessive pounding puts a beatdown on the joints.

Additionally, there’s the cortisol factor. If the workout causes cortisol levels to rise, then all the effort could be self-defeating as well.

The good news is there is a way to take the fat off faster than I ever dreamt possible when I created those exercise DVDs back in 2010.

When it comes to exercise, I still maintain that sprints are the ultimate fat burner.

But if you can’t do them yet, or shouldn’t – there’s an even faster way.

And it’s…

NOT Counting calories.

Not becoming a vegetarian or a vegan.

Not going keto.

Not going low-carb.

Not being a fruitarian.

Not doing cardio.

Not lifting weights.

Not doing bodyweight exercises (although they help).

No sirrreee, the keys to being a supreme butter burner are NOT what you’re being told, not what you’ve heard and not what the mainstream thinks, says or does. If they were, mainstream society would be fit and lean.

They aren’t.

Anyway, I’ll have more on this going up mañana, when I reveal on my webpage, what is going to be covered at the Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar I’m holding in Tampa, Florida, June 13-15.

Many people have already enrolled after sending me a private email to express interest.

Today will be the last day to enroll with the Early Bird PayPal Link.

Kick ass – take names~

Matt Furey

Find me someone who goes on a diet where calorie counting is “a thing,” and I’ll show you someone who loses muscle mass, feels rundown and is grumpy as hell.

It’s almost an absolute.

It almost doesn’t matter what DIE-T you are on, either.

If you are counting calories, you are most likely doomed.

If you have 20-100 (or more) pounds to lose, you aren’t going to get there by focusing on caloric restriction. At least not anytime soon.

Yet, you can blast those same pounds off much, much faster without one thought about calories, if…

you know what you’re doing,
what you’re eating,
what you’re drinking
and what you’re thinking.

As a youngster, a lot of people need only make one adjustment, and the fat flies off. That adjustment is exercise.

But exercise alone doesn’t work for a lot of people.

Go to a gym and you’ll see evidence of this in the cardio and spin classes, as well as on the treadmills, ellipticals and stair steppers. The same people who are doing two hours per day of cardio don’t appear any better off than the previous year(s).

Yes, there are exercises that work better than others – and much faster – but positive changes are often not in your favor if your only change is an increase in your activity levels.

I have personally gone on more diets than I care to remember, and none of them work when compared to what I discovered and implemented last fall.

What I discovered last fall quickly melted 30 pounds off – and it’s stayed off following the same program – which involves ZERO CALORIE COUNTING.

I’m now running around town at my 1997 World Championship Weight.

And I’m feeling awesome with …

No Dieting.
No Calorie Counting.
No Bull.

Here we are in April and I’ve maintained and exceeded where I was in December of last year.

Can I think of another time in my life wherein this happened?

Not one.

And that’s precisely why I’m holding an all-new Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar – wherein I bring YOU the good news of my discoveries so you can benefit more than ever before.

This fitness seminar will be the granddaddy of them all. It will be a life-changer. It will give you the tools to go where you may not have imagined going before – or at least, not for a long, long time.

The Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar will be held June 13-14 (with a high-octane V.I.P. day on June 15, for those who qualify).

I’ll be putting up the webpage for this event by Friday, but if you already know you want to attend, write me personally and I will help you enroll early via PayPal to save big – but ONLY if you are prepared to enroll NOW.

More forthcoming.

In the meantime, remember to…

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey

P.S. Go watch my latest YouTube video on Deep Breathing Pushups – and subscribe.

Calories Are Evil

Find me someone who goes on a diet where calorie counting is “a thing,” and I’ll show you someone who loses muscle mass, feels rundown and is grumpy as hell.

It’s almost an absolute.

It almost doesn’t matter what DIE-T you are on, either.

If you are counting calories, you are most likely doomed.

If you have 20-100 (or more) pounds to lose, you aren’t going to get there by focusing on caloric restriction. At least not anytime soon.

Yet, you can blast those same pounds off much, much faster without one thought about calories, if…

you know what you’re doing,
what you’re eating,
what you’re drinking
and what you’re thinking.

As a youngster, a lot of people need only make one adjustment, and the fat flies off. That adjustment is exercise.

But exercise alone doesn’t work for a lot of people.

Go to a gym and you’ll see evidence of this in the cardio and spin classes, as well as on the treadmills, ellipticals and stair steppers. The same people who are doing two hours per day of cardio don’t appear any better off than the previous year(s).

Yes, there are exercises that work better than others – and much faster – but positive changes are often not in your favor if your only change is an increase in your activity levels.

I have personally gone on more diets than I care to remember, and none of them work when compared to what I discovered and implemented last fall.

What I discovered last fall quickly melted 30 pounds off – and it’s stayed off following the same program – which involves ZERO CALORIE COUNTING.

I’m now running around town at my 1997 World Championship Weight.

And I’m feeling awesome with …

No Dieting.
No Calorie Counting.
No Bull.

Here we are in April and I’ve maintained and exceeded where I was in December of last year.

Can I think of another time in my life wherein this happened?

Not one.

And that’s precisely why I’m holding an all-new Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar – wherein I bring YOU the good news of my discoveries so you can benefit more than ever before.

This fitness seminar will be the granddaddy of them all. It will be a life-changer. It will give you the tools to go where you may not have imagined going before – or at least, not for a long, long time.

The Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar will be held June 13-14 (with a high-octane V.I.P. day on June 15, for those who qualify).

I’ll be putting up the webpage for this event by Friday, but if you already know you want to attend, write me personally and I will help you enroll early via PayPal to save big – but ONLY if you are prepared to enroll NOW.

More forthcoming.

In the meantime, remember to…

Kick ass – take names!

Matt Furey

P.S. Go watch my latest YouTube video on Deep Breathing Pushups – and subscribe.

P.P.S. Follow me on Instagram – @mattfureysays – as well as my Facebook Group – Matt Furey Combat Conditioning+.