A hearty thank you to all the readers who sent me a message about their experiences with Hindu squats, as well as their “research” on squatting with your knees over your toes.

Today you get to view three of the emails I received. And damnit, all of them are positive. el Furecat’s comments will follow each:

Mr. Furey,

I’m 86 years old. I have a copy of Combat Conditioning and do 100 Hindu squats every morning.  I feel great.  I tried to reach 500, but at 270 my knees started to bother me.  So, I backed off.

Albert O.

el Furecat: Excelente, Albert O. I’m impressed and want you to know you’re an inspiration to others who can barely get out of a chair. Or who could, but are too lazy to do so. No need for you to do 500 consecutive reps. You probably pushed yourself too hard when you felt pain. This is why I implore people to make haste slowly. Even when you do an exercise properly, even when it’s your friend, if you over-do it, the friend can become a frenemy. 100 a day is fantastic. Keep it flowing. 

Matt,

I’ve been doing Hindu squats for decades, as well as other exercises…….45 minute workout every other day. It took a while to get back at it after valve replacing open heart surgery (genetic issue), but 18 months later I’m up to 200 now and will be at 300 by years end. By the way, I’m 70 years young and the critics can go F themselves.

Jack B.

el Furecat: Jack, way to go, my man. Happy to hear you’re of sound mind and sound body once again. Keep me posted on your progress. 

Hi Mr. Furey,

I’m a big fan of your work. We’ve chatted over Instagram, my handle there is @richard_barrett_95. Your program of Hindu Squats has changed the game for me, and I’d like to do what I can to repay the favor.

To that end, attached here is the majority of the academic and medical literature I have found that supports squatting full ROM over the toes and even onto the heels. 

I studied this for a very long time; I wanted to confirm for myself if what you have always claimed about knees-over-the-toes/Hindu Squats is true. It turns out, indeed it is.

I hope this helps. It was the defining factor for me that caused me to embrace your doctrine and to reject the current dogma. When you read the academic medical literature for yourself, it becomes clear that the “squat police” don’t have a leg to stand on (or squat on…pun very much intended).

Good luck, and keep preaching the good word!

Richard Barrett

el Furecat: Thank you so much for this information, Richard. I’ve enclosed your full name and Instagram handle so people can reach out to you personally for the research. I appreciate you taking the time to write. Keep kicking ass. 

Well, my friend, that was a fun way to sound off on Sunday.

Much more forthcoming.

Matt Furey
Instagram: @mattfureysays

’twas just thinking.

What if all the fitness professionals telling you to avoid squatting in the “knees over toes” position were totally wrong?

Imagine this: the very people who have you wear belts and wraps to squat with weights, somehow have it all figured out when it comes to ANY type of squat.

I do a variety of squats with my knees over my toes. Not just Hindu squats, either.

I sit in a squat for minutes at a time with my knees over my toes.

I also do jump squats with my knees over my toes and my heels off the ground.

And guess what? My knees keep getting stronger – and healthier.

Yesterday I put up a short video on Instagram – @mattfureysays – where you can see me doing a double-leg sweep (part of my tai chi practice) – and wouldn’t you know it, my damn knees are about a mile over my toes. In fact, you cannot do this movement UNLESS your knees go over your toes.

Yes, there are people who have “tai chi knee.” I ain’t one of them. And the reason is because I have a daily regimen wherein I train the tendons of my lower body.

Hindu squats, as I teach in Combat Conditioning, are excellent for engaging the tendons. But if you cannot currently do them because of knee pain, there are other exercises you can begin with, and these may lead to you having the best knees of your life.

I’m going to shoot some videos today and put them up in the Matt Furey Inner Circle by early next week. You’re going to be blown away by what you see.

Kick Ass – Take Names,

Matt Furey

P.S. Keep in mind I am not advising you to do heavy and/or deep barbell squats with your knees over your toes. I am specifically writing about exercises with your own bodyweight. Mastering your own bodyweight is a lifelong journey. There is always something you cannot do yet, making this type of training a continuous challenge.

It’s 1:10 AM and I just finished my workout.

‘twas yet another ass-kicker, but not in the way you would expect.

And let me tell you, I am BUZZED.

Not from dope, either. At least not from dope you have to buy.

I get my dopa for free. My brain releases mega-doses everyday when I do exercises that don’t appear to require much at all. Yet, they do.

I’d love to tell you more in this email, but I’m going to practice discernment and keep my yap shut, for now, even though I’m bursting at the seams to reveal more.

Suffice it to say that in the western “whirld,” we tend to think of strength training as lifting something heavy. Pick up a heavy weight. Lift a rock. Carry something big.

Nothing wrong with the above – yet, this way of attaining strength is one-sided and limited.

How do I know?

Because as you’re “getting stronger” you’re also getting weaker.

Huh?

That’s correct.

After you lift a heavy weight, you are not stronger. You are weaker.

But based upon the way I train, that doesn’t happen. I am stronger at the end of a workout than I was at the beginning. I don’t lose strength; I gain it.

It may make no sense when you first hear the above, but when you understand that excess physical tension is the enemy of elite performance, and lifting heavy things creates tension, you have the beginnings of the idea.

Most people in today’s world (yes, I have two spellings for the word), carry a ton of excess tension throughout their entire body, especially in the traps, neck and shoulders.

Excess tension is similar to putting on excess flabbage.

It’s easy to add more, but getting rid of it is a chore.

I’ll be covering more on this subject this month for members of the Matt Furey Inner Circle, and perhaps finally releasing a book or course on the subject later in the year.

Stay tuned.

And remember the mantra…

Kick ass – take names.

el Furecat
笔名 for Matt Furey

Five hours ago, I ignited my Kamado Joe grill and tossed a Cowboy Ribeye on board.

‘Twas grass-fed and ready to handle an encounter with wood charcoal heat at 600 degrees.

Hot.

Once my slab of cow muscle was cooked to medium-rare, I chomped down on it with glee.

With each bite I could feel super fuel supercharging my brain.

After pounding my steak I didn’t have to worry about eating another morsel of anything.

No vegetables. No potatoes. No rice. No beans. And definitely no freakin bread.

Such is the way of the modern day warrior.

You want energy? You want testosterone? You want to kick ass all day long and deep into the night?

Then model the Mongols – not the grain eaters who got their asses kicked because they didn’t have the strength, stamina or intestinal fortitude to fight to the finish.

Now you might think it’s a bad thing to eat late at night.

Truth is, at least as far as I’m concerned, it’s only bad to eat late at night when you’re eating something other than meat.

When you eat a ribeye, you get energized. Big time. In my particular case, when I finished my meat, I went outside to sit in my sanctuary.

Yes, I sat.

People in the dark would love you to believe that sitting is bad for you, that it’s the “new smoking.”

My ass.

So long as you aren’t parked for more than a day or two at a time, sitting is fine.

It’s especially fine when you sit with good posture and work on your breathing.

It’s even more fine when you get up and do a few lengthening exercises along with your bridging, Hindu pushups, pull-ups, Hindu squats and so on.

But even those exercises aren’t enough for el Furecat anymore.

So he keeps adding to his repertoire of exercises, including tai chi, qi gong, club and mace swinging, rope skipping, walking and running.

This evening I worked on a number of rope twining exercises I learned from David Weck, inventor of the BOSU Ball.

I started doing these exercises at midnight and the next thing you know, it’s 2:02 AM.

Sure, I could go to sleep now and be a good little Furecat – but what a waste that would be.

Why not seat me buttocks on some pine and play a little music on this here jukebox.

Yes, that Cowboy Ribeye seems to be causing me to use more grammatically improper slang, but at least there’s no twang, as if I give a dang. 

Anyway, my point in all this is quite simple: Those roping exercises I’m doing … HOLY COW.

Talk about turning back the clock.

I’m in absolute awe. Not only do these exercises stimulate your whole body with absolutely zero pounding of your joints, but when you go to sleep, you have the most unbelievable dreams imaginable.

These exercises wake your body and mind up in ways I cannot fully articulate in this dispatch.

But I will definitely find it within me to go into illustrious detail on these exercises in the new videos that I’ll be putting up very soon on my Member’s Only Site.

You are going to be stunned. But only if you’re free enough to subscribe by clicking on the last word you see in this sentence, NOW.

Well, my friend, that’s all for now.

Kick ass – take names.

El Furecat
笔名 – aka Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, I’m having a Psycho-Cybernetics Certification Seminar in August. Interested – then email me and I’ll send you the link to enroll.

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Yesterday, while looking at a variety of Combat Conditioning covers I’ve used over the years, I decided to put a couple of them up on my Instagram and Facebook group pages.

To my shock, a number of people wrote to say they used to have “the original” but lost it when moving, surviving a flood, fire, earthquake or D-vorce.

I put up an image of the current cover, and questions arose as to the difference between this version and the original.

The first and most obvious answer would be: The Cover.

If you’re a collector of all things Furecat-ish, then a different cover is all the reason you need to grab a new copy.

But if we’re comparing the Original edition to the Revised, there’s even more reason to be excited.

The original edition of Combat Conditioning contained 15,000 words.

The current revised edition is over 30,000 words.

Now I shall flatter myself by saying, rather pompously: Me thinks I wrote some pretty freaking good material between January of 2000 and today. 

Thing is, for the last several years, you could only get a digital copy of the book when you became a member of the Furey Faithful.

Well, with the stroke of a pen, your luck has changed.

To order the revised edition, go here 

Incidentally, there is yet another reason to partake in the revised edition.

What reason is that?

The reason is that I am now beginning to certify instructors in the Royal Court Exercises of Hindu squats, Hindu pushups and bridging as taught in Combat Conditioning.

What I’ll be teaching you in person will be even more detailed than what is in the book and DVDs, but you’ll still want to have the most current version regardless.

Interested in being certified? If so, drop me a line and I’ll send you the information.

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey
author of Combat Conditioning – and much more

Instagram – @mattfureysays

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Some people view the photos and video footage of me in Combat Conditioning, doing a wrestler’s and a gymnastic bridge, and immediately proclaim and exclaim, “Oh, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII could never do that.”

In most cases, the person is totally wrong.

But the “I could never” statement and the mental imagery that accompanies it, actually keeps the person from ever doing it.

“As you thinketh in your heart/mind and feel in your gut, so you becometh,” says el Furecat.

But what if you cannot bridge at this time, but you want to… and there’s no medical reason why you can’t or shouldn’t?

Where do you begin? Where do you start?

You can begin by lying across a big, soft ballistic ball.

And as you stretch across it, you allow your spinal erectors to sink into it as you stretch your vertebrae.

This, my friend, is something you can do indefinitely and benefit from enormously. No need to ever do a wrestler’s or gymnastic bridge.

Truth be told, every single day, I bridge this way.

I bridge across a Bosu Ballast ball. I do so in the morning and I do so in the evening, even though I can still do a wrestler’s and gymnastic bridge.

Well, if I can still bridge, why do I bridge across the balls I mentioned?

I do so because sometimes I just want to stretch my body and wake it up – and I want to do so without engaging in a full-blown strenuous workout.

Por ejemplo, if I’m sitting around reading a book or studying something, and I’m beginning to feel a bit stiff, I can take 30-60 seconds to lean into a nice and easy bridge on the ball, and when I come out of it, I’m feeling loose, limber and ready to kick even more ass.

The looser you become with a little help from a ball, the closer you are to bridging the way you see in Combat Conditioning.

Kick ass – take names.

el Furecat
笔名 Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, I’m having a Psycho-Cybernetics Certification Seminar in August. Interested – then hit reply to this email. If you’ve already replied, I’ll have more information for you soon.

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Last night, J.C., an attendee at my seminar this past week, wrote to tell me he’s already down seven pounds.

He’s pumped.

So am I.

Previously J.C. went on a vegan program – and despite losing 30 pounds, he felt awful.

Weak, listless and full of brain fog.

He bought into the propaganda of meat being bad for you – and instead of cutting back (Meatless Mondays, huh?) – or eliminating all meat products completely (vegan), he’s becoming KING of his plate and his palate once again – and reaping the rewards.

Give me meat and give it to me NOW.

Yes!

Here’s what I think:

If you want to burn fat and build muscle, you eat your meat.

If you want healthy joints, you eat your meat.

If you want a brain that functions properly, you eat your meat.

And yes, you make sure your meat contains FAT.

Yepper.

Just another opinion – from someone who’s been there and done it.

Seven pounds slid off J.C. with hardly any effort. He has 50 more to go. He is going to do it.

He will be fundamentally changed and empowered as a result.

Yes.

In the near future I’ll be releasing some streaming video from this seminar. You’ll be amazed.

You will eat your meat and realize, perhaps for the first time in your life, that when you refused to eat your veggies as a youngster, that was a good idea.

Today is Monday.

Consider Monday as load-up day. Get the week started properly by eating MORE MEAT.

That’s the ticket.

MORE MEAT MONDAYS.

YESSSSSS!

You said it, Flash.

Eat more meat and you’ll experience the power and the glory of why I always say…

Kick ass – take names.

el Furecat
笔名 Matt Furey

P.S. By the way, I’m having a Psycho-Cybernetics Certification Seminar in August. Interested – then hit reply to this email.

Instagram – @mattfureysays – lots and lots of bad-ass posts

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Last week I consulted with a man, who happens to be a doctor. He wanted guidance on what he could do to lose weight.

This was the second doctor I spoke with on this subject in two days, and both of them raved about what they learned.

I didn’t tell them what to do, but rather, what I have done. Period.

Upon hearing my story it’s totally up to them to decide whether or not to do something similar.

Well, one of the doctors is already down 10 pounds – and it hasn’t even been a week.

Yeeeessssss!

Imagine how good he’s going to feel when he’s at his ideal weight. People who haven’t seen him in a while won’t even recognize him.

Since December, I’ve been hovering around 198 pounds. That’s when I finally, most assuredly “cracked the code” on weight loss from both a psychological and physical point of view.

It’s far easier than you think – or have been taught.

But there are a ton of potholes along the way. I can assure you I’ve fallen into many of those holes, so I know from experience what does and doesn’t work.

The “even better news” is that I’ve made some additional adjustments since last December, that have made it super easy to maintain my weight – or take off more.

In fact, I’ve decided to drop down another 5 kilos – to 187 pounds.

I’m documenting everything I’m doing – what works and what doesn’t – and this June 13-15, I’ll be presenting it all at my Fast Fitness and Flexibility Seminar in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Currently, there are five more spots to claim.

Be part of something great. Come change your life forever.

Kick ass – take names,

Matt Furey

Every single day I have a breakthrough.

Sometimes several breakthroughs.

I have these breakthroughs in how I train, in the details of an exercise, in the way I stretch, practice tai chi, breath and/or go about eating.

Most of these breakthroughs are small but they feel huge. Every single one of them. Little hinges swing big doors.

Some of these breakthroughs seem as though they are tiny changes or shifts, but the results they produce are major.

On one of those days  I discovered something I “should have” already known and/or observed.

And everyone I’ve taught this to so far, who has followed it, has totally kicked ass.

‘Twas nothing more than an observation of reality on my part; what has worked for me in the past that I didn’t quite realize or understand, but now do.

It has to do with a way of eating (not dieting).

It has to do with foods and beverages and how to combine them in a yin-yang way that maximizes results fast. Yes, I’m talking about blow-torching stubborn fat off your body, getting shredded, and doing so damn near effortlessly, compared to anything else you’ve ever tried.

I’m also talking about getting stronger and more flexible as a result of this way of eating.

Think it, picture it and do it. 

That’s how you’ll feel after you’ve been on this program for about a month.

You get an idea of doing something you may have never done before (or not in years). You picture yourself doing it and then you jump out of your chair and give it a whirl.

To your surprise, you pull it off with ease.

That’s what I’m talking about, baby.

YESSSSSSSS.

I’ll be going over this way of eating and training at my Fast Fitness and Flexiblity Seminar next month, in Tampa, Florida.

If you’re interested in attending, please go here – and please do so pronto.

Drop me a line and together we will…

Kick ass – take names.

Matt Furey