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

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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

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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

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