Here’s the health advice we’ve heard 100,000 times over the last month:

1. Stay at home.

2. Practice social distancing.

3. Wash your hands.

4. Don’t touch your face.

5. Wear a mask.

That’s it?

Really? That’s the best advice most of the medical community can give us to insure our health?

If it is, that’s pretty friggin sad.

The doctors I trust and listen to aren’t telling you to sit around waiting for a vaccine. Instead, they’re advising you to:

* Get out in the sun and/or supplementing with Vitamin D3

* Take zinc, fish oil and other powerful antioxidants

* Use a sauna

* Do deep breathing exercises

* Get plenty of sweat-inducing physical exercise

When it comes to physical exercise, especially in this time of being cooped up, bodyweight exercises are clearly the way to go.

Why?

Because…

A. You’re not touching equipment other people have touched.

B. You don’t need to go to a gym or purchase equipment because your own bodyweight becomes your gym.

C. You break a health-promoting, immune-boosting sweat.

Back in the year 2000, when I launched Combat Conditioning, my treatise on bodyweight exercises, I had no idea it would become an international best-seller.

I was simply letting people know about the workout I was following and how it transformed my body way beyond what I had achieved as an athlete and martial artist.

Many people began feasting on what I wrote while others scoffed. At the time, I was the only one writing about bodyweight exercises being KING. I acquired a lot of enemies because of what I wrote. I didn’t care. And I still don’t. Can you tell?

Yet, today, bodyweight exercises are now the rage all over the world. Even big commercial gyms now devote thousands of square feet to areas where no fitness machines or equipment are present.

Thing is, many of the programs being promoted today lean toward the ridiculous extreme, which means your chances of getting injured are also extreme.

Or they are blatant knockoffs of what I wrote.

For a while, I wondered whether I should create a program that is even more extreme than the ridiculous extremists.

Man, I better get to work on doing one-finger pushups and pull-ups. I better figure out how to do one-toe squats. Or how to hang upside down with a rope around my gonads.

Then I came to my senses.

Combat Conditioning is the perfect program for anyone who is interested in strength, power and flexibility through bodyweight exercises because it is based on what has worked for thousands of years. It was the perfect program in 2000, and it is even more perfect today.

It works for men, for women and for children. It works for martial artists, athletes and non-athletes. It works if you’re overweight or underweight. It works if you’re weak or if you are weight training strong.

It kicks your ass without breaking you down or hurting you.

I have about 50 copies left of the current edition, which, mark my words, will become yet another collector’s item.

That’s it for today, folks.

Matt Furey

By the way, I also have a spiral bound version, Combat Conditioning for Kids, and it comes with a deck of playing cards called the Matt Furey Exercise Bible. Your children will look at the visually stunning cartoons of each exercise and figure it out (without reading), what they’re supposed to do. You can jump in there with them, as well. The family that exercises together stays together.