Children are naturally flexible. And they have boundless

energy. In fact, when PROFESSIONAL athletes have tried

to keep up with a child, they get exhausted within an hour.

Literally and truly.

Before my daughter hit the crawl stage, she had to do

baby pushups – not to mention a lot of back hyper-

extensions. In order to achieve the sit-up-in-bed stage,

she had to do a lot of leg lifts and knee pullins. One of her

favorite exercises was the army crawl. That one whoops

most adults within a few seconds.

After army crawls come bear crawls. Oh yes, one of my

favorites for torturing people into great shape fast.

Bear crawls are one of the most overlooked bodyweight

exercises – and if you take a minute a day – well, maybe

more like 30 seconds to crawl like a bear – believe you me,

results are a coming down the pike.

After bear crawls flip over for a bit of crab walking, and

you’ve virtually hit every muscle in the body, except the neck.

Now let’s look at the three crawls already mentioned – and other

assorted exercises in my books and weave a fat-burning workout

around them:

1. Baby pushups – hips and legs on floor – push off palms, lower

and repeat

2. Army crawls – 10-20 seconds

3. Leg lifts – 10-20 to start

4. Leg pull-ins – 10-20

5. Bear crawls – 30 seconds

6. Crab walks – 10-20 seconds

7. Get-ups – lie on back and come to standing – 10x –

this fine exercise is one that I specifically emphasized for the

80 and 90-year old men and women I trained at my gym in

California. – Very important.

So you see, even the most basic things we do as a child can

be turned into a kick-butt workout, using nothing more than

your own bodyweight.

And the sky is NOT the limit. It can go on and on and on – so

that you are always challenged.

By the way, babies also know how to breathe properly. They

do it naturally, right out of the gate. Because babies breathe

deeply, they have more energy, laugh all the time and have

a great time while exploring and learning from their new world.

So never think you know too much when it comes to fitness.

Going back to the ultra-basics may be the workout of your

life – especially now, when you’re 20x the size you were as

a youngin.

Kick butt – take names,

Matt Furey

Author of Int’l best-sellers Combat Conditioning and Combat Abs –

http://www.mattfurey.com/products.html

If you’ve never left the country, much less the

state you were born in, it’s easy to think your way

of doing things is the only way – or even worse,

the “right” way.

Last time I heard the report, there are over 250

different ways to wash dishes. And probably even

more yet undiscovered.

Yesterday I was sitting in a coffee bar on China’s

Hainan Island. Now, by coffee bar you may think

of Starbucks and nothing more – yet this coffee

bar serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and more.

By more I mean ice cream. As well as an array of

freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices. I ordered

two glasses of celery juice to help cool me off – the tropical

weather here can be brutal.

Sitting across the table from me in the coffee bar is my

brother-in-law. He gets a coffee and a plate of eggs, sunny

side up – as well as some bacon and toast.

Now – get ready my friend as the punch line is about to strike.

When the plate of sunny side up eggs arrrived, my brother-in-law

grabbed the straw that came with his plate. He then inserted the

straw into the egg yolk and vaccuumed the yolk into his mouth.

I tried my best to ignore this. Didn’t work. The slurping sound was

incredibly irritating. So I opted to insert index fingers into the holes

in my ears and block the sound.

I did this, mind you, instead of getting mad – or telling my in-law

that he was doing something wrong. He’s not wrong – just weird.

And so am I to him. My only hope for true acceptance of this way

of eating eggs is to try it myself – which I may do someday. He, on

the other hand, will probably not order an orange juice with a raw

egg or two blended in, as I often do.

All this goes to show that we are all strange to somebody somewhere –

and it behooves you to not be too concerned about it. Yes, sometimes

you need to take a definite stand on things – but that is usually based

upon principle.

“In matters of style, flow with the current, in matters of principle,

stand like a rock,” said Thomas Jefferson.

This afternoon I had to apply the above. I ordered the same glass

of celery juice. First the waitress brought me pear juice. I told her

I didn’t order pear juice, to bring me what I ordered. She then brought

me a greenish liquid, which upon tasting, didn’t seem right. Why? Because

they had added sugar to it. I sent it back again.

Finally, I got what I ordered.

The key thing to remember is that everyone else in the place can order

their juice with added sugar – and I have no quibble whatsoever. It’s

none of my business. The same goes for my brother-in-law slurping his

egg yolks through a straw. I may not like it – but it’s none of my business.

Knowing the difference – knowing what IS your business and what ISN’T

your business can help delete a significant chunk of your worries and

concerns immediately.

Keep this in mind as you go through your day.

Matt Furey

P.S. One of the keys to a flexible mind is not only traveling abroad,

but traveling the vast inner space of your own mind. When you can

accept others strangeness – as well as your own – you’re on the winning

track. To learn how easy this is to do – and how much it will help you to live the good life – go to http://www.psycho-cybernetics.com/zrlcourse.html

P.P.S. Don’t forget about my October seminar, The Science of Super-

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In this email I’m going to cover a couple details about the

diet I follow in China, where I am right now – but first …

About a year ago I was having dinner with my

brother-in-law (one of the American ones).

He’s a vegan – so he was eating nothing but broccoli

and some other greens.

Now, just so you know up front, I am NOT criticizing his

diet in the least. If it works for him, I’m all for it – and

apparently it does, as it cleared him of some health

problems he was having a couple years ago.

Anyway, during the course of the meal he brought up

China and the way he’d read they supposedly eat, which, he

assumed, was pretty much the same as the diet he

was following.

He was definitely more than a bit suprised when I told

him that the Chinese are BIG meat eaters. He figured

otherwise, afterall, he’d read diet books, written by

Americans, that said the Chinese don’t eat much meat.

And he’d also read that the reason why the Chinese

enjoy superior health, especially when compared to

Americans, is because Americans eat too much meat

and the Chinese rarely eat it – if they eat it at all.

Now, I’m not sure what Chinese were being studied for

these books on diet and disease, but if they’re vegans

or vegetarians, I’ve only met two so far – and that’s

saying a lot.

Not only is my wife Chinese, but so are her parents

and family. Her mother and father live with us. And

we travel to our vacation home on China’s Hainan Island

at least twice a year. I spend a few months each year

in China – and have been traveling here since 1993.

My wife, her sister, brother and everyone else in her

family have enjoyed superb health. Her father is 70

and in great shape. Master Zhang, whom I’ve introduced

to you in a couple of my courses, namely, Chuang Shang

de Gong Fu and the Chinese Long-Life System, is 55 and

looks 35.

And every single one of the people I have just named, as

well as almost everyone else I have ever met of Chinese decent,

is a meat eater.

Chinese consume large amounts of pork and based on what I

have witnessed, pork is the most consumed meat in China. This

alone is a mind-bender because a good many of the world’s

population thinks that pork is the WORST meat you can eat.

After pork you have chicken, lamb, fish, beef and a host of other

critters that we don’t think of as food for consumption.

Yes, the Chinese do consume a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables.

They also consume a lot of starch in the form of rice, noodles,

bread, and so on.

They are NOT big consumers of water. They do drink green and

white teas quite a bit – but gulping water the way we do in the U.S.

is not something you see going on very much.

I am reporting this in today’s email to let you know that there are

many reasons for the Chinese enjoying superior health. But to

date, not a single one of them is because of this so-called truth

that they don’t eat meat – or that they only have a smidgeon of

meat once a week.

Not so.

As for myself, you’re probably wondering what I eat whilst staying

here. This can change based on the time of year – but right now,

being it is summer and I’m in a tropical climate, I’m drinking a

couple glasses of celery juice each day. Due to the extreme heat

and the sweating I do because of it, I just don’t feel right unless I

have this drink. It quickly gets my sodium levels back up – and

it helps to lean you out in a big way.

On a daily basis I consume some sort of lamb dish – often with

celery, broccoli or cucumbers. The lamb in China is exquisite, and

after three weeks of eating it my skin will feel like silk. It will have

a pliability I don’t otherwise have. My joints and muscles will be

more flexilbe, too.

I prefer to eat my lamb in a ‘hot pot’ – or grilled after being very

thinly sliced – or on a skewer ‘cao yang rou.’

I like to add plenty of spice to the lamb – hot that is – yet not too

much as ‘mild’ spicy in China will blow your sweat glands right

through the sky.

For the most part I avoid starchy foods: rice, noodles and so on –

but sometimes I do partake as they are often cooked to

perfection.

A quick note: In most cases, if you eat fried rice or

a bowl of rice soup for breakfast, you are eating one day

old rice. Fresh rice is served plain. That which is not used

is still used. This comes as a surprise to some – but it is,

as they say over here, ‘Chinese culture.’

That’s short for, ‘I don’t have to explain anything

to you. Nor can I.’

In the future I plan to release a special report about the superior

health of the Chinese who live here on Hainan Island.

Also, I’ll be covering my current visit to China in a forthcoming

issue of my monthly newsletter and CD, which is enjoyed by

an ever-growing following of Furey Faithful. To find out how you

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truly, go to http://www.mattfurey.com/furey_inner_circle.html

Kick butt – take names,

Matt Furey

Int’l best-selling author of Combat Conditioning, Combat Abs

and a bunch of other extraordinary programs that are changing

lives all over the planet – http://www.mattfurey.com/products.html

P.S. Be sure to check out the extraordinary fitness

regime followed by millions of people in China, by going to

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