Listen to the personal trainers and fitness experts talk. It’s all about the muscles, the muscles and the muscles.

How big are your guns?

How ripped are your abs?

How massive are your pecs?

Let me tell you what you get when your focus is primarily on the muscles: a body that is MORE injury prone than ever before.

Why? Because critical areas of the body were totally neglected – and these areas happen to connect your muscles to your bones.

Yes, I’m talking about your tendons.

We’ve been sold a bill of goods on big muscles. The size of a muscle has absolutely NOTHING to do with how strong, how fast or how explosive you are.

Proof of this can be readily seen by watching a deer leap an eight-foot fence without a warm-up.

Now, how massive are the legs of a deer?

The deer’s legs appear to be little more than tendon and bone. Sure, there’s muscles – but they ain’t HUGE.

Believe me, due to genetics, I have legs that are bigger than the norm. Yet, I’d trade my legs in for a skinnier pair if this helped me leap eight-foot fences with ease.

I’m all about function. What can you do with your body.

And if you want to begin to begin to realize incredible strength, power and explosiveness, you start focusing on the areas of the body that are most easily injured.

These are:

1. Wrists2. Ankles

3. Shoulders

4. Pelvis – including lumbar and sacrum

5. Knees

6. Elbows

7. Upper Spine – including thoracic and cervical vertebrae

Make a note: None of the above are muscle groups – yet, if you’ll look at your own history of injuries or pain, chances are excellent that the majority of your challenges are located in these seven areas.

Yesterday I told you about a man who sustained a tendon injury in his elbow – while working his muscles. After six weeks of rest, he was no better off.

Yet, after one week of tendon exercises from my Carpal Tunnel Fix program (and he didn’t even have carpal tunnel) – his pain was G-O-N-E. –

How can this be?

Well, your tendons connect your muscles to your bones. This means they are tied into everything you do. Yet, they’re totally neglected.

And this is precisely why you see people who look powerful and massive going down with injuries that don’t make sense.

No matter how big your legs, you don’t want to rupture an Achilles’ tendon.

And no matter how big your guns, if you have hand, wrist, elbow or shoulder pain – you’ve got a tendon problem.

The same can be said of all the other “easy injury” areas I mentioned.

Eliminate or avoid the tendency or likelihood of injuring your wrists and elbows.

Matt Furey

A little over a week ago, while training a group of people right here in Tampa, I talked about all the injuries you see in sports (and everywhere else) today.

In professional sports, for example, despite the gargantuan muscles, the monstrous bench presses, the deadlifts and curls – and the blazing speed, the fact is that the best-of-the-best are weak and vulnerable when and where it really counts.

Take a look at the sports pages and whenever you hear of someone being out for the season (or for a few months), take note of what the injury is. If you start charting the facts, you’ll be amazed at how many of the severe injuries are tendon injuries.

When I returned from China a month ago I met with a fellow suffering from tendinitis of the

elbow. How’d he get this injury?

Doing “cheat” pull-ups.

Although his muscles handled the exercise without a problem, his tendon did not – and as a result he was unable to train with his arm at all.

He was told to “work around it.” This usually means, avoid sing the limb until it heals.

Well, it had already been six weeks, and he was no better off. This proves the saying, “Better to break a bone that hurt a tendon.”

I prescribed some exercises for the lad – tendon exercises right out of my course, How to Eliminate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Pain Within 30 Days.

Yes, the product helps MORE than carpal tunnel.

Anyway, a week later the man was out of pain and able to resume training.

He didn’t work around the injury. He learned to train it directly… and HEAL it.

I realize there are a lot of people running around with wrist, hand and elbow pain. If you want it fixed, don’t pound the iron – use your own body weight the way I teach in How to Eliminate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Pain Within 30 Days.

Matt Furey