Let me summartize it for you in one sentence. One short sentence.

YOIUR BREATH IS YOUR POWER.

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to mark this one down on an index card and carry it around with you.

Over 20 years ago, as I sat in a fitness mentor’s office, he had the following message scrolling across his computer screen:

Breathe Bill… Breathe.

That might actually be a better reminder for you than “Your Breath is Your Power” – but I believe you have to understand WHY to breathe first. So, just telling someone to breathe isn’t enough.

Why breathe? Aren’t you already doing so? Isn’t it sort of involuntary.

Well, yes… and hell no.

Yes, you are breathing to a degree, but WHAT degree are you talking about?

Are you breathing in such a way that you let go of stress, tension, anxiety, fear, worry, doubt and so on?

If you’re at all like the masses – the answer is NO.

All young children, before the age of four, automatically breathe from their lower belly. No one has to teach them. They come in doing it right – then almost all of them lose the ability, and if someone comes along with some wisdom that they deem worth following, the work to regain the ability.

You’ll see the very best athletes paying attention to their breathing. They are aware of it almost all the time. And whenever they feel tension, they know how to let it go.

In martial arts, breathing is the key to personal power. With no breath – no power. Only force – and force is not the same as power.

Picture Sisyphus back in the days of old – pushing a large stone uphill, only to run out of gas and have the stone roll back down.

This is what a lot of peoples’ lives are like. They push and push and push – only to run out of steam just before the finish line.

Ever happen to you?

If not, I’d be surprised because its sure happened to me – and everyone else I know.

No matter who you are and how successful you are – there will be times when you become an “instant idiot” – seemingly forgetting everything you know as you try to find your way out of the maze.

I imagine many golfers can relate to this. One day you have a wonderful swing. You’re awesome.

The next day….?

Where’s that swing? How did I hit the ball again?

You’re lost and you cannot remember or recall what you did when you were at your best. So you unconsciously begin adding more tension to your mind, muscles and marrow.

Before you realize what’s happened – you’re a bundle of negative stresses and tensions.

How do you get your groove back then?

You start with the most basic and fundamental part of life that exists.

Your breath.

As soon as we take our first breath, almost all people will agree that we are alive. I believe we’re alive before that moment – but that’s another discussion for another day.

And then it’s time to exit the earthly plain. Once again, most people will agree that you take off when you let go of your final breath.

So it goes with negative energy, tension, emotion and memories.

You let them go when you EXHALE.

When you exhale and let go – you’ve taken a BIG STEP toward garnering more personal power.

After this, there’s an INHALE – and provided you can do this in a relaxed, tension-free manner, you’re moving in the right direction.

Once you’ve corrected your breathing – it’s time to add the next steps: relaxation and proper structure.

Put all three of these together and let me tell you, you become a POWERFUL FORCE.

Not just a Force.

A POWERFUL FORCE.

This #1 Key – and the two others sounds easy enough – but the truth is you need some guidance on this matter.

As one preacher used to declare, “I need help. I can’t do it alone.”

And my friend, that’s one of the main reasons I started the FureyFaithful member’s site.

It’s there to help guide you and mentor you in the ways to creating internal power – personal power.

If I were you I’d be checking it out right NOW.

Your life will change when you read, watch and listen to what I have in store for you.

It’s like no other mind-body health and fitness website in the whirld.

With your membership, you’ll get access to a treasure trove of information that is worth FAR MORE than the incredibly low fee to enroll.

Get ready to change your life for the better – NOW. Right NOW.

Yours,

Matt “Coach” Furey

There’s much going on here at Furey Central.

I’m digging products from my archives that people have been asking about for quite some time. And the plan is to release or re-release a number of them over the next couple weeks.

So you’ll really want to check your email each day to see what the Fure-cat is cooking.

At the same time, if there’s something you really want to see, learn, hear, etc. – you can send me what’s on your mind and I’ll ponder it for a spell before deciding yay or nay.

Por ejemplo, last Friday, Freddy told me that when he brought home a copy of the “cartoon edition” of Combat Conditioning – he set it on the table with the plan of reading it… “later.”

Meanwhile Freddy’s children, three of them under the age of eight, grabbed the book and set it on the floor. From this position they went through the book, exercise by exercise, and did every single one of them, one right after the other, until they finished.

Since then, these youngins have dog-eared the pages and sweated all over it as they perform the exercises each day.

The book is NOW their book. It’s in their room and with no coaxing from the “old man” – they pull it out each day and follow the program.

Bear in mind that they haven’t even read HOW to do any of the exercises. They just follow the Cartoon character named “El Fure-cat”- and they’re good to go.

When Freddy told me this, a huge “A-HA” took place inside my noggin.

Creating the cartoon edition of my all-time classic, Combat Conditioning, was NOT a good business decision… for the ADULTS on my list.

Many would call or write to complain that my exercises were serious, and a cartoon trivialized them and made them seem unimportant.

Others would call and ask for an original copy that had real photos.

So I put the book to rest and moved on.

But last Friday, I realized, maybe this book can be resurrected.

It’s not for adults. It’s for your children – whom many of you call “kids.” BTW, as one friend told me, he doesn’t call his children “kids” because “kids are goats.”

Made sense to me. I immediately stopped referring to my offspring as “kids” – but if you want to call them kids, and won’t respond to a marketing message for “children” – then dadgummit I’ll call ’em “kids.”

Anyhoo, just think of what I could do to help kids/children. All a parent needs to do is put my cartoon edition of Combat Conditioning in their home and their boys and girls will begin to feed off it.

Sounds like a WINNER to me.

If you like this idea, tell you what I’m gonna do.

I’m going to dust off the plethora of Cartoon Combat Conditioning books and make it available again.

This will get your child into shape – and I mean a shape other than rotund – and then I’ll become known as the man who saved America from childhood obesity.

Yeah.

Yeah, right. Dream on Furecat.

Okay, enough dreaming, if this is something you want, reply to this email and let me know.

If enough support, I’ll move forward.

And make sure you’re checking your inbox each day for products on health and fitness, psycho-cybernetics, possibly even something on email copywriting and/or info-marketing.

You duh best.

Yours,

Coach Furey – Matt Furey

P.S. Enroll in the  Furey Faithful today and I’ll send you a copy, by mail, of Cartoon Combat Conditioning. Everything else on the site is available by digital download only – and there’s only about ten grand worth of information on there – so I wouldn’t join if I were you. It’s too expensive. Yeah, right!

The other day a good friend and long-time practitioner of Combat Conditioning asked my why I’m so big on Chi Kung.

There are many reasons, but perhaps the most sensible and easiest to understand is this: there’s only so much you can do physically before your body breaks down. And when it breaks down – it breaks down HARD.

From the NFL running back to the big league pitcher to the professional boxer, hard-style martial artist, amateur wrestler or weight lifting or dancing enthusiast, there will come a point in time when your body is so racked with pain that only the moronic will continue regardless.

Whether you’re Derek Jeter, Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali or Dan Gable – whether or not you’re considered a “god” in your sport or martial art – eventually Nature will force you out of the game.

Before that happens – though – you could add years to your game and quite possibly retire from it relatively unscathed – if you knew and practiced Combat Chi Kung.

Fact: at 51 years of age I can still kick butt in many ways. With very little training I threw a fastball close to 70 mph this past fall. I can still get on the mat and crush – and my skills continue to advance with a workout routine that is mostly internal. This means you won’t see me moving fast or in a big way. I move from the inside-out instead of the outside-out.

And doing so gives me an unusual strength, quickness, agility and flexibility. Not to mention POWER.

Truth is I’ve improved the physical while working on the energetic or internal.

Earlier in my life I stopped all the hard-style, hard-core training, mostly physical exercise and replaced it with Chi Kung, most of which was taught to me in China. My only wish it that I made the transition sooner as I’d have endured a lot less pain.

As a result I now have a body that is loose, quick, powerful and flexible.

This is not something most 40+ athletes can say.

Many are so stiff they get injured while sleeping or while engaged in pick-up games.

They may hide behind their big muscles and strength and tell you that they have no aches, pains or injuries, but I know better. In private I’ve spoken with many of these strongmen, and they’ve told me about all their injuries that they need to “train around.”

Or they go on periodic bodyweight only routines. Why? In order to heal all the injuries caused by their cro-magnon approach to training.

And they call their method of training smart because it gives them big muscles. Big stiff, inflexible, pain-absorbing, injury-prone muscles.

There’s something wrong with this picture.

The most intelligent way to train is to do so in a way that integrates and harmonizes mind with body – not one that forces mind over body or body over mind.

Personally, I believe that hard-style exercise is good till around the age of 40.  And after that, if you don’t heed the message of higher intelligence, you will age faster and become less functional with each passing year.

Why?

Because hard-style exercise depletes your body of energy. You don’t notice it when you’re younger – but at some point it’s pretty obvious. Unless you choose to block reality and pretend it isn’t so.

Over 25 years ago I used to go train with a former Mr. Universe. He was about my current age at the time.

A great guy but racked with pain from all his heavy training. His elbow joints didn’t lock out when he did bench presses – or any other kind of presses. They wouldn’t even lock when he had no weights in his hands.

He had to stretch his lower back for 30 minutes each morning just so he could destroy it some more.

On the outside he looked fabulous. But his body was more than just a wee-bit fragile.

Losing energy and function is not something that happens with Combat Chi Kung.

You continue to gain – even in your 50’s, 60’s and beyond.

That’s why I’m so excited about my Combat Chi Kung Seminar. And it’s why I sincerely hope you can make it.

Always remember that water wears away rock. Water is supposedly gentler – but it carries tremendous force. Just ask those who’ve jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Well, I guess you can’t ask them because the water was like concrete when they hit – and they probably aren’t around anymore.

When Nature combines breath (air) with water, something different happens. As we saw with Hurricane Katrina – air and water combined can take out steel bridges.

Just think what obstacles can be removed in your own life by practicing Combat Chi Kung. Come join me and you’ll be a changed person for sure.

Best,

Matt Furey

A few weeks ago I received an email from a personal trainer who was teaching how to do Hindu squats.

This oughta be interesting, I thought.

I opened the email and clicked the link to the video.

As I watched the action, the saying, “Often imitated, never duplicated” came to mind.

In a matter of a few reps, the personal trainer managed to butcher the form, the description as well as the benefits.

“Hindu squats connect you to Spirit,” I was told.

Huh?

You lost me on that one, and I’m a spiritual guy.

Without a shred of hype, I could go on and on with corrections for all the people who think they’re teaching Hindu squats the right way – everyone from coaches to personal trainers – but the truth of the matter is that I’m so far beyond the ONLY version of this exercise that the others know that it’s not worth getting into.

In fact, I’m light years beyond the version I taught in my international best-seller, Combat Conditioning.

I consider the method I previously taught to be Hindu Squats 101.

Yesterday I put the Hindu Squats 201 version on the Furey Faithful member’s site. To say that my students are completely blown away by the difference would be a huge understatement.

If you think the 101 version was great – even if you got taught the right or wrong way – make no mistake about the 201 version. It will, once again, totally revolutionize the fitness whirld as we know it today.

Two week ago I put up several Neck Chi Kung videos on the Furey Faithful. Members went nuts with excitement.

Now it’s Hindu Squats 201.

And I’m just getting warmed up.

That’s why I suggest you become a Member.

With Hindu squats 201 – instead of doing 500 reps at a time – you can reduce that number by 497 and benefit more than ever before.

True, true, true.

Wooooaaaaah, what a way to LIVE.

Come get some.

Yours,

Matt “Coach” Furey
FureyFaithful

P.S. I’m almost out of free seminar passes for New Members. Make sure
you enroll NOW so you’re sure to be included.

In a few minutes I’m going to be filming more videos for my Members that highlight a very different approach to exercise than what I originally taught in my best-selling books, Combat Conditioning, etc.

I like to think of this new approach as 201 or 301 versus 101.

If you’re already a member, get ready for some video updates by Friday of this week.

If you’re not a member yet, you really better become one, and soon – as what I have to teach is beyond awesome.

Yours,

Matt “Coach” Furey

P.S. The fee for membership will be going up quite a bit within the next day or two. Enroll now and save BIG.

P.P.S. Many of my previous best-sellers, Combat Conditioning, Combat Abs, and so on, come gratis with your membership. Plus you get 12 months of updates and video coaching from me.

I’ll be quick.

Got a very busy day will all the new Members of the Furey Faithful.

Which reminds me to remind you (if you’re not already IN) – there are only 87 spots left at the current fee as well as the current bonuses – which are HUGE!

One of them includes a fitness seminar with yours truly – and it will easily exceed the value of the entire program many, many times over.

So take one small step forward, my friend, and watch in awe as it becomes a quantum leap onward.

Yours,

Matt “Coach” Furey

P.S. Been getting emails from Members who are already out of shoulder and back  pain – within days of joining. Others have reported increased energy (skyrocketing) as well as an overall feeling of harmony. Gotta love it.