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5 Second Abs From a Basketball Coach
Dear Friend,
Here's some Saturday morning inspiration:
"After 3 months of reading your very entertaining and
informative emails I decided to venture out and buy
Combat Abs
What a great investment! I am only on day 6 and I feel the
difference already. Last weekend I decided to give the Farmer
Burns Stomach Flattener a go while I was standing on the sideline
coaching a basketball game. Neither my players nor the spectators
had any clue I was training my abs. I can't believe I waited this long
to buy. I'm on my way Matt."
Thanks,
Cal
M.F.: That's awesome Cal. Doing this exercise during a game you are
coaching serves a dual purpose. First, you're getting the gut-flattening
and core strengthening benefits. Second, though, is that you're keeping
your mind calm, clear and relaxed - something that can be very helpful
while coaching.
Hi Matt,
I wanted to send you an email, 'cause you just don't get
enough feedback from women! I started Combat Conditioning
around November 2004. I had given birth to my second daughter
in July and had been working out ever since to regain my pre-
pregnancy shape. I used to be a competitive distance runner
and gym rat so I had the discipline to do it. And yes, I was relatively fit
by the time I started your program.
But, boy oh boy, did I totally change my mindset when I read your book.
I realised that 95% of the people in the fitness industry - people advocating
ridiculous isolation exercises like leg extensions and the pec deck - have
no idea what true fitness means. I realised that true fitness - endurance,
muscle endurance, strength, power, flexibility, agility, you name it - comes
from bodyweight calisthenics.
Now, I run. I love running and I take issue with your criticisms of long
slow distance (LSD). Fact is, no competitive distance runner in their right
mind would ONLY do hill sprints to get really fast. Yes, you can't get fast
only by doing LSD, but LSD is an essential component of a proper running
training program. You need LSD, you need VO2max training, you need anaerobic
threshold training, you need hill sprints, you need flat sprints... okay
nuff said. But having said that, the average person could get all the speed
and heart strength they need from doing hindu squats and, if they're really
keen, hill sprints.
And frankly Combat Conditioning is the perfect program for giving runners an
extra edge. It strengthens your core and legs like nothing else. And it
helps you avoid every runner's bane: getting injured. Thirdly, it provides a
great workout if you are injured!
Anyway, I do Combat Conditioning at home (like you, I encourage my girls -
2 yrs and 8 mths to watch and participate) and I do it at the gym (proud of
how weird it looks to the drones on the leg abductor machine - can exercise
equipment get any more ridiculous?). I've gone from 5 hindu pushups to 33. I
can do 500 hindu squats in under 14 minutes. And I do the back bridge for 3
minutes. I do deep breathing (with the abdominal squeezes) everyday and
incorporate lots of your other exercises into my program. I'm particularly
focused on one legged full squats (what a challenge!).
So thank you, Matt, for creating the No. 1 total body fitness program in the
world.
Best wishes,
Anna Johnson
Australia
M.F.: Anna, fantastic work. I'm glad to see you've made such progress. Great that
you've got the kids following along as well. Get 'em started young.
Now, regarding your comments about long-distance running, let me respond.
I don't believe I have EVER said that "competitive" long distance runners should
only do hill sprints or sprints. That would be dumb.
What I have said is that the "average" overweight person trying to get lean
via long distance cardio, whether it is running, cycling or playing footsie - is
"wasting a lot of friggin time."
I know people who go to the gyms and do an hour (or two) of cardio. And they
think that this is the secret to burning all the lard off their bod. Yet, you'll
find
that after MONTHS of this practice, they are just as fat as they have always been.
Put the same person on the hills a couple days per week for 10-15 minutes, give
him or her Combat Conditioning and Combat Abs - and there will be a profound
and extraordinary change. And ... if the person changes his diet for the better -
there will be even more results.
Do some people drop poundage and lard doing LSD (long slow distance)? Yes.
But the job could have been accomplished with FSD (fast SHORT distance).
Walking and running and swimming and various types of cardio are fine for
relaxation purposes. But they are NOT the panacea for fat that so many have
been programmed to believe.
Now, here's something that will blow your mind - and it's not for everyone.
You can get a spectacular cardio workout sitting on your ass.
That's right. How?
Get in a sauna that is cranked up to 140 degrees or more.
Note: If you're from Finland, where the sauna was created - this will be grossly
insufficient (one Finlander wrote to tell me they often bake in the sauna at
over
200 degrees - yikes!!!).
Hang out in the sauna for 20 minutes. Then take your pulse. I guarantee it'll
be racing like Mario Andretti.
Warning: Tis why you should check with a physician before engaging in any
type of sauna regimen.
Well, my friend, time to sprint up the sides of some houses. Ain't got many hills
here in Florida.
Kick butt - take names!
Matt Furey
P.S. You'll find a complete listing of all Furey products,
go here.
P.P.S. Don't forget about becoming a personal "client" of mine.
For details go here.
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